I have been aware of that I am dreaming many times, but I have not taken any control, I simply followed the dream, sometimes I got myself away from the trouble I was in simply by just knowing that I was in a dream and that nothing could harm me or so etc.
Once I even got an option screen, almost like in the movie “Click” with Adam Sandler, but this was many years before that movie even came out.
So I don’t know in what cathegory I should be in xD
I have had lucid dreams bout lucid dreams often, but when I realise I am dreaming , I wake up and don’t want to hang around, heard about lucid dreaming about 4 days ago, and now trying to practice it, the tecniques on here worked, though the spinning around to remain lucid, will take some work, but i find not opening my eyes, even when i think i am awake helps me fall back in.
A cut and paste from my first post but as you can see its a big yes for me!
"As a child I constantly experienced lucid dreams although I thought it was normal and didn’t talk to people about it. I don’t remember controlling my dream environment except in one respect that was always the same. I every lucid dream I had I would quickly realise I was dreaming and tell people in my dream that “we” were dreaming (never “I” am dreaming). As the dream progressed if I wanted to wake up (and this is the weird bit) all I had to do was find a vintage car (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang era) lie down underneath it and bang! wide awake. The car was always there if I needed to wake up but the lucid dreams stopped as I got older. It’s a shame I didn’t realise what was happening.
Anyway as an adult I still naturally have lucid dreams but very infrequently maybe only once a year at least they are the only ones I can remember, the last one I had I managed to fly which I have never done before.
I also suffer from sleep paralysis or to be more accurate waking paralysis where I want to wake up when I’m dreaming but cant. Its hard to describe but I know I’m lying in bed and if I “struggle” I cant wake but I can fool myself into thinking I’m awake and even standing up out of bed or walking around the house when I suddenly realise I’m dreaming, panic and start shallow breathing and twitching at which point my wife has to shake me to snap me awake. I can wake myself up if I relax and jerk myself awake. As I write this I’ve never spotted the fact that I know I’m asleep and maybe I should stop trying to wake myself up but the feeling of paralysis is very scary. Now I think about it I’ve suffered the paralysis as long as I can remember (I’m 38 now) but its worse when I’m stressed."
My dream recall is nauturally pretty good too, I can still remember lying under that old car which I guess last happened about 30 years ago. My long term memory is good anyway so I guess that helps. I can still rememebr stuff from the age of 3 and occasionally freak my parents out by asking “do you rememeber…” to which they answer “you were only 3 how the hell can you remember that!?”.
I’ve not managed an induced LD yet but I’m being a bit lazy about it at the moment. I guess because I know I can LD I’m not in such a rush to see if I can induce a LD. But I’ll get there! 
Man! I wish I was a natural… It would be so much easier!
You don’t need to be a natural to be a lucid dreamer ! You can achieve the performance of having a LD every night even if you aren’t a natural - however, it takes years of practice, but it’s worth it… I guess…
True. I remember one LD from when i was perhaps 10 years old and i don’t believe it has helped me in achieving LDs in the last 1.5 years that i have trained. I now get 1-2 per week by will.
Like others have said I dont expect it will be any easier for me as a natural LDer to LD at will than anyone else. I think the only advantage is that a natural LDer may be more relaxed about eventually having an induced LD as they know thay have had them before and that when they do manage to induce a LD it wont be as wierd as never having had one before.
Time will tell…
It’s like a natural talent. If you are good at something, then in a year (if you study intense) you are a professional. If you haven’t got a really natural talent, then it would take about a couple more years, but you still reach profy. Even as a natural, you can’t a achieve level professional in just one single day 
Just think that it’s not impossible.
I’m not sure if I’m natural, but my first LD was very vivid and long(5min) for starter.
I remember a lot of dreams when I got out of them at will.
I guess I’m a natural but dreams were less important then.
i remember this one dream i had long time back, where I had lost my laptop n was quite afraid that my parents would find out…so i was looking all over n i could sense deep anxiety that time…n somehow i came to realize that i was dreaming so i dint worry much later or something…
But yeah…this is definitely the only memory i have about realization of a dream from my childhood…not quite close to lucid dreaming but still, i guess, it counts…
I’d call myself a natural, but I don’t really know if it counts if you can’t control the dream. Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve been pretty aware of when I’m dreaming or when I’m not. I mostly couldn’t control the dream, though, unless it’s a nightmare. Even then, though, I was scared of what would happen if I died in a dream (this was before I knew that I’d wake up if I died in a dream: back then I thought that if I died in a dream, I’d be stuck in some kind of a limbo… lol, Inception dejavu, anyone?).
So I had this way of forcing myself to wake up by squinting my eyes shut so hard that colored spots would dance before my eyes, and if I succeeded, the spots would grow bigger into a large vortex that’d send me spinning back to real life. The only problem was, sometimes I’d ‘wake up’ and still be stuck in the dream. I once had a dream where I had to redo the vortex thing at least ten times before I woke up in my real bed. It took me about twenty minutes before I stopped expecting some random dream-like thing to happen, like monkeys jumping out of a corner in my room to shoot me down with bananas.
I first became lucid after having read the guide of this forum!.. about a year and a half ago, already! I come from meditation and tibetan buddhism. So I am not a natural lucid dreamer.
A question I was wondering just before our french LD4All forum “closed”:
Are all the experimented and well known lucid dreamers (> several hundreds of LD) natural?
I guess i Say i am a Natural, because a friend told me of this Forum, and i have had plenty of Lucid dreams. Some end before they get amazing. I get Too exited Maybe?
and Some just carry on for ages and i can remember every little detail, Iv’e even lucid imagination whilst walking somewhere when suddenly i can see a whole nother world.
I’m not a natural but I can remember that I had a few LD’s when I was a kid 
I can even remember most of the dreams I’ve had, ever.
I guess not having any, means I’m not a natural 
for me i really dont know what qualifies…
if only being aware that you are dreaming counts then many many times. and i have controlled dreams a couple times too, i think. but the one time i can really think of right now, i didn’t know i was dreaming. i just wanted to fly soooooo bad and i did. and it was awesome.
usually i dont know im dreaming, and i see different people or i am a different person. and like when awake u can see your arms and nose and body? well i cant when i dream. i could reach out a grab something but i don’t see my arm. and my vision is weird… its not like movies where its exactly the same as being awake.
although one time i guess i did. i could see my arms and everything was normal. i had a FA and it sucked cause when i woke up the second time i was like what the H**l!?!
I’m really surprised there is so many natural lucid dreamers here. How can I not know anyone of them? 
or maybe they’re just proud of it and vote more than the others…
I voted yes because the question is “do you remember having some kind of LD as a child?” and yes I remember having some LD’s when I was a child (maybe 5).
Yet I don’t consider myself a natural because 5 LD’s is few and I have to induce them now.
I kinda agree with you Morning Star. “Are you a natural?” is a very dynamic question. The topic name should just be “Do you remember having some kind of LD as a child?”.
I’m DEFINITELY a natural dreamer. Even if I’m not lucid, I’m able to do everything people often do while lucid. I am very powerful in my dreams and I have at least 4-7 dream sequences a night that become increasingly vivid as I record them.
However, when it comes to lucid dreaming, I am not much of a natural. I have to work at it and I’m working at it right now!