Has anyone heard of a child that can LD?

The reason I ask is because when I was about 7 or eight I used to have alot of nightmares, actually I still do, but back then I remember a dream where things kept changing alot and made me realise I had to be dreaming, so I ran to hide under a bed, closed my eyes and kept on telling myself to wake up, it didnt work, so I ran in fron of one of the ghost in my dream so that it would kill me and maybe then Id wake up, that didnt work either, instead I just saw myself laying there, it took me a while before I was able to figure out how to wake myself up, after that every so often Id realise in the middle of a fream that I was dreaming, sometimes Id realise it right away, but I didnt know I could control thins around me, only myself, so if nothing was going on, id be like in a ghost town, the only one there was me, so id just fly around, I used to LOVE that :flyaway: even tough I wasn't very good, but if something was going on id run as fast as i can and try to find a spot where I can take a few minutes to wake myself up, cause it would usually be something sacarry... oh and about that flying thing, usually id go to high up, if I kept myself low i would hit the ground and could not go up again, but going that high up was kind of scarry sometimes, is that normal? :confused:

I had my first when I was 12 or 13. Dunno if that's childish enough for you, but yeah. That was after I read about it online though.

I've never heard about it till last week, I just knew it would happen to me.

Well, quite a lot, if not all of my dreams as a child were lucid. Now, I didn't know I could control the dreams, but I could always wake up at will. I dunno how, I just decided to wake up and I did. I was also able to be aware of my physical surroundings while I was dreaming.

I actually think most children lucid dream occasionally or even often. It's easier for kids to lucid dream than adults.

I'm 13. Does that mean it should be easier for me to get lucid dreams?

I had my first LD when I was either 7 or 9. I was being chased and forced myself to wake up. Seems like nightmares are a common window into LDing. I've been having them on and off since then, but I didn't learn what they were until a couple of years ago. And my LD count has skyrocketed since I joined DV.

I'd say a good 50% of kids have lds at some point (not to say they remember them), it's very common, specualy at younger ages, when the brain is developing and you have extensive REM.

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I'm 13. Does that mean it should be easier for me to get lucid dreams?

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Well, compared to the average adult, yes.

I had my first LD when I was about 4 years old. And I still remember it quite well there are quite a few LD's from when I was very little that I can recall.

In 2nd grade my friend said he controls his dreams... and he asked me if i wanted to have a shared dream, i couldnt do it though.

As a child I could LD but I didnt control my dreams I just knew I was dreaming. When I wanted to wake up I closed my dream eyes and woke up, but I didnt think of what I could really do with my dreams. I had this cause I had many nightmares as a kid and with so many nightmares my mind kinda developed the ability to know that im dreaming so I wont freak out so much.

I also cant die in dreams cause of that I just pretend to be dead.

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As a child I could LD but I didnt control my dreams I just knew I was dreaming. When I wanted to wake up I closed my dream eyes and woke up, but I didnt think of what I could really do with my dreams. I had this cause I had many nightmares as a kid and with so many nightmares my mind kinda developed the ability to know that im dreaming so I wont freak out so much.

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Same here. I would know that i was dreaming (this would happen every so often, starting probably around five years old) but I wouldn't control it. I would just start flying and forget I was lucid. Then one day I made a list of things I would do while I was dreaming and the next time it happened I transported myself to an ocean. And all this was before I even heard about lucid dreaming.

Yeah, my story's pretty similar. Around 6 or so I started realizing when I was in a nightmare and, to wake myself up, I'd close my eyes as tight as I could and then pull them open, as wide as I could. After a little practice, it worked every time.
Got into flying a little while after that and I had (and still have, sometimes) that problem with 'sinking' and having to struggle to stay up. When I was like 13 or so, I started realizing I could manifest weapons and shit, which made fighting off my nightmare creatures a lot more fun. :putemuppunk:

Same here, though that slowed down, and i stopped realizing i was dreamign before i foudn out aboutlucid dreaming ):

I used to suffer from SP at a really young age about 6/7 I think, I know this because of where I was living at the time.

I cant remember if I used to LD though...

I had my first LD when I was 8. It it one of my most memorable dreams.

I had one, when I was 6 or so. I had this weird nightmare, about smurfs throwing bombs and stuff. Made me realise, that I had to be in a dream. I was still scared though :D

I remember when I was in first grade or something, I remember going to get on my bus at my normal bus stop, and before then I releized I was dreaming and tried to wake up. I can remember atleast 3 or 4 lucids I've had when i was 5-8. I remember having a dream about a year ago with ghosts, and I thought it must be a dream, then I kept trying to escape and wake up, then I (fakely) woke up acouple times thinking "Oh my gosh the ghosts are real! NOOOOOOOOO!" and I woke up, then went on my friends computer to search for the meanings of dreams, then I found this "Lucid Dream" thingy on I think dreammoods, and then after searching I found dreamviews.

I used to scream to wake up when I was little... quite effective for me

I remember when was little, not sure how old exactly, maybe about 6 1/2 to 7, I had these really bad nightmares of really twisted things, eventually I realized they were dreams and just fough them off. I also had a lot of dreams where I was falling forever, half the time caused by me jumping off buildings, never managed to stop those lucid or not back then...

But yeah, I'm sure lots of kids have had LDs, they just don't feel like telling anyone because they might not believe them or they feel like they won't listen to them.

I remember several lucid dreams from my childhood. They were usually induced by nightmares, you know, realising it was a dream and wanting to get out of it. I never realised at that age that you could control dreams, so it was mostly wasted.

I've had several LDs before i even knew what they were, and i am 14. I've been having unintentional LDs as long as i can remember. But now when I have them, they aren't so unintentional ;)

Same with me, except that when I had a nightmare I'd try to get out as soon as possible. I'd use my lucidity to return to conciousness and open my eyes.

I used to WILD as a CHILD. ^^

I'd make images in my head until they formed a solid dream.

Must've been about 5 or 6. Not bad, eh? :P

Unfortuantely I can no longer remember how to do it. >_<

Lot's of kids LD... it's just that they don't know what it is and what the potentials are usually so they slowly lose the ability... or at least, that's my theory

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I used to WILD as a CHILD. ^^

I'd make images in my head until they formed a solid dream.

Must've been about 5 or 6. Not bad, eh? :P

Unfortuantely I can no longer remember how to do it. >_<

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is that VILD or is it really WILD?

anyway i used to LD alot when i was younger - i used to tell everyone i could control my dreams and no one would believe me.
my first one would have to be when i was about 6. there was this giant lava creature in our yard and i realized i was dreaming.

I had similer experiances to you when i had nightmares when i was younger. i would try to force myself to open my eyes to get out of the dream. i don't suppose it was true lucidity since i wasn't able to do much else, but still, kinda neat.

I remember this one moment when I was I think maybe 8 that I knew that I was dreaming in the dream. It was on and off . Because I never thought anything of it that it was actually an event called "lucid dreaming"