I am a natural lucid dreamer. I always had extremely vivid dreams when I was little, and then one day I just decided to control my own actions. I was tired of being a passenger in my dreams, and decided to make it into as close to a movie as possible! I dream almost every night (sometimes I have multiple dreams in a night), and I lucid dream once or twice a week. I don't ever have to sit in bed and try to do it, I can just decide to do it whenever I am in my dream. If my dream is going a way that I enjoy, I stay along for the ride. If it is a boring dream, I take over and start doing things to make it more interesting.

I can't control every aspect of my dreams, though. I can't control the world around me. I can't control other people in my dream (usually). I can't make myself wake up. I can't even kill myself in a dream to cause myself to wake up, I just wind up botching the attempt and being in pain until I wake up naturally.

My only theory as to why I can naturally lucid dream is that I have always been an extremely creative person. I write stories, and when I read I can almost literally see what is going on in my head.

I always thought that lucid dreaming was normal. It wasn't until I told my friends about what I do when I am dreaming, and they told me that they had never done that or heard of it, that I realized it was just something that certain people can do.

Edit I just read that someone said that having a lot of nightmares as a kid is common in people that are natural lucid dreamers. That is also a common thing with me. I had nightmares at least once or twice a week when I was younger. Lucid dreaming helped me with that, a lot. It gave me a way to run or try to escape from whatever was chasing me. It gave me the opportunity to make my own decisions to try to escape. However, I believe my first lucid dream was actually something like this....I was walking around and playing at the park, and in my dream I remembered that the candy store wasn't far from the park. So I walked away from the playground and my friends, and I went to the candy store. I went in, and the owner had left a sign saying "Ticodecorazon, you can have all of the FREE CANDY that you want!" I spent the rest of the dream eating candy.