Thread: How Old Were You When You Had Your First Lucid Dream?

I was in the third grade. I had been having the same nightmare for weeks(sometimes more than once in a night). My poor mom was worn out from staying up with me and she kept telling me that it was just a dream. Dreams are my world and I could do anything that I wanted to make that monster go away. Here is the dream where I made him go away.
Barnabus Collins was in my room.(for you younger people Barnabus was a vampire on a tv show called "Dark Shadows") I stood up and told him that he was in my dream and he couldn't hurt me and then I spit tobacco juice right in his eye.
I never saw Barnabus again after that night.

I can't quite remember but I've been having them naturally on and off for most of my life. The earliest one to memory is 11 years old but I know for a fact I had them way before that.

.. Oh ... and here's a photo of Barnabas Collins for those who don't know him:
(I've spoilered it in case you don't want to see him damnpamn, lol)

Spoiler for Barnabas Collins:

Still waiting for my first! well, the first since i knew what it was. Other than that, i think i was around 13.

umm..
my first lucid dream was before 2 months ago... I 15 years ols.. = )

Feb. 2001, so I was 27 1/2. My first was within a week or so of first learning about lucid dreams and beginning to read "Lucid dreaming".

my first was random around age 11, I had several one after the other and I had control, I made a dog and streched out a persons face, all this was before I knew about lucid dreaming.


by the way, I hope your avatar and sig is only for holoween gh

Hey, Super Duck, Barnabus doesn't scare me anymore! In fact I became a big fan of Dark Shadows reruns when I was in high school. Thanks for being so considerate though.

My first lucid dream i seen after one month train (My fist book of this theme - Vebster Richard "Astral for begining"... the secont "Kastaneda Karl - 9 book about dream". And third interesting book - Reutov Andrey "Hackers of Dreams"... All time of practic - 1 year...

well I was very small when I had my first LD experience... I was like 7 or 8 ... I was dreaming I was in the headmaster's office waiting for him, for I have done something wrong....I was very very nervous...then I realized it was just a dream..and got very happy, I think they even brought some candy after that. Then I wouldn't have one until I was like 17/18. And since then I didn't have one, until 2 days ago ... I'm 19 now.

Had dreams where I was flying at ~10. Difficult to say authoritatively that I was lucid because it was some time ago + they stopped happening, so memories fade, and I didn't know the word at the time. I definitely did it often, and I remember being frustrated sometimes when it didn't quite work, because I knew how well I had flown in other dreams. I teleported as well, though not often.

I suspect the flying thing got started, or was reinforced, by reading Douglas Adams (Arthur teaches himself to fly, and there's an entry about flying in the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy).

The year was 1992 so I was six years old. I remember the year because it was the same year the movie "Wayne's World" was released, and Mike Myers & Dana Carvey were chasing me down the street trying to kill me! I suddenly realized I was dreaming and I sat on the concrete road, covered my head with my hands and told myself that I'm dreaming. I then woke up.

I had my first lucid dream within a week of learning about lucid dreaming. I think that was about sometime in May this year when i was 16.

I was around 7yrs old, and it was all due to all those nightmares I had.. One day I just realized I HAD to be dreaming, and in each dream I'd always try new ways to wake myself up

I have no idea, been naturally lucid dreaming all my life, and can't remember my first as I thought it was a normal thing to be able to control dreams, so never thought much of it.

I was around 7 years old.
I woke in my dream to crystal clear vision down in the paddock down the road.
I was so amazed, but didn't know what to do, so I woke after 30 seconds or so.
I so much wanted it again, but at 7 you don't know how.
Here I am at 37 trying now to get it back.

My first intentional lucid was at 16, first one I can remember, possible 5 or 6?

Originally Posted by NeAvO

My first intentional lucid was at 16, first one I can remember, possible 5 or 6?

Do you really mean the first time you wanted a lucid dream and had one, or was that just the first one you had that was the result of following a particular technique?

Just splitting hairs - "intentional" is a bit vague.

Originally Posted by sourcejedi

Do you really mean the first time you wanted a lucid dream and had one, or was that just the first one you had that was the result of following a particular technique?

Just splitting hairs - "intentional" is a bit vague.

The first time he had a lucid dream while actually trying to have one. On purpose, instead of just a random happening.

Originally Posted by Oneironaught

The first time he had a lucid dream while actually trying to have one. On purpose, instead of just a random happening.

Yup that.

My first was sometime last month. I've had two more since then, the third happened just last night. It was my first one that didn't fade when I became lucid.

My first occurred when I was about 10, and it was pretty humorous.

It was the night before Christmas, and I was very excited about getting presents the next day. I had a dream that I was in a city but the sky, buildings, and ground were all different shades of orange. All the buildings were 2-dimensional and slightly curvy. There seemed to be no one in the town but me, and it felt extremely desolate. I eventually realized that I was dreaming, and being afraid that I would miss Christmas morning, tried to wake myself up. I was opening and closing my dream-eyes, jumping off buildings, running into walls, anything to wake myself up. Finally, after what felt like hours, opening my eyes worked and I woke up, but it was such a strange feeling being trapped in a dream that I never forgot it.

6.

Maybe about 6 or 7? I still remember it was my first flying dream, and it was all in fluorescent colours. Freaky, hella fun, and still memorable to this day.

my first LD was in the 7th grade. I was flying so i got lucky! i know a lot of people want to fly but aren't able to

Six.