Thread: Did you ever lucid dream before really learning about it?

Good poll here, Blargh. In fact, had I not had my few LDs before DV, I never would have looked for DV. I had a couple of LDs before I read up on it and searched 'dream control' in Google.

I can only remember one dream from when I was a kid. Maybe 11 years old or so.

In the dream I was playing piano in my house and suddenly realized "Hey.. I hate playing piano. Why am I sitting around doing this?" Then I started looking around and eventually realized I was in a dream. And I remember wanting to wake up, because the dream was so boring, and I was frustrated because I kept having false awakenings where I went down to the livingroom and the piano every time

Yup, I can clearly remember one. I don't think I was even 10 years old. And there was absolutely nothing to the dream. I was just kind of floating in this vast empty space, all lit up with a white glow. And I was just there, existing, and I though "oh my god, this is totally a dream." And that was it.

Then a few years ago I stumbled upon a book about LDing, read a page, tried one of the super simple techniques for a couple days, and had an awesome LD the second night.

Of course. Once every other year I would have one that was memorable. I never had the inspiration to realize that these dreams could be willed, though. I thought they occured at random. The lucid dreams were usually short, and are completely blown away in quality and frequency by my induced lucid dreams.

I had two lucids consecutively a few days before joining this forum. I had only known the definition for a few months prior. If I had not enjoyed those lucids so greatly, I would never have put the effort into it.

I've had lucids, but never knew that I could actually do something with them, so it wasnt cool.

Originally Posted by kichu

Yup, I can clearly remember one. I don't think I was even 10 years old. And there was absolutely nothing to the dream. I was just kind of floating in this vast empty space, all lit up with a white glow. And I was just there, existing, and I though "oh my god, this is totally a dream." And that was it.

Then a few years ago I stumbled upon a book about LDing, read a page, tried one of the super simple techniques for a couple days, and had an awesome LD the second night.

PLEASE tell me the technique you used? Something super-simple that caused an awesome LD?

Originally Posted by yelizaveta

PLEASE tell me the technique you used? Something super-simple that caused an awesome LD?

Most techs aren't super-simple or else DV would be full of them so don't expect it to be that special

Yes, just one or two

I've just posted something that really looks like lucid dreaming (I personally voted 1 or 2)

Take a look at that http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=49797

Yes, though much more frequent when I was a kid (between ages 4 - 10 or so)

it began like this.
i had 4 natural in about 2 weeks. then nothing happend for years and i was wondering wtf that was but i didn't find anything about it. and years later i was downloading a mixed torrent and it said sometihng about lucid dreaming, i didn't know what is was so i read it and found that it was exactly what i had been looking for.

I answered with yes I'm a natural though I never really thought of myself as one, obviously I was one as a younger kid, and I can't say I'm not one now, because if I get enough sleep there is a fair chance of having an ld I'd say 20% each night, if I get 9 hours of sleep.

yeah around my teens I used to always have dreams about flying...and realize them, and I've always had great recall...well as long as I stay sober. Last year I was on some web site that had all kinds of information and one of them was about lucid dreaming...a few googles later I'm on here and having about 4 LDs a month.

Yeah I'v had a couple Lucid Dreams before I even came here. When I found this place it help boosted my dreams and now I can have Many Lucids in one night.

Yeah, I've also tried it several times when I was younger. I had one controlled dream after hearing about LD. Now Im going to start all over with this stuff

Originally Posted by yelizaveta

PLEASE tell me the technique you used? Something super-simple that caused an awesome LD?

The technique I used was this - I opened my hand and looked at it throughout the day and asked myself if I was dreaming at the same time. I looked at one side of my hand, then the other side, and flipped back and forth a few times, and asked if I was dreaming. I did that for about two days straight, all day long, as often as possible.

That night, the hand flipping made it's way into my dream and as soon as I saw it, I realized I was dreaming.

I don't why it worked that easily for my first time, but it was awesome.

I've had lucid dreams for as long as I can remember. I thought everyone had them, especially because my best friend in elementary school also had them.

Once or twice when I was very little I think... and they weren't much really. I just recall being able to control my actions to a certain degree in some dreams when I was much younger.

I had semi-frequent lucid dreams at least every few months since ages 6-8, and possibly before that. I remember trying to induce them, but having barely any luck since I couldn't think of any techniques to try besides imagining the dream I wanted to enter, which didn't work. I didn't use the internet much then, if we even had it that early, so I didn't think to look it up, and basically forgot about trying to induce them until I found the wikipedia article on lucid dreaming, years later. I started out with very little dream control, and didn't really gain any until seriously attempting lucid dreaming for a few months, and increasing my average frequency of lucid dreams to several in a week.