Something I was wondering about.

I have always just naturally had lucid dreams. When I was younger, when I told people that I always know that I'm dreaming while I'm having the dream, they've always said they feel sorry for me, I think because I don't get the experience of completely escaping from my waking life when I am dreaming.

Now I see that people who don't naturally lucid dream are trying all types of techniques to get themselves to lucid dream, and there are tons of instructions on how to make yourself have lucid dreams.

It seems a bit strange that lucid dreaming now seems to be something that everyone wants to do, when in my past it was treated like something of a disability.

So if you aren't a natural lucid dreamer, but are trying to get yourself to lucid dream, or you have been able to find a method that enabled you to lucid dream, why did you try? What did you think you would get out of it?

One benefit I can think of is if you had a scary dream, you would know it wasn't real so you wouldn't be very frightened, but I don't usually have scary dreams anyway.