I am so glad to have found this place! I just wanted to share my story of lucid dreaming as my first post and ask some questions

I would have lucid dreams around the ages of 8-12 quite often (about once every 2 weeks) and they amazed me, I felt like I had discovered an entire new universe!

To enter lucid dreams I used a strange technique of thinking about pressing start and triangle (buttons on a Playstation controller, the same combination used to quit the game in some games I played ) and it created a connection that 'awoke' me within the dream and I became aware. It was amazing, half way through a dream that would otherwise follow whatever path my subconscious took it; I suddenly had the power to control it.

Being a typical kid at the time, I usually ended up smashing stuff up, flying, crashing cars and desperately trying to tell my friends or anyone else in the dream that they where dreaming, and nothing was real. Once I told my classmate (in a lucid dream) to say a code word when I gave him thumbs up in class in the morning, to verify that we had been in the same dream.
I don't know why I assumed they would understand, I guess this means my dreams back then where not fully lucid (whilst awake I obviously knew that people in my dreams where parts only of my imagination )

I feel like there are loads of memories of dreams, yet i can’t quantify them into writing, haha

I have not had a lucid dream for years now, i am 19 and i find that i am more likley to have a lucid dream if i wake up in the morning, then fall asleep again, especially if there are people nearby me (this probably makes me aware that i am sleeping somehow).

Well i look forward to learning more about the nature of lucid dreaming and i am interested to hear if other people had lucid dreams as a kid but don't have them now?