How did you hear about LD for the first time?

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yay I strike again!

I had nightmares when I was little and Icould wake up at will if I got scared, but I thought it was ‘normal’ but a few years ago I was watching changing rooms or some such programme and this woman wanted her room done really wierdly, with a mouth chair and upside down things etc. Anyway half way through the show, the host was talking to her about the fact that she could do what she wanted in her dreams, like flying, and she said it was called lucid dreaming, at the time I thought she said lucy dream. I knew it was connected to my nightmares, but thought nothing of it. When I had my first LD, I thought back to the programme and as I thought she said Lucy dream, I got REALLY messed up and thought it was a Polly dream (don’t ask, it sounds ridiculous!) and I searched for it on the web. Obviously I didnt find anything, but when I searched for Lucy, google kindly offered a spelling correction, and gave me LD websites. And here I am!

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lol pistgurl…how do you dig up all these ancient threads?

I think i read in a book that it was called “lucid dreaming”, but i’ve had ld’s since I was very young.

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I read about it in “Dagens Nyheter” (“Todays News”), the #1 swedish newspaper. There were three full pages about lucid dreaming and about Stephen LaBerge, on the 24, 25 and 26th of august 1998.

It sounded to far out to be true, but i had to try it just in case. We didn’t have internet at home back then, only in school. So i didn’t find out more about it until i had my first LD myself.

I have to re-read these articles now. It’s interesting that it got publicity in such a big newspaper, most people must have found it extremely weird, like me for example :smile:

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My friend who was and still is a member of this forum told me about it :smile:

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dredg

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I had a dream once where me and a friend were walking down the street and he asked me what I wanted for Christmas. Christmas had been probably only a week before, and after realizing that I knew I was dreaming. I thought this was funny but didn’t think about it again for a couple years until I thought to google it.

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i learned about lucid dreaming from experiencing it naturally

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I first learned about it when I ere reading about OOBE, psy-balls and astral projecting and stuff. The only reasin I started to read about LD were beacuse I found it to be a way to achive astral projection. :slight_smile:
But these days I’m more focused on LDing more then AP and OOBE.

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I can’t remember when I found out about lucid dreaming. It feels like I have know about it forever, I guess I have know about it since I was 10 or something. And I probably read about it in some book. I also thought about practicing it years ago, but I didn’t have internet then. And I couldn’t figure out any RCs that I felf comfortable with. So I just have up after 1 day :sad:

I’m just happy that I have internet now and that I found ld4all :cool_laugh:

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On a tv show but later on this sait

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I originally found it on wikibooks.

No, only joking. I can’t remember, but I think that the wikipedia page on lucid dreaming was very close to the beginning. Maybe I was reading up on dreaming and found it.

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First time I read about it was in a book about dreams I read five years ago. However, I wasn’t hooked at all, I just thought it seemed fuzzy. Then, some months ago, when I browsed under Psychology in a general forum, someone wrote about it and I got interested.

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Once I was rummaging in old newspapers, hoping to find one big enough to cut out a pattern. In one of these newspapers, I read about Senoi system. I didn’t understand it properly, so the idea I got about it was more likely lucid dreaming, though I did not know the right name for it. Recently, a neighbor asked me to translate some texts for her test work. She is studying to become a psychologist, so the texts were just magazine articles about psychological stuff including dreams… That was when I got to know the real name for this. But I really began to think about having LDs myself only when I read EWLD and some other books…

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I had no idea that our brain has such miracoulus abilities. One day I did a google search about dreams, generally, because I was bored.

I found a MSN group about “Lucid” Dreams. I was like “wtf is ‘lucid’ ?”. I now know…

Alex C

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I’ve read an article about it in a popular magazine almost ten years ago, it was an interview with an expert, probably Paul Tholey (dead now) or Stephen LaBerge. I found it exciting, but only found the motivation to try it a few years after I read the article, and only because I had a wonderful spontaneous LD. I hope to find that article again, it was my first encounter with the subject and therefore has emotional value to me :content:

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Paul Tholey is dead??? :eek: :sad: Do you know anything else about that?? Wow it was a little shock when I read it :sad: He was a great researcher of the practical use of LDs to improve waking life sports activities.

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Yes, he died in 1998:
gestalttheory.net/people/thol_ref.html

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Thanks for the link. That’s really sad news :sad:

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I found it out from ags_rule when he was excitedly telling me about it, his explanations were a bit…vague so i googled it and came up wit this site and stopped the confusion lol

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I first heard about lucid dreaming from a narcotics subforum of a a norwegian webforum called “freakforum”.

There was a discussion of herbs for dreaming or something like that.