Another Night, More Lucid Dreams!
Many people have those dreams where you are conscious of everything going on around you and you feel like it is almost real life except for a few minor details. These are called lucid dreams. Lucid dreaming is usually a more realistic dream than normal ones that can turn into nightmares, because you are in control of the script and the outcome of these dreams.
All kinds of emotions can be part of lucid dreams. Since you are in control of the dream, much like a director in a movie, there are no limits to what you make the lucid dreaming consist of and what the ending comes out to be.
Lucid dreams give you more control than normal dreams, which can sometimes turn into nightmares that you can’t seem to stop or control and may make you wake up with a helpless or scared feeling. Lucid dreaming may feel like you are awake instead of just dreaming.
In a lucid dream, there are certain details that might clue you into the fact it is a dream, such as colors, or items that don’t belong, for example. Much like sleep walking where the person appears to be awake, a lucid dream involves much the same type of feeling without being fully conscious of it.
If you sometimes daydream about someone in your life that you miss and you want to be with, it might appear to you or be the subject of a lucid dream. Things that seem impossible are possible in your lucid dreams.
In lucid dreams you can decide the kind of events that can happen. Let’s say you are dreaming that you are with a person you desire to be with. In your dream that person can smile at you and even touch you. In fact in your dream, that person can do anything you want him to do!
Physically, there is a need for the body to sleep and rest, but your mind often remains conscious on some level, even while you are sleeping, leading to lucid dreams or normal dreams, depending on the level of consiousness.
Learning how to have lucid dreams can take a lot of practice and some people may not be able to master it until they have gone through a long, slow process.
You can begin by doing some dream recall everyday. Each day try to recall the dreams that you had in the night. You need to remember them to the last possible detail. It’s a great idea to keep some paper and pen handy to record your dreams. In the beginning you may not recall all the details. That’s not a problem. However, with constant practice, you will find dreams repeating themselves. This will enable you to completely record your dream. Make this a habit and soon you will have all your dreams recorded and can refer to them when you want.
Lucid dreaming is a great tool for writers. You can actually dream about all the characters, the plot and the way you want your story line to move. You can use lucid dreaming for expressing all your dormant desires and manifesting them in reality.
Try to remember what you can about your dream as soon as you wake. If you go back to sleep, you can return to where you were in the lucid dream before you woke up. You will have the opportunity to start recalling more each time you try, if you have the same dream over and over.
Waking before your normal time is the time when the brain is in the best mode for lucid dreaming. Some people even dream themselves getting up and ready for work, only to spring out of bed almost late for work because the lucid dream seemed so real.
How easy lucid dreaming is to do is something that surprises many people. Others may use self-hypnosis to recall lucid dreams if they can’t seem to remember their dreams when they awake.
A recent development in sound technology can open the possibility for lucid dreaming to be possible. By stimulating certain areas of the brain, it has been proven to induce the dream state that is entered during lucid dreaming and can make it easier for you to recall your dreams.
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