Thread: Just wondering. I could be wrong.

My names Chris and I'm new to the message board. (I'm 24 in case that matters for some reason.)

Anyway, I just heard about Lucid Dreaming a few months ago from my friend Josh, and the reason it came up is because we where talking about dropping acid vs eating shrooms. (Something we both did a few times during collage)

He said that the reason he did both was because he was trying to experience some kind of a L.D. and somebody told him that acid and shrooms would both help him to experience one.

Not knowing what a L.D. was I asked him and his explanation was that it was having a very real feeling dream, but knowing it was a dream and controlling it.

Not intending to be rude in anyway I kinda laughed at him because I thought that was something everybody just learned to do over time.

I only thought that because as a much younger child (around 7 or 8) I used to have some of the worst nightmares you could possible think of, and they would wake me up in the middle of the night. Some of them got so bad that I just wouldn't go back to sleep.

Then as I got older, and needed the sleep for school and such, I just kind of taught myself how to know when I was dreaming vs awake, so that I could control the bad dreams and not have to wake up.

Even since then I've always been able to fly in my dreams when I wanted to, or use some kind of magical mind power over monsters and such. (It sounds dumb, but in most of my dreams I'm showing off my abilities to my friends.)

My friend said that I was crazy and that lucid dreaming is something you have to know about and study in order to experience. He said that it's not something that you can just do by mistake, and that it takes years of practice so I must be experiencing something else.

I guess what I'm wondering is, could lucid dreaming be something that I've developed from necessity or is my friend right, am I experiencing something else?

(In one dream I remember pulling him out of thin air while I was standing next to a tall building and saying "See watch" then flying to the top of the building. Then I thought it was silly because I knew that when I woke my feat wouldn't have really mattered to him in real life.)