do you remember having lucid dreams spontaneously as a child?
yes
just one or two
no
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I would have thought that there’s already a topic like this, but I couldn’t find it.
When I was a child, I used to have spontaneous lucid dreams once in a while. I stopped having them when I was 10 or so (presumably because I got more involved with the “more important” waking life like us modern westerners mostly do), and had to struggle with induction techniques like so many of us when I got interested about LDs again during high school.
For long I’ve presumed that most people have had spontaneous LDs when they were small children. But now I’d like to have some indication of how the matter really is. So please tell: do you remember having lucid dreams spontaneously as a child?
Having lucid dreams as a child is how I learned it was possible. Nobody understood what I was talking about when I tried to explain about them tough, so I never knew there was a name for it, or even techniques to induce them.
A few years ago I stumbled upon an article in a science magazine about lucid dreaming, and I started learning and dreaming again.
I don’t remember having had LD’s as a child. I didn’t know they existed. My first experience which looked like a LD (it was a FA indeed) happened when I was 17.
I certainly recall one or two. In fact, I can still clearly remember one of the very first LDs I ever had, which must have been at least fifteen years ago. I was running around the school grounds in my old town, repeating to myself, “I know this is a dream–why aren’t I usually aware of this?” I can also vividly remember my first WILD, which couldn’t have been long after the the above account. I was lying in bed, when suddenly I noticed an image emerge from nowhere. It seemed to unfold like a crumpled up piece of paper until it took up my entire view. At that moment I noticed a loud ringing noise, which lasted a few seconds. Next thing I knew, I was standing on the porch outside my old house, watching my parents talking to our neighbors. After that, I got kind of excited and decided that all my dreams were going to begin that way. Heh, turns out it was harder than I first thought.
Before hearing about lucid dreaming, I had only one lucid experience as a child, when I was about six or seven. In this case, I was trapped in a very strange house, so I used that knowledge to my advantage by waking myself up.
Other than that, I also recall several instances of false awakenings, some of which involved me waking up several times. On one occasion, I had continued to wake up several times, and each was an unpleasant experience. I continued to wake up, feeling incredibly hot and uncomfortable, and I had so many false awakenings that I was beginning to wonder what was reality and what was not. Even when I finally did wake up, I couldn’t be sure that I really was awake, which would seem like the perfect introduction to a lucid dream nowadays. My thoughts were that I was certain I was awake, but I was equally as certain of that when I had each of those false awakenings. It was just too bad that I hadn’t heard of the concept of reality checks yet.
I remember my first “controlled” dream when i was 5, I was dreaming about my little pony and being turned into stone. Then I woke up and looked out the window looking at the street, I wanted a parade to happen, and then a parade came down my block and dolphins were everywhere O.o. I thought for a second “A dream?” but I was a kid, I was too excited about the parade going on to pay attention.
i can’t really remember actually having LD’s when i was a kid, i do remember that i wanted to dream about certain things while drifting to sleep. Sort of an incubated WILD, or VILD if you want. Wanting to dream about riding a winged unicorn, i’d just visualise the dreamscene where i wanted to end up in. Sometimes I succeeded.
I also had a pony in the shed of the dreamversion of my house, and often we went riding.
i wasn’t allowed to go horseback riding from my parents so this was kind of like a compensation.
I remember now that I had a pre-lucid dream once, I told myself throughout the day, I will tell myself its a dream! Or I will say something that it is a dream. I had no idea that it was called Lucid Dreaming at the time, I just believed so much that I could control my dreams, though my family thought otherwise. I remember saying in my dream “Nahh this can’t be a dream!” but I then swam underwater and I could still breath. I was dumb It was very fun though, swimming underwater and still being able to breath ^^
Yes, I clearly remember at least 2 spontaneous ones when I was younger, and perhaps one or two more later on. But those last couple came only after constantly soaking up info on dreams the nights before; perhaps sort of an autosuggestion? They seemed so much easier to achieve back then…
Not long after i read about lucid dreams (when i was about 8?) i had one where i was aware that i was dreaming. Nothing very interesting though, just like yeah.
I think i had only one LD scenario during my childhood, what i repeatedly saw some times.
I was in a car and my granny was driving (she didn’t drive IRL). I used to tell her that this is a dream, and we are talking with each other in a dream, etc.
Waw! It’s impressive how many people can remember that they had LD’s when they were kids. It makes more than 70%.
I suppose it’s because we’re on a LD’ing forum and it wouldn’t be the same on other forums.
I’ve had LD’s for as long as I could remember. Not that many. Maybe one or 2 a month. They were spontaneous too. Well, I actually did use some techniques like VILD and WBTB without realizing it.
When I was a kid… well I’m still sort of a kid but younger than I am now, lol-- I dreamt A LOT.
And I still do, but I don’t have as many nightmares as I used to. During my nightmares when I was a kid, I would always just know that if something bad was going to happen to me that I could just close my eyes, count to 10 and then when I opened them I’d be back in my room, awake.
So I’d do that… constantly, but I wouldn’t know I was dreaming until something bad happened and I was about to wake up.
I’m not really sure if this counts as lucidity, but its something. ^^;
ok, when i was younger, i used to be really scared of nightmeres, and so i thought i could just wake myself up in my sleep if i have one, so that night, i tried it, i wasnt having a nightmere, but i did it anyway, i pryed my eyes open in my dream, and i completely thought i was awake, but then i realized i wasnt, so i fell back to sleep again, and it happened a lot from there on to a couple weeks, and it just stopped
and being turned into stone. Then I woke up and looked out the window looking at the street, I wanted a parade to happen, and then a parade came down my block and dolphins were everywhere O.o. I thought for a second “A dream?” but I was a kid, I was too excited about the parade going on to pay attention. 
It was very fun though, swimming underwater and still being able to breath ^^
