| By definition, lucid dreaming is being aware of dreaming | | | | "notes" in their dream. Then ask the question aloud |
| while dreaming. Perhaps a double entendre but, | | | | several times daily aloud. You may also write the |
| perhaps, this closely explains the meaning without | | | | question on a post-it note and put it evidently on the |
| confusion. Coined long ago, the word "lucid" is used in | | | | refrigerator and other places you frequent throughout |
| the sense of mental clarity. Almost anyone, with | | | | the day. You will soon find yourself mimicking that |
| knowledge obtained by doing, can live through lucid | | | | question over and over throughout the actual dream. |
| dreams. | | | | This most likely trigger a lucid dream. |
| Not in any way dream control, lucid dreams have little | | | | It is very important that you sleep in the same location |
| or no control on dreaming. Nevertheless, lucidity in a | | | | and at about the same time. Always best is to sleep in |
| dream will probably improve the ability to methodically | | | | utmost silence because music or other sounds can |
| affect the specific happenings of the dream. Practice | | | | affect your dreaming. Should you decide to have |
| may influence the quantity or amount of control over | | | | background music to you sleeping, always choose soft |
| events in a dream. Many lucid dreamers make a | | | | and quieting music, preferentially without vocals. |
| choice to do some act permitted only by the | | | | It is important to keep a Dream Journal? |
| exceptional liberty of the dream,such as flying. | | | | A journal of your dreams may be one of the best and |
| Can our mind accept seeing and feeling reality when | | | | most effective tools that will help you achieve lucid |
| dreaming? | | | | dreams. Most importantly, you must write down the |
| When dreaming, our mind seems to accept what we | | | | essence of your dreams soon after you awaken. A |
| are seeing and feeling as the true state of being real. | | | | narrative of your dream is not the best record. |
| Often, dreams present strange and unusual the | | | | Thoughts and emotions should be recorded as |
| condition of a person with respect to income and | | | | completely as possible. Later, these records will help |
| material state as compared to the waking life. In the | | | | develop accurate dream research. Make certain to |
| dream, you may be in a different house, home or | | | | note major events and elements, such as persons, |
| driving a totally different automobile. The sky might be | | | | locations, animals and so forth. Dream journals can |
| green or a river yellow. Generally, in a dream, these | | | | also assist greatly in understanding non-lucid dreams. |
| things are accepted as very true. Should not the mind | | | | Hopefully, a continual journal with re-reading |
| "refuse" these concepts? "Hey - this is not my car!" or | | | | antecedent entries will begin to develop parallels |
| "Wait a minute - I do not live here!" Even, protest, "Wait, | | | | between your dreams and your conscious life. |
| the sky is definitely not that color!? | | | | Progressively, you can recognize the dream symbols |
| Known as "incongruities," the are the parts of dreams | | | | are telling you. |
| that are not "normal" in the strictest sense of the term. | | | | As you become more lucid in your dreams, you can |
| Certainly strange, our mind does readily considers | | | | then choose to become more active and, hopefully, |
| anything we see and feel in our dreams as real and | | | | exercise methodical control of your dreams. As an |
| not, at all, strange. Emphatically, we are sure there are | | | | example, it has been proven that lucid dreams take |
| no monsters in real life. Further, colors in life are | | | | place in REM (random eye movement) sleep was |
| assigned properly. The house in which we live and, for | | | | accomplish by subjects giving prearranged and distinct |
| that matter, daily life is embedded in our mind. But | | | | signals. Eye movements were used to mark the points |
| when dreaming, these facts are forgotten and only | | | | in time when the subjects realized they were |
| what we see in the dream is accepted as reality.. | | | | dreaming. Subjects' reported that the eye movements |
| Triggers or combination of triggers can often cause | | | | made in the dreams matched precisely that moment in |
| lucid dreaming | | | | time that realization of dreaming occurred. |
| Triggers or combination of trigger that affect your | | | | What Are The Benefits of Lucid Dreaming? |
| dream that totally rely on you. As an example, a | | | | Most persons that are drawn towards to lucid |
| common theme that appear to you may be a | | | | dreaming because it offers an outlet for their fantasy. |
| important trigger. Importantly, concentrate when you | | | | It is an opportune moment for risky undertaking, free of |
| next that experiences during dreaming. Meditate on it | | | | restraint by the laws of reality or society, and free of |
| as often as possible whenever awake. A reappearing | | | | jeopardy. Lucid dreaming attracts many persons due |
| dream or frightening dream may also be a trigger. | | | | to the fact that it provides a safe and effective way |
| With recurring dreams, make a responsive effort to | | | | out to a product of their imagination. And to many, lucid |
| realize and understand of dreaming when next in the | | | | dreaming is a source of innovative and inspiring |
| situation. For example, if a dream involves a particular | | | | relaxing activity. Lucid dreams are often thought of as |
| person or place, think as you approach sleep, "Next | | | | a short narrative describing an interesting or amusing |
| time I notice that house or person, I will definitely be | | | | incident and are helpful for artistic creativity, |
| dreaming." As the dream is repetitious, soon that house | | | | problem-solving, and practicing skills for waking life. |
| or person will be seen. Several attempts at this course | | | | Dreams, particularly lucid dreams, are the most distinct |
| of action may be necessary. But do not be | | | | mental image that can be attained by most persons. |
| discouraged should it not work the first attempt. | | | | Lucid dreams are debatable means for realizing the |
| Techniques for helping to have a lucid dream | | | | advantages of physical achievement, understanding, |
| Another method that seems to work for many people | | | | excelling in memory and expediting healing. Lucid |
| is asking themselves, "Am I dreaming?" and leaving | | | | dreams can be good. |