I have had LD since I was about 9 or 10yrs old I feel like my counscience kick-started when I was about 7 and since then I have understanding and thought about the world around me. Even to coming to a point when i was 7 and had an experience of existenlism. (I didn’t realise it at the time what it actually was)
Since about 9 or 10 when I had my first superman flying dream I knew I could control my dreams, but at the time I didn’t know it had an associated term LD. Only when I found out about LD when i was about 20 that I realised I had been having these dreams for a long time but didn’t see it as much.
I am not saying everybody is the same, but for me it seems pretty far-fetched that somebody can live their live without ever feeling like they were aware in their dream and hadn’t associated those experiences with the infomation about Lucid dreaming that they would read when they found out about it?
I like to hear about what somebody thought they experienced before they knew about lucid dreaming and what they thought of those dreams and thinking back to when they were younger and whether they ever thought they were aware/awake in a dream.
As far as I know I’ve never had a lucid dream before I found ld4all. I think there are quite few people that actually have LDs regulary without actually using techs.
I`ve never been remembered any hints ,even, of lucidity before ld4all (not to much after either , but you understand ).
But we may off course have had it everybody and just have an awfully bad DR …
Sometimes when I was a kid I had the odd lucid dream every couple of years or so without using any technique or even knowing that it had actually had a name. When I first heard of lucid dreaming I wasn’t that interested and I only had one loser LD but when I heard of LD4all I was hooked and have already had three lucid dreams. One day I’ll have one of those super reality LD’s… does quick reality check
Maybe tonight.
I had a really awesome lucid dream before I knew a single thing about it. I dreamed I was in this ridiculously huge public swimming pool building, like 10 floors and each floor the area of a car sales lot, with pools on each floor. I was with a bunch of family members who left the building without me. “They wouldn’t just leave me here,” I thought. “This is a dream!..And if it’s a dream, it’s all in my head, right? So I should be able to control it!” so I started making things happen. I made some friends come and pick me up. It was pretty cool. For some time after that I was like “YEAH, that was the bomb.” Then at a science fair -ish thingy, I found out about lucid dreaming and I was like “w00t, I want to do that some more!”
jeez u guys are soo lucky… I have only had one so far and it wasn’t even full lucidity, I have been trying for 2 months now - I have tried every method but the RC’s and the WILD and MILD induced lucid dreams just don’t work for me… The partial LD I had was using the WILD technique but i can never do a proper RC in a dream even tho i do them one evry hour - once i did do a RC in a dream but I just convinced my self i wasnt dreaming…
My dad is a natural lucid dreamer but he uses a tech without knowing it, he uses a dreamscene and a story as he goes to sleep but instead of using the dream he lets it take over as soon as possible so that he’ll wake up sooner. I can’t explain to him the uses of it.
I personnaly never even considered being able to control my dreams until I found lcuid dreaming on how stuff works.
I never once had an LD until August this year, and even then it was only because I’d been reading this site too much! But I don’t think you have to be lucid to control your dreams - I’ve controlled every one of my dreams to some extent for as long as I can remember, and none of those were lucid.
In most of my normal dreams, I tend to think rationally and make controllable decisions like I would in real life - except based on the situation and the person I’m being at the time. They definitely weren’t lucid, though - when I had my first lucid dream, I knew it at once. But when it came down to it, nothing had really changed in terms of control.
I had 1 false awakening when I was 18, and 2 more when I was 26. It was very surprising, because my level of consciousness was quite the same as IRL, though I didn’t know at the moment that I was dreaming. So, they weren’t LD’s, but conscious dreams. Of course, I found this very curious.
But I wouldn’t have been interested in lucid dreaming, and I wouldn’t have known that it was possible to get such dreams voluntarily if I hadn’t read Castaneda’s books. So that I perfectly understand people who have experienced this once or twice, and are not interested because it happens naturally and they don’t know neither they can trigger it nor they can control their dream environment. And indeed, many natural LD’ers don’t even know they can modify their dream, they just wake up when it begins to be nightmarish.
I didn’t realise that people didn’t know. I am not saying I am perfect but it seems really bizarre to me.
This meaninh that you were in control but it wasn’t a lucid dream, does anyone else think that this what she is explaining is an lucid dream ? or am I wrong
I remember pretty clearly when I was 10yrs old dreaming I was superman and loving it. I did also have an annoying trait my dad didn’t like I used to sing in my sleep and my dad would have to wake up me up and tell me to shut up
samzen05, having a lucid dream is based on being aware that you are in a dream, not on dream control. This is kind of a basic mistake many people make in the start I think. Also I sometimes doubt these stories of people saying “yeah I had lucid dreams when I was 6 years old” etc, simply because they often think that LD = dream control.
alright now i am very confused - I want to be able to have full control over my dreams and be fully aware that I am dreaming - I think I would rather have dream control than lucidity but are they the same thing
In some dreams you realize that something is different. Occasionally I have dreams in which I just change stuff around, change location or make my vision disappear and fade to a new scene (at least that’s how it feels like when I remember the dream). But that’s not at all lucid.
There can be dream control without lucidity and there can be lucidity without dream control.
Good lucidity doesn’t only imply knowing that you are dreaming. I also had dreams in which I knew I was dreaming for some time and just thought “oh well this is a dream” but I wasn’t lucid. When I remembered the dream, it was exactly like any other dream. Also in these cases you usually do stuff that might be as idiotic as what you usually do in unconscious normal dreams and very soon the dream is back to being a temporary reality for you.
At the most I was dreaming I was lucid. But lucidity implies knowledge of the state AND consciousness AND choice of action. On higher levels you have remembrance of your waking life and so on. Some lucid dreamers are conscious but they are just viewers of their dreams and don’t bother much to influence their actions in the dream. For the state of lucidity that doesn’t matter much.
I think someone needs to clearly define a lucid dream because not only I but other people are getting confused!
I am always aware but I don’t always have control of my dream. Though I am not a control-freak, the only time I have any control is when a sexy woman appears in my dream
i started to search about LD ing after i had a LD . it was caused by an easy dreamsign. it was the day after i gratuated from high school , and in my dream i was at the school so i said to myself this cant be real , this is a dream. then i went to this girl that i had a crush on and we kissed .
The clear definition of a LD is: a dream in which you know you’re dreaming. That’s the scientific definition (Laberge).
But there are some special dreams which aren’t included by this definition. In some dreams, you are as aware as in real life, you have free will, but you think it’s real life. It’s the case of many false awakenings. I would call this “conscious dreams”.
And some people can control their dreams though they are not aware it’s a dream. I don’t know how they feel cause I never have had such dreams without being lucid. I would call these dreams “controlled dreams”.
Generally, when you are lucid, you have at least a minimum control. It’s very rare that you just follow the flow of the dream, but it may happen. When people complain about not having control, it’s because they haven’t full control, that is modifying the environment, making the DC’s do what they want, having extra powers, etc.
since the age of about 9 or 10 I have more or less been aware its a dream, It is extremely rare that I thought it was real life.
On those occasions when I was in my early teens I had nightmares which I thought were real.
Definitely not the same thing. I often have dreams where I can do anything I want, go anywhere I want… anything. But at no stage (well, almost always not) do I ever think I’m dreaming (mind you, I don’t think it’s real life, either… I just think it’s exciting!).
In the first fully lucid dream I had it was very obvious I was conscious like in the waking state, could remember my waking life, etc. Upon reflection of some earlier dreams I have had through the years, I realized some of them which were very vivid had a very close approximation to Lucidity. If I had known what lucid dreaming was back then, some of those dreams may have crossed the threshold into full lucidity.
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