Lucid dreaming allows you to have complete control over the events that occur in your dreams. You are able to experience anything you can imagine without any consequence. Since emotions and everyday, logical thinking are more relaxed and less interfering in dreams, lucid dreaming can even serve as an aid in overcoming mental blocks.
Think beyond these words and really take in how phenomenal it is that you have the option to explore your mind to such a depth that you are able to create a universe that is completely autonomous. The imagined visions in lucid dreams are not hazy, distant landscapes in which you have to constantly give your attention. They are vivid scenes to interact with that feel exactly how you would in real life.
(Thanks to the people on deviantART and People of the Internet for the pictures)
The following is a great tip from AFuriousPenguin:
A few more tips for Lucid Dreaming that i have found to work quite well:
When you want something to happen in your dream, sometimes it wont just happen JUST because your thinking about it. In my first lucid dream, i tried to start off with something simple and change the grass around me blue instead of green, and nothing happened. I found that by imagining in my head what that same grass would look like if it had already been blue turned all the grass blue immediately. So give that a shot if you have troubles creating your scenario.
Alternate reality check: Wear an analog watch (with hour/minute hands) and make a habit of checking the time multiple times each day. Check it, and then double check it to make sure it is still the same time. In your dreams, not only do things like text change as alternativeinsanity mentioned, but you will also have no concept of time passage. You watch may say 3:15, but then say 12:45 when you double check it. bingo :)
Think beyond these words and really take in how phenomenal it is that you have the option to explore your mind to such a depth that you are able to create a universe that is completely autonomous. The imagined visions in lucid dreams are not hazy, distant landscapes in which you have to constantly give your attention. They are vivid scenes to interact with that feel exactly how you would in real life.
(Thanks to the people on deviantART and People of the Internet for the pictures)
The following is a great tip from AFuriousPenguin:
A few more tips for Lucid Dreaming that i have found to work quite well:
When you want something to happen in your dream, sometimes it wont just happen JUST because your thinking about it. In my first lucid dream, i tried to start off with something simple and change the grass around me blue instead of green, and nothing happened. I found that by imagining in my head what that same grass would look like if it had already been blue turned all the grass blue immediately. So give that a shot if you have troubles creating your scenario.
Alternate reality check: Wear an analog watch (with hour/minute hands) and make a habit of checking the time multiple times each day. Check it, and then double check it to make sure it is still the same time. In your dreams, not only do things like text change as alternativeinsanity mentioned, but you will also have no concept of time passage. You watch may say 3:15, but then say 12:45 when you double check it. bingo :)
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The first thing you should do when learning how to lucid dream is to keep a dream journal. A dream journal is just a notebook that you can use to write down any recollection of a previous night's dream. Along with text, you may want to draw pictures of what happened in your dream to help stimulate your memory. The ability to remember your dreams makes it easier to achieve reality checks, as explained in the next step. Not just a method to remembering dreams, a dream journal can be really interesting to reread, whether it's simply to remember some ridiculous scenario or to go back and piece together what made your dream of a particular event at the time.
The following is a small portion from the end of one of my non-lucid dreams. The sentence that is written were actually the words of an unseen person who was narrating my dream.
"Richard, which usually meant Richard III, which was followed by the swarm of bees that my mother refused to believe weren’t real even though she wound up in the hospital last time."
The following is a small portion from the end of one of my non-lucid dreams. The sentence that is written were actually the words of an unseen person who was narrating my dream.
"Richard, which usually meant Richard III, which was followed by the swarm of bees that my mother refused to believe weren’t real even though she wound up in the hospital last time."
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i guess that would be a dream ez reality check because sometimes i pick my nose
Idk I just thought that was interesting.
it could be possible that the position might make your body subconsiously think its still asleep or something.
I was thinking and this may be an easy way of inducing lucid dreaming: get up an hour earlier than what you normally do, follow your morning routine for an hour (shower, get breakfast, etc.) then go back to bed for an hour. This way you can have a lucid dream on a weekday, and its a bit easier.
Do not look into a mirror. This is an instant nightmare. The image is usually distorted and scary.
Although I guess this could be used as a reality check? Just find a mirror?
And no, you won't go insane ;)
Unless there is some sort of brain abnormality, you are always able to tell when reality is reality, it's only in dreams that our universe changes and makes us question if the dream real.
i love pulp fiction
My first lucid dream i was standing next to a car and about to get into it and i check if i was dreaming. So i pulled my finger and it stretched. Buuut i got too excited and woke up >.<
I went to sleep, and woke up again in the middle of the night, not remembering any dream at all. I tried going back to sleep, but I realized for some reason I was so hungry my stomach was hurting! After a while, I finally manged to go to sleep. The dream was, imagine that, about food! When I woke up, after I jotted it down in the journal, I realized something. I wasn't hungry!
Now, I don't sleepwalk, sleep eat or anything. How is that possible?
But yes, some people can do it better than others, though it is really amazing that he can do it constantly without practise!