Natuaral vs Learned LDs

[Bornthisway1979]

Watched Conan Obrian last night. Most likely a rerun. This guy from 3rd Rock from the Sun was on there talking about the creation of Inception. A movie he was promoting. He stated that he studied Lucid Dreaming which the concept of the movie was based off of. Boom!!! A lifetime of thinking I was alone in this ability all of a sudden has a name to it. LD.

Even being a Network Admin and on the Internet 4 hour a day for the last 10 years, never looked up or knew what to look up regarding this ability. I did a search of LD and there is a whole world out there for this. A sense of amazement and curiosity all hit me at once. Being able to do this since as long as I can remember, advanced myself greatly without every knowing there is a actual science to it.

Today is the first day of knowing there are people like me and people are are even able to learn this ability. I'm very excited to learn what is advanced and what is not. Do people who do this naturally have advantages of being more advanced then someone who learned. I would love to hear storied between the two ways of experiencing LDs.

I don't know where I stand in the levels but I am able to wake on demand, fly, extend dreams, create scenes and experiences at will. About a year ago I was literally IRON MAN. It was one of the best experiences I have ever had in dreams and awake. Trying to explain this to people was always awkward. I'm so happy there is a place where people understand. Happy to meet everyone.

[Rox]

Hi!
Nice to hear you found your spot to share your experiences.

I think someone who learned lucid dreaming and mastered it, should be able to do exactly the same as a natural like you. But, you have some advantages .

I think it will be unlikely that you will lose motivation. Some people who began learning to lucid dream from the beginning might lose motivation because they don't LD too much. That happened to me once. I was trying to LD for a long time. I didn't have much lucid dreaming experience so I quitted. Now I know better .

There also is MUCH more you can do btw:P
You can look on this topic:
http://www.lucidipedia.com/forum.php?section=viewtopic&t=467&highlight=things+lucid+dream
I think you will become very exited too see al the potential of a lucid dream (atleast I did )

Good luck and have fun!
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[IrbidProdigy]

I usually have natural lucid dreams(not as much as my mom, she has REALLY frequent >.>) but somewhat. Still i found training it bumped me up alot and without the training i wouldnt have half as many lucid dreams as i do now :]

[June]

Nice to meet you. I'm a natural lucid dreamer as well. I did know what lucid dreaming was and knew that there were only a few people I knew that had lucid dreams, I've just never seen it as an ability, and - like you - only recently discovered that there some people somehow try to learn how to LD. Up until then I viewed it as something that just happened to you - or not. Sometimes I'd have weeks with no lucid dreams, and then they were back again. So I never knew it was something you could intentionally induce. That's what I've been doing quite a few times since then, but sometimes I'm too tired to focus on staying lucid while I'm falling asleep at night, and find that lucidity again is something that either happens to me or not. So I still have intentional and unintentional lucid dreams, and though I can't really describe how, I feel they are somehow a bit different from each other. But I do like being able to expierence both: sometimes I have a lucid dream because I *want* one and I try hard to stay lucid, and sometimes I get one by surprise.

[whoru52]

Nice to find a community of kindred spirits, isn' t it. For honing your skills and new techniques, a great "how to " book is LaBerges' Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming. Specific exercises for improving stability, recognition, direction....all already pioneered. It has be extreemly useful, for me.
Theory is facinating, but technique is eveything.