Have you ever been dreaming and then suddenly become conscious that you were actually dreaming?
Well, this is lucid dreaming, where the dreamer is aware that he or she is in the middle of a dream. You must know that lucid dreams have been scientifically proven to exist.
If an average person spends 7 hours a day sleeping and lives an average life of about 75 years, then he or she has slept almost 1/3 – that’s 22 years! – of his or her life away. The great thing is that you can get more life out of those years wasted on sleeping, by learning to control your subconscious with lucid dreaming.
Lucid dreaming, also called conscious dreaming, refers to dreaming while actually being aware that you are dreaming. Once you become aware you are dreaming you can influence your dreams and control what happens. You can do anything you’ve ever wanted and go anywhere you’ve ever dreamed.
What is the point of lucid dreaming?
- Experience adventures of a lifetime
To experience lucid dreaming to the fullest, you must remember that you are not restricted by any laws in your dreams – you have complete freedom.
Instead of walking to school or work, you can fly. While at half-road you may spontaneously decide you’d rather explore the mysterious depths of the ocean without a breathing device. Or you may want to travel at the speed of light and explore the endless heavens around us without a ship.
Or perhaps you’ll remember a book or a movie that captured your heart and you’ll want to play the main character of that book or movie and live for a short while in that story. - Exploring creative inspiration
You cannot go back in time and change something, but instead, you can try out new behaviors and test yourself under different situations and scenarios, and learn from the results. You can prepare yourself for events that have not yet occurred and perhaps prevent yourself from making otherwise inevitable mistakes.
If you’re writing a novel or even creating a computer game, lucid dreaming can help you visualize it. You could even ask your characters about how they feel about something or what they think will happen. - Enhance your abilities
Lucid dreams can be realistic enough to rehearse a speech or musical performance. Of course, everything is controlled by your own mind, so in whatever situations you find yourself dreaming about you’re basically assuming how others will react. You have the power to create similar situations endlessly, which allows you to better prepare yourself for a wide range of outcomes. - Stopping nightmares
Most of us look can’t wait to sleep because it is a very peaceful and quiet time allowing us to slow down and put aside, for a while, the endless unrest of our waking lives. However, some people are afraid of falling asleep because the ceaseless nightmares they’re having.
Lucid dreaming can play a major role in curing the fear of nightmares. With dream control you can completely change the setting and context of your dream, successfully eliminating your nightmares. - Problem solving
One possible explanation to the boosted brain abilities during sleep is the lack of sensory input, because the mind is no longer focused on our senses, such as sight, hearing, and so on. Therefore, the brain can concentrate more promptly on creative problem solving. Lucid dreaming can help in dream interpretation and communicating with your subconscious. - Research
If you are largely interested in dreams, either in spirituality or in psychology, experiencing lucid dreaming could help you in your research. - Transcendence
Lucid dreaming demonstrates the amazing fact that the world we see – subjective reality – is the product of our minds. It makes us look beyond everyday experiences and ask ourselves, “If this is not real, then what is it?”
Learning Lucid Dreaming Techniques
Lucid dreaming is just like any other skill. Some are born with the ability, while most have to practice and improve it. The main condition for experiencing lucid dreams is to develop higher dream recall.
Although it may at first not seem like it, training dream recall is quite easy. It mostly takes only practice and motivation. Once you’ve improved your dream recall to a couple dreams per night, you can then trying to induce lucid dreaming.
Dream Journal
A great method of recording your dreams is to focus your intent on remembering them before falling asleep. A dream journal is the most common way of recording your dreams, but you can use something else, like a recorder, for instance.
A dream journal is simply a writing notebook that you should keep close to your bed. Upon waking, don’t let your mind drift off, but immediately try to focus on what you had just been dreaming, and write it down in your dream journal.
Dream Signs
Dream signs are quite simply cues that you are dreaming and are a standard means of inducing lucid dreams. In most cases, dream signs appear in the form of things or situations that would be impossible or less likely to happen in the waking world.
Some examples of common dream signs are:
• breathing under water
• flying or taking “Superman†long jumps
• oversized or undersized objects or people
• purple skies
• green cats
Dream signs are also sometimes more subtle:
• light switches that don’t work
• suddenly returning to work at an old job, being late
• not being able to scream
• the speech patterns of friends being unusual
• arriving somewhere naked
• having your teeth fall out – this is often a result of excessive worrying.
A personal dream sign that I have is the inability to run. I feel as if my feet are stuck to the ground or wading through waist deep water.
CONCLUSION
The benefits and healing potential through lucid dream imagery are unlimited in alleviating pain and fears, fast recovery from injuries, working through grief, gaining greater self-confidence.
Developing lucid dreaming skills is an exciting attempt to picture your life the way you want it to be. A genuine attempt to change your life is recognizing that your own mind is a reflection of your true spirit, and will prove to you that the best there is in life, is yours, to create.
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Victoria,
It seems that you’ve put a lot of research into this post. Awesome!
It’s very well written from where I’m sitting, and I look forward to seeing more about Lucid Dreaming from your point of view.
This is good for me
Learn the right things to do and commit to doing them with dedication until you have what you want. will accelerate the Secret for you.
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Lucid Dreaming-Taking Control of your Subconscious…
Have you ever been dreaming and then suddenly become conscious that you were actually dreaming?
Well, this is lucid dreaming, where the dreamer is aware that he or she is in the middle of a dream. You must know that lucid dreams have been scientifical…
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Take the Blue Pill, Take the Red Pill…
Order in Chaos……….Creating a “Dream Sign”
(Some may be able to skip this an jump right to the journal, others may not.)
In order to help jump start the dream journal. Cue your self randomly through out the day.
Cues to use………
Look at your hands and confirm that you are awake. You could go so far as to tell yourself “i am awake i am not dreaming”, I find repeating the statement three times appealing.
You could look at your watch or whatever you prefer,but the cue should be performed the same way each time.
The goal is to create focus.
By repeating this randomly through out the day the cue will eventually be preformed by your subconscious while you are asleep. When the cue occurs while dreaming it will trigger you to become conscious.
Basically creating a “Dream Sign”.
You can achieve Lucidity from this alone but the cueing through out the day gets old. This is when i’d start the journal.
Audio Recording Or Journal?
For me its the journal 100%! Audio Recording lacks something. Writting anything down that i even slightly remember will start a snowball effect that ends with me being mentally exhausted, from flying around all night.
Good luck an try not to lose the balance.
From Lucid Dreams you can go to Out Of Body Experiences,but thats alot more dedication.
Nice article, I have been able to do this on and off (but not regularly)for years, After I once ended a string of nightmares as a child by realising it was a nightmare and turning the tables!
Take that evil transformer monster!
very nice post, its a very interesting topic. i like you, sometimes feel like i cant run from someone. i heard that the person you’re running from is yourself, you’re trying to run away from yourself, which means that you dont want face you problems. There is something called Idoser where you listen to some brain waves for 30 minutes before you sleep and its supposed to give you that ability. its really cool
Hello,
First off, great read. “teeth falling out”, “not being able to scream”, “superman jumps(also in my dreams, running without using my legs)” and “breathing underwater”, have all occured in my dreams on my own free will. Second, i’ve been able to do this off and on for years, and it’s always a fun thing, recently over the past 2 years i’ve been able to teach myself how to do certian things in my dream…then learning them in my dreams, been able to do them in real life…whats that fall under? Also i’ve been able to close my eyes, and see myself doing just that, but from other people’s perspectives..it sounds weird, but it’s true…I’ve been able to use this method for creating a shot when it comes to filming a scene, or taking a simple photograph. It’s helped my shots come out beautiful on both ends, helping to see what others can and do see. I would like to know whats THAT considered? I’m interested in the thoughts of lucid dreaming, the brain power of a human, channeling that and using more than the normal person…things like that.
Any good literature out there you acn suggest? Not “new age” stuff, but more on the scientific research aspect.
Thank You.
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I can’t fly without the dream being ’scripted’. It’s annoying… I can however perform the KAME-HAME-HA, nullify bullet shots, slow time and in one instance where I was killed, managed to travel back in time and choose a different option. It’s pretty nuts, I look forward to honing the skill with these ‘dream signs’.
Perfom the Kamehameha! BAHAHA!
I always have been very interested in LD but never had the time to rpactice it :/ well now I have lots of time on my hands and would love to get into that . If anybody has any helpful tips or maybe links please contact me on my email . Thank You in advance
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im a lucid dreamer. thanks for giving me an explanation
i think i was born with it because I’ve never purposely trained to do it
There are some exceptions tho, I have nightmares when I sleep uneasily, going into an uneasy sleep, perhaps after a trauma or distress can make it harder to become conciously aware of my dreams.
Have you ever been reading a post and suddenly become conscious that were actually reading the intro to a sales pitch attempting to hawk self-help books to you?
Well, that is lucid reading, where the reader is aware that he or she is in the middle of a persuasive sales pitch. You must know that persuasive sales pitches aimed at vending dime-a-dozen self help books through pseudo-independent blog-type posts have been scientifically proven to exist.
If an average person spends 7 minutes a day thinking critically, maybe they won’t waste the rest of their time buying crap from unscrupulous sales-people who promise them things like millions of dollars, unbridled happiness and unlimited success.
That 7 minutes could start with people pondering why so many self-help books exist if even a fraction of them did what they claimed they can. Surely the first one to actually followed through on it’s promises would mean that there would be no need for buying another, and another, and another, until you’ve got a whole shelf full of these books,no?
Try using your conscious mind to call bullshit on grifters who attempt to persuade you that buying their book can make you a bazillionaire genius. The subconscious mind is powerful, but it is also far easier to persuade that the conscious one – otherwise known as the bullshit filter.
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