Question What Inspired You To Do Lucid Dreaming

I always thought about something like control your dreams,but I thought it was impossible. And it didn't interest me since then,until I was 15 and found out in the internet that it was possible.

For me it's was the fact I could do anything I put my mind to. Fly. Sure. Time travel. Sure. Speak with cosmic beings. Why not. Lol...it's really liberating to me...feels more real than wat life is at times

Escapism. Books by day and dreams by night is the only thing that justifies my vain existence and offers a temporary solace.

When I was 12, around the age you get confirmed as a catholic, my parents decided instead to let me choose, encouraging me to study other religions and see which one was right for me.Through my studies, I eventually settled on none, taking a scientific approach to religion and understanding it's role and source within the brain. Eventually, I became fascinated with the idea that people who did things like astral project or visit mystical realms were actually just Lucid Dreaming. That was when I was about 18-19 (hard to pin down an exact time), and I've been interested in it ever since.

It's incredible free time, no-one can interfere with, during time normally spent unconscious.

To help me remember my DMT trips better

It just spontaneously happened. I think it was a result of keeping dream journals, which were a way to document what, at the time, I believed to be precognitive dreams (which I now believe is just limited perception of the actual nature of time/reality).Was freaky and a bit unwelcome, at first (especially the shitty "stuck in a time loop" ones), then I did some reading about it and got braver with playing with it, and now it's awesome.I kind of miss the surreal feeling that accompanied not understanding the experience (I equate this to the Fool card, in tarot), but the knowing is pretty great, too. Being able to feel totally awake while in a dreamworld is one of the coolest things ever. "Magic" is a lot easier to perform there, as I understand myself to be limitless.

I discovered LDing when I was 14, found this on the internet and tried doing basic techniques like MILD but they didn't work for me plus I was still too lazy and overloaded with school so I couldn't do WBTB even if I knew about it, and so I gave up. I started having my first lucid dreams this year in August but they were uncontrollable. Now, since this month, I have one lucid dream a day, I have no reasons not to tell my parents about my dreams (but when the day\night for LD sex comes, I won't be that willing, you know) at all. I'm proud of what I can do within my dreams. btw, I'm 20

Answered a similar question before so here's copypastaBefore I knew anything about lucid dreaming I once had a non-lucid dream so vivid and real that when I woke up I wasn't sure if the dream was my real life and my waking life was the dream I'm living while my other self dream. In that particular dream I lived a coherent flow of day to day stuff; relationship, family, etc. It felt hyper real, as if I was aware of everything that was around me, not just stuff in my field of vision. The colors were vivid, I especially remember the details and the extremely colorful green in blades of grass that I've never seen in waking life. When I woke up I still remembered how it felt, how realistic and impressionable it was. I even spent the whole afternoon writing a mini essay basically questioning existence. Had I become lucid in that dream, I'm sure it would've been even more incredible. That and one other lucid dream (which was not as hyper realistic but it felt just like waking life) were what got me into lucid dreaming.

20 yrs or so ago I was reading about AP and even listened to some of Monroe's cassette tapes. Never got to AP. Fast forward to present and thought I would try again but some videos had warnings of trying it. I heard LD was "easier" and started reading about it. Maybe I will see what AP is about whether it is something different altogether or another type of LD, but focusing on LD now was the best thing I could have decided. I've not LD yet, but I am shocked by the amount of changes I have made to my life for something I have yet to experience: stopped drinking caffeinated drinks/soda, no more coffee in the mornings, I stopped drinking beer every night, I don't play video games till 11-12 at night for distraction, I eat healthier, I am learning to meditate, performing reality checks which I am trying to evolve into mindfulness or awareness during the day.

After pulling it off a few times when I was younger, I decided to stop because I wanted to let my dreams be what they were intended to be. Then I found my waifu and thought, if I could lucid dream, I bet I could meet her in them. Some of the better sex I've had tbqh.

Life has a certain routine and mine was to go to school, study, hangout with boyfriend and friends. It gets boring not to be able to get out of your routine. It helps me experience and explore which is something I can't or made myself believe that I can't do in real life.

Doing it once and then finding out what it was year later. Then finally finding out that you can make it happen regularly.

It was a reason for me to quit weed and it worked, haven't had much success with ld yet though

I found this subreddit by chance a few months ago, and got interested in this "lucid dreaming" business. I spent at least an hour reading about it, and the rest is history.Why did i get interested in it? Well, my sleep cycle was an abomination before i started, and that wasn't really healthy. Lucid dreaming would force me to straighten that out.And i love to sleep. Like, LOVE to sleep. I'd sleep all day long if i could, but unfortunely my body doesn't want me to. And to have fun AND sleep? Hell yeah!The thought of having my own little universe where i could do whatever i wanted (i know it's all in my head, but still...) always amazed me. For example, just going out into the city in the middle of the night was always an exciting thought for me, but it's pretty dangerous so i can't do that IRL. But in dreams? Yeah, why not?

Waking Life.

In college I started keeping a dream journal of sorts. I wasn't recording my dreams, but keeping track of what random song was stuck in my head upon waking. One night I had a particularly vivid dream recorded it and started looking up stuff about dreaming. I read about lucid dreams and realized I had them naturally a couple times a year. A couple years later, I saw lucid dreaming brought up on 4chan and how to have them. That's when I found out you could train your mind to have lucid dreams more often and started practicing and visiting dreamviews regularly. Lucid dreaming became my main hobby for a little over a year.

There's a girl in my school that I love. I haven't said to her it so I want lucid dream to tell me what it would be if I said that I love her. I know it can be not the right answer but still, I don't want confess to her before my mind tells me if it's good idea.

I just want to meet my exes sister who killed herself

I've always felt like there's not enough time in a day for free time. This seems like my solution but I haven't been able to LD more than once for a few seconds. Keep coming back to it every so often though.

Having them all the time as a kid, and then learning what they were and realizing what I was doing

I had an spontaneous LD and started searching for more info.I have a lot of goals with LD. The main goal is trying to heal my mind from traumatic experiences, maybe living them again but changing the way thing happened.Also, I want to fly, visit other worlds, the outer space, become a super sayian and have sex with some hot celebrities. Lol

A boring day job, dreams have always been an escape of reality... Why not control that escape?

I actually got interested because of how real and vivid lucid dreams could be. I had a natural one when I was around 9 years old, and that is the only dream (or, lucid dream) that I have remembered from my childhood. And it felt, basically, like real life but in dream form. You know how people tell you exactly what I just said? How it can be just as vivid as real life? Well it's really, really hard to believe it until you have one exactly like it. I've always dreamed (hehe) of having a dream like the one I had in my childhood, and what inspires me is that I know it's possible.

I've always loved dreaming, and being in my dream world. It has a unique connotative feeling to it. Hard to describe.But when I was told you could actually control your dreams, and do whatever you want within them, I had to learn more!

I want to fuck movie stars.

I'm interested in lucid dreaming cause I can safely blow up the world in an LDNah jkI'm wondering if I should start an apocalypse in an LD and then lose myself and see what the "dream me" does xD

Well since I was young I've had many lucid dreams and only recently have I known what they actually are. I used to talk to my family like "have you ever been able to control your dreams?" and they'd be like "nope sorry". I found this sub about 6 months ago and I am intrigued by the experiences people go through on a daily basis. But just the fact that you can go to sleep, forget all the stress and tension of the real world and create your own story, heck even your own REALITY, is absolutely mind blowing.So to answer your question:
What pulled me in was not only the experiences I could have, but also the experiences of others.Cheers

When I was 12 or 13 I read an article about how to deal with nightmares, it talked about LDing.Years later things were bad, so I decided to give it a try.Since then I have been quite passioned about it and thoroughly enjoy every dream, but I absolutely love when it's a lucid one.

That is incredible.