Thread: First timer

Originally Posted by tomer32

hi I'm tomer32 and I'm new here
i have a question about lucid dreaming (actually its about me but it has to be related to lucid dreaming):
when I'm sleeping i don't know I'm sleeping but if the dream goes bad even at its beginning i can wake myself up without even noticing i knew i was asleep. is this common or not?

I honeslty don't know. I'm sure it happened to me once or twice, but I don't have nightmares much.

Do you have alot of bad dreams? Maybe you just taught yourself to wake up? Are you aware that you wake yourself up?

I was never much of one for nightmares, but in the past few years I have developed an incredible ability (I know how incredible it is from before, when i didn't have this ability) to talk my way out of pre-nightmare situations without being lucid. I think this is akin to what you're talking about. For example, the other night in a dream I was in 'my new house' and exploring the fourth floor (dreams, huh?). I found a door and I opened it and it led straight into this incredibly creepy attic, and all I thought to myself was "Hmm, what a spooky place. I should just close the door and forget about it." Carried on to the beach and these huge cliffs that one of the windows opened to. Wasn't lucid in the slightest, but I'm developing a mechanism for recognizing scary dream scenarios and finding a way to evade them. Typically in a dream all I have to do is think of 'attic' and the next thing you know I'm being chased by half-dead and decomposed growling Asian children without being able to move or scream, but now I just sort of shrug it off and continue on enjoying the dream.

The reason I wrote all of that is because apparently this is something most people did at age 5 when they began to lucid dream naturally or become lucid and wake themselves up during nightmares.

I'm sort of a freak I guess because I had no idea LDing was possible until my late teens, and after about age 6 I rarely had nightmares that I can remember. A huge benefit, though, is that you can use these dreams and this awareness to your benefit. Obviously, like me, you're picking up on the "this is some scary shit!" vibes, and waking yourself up. If you can teach yourself to use that as a dreamsign, you can probably become lucid fairly easily Being lucid means knowing that you're dreaming, and it sounds like you're already hovering on the edge. Jump off and soar

actually, i don't have many nightmares... i wake myself up in almost any nightmare i have though. but i can wake myself up in every dream scenario and every time i have a reason for that (but i don't remember the reasons after awhile)