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Lucid Dreaming: A Beginners Guide

Article Category: Entertainment

Imagine going to bed tonight and being in total control over your dreams. No longer sleeping through your dream like a zombie accepting it for reality but being fully aware and in control of everything that happens. This may seem like a strange concept to many but for those that have learned lucid dreaming, it's a reality. If you are ready to stop wasting a third of your life and start experiencing a life that you never knew existed then it's time for you to learn how to lucid dream.

What is Lucid Dreaming

A lucid dream is when a dreamer becomes consciously aware that they are dreaming while the dream is still happening. When you have a lucid dream it transforms the dream from nothing more than a faint fuzzy memory to an intense and incredible experience. Imagine being in a world just as real as the one you are in now, completely created by your thoughts and mind, where you can fulfill all your fantasies and wishes with no consequences or limitations. You are exploring the deepest thoughts of your very own subconscious and using the greatest tool for self reflection and self discovery. Lucid dreaming can't be described or explained with words but only once someone experiences a lucid dream will they truly understand it.

Why have Lucid Dreams

Now the most obvious reason to have lucid dreams is for adventure and excitement but there are so much more benefits then just those. Lucid dreaming is one of the greatest tools for self reflection and self discovery. You are exploring your very own subconscious at the highest and most profound level there is. Some of the great benefits of lucid dreaming are:

• Stopping Nightmares
• Improving creativity
• Personal and spiritual growth
• Problem solving
• Facing your fears
• Healing
• Self awareness
• Improving confidence
• Removing false limitations
• Dreamscaping

The possibilities and benefits of lucid dreaming are never ending.

Lucid Dreaming Frequently Asked Questions

Can everyone have lucid dreams?

Of course! Everyone dreams whether they remember it or not and lucid dreaming is just a different type of dream. Now for some people it might be easier than for others but everyone is capable of lucid dreaming.

Is Lucid Dreaming Real?

Due to the nature and the relatively new knowledge of it, it's easy to think that lucid dreaming is just some made up concept. Lucid dreaming has been studied and scientifically proven during the last century. It also continues to be studied at many universities and institutions across the globe.

How long does lucid dreaming take to learn?

If you are serious about having lucid dreams then you can learn how to master them in less then a week. For the average person it takes about a month before you will have your first lucid dream.

Is it dangerous?

Absolutely not! Lucid dreaming is no more or less dangerous then having a regular dream. It's probably just about the safest thing you can do.

How to Lucid Dream

Remember Your Dreams

So now that you have learned about lucid dreaming it's time to learn how to have them. The first step and the most important is to develop great dream recall. What's the point of trying to have a lucid dream if your not even going to remember it in the morning. Not only does mastering great dream recall allow you to remember your dreams much more clear and vivid, it allows you to become much more accustomed and used to the dream world so that you will be able to recognize when you are dreaming much easier.

The easiest way to remember your dreams is to start a dream journal and write down all of your dreams each morning in it. When you wake up each morning don't think about anything or move around. Just stay there and try to focus on what you were dreaming about and as soon as you remember your dream you have to write it down. Dreams are stored in a different part of the brain and they are easily forgotten no matter how real they were. Dream recall is a skill that is much easier as you practice it more and more. Once mastered, you will be able to remember about four of your dreams a night with great detail and ease. Only once you have mastered remembering your dreamswill you be able to go on to the next step.

Intention

Keeping the intention that you will lucid dream is the first step. Constantly thinking and reading about lucid dreams automatically triggers your subconscious to think about it and most likely you will think about it in your dreams causing you to realize that you are dreaming. Just like remembering your dreams, you should also tell yourself the night before that you will have a lucid dream over and over.

Self Awareness

In a world that is so bizarre and strange with nothing normal happening, we go through it accepting that we are awake and that its reality. This is the repercussions of how we go through and accept waking reality. Were so busy running around that our subconscious has taken over and controls most of our thoughts. Push this button, push that button, do you want fries with that? Most people can't remember what they had for dinner last night or even driving home. If we would start to pay more attention in the world around us then we will do the exact same in our dreams and discover that the dream world is not real and become lucid.

Perform Reality Checks

Doing reality checks is a great way to induce lucid dreams. Reality checks are tests that you perform while you are awake to make sure that you are not in a dream. It may seem silly when you are doing these tests but by constantly doing this you will carry this on into the dream world. When you do one of the tests in the dream world they will fail and you will instantly realize that you are dreaming.

Some good reality checks to do are:

1. Check the lights - Check and make sure that all the lights are working correctly. When you are in a dream the light switches and lamps will not work correctly.

2. Time - Another great technique to perform is to double check the time. Every single time you look at a clock or your cell phone for the time turn away and look back to make sure that it still says the same time as before.

3. Memory - When you are dreaming chances are that basic waking life memories are lost. The date or year, your birthday, address, or even your own name. You should stop and constantly ask yourself these questions to make sure you know the answer to them.

4. Check Your Breath - Cover your nose and your mouth and make sure that you still can't breath.

5. Hands - Count your fingers and make sure they are all there and then recount them. Another thing that you can do is see if you can push your finger through your hand.

6. Where am I? - Another thing that you can do is always ask yourself where you are at and how you got there. Do you remember where you were at before you were at this place?

7. Vision - Look around and make sure that everything is where and how it is supposed to be. Does the sky look normal today?

As you preform each of these checks you should make sure and question if this is just a dream and be ready to find out what the answer is. Make sure that each check that you do you are fully conscious and not just performing them like a habit or unconscious action. If you perform these reality checks already thinking that your awake and expecting them to pass then chances are you will do the same thing in your dreams and they will not work.

Wake Back to Bed Method (WBTB)

This technique does not have to be done every single day and can be done whenever you want to try and have a lucid dream. The first step is to set your alarm and wake up after 6 hours of sleeping. Once you wake up you want to get out of bed and do something that keeps your brain active. You can check your emails, read a book, write in your dream journal or anything as long as your thought process is working. I would recommend that you don't watch TV or perform any actions that a zombie could do. After you have been awake for around 30 minutes you want to go back to bed for at least another hour. This causes you to enter REM sleep after being in a fully conscious state making you more aware and alert in your dreams.

There are so many more lucid dream induction techniques but these are the basics. If you are serious about lucid dreaming then I would recommend that you study and try different techniques and discover which one works best for you. After you learn how to have lucid dreams the next step is to learn about the levels of lucidity so that you can reach higher levels of awareness. Then you must learn how to control your lucid dreams to have the fullest experiences while dreaming.

Keywords: Lucid Dreaming, Dreams, lucid, dream

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