Ever Dream This Man?

  Dreams of This Man

The site also published a number of anonymous dream quotes:

"I have had this recurrent dream for some years now. A tall, dark man shows me a picture and asks me if I can recognise my father in it. The man in the picture is this man I have never seen before, he looks nothing like my dad, nevertheless I inexplicably answer that I do recognize my father. At this point I usually wake up feeling very peaceful. Other times the dream continues, I am standing before my father’s grave, I place some flowers on the ground and I realise the photograph on the tombstone is missing."

"I fell in love with him from the very first time I saw him in my dream. Even though if I think about it I must admit he’s really ugly. And yet each and every time, he sweeps me off my feet with his romantic gestures and sweet words. He buys me flowers, jewellery, he takes me out to dinner or to the beach to watch the sunset."

"I have always had this dream of flying in the sky over my city and observing my friends from up there. Since I moved to another house I started meeting this man while flying. Not every single time that I have this dream about flying, but often enough. He flies too, but he never speaks."

"The first time I had a dream about this man I was having a hard time at work. I had a dream about getting lost in a huge and deserted shopping mall. Suddenly this man appeared and I started running away from him. He chased after me for what seemed like an hour until I found myself against a wall in the kids’ area in a supermarket. At this point he smiled at me and he showed me the way out towards the cash desks and I woke up. Ever since that night this man has appeared in all of my dreams and he always gives me directions to get out of the dream and wake up."

"I dreamt this man

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Psychological Healing in Lucid Dreams

Fortunately, she happened upon a lucid dreaming book and saw the potential to help her end the recurring nightmares. A few nights later as she ran for her life, it occurred to her,

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The Man Who Thinks He's Dead

About Me

Hi, I'm Rebecca - long time lucid dreamer and creator of this website. Find out exactly how I started having lucid dreams.

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How to Have Amazing Lucid Dreams

Sounds simple, right? So why do I receive countless emails every week from people who claim it's impossible for them to become lucid? They all love the idea of controlling their dreams, and they say they've been practicing, but to actually attain consciousness while they're asleep just seems like a paradox to them.

Most often, I find the problem is inadequate education. They've picked up a few techniques from the internet and rushed into things without fully developing the mindset of a lucid dreamer. I know that lucid dreaming is a learnable skill, and with the right tutorage, anyone can pick it up. Sometimes within just a few days.

That's why I created my own hands-on approach to learning lucid dreaming. It's specifically designed for every reader who lands on this website crying, "I can't lucid dream! It's too hard!"

Well, I've got news for you...

 

How I Started Lucid DreamingI discovered lucid dreaming as a teenager - it was in some paranormal magazine alongside bigfoot sightings, UFO theories, remote viewing and tales of the legendary Chupacabra. (Of course, lucid dreaming is the only scientifically proven concept among all of these alleged phenomena.)

Like anyone with a pulse, I really wanted to try lucid dreaming for myself. I wanted to feel the freedom of doing absolutely anything inside my own private virtual world. So over the following weeks I studied lucid dreaming and read up as much as I could. I kept a dream journal and practiced self-hypnosis.

Soon, I acquired the mindset - and had my first lucid dream.

It was a breakthrough moment for me. Suddenly, for the first time ever, I "woke up" inside my dream world. My environment surged into focus and I existed entirely in that reality, much like how you exist entirely where you are sitting right now. It was not fuzzy or vague. It was real. I was there.

I did a reality check - pushing two of my right fingers through the palm of my left hand - and marveled at the feeling. My lucidity became stronger.

Then I made a rookie mistake. I got all excited and ran outside to tell one of my fellow dream characters I was lucid. I found a woman I didn't recognize and shouted in her face. She didn't react, but just looked straight through me. In the last moments of my dream, I kept shouting at her: "I'm dreaming! I'm dreaming!"

By then I was so excited, I accidentally woke myself up.

 

Developing The Lucid Skill SetOver the following weeks and months I experienced many more lucid dreams. Most of them were short-lived and never lasted longer than a few minutes. That was before I learned how to prolong my dreams.

Mastering lucid dreaming is not just a case of knowing how to "wake up" in your dreams. It requires special knowledge to stay lucid and manipulate the dreamscape. Though some people are naturals at this, most people need to be given specific instructions in order to learn how to:

Become fully conscious / increase the dream intensity Prolong the dream - potentially up to an hour Control your own movements with accuracy (eg flight) Change the dream scene to program a new adventure Successfully interact with other dream figures Obtain information from your subconscious dreaming self

It took me a long time to become a proficient lucid dreamer, because I never realized the importance of developing this lucid skill set.

I just bumbled along in my lucid dreams, wondering why I sometimes couldn't fly (many times I just stood in a field willing myself to go up, and felt totally frustrated when absolutely nothing happened). I also made the mistake of frequently pursuing sexual encounters - when I didn't even know how to stay fully lucid when things got exciting, nor how to interact with dream figures (tip: they rarely behave how you expect them to).

Eventually, I put together a kind of mental rulebook - just simple solutions to overcome lucid dream problems, based on intuitive dream logic.

For instance, if you're semi-lucid, vaguely aware that you might be dreaming but not really focused enough to do anything about it, you can quite simply rub your hands together to stimulate kinetic sensation. This awakens your senses and the conscious part of your brain, thereby heightening your lucidity immediately. These techniques came from various lucidity experts, an abundance on online and offline research, and personal trial and error.

After I learned these new methods of dream control, my inner world became a rich and infinite source of fascination. I was no longer held back by my own illogical beliefs ("I can't fly, I'm too heavy") nor my own lack of lucidity. Now I had access to the complete lucid universe, able to teleport around the world in a flash, soar so high above the clouds I would end up in space, and work with my fellow dream characters to learn new insights about my inner self.

 

Passing On These Essential Lessons

Now, after 16 years of lucid dreaming, I'm experienced in the surreal workings of the subconscious dream world. I know how to induce lucid dreams and program my dreams in advance, plus (more importantly) how to understand and shape my dream world to achieve anything I want when lucid. I'm also now an avid explorer of passive lucid dreaming - dreams in which you allow your subconscious dreaming self to show you anything it wants, and lead you down the rabbit hole...

I put all these lessons together in a downloadable package which I call The Lucid Dreaming Fast Track. It's a comprehensive collection designed to educate and inspire, arming you with valuable tips and tutorials as taught by leading lucidity experts like Dr Stephen LaBerge, Dr Alan Wallace and Dr Jayne Gackenbach. Indeed, the course finishes with an exclusive interview with Robert Waggoner, lucid dream author and advocate of using conscious dreams as a gateway to communicating with the inner self.

 

Breakdown of ContentsHere is a breakdown of the course contents:

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Gateways Of The Mind 2013

Gateways Of The Mind returns to London in November as the city's largest lucid dreaming conference of the year.

Attendees of last year's event will remember some of the world's finest lucid dreaming, OBE and shamanic dream teachers - and this year's event promises more of the same expert presentations.

The event will be even more interactive in 2013 with each guest speaker running practical sessions with the attendees. There will also be music and art featured to stimulate the senses, increase lucid dreaming and make it a truly memorable weekend...

"The Gateways of The Mind

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Louis Dyer Interview: Lucid Dreams and Art

  How did you start lucid dreaming? Was it fairly intuitive for you?

My first lucid dream was triggered by my terrifying sleep apnea experiences. I was 16 and I randomly started getting sleep paralysis episodes. The one that triggered my first lucid dream was particularly bad but it made me conscious of myself while sleeping. I couldn't wake myself up but this realisation suddenly relaxed me.

As the sleep apnea episode faded I was suddenly in a beautiful landscape, I started running up a hill and when I hit the top I jumped off the edge. As I was falling I was completely lucid, everything was so clear, I could feel the air rushing past me as I fell, I could feel the warmth of the sun beams and control the clouds with my hands. This was my first lucid dream, it was brief but it was really special.  

 

I Will Drag Us There

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The DreamCatcher App

About Me

Hi, I'm Rebecca - long time lucid dreamer and creator of this website. Find out exactly how I started having lucid dreams.

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Lucid Dreamer App

#1 - The Dreamer

This is the opening feature and we feel it's all you really need to experience a lucid dream tonight. The Dreamer repeatedly plays a short binaural beat tone after you have fallen asleep, with the aim of triggering a conscious state of awareness in your dreams. Combine this with the other app features to support your lucidity practice.

 

#2 - Dream Journal

Did you know that writing down your dreams has actually been shown to help you remember them better? We try to make that easy by enabling you to create a spoken record of your dreams, as well as noting which dreams were lucid and what techniques you used. The Dream Journal comes with an optional lock feature to keep all your private dreams just that - private!

 

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How I Dealt with Night Terrors

The Beginning I was 23 when I began to suffer from night terrors.

A night terror is not merely a bad dream. It's a hallucination that arises after waking suddenly from a deep, dreamless sleep.

The first time it happened, Pete and I had just flown for 22 hours to New Zealand and were suffering from sleep deprivation and the subsequent jet lag which interrupted our sleep rhythms. Though he appeared to suffer few ill effects, it opened me up to this bizarre sleep disorder.

I'm not a screamy type of person. Nevertheless, on this night I woke up screaming in absolute terror - seeing a giant six-foot-tall tarantula standing on its back legs in the bedroom. It was in an aggressive attack position, reaching toward me with its front legs beating. I can recall the image very clearly now (and this was 7 years ago). It was like a bolt of lightening had shot through me. And I knew, without doubt, that the beast had malicious intent. I had to escape.

The fight-or-flight response kicked in and I involuntarily stood up on the bed and apparently attempted to jump over Pete and onto the floor. Instead, I trampled the poor fellow.

Pete woke up and to his credit didn't complain about the head-trampling but instead realized something was wrong and tried to calm me down by hugging me. This was a mistake: I merely viewed it as restraint, a hindrance to my escape.

After about 20 seconds of thrashing and screaming, I noticed the spider had disappeared. I was finally fully conscious and back with reality. I was still on the wrong side of Pete and the bed -- but now I was at least coherent.

The episode was scary. I was pumped full of adrenaline and confounded by this bizarre hallucination which had not taken place in a dream, or even a vivid false awakening, but right there in the bedroom.

What the heck just happened?

 

What Happens During a Night Terror?

Sometimes these events happened nightly, or even twice-nightly, and sometimes they didn't happen for months. Thankfully, I've never had one quite as extreme as that first one.

But they are the perfect destroyer of a peaceful night's sleep. Imagine drifting off to a land of dreams, letting your guard down - then after 45-60 minutes (always this timeframe: during the transition from one phase of deep sleep to the next) suddenly awakening to a terrifying threat in your "safe place" - your bedroom.

The fright factor is compounded by an inability to escape. Frequently, I jumped, stumbled or fell out of bed, narrowly avoiding slamming into furniture and walls. I grew increasingly fearful of sleeping near large open windows or balconies in case I accidentally plunged over in my frenzy.

During a night terror, I found it impossible to think logically. I was in fight-or-flight mode, driven by my primitive lizard brain. It was pointless if Pete tried to rationalize it with statements like "it's just a night terror" or "there's nothing there". All I knew was: "I can see it and it's going to get me."

Everything else was just details.

 

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Real Life Zombies: Can Consciousness Be Controlled?

This astonishing disease prevents the host from controlling its own behaviors - making actionable choices on its behalf and overriding innate survival instincts.

We're not talking human zombies - don't expect Word War Z just yet - but rather insect ones.

The most extreme zombification takes place in ants, in three bizarre phases:

 

1. Invasion

To create a zombie-ant, first a Cordyceps fungal spore must attach itself and use enzymes and pressure to blow a hole into the ant's body.

"We know from studies of fungal parasites of plants, particularly rice, they can build up a pressure inside their spore equivalent to the pressure in the wheel of a 747," says David Hughes, a behavioral ecologist at Pennsylvania State University, who studies the disease.

With its genetic material blasted into the ant host, the fungi grows rapidly. It then releases a cocktail of mind-controlling chemicals into the ant's brain and begins to take over its conscious behaviors.

 

2. Zombification

Within two weeks of the invasion, the ant leaves his colony and seeks a specific location in the forest, guided by the parasitic fungi.

He heads for a target destination preferred by the fungus - the perfect warm, humid environment from which Cordyceps can perform its next horrifying act.

With remarkable precision, Hughes explaines, the ant is "manipulated to bite onto a very specific location on the underside of a leaf, the main vein of a leaf, leaves orientated north, northwest, roughly 25cm off the ground."

According to Hughes, it's one of the most complex examples of parasitic manipulation. To the rest of us, it's like zombification.

And the weirdest bit is yet to come...

 

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CanLucidDream: Script Your Dreams with Text-to-Speech

The following review of CanLucidDream app is written by the developer, Simon Canning.

Have you ever wanted to be able to create a dream, share a dream or have the exact same dream again?

Have you ever wanted to create a specific schedule for Wake Back to Bed, Cycle Adjustment Technique, or other lucid dreaming technique with a click of a button?

If so, you may be interested in CanLucidDream - a dream studio app where users can create, playback and share their own dream experiences.

How It Works

CanLucidDream is the first app of its kind to help induce and experience pre-scripted dreams. It's a Windows app that converts your own dream scripts, via Text-to-Speech, to scripted dream audio files. The app can be used from your computer with headphones or speakers.

There are two ways to use this technology to program your dreams:

PlayBack During REM Sleep - External sounds are often integrated into our inner dream worlds. So while it's not guaranteed, hearing the narrative of your dream script, as well as relevant sound effect triggers, may help guide the nature of your dream in progress. In addition, with reality check reminders and other memorable cues, these sounds can even provide specific cues to become lucid.

PlayBack During Meditation - A proven way to program your dreams and have lucid dreams is through dream incubation. While meditating and/or performing Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams the audio playback can deepen the dream incubation process, so that you go on to dream of the same scenario and dream themes later that night.

Try this original app tonight in order to help:

Experience your own desired dream scenarios Program lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences Re-live specific memories through your dreams Incubate the same dreams in your friends Experience their favorite dreams and fantasies



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Ask The Experts: Your Lucid Dreaming Questions Answered

Daniel Love is a lifelong lucid dreamer, initially inspired by his own early experiences in overcoming childhood nightmares using lucidity. He has dedicated his life to the research and teaching of lucid dreaming, running numerous workshops, retreats and talks around the world.

Perhaps most well-known for his Cycle Adjustment Technique, Daniel is also the author of the book Are You Dreaming? Exploring Lucid Dreams: A Comprehensive Guide. The book aims to bring the subject of lucid dreaming fully up to date and to appeal to those new to the topic, as well as advanced lucid dreamers. Check out a fascinating interview with Daniel Love here.

 

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How to Overcome a Lucid Dreaming Dry Spell

Problem - Sometimes, life gets too hectic and you can't find the time to get enough sleep to nourish your waking life... let alone your dreaming life.

In the majority of cases, sleep deprivation is a direct negative effect of a busy modern lifestyle. The most common culprit is the dreaded alarm clock; in my experience waking up to an alarm is one of the worst lucidity thieves. They snatch the final hours of REM-packed sleep we might otherwise enjoy.

Other causes of sleep deprivation are shift work, jet lag, crying babies and insomnia to name a few. It's not as if we choose to live this way - it just happens. And though a sleepless zombie may well glean the odd lucid dream during times of REM rebound, in the big picture it really hurts your lucid dreaming efforts. So what can you do?

Solution - The obvious solution is easy to say - yet extremely difficult to implement: simply, sleep more. The more you sleep, the more dream time you rack up and the more opportunities you have to become lucid. In addition, since REM stages are prolonged in the second half of the night, by sleeping just an hour or two extra, you can drastically increase your overall REM time.

If sleeping continuously for an eight-hour period is simply impossible in your current lifestyle, consider this alternative.

Polyphasic sleep means breaking your daily sleep into three or more separate blocks. It is common in many animals and is thought to be the ancestral sleep state for mammals (although, normally simians are monophasic). This napping approach is recommended as a last resort by the US military and the Italian Air Force, who even found that "total sleep time was substantially reduced as compared to the usual 7

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Charlie Morley on Dreams of Awakening

Charlie Morley - a popular lucid dreaming teacher within the context of Tibetan Buddhism - has written a new book called Dreams of Awakening. In our follow-up interview, Charlie explains who the book is for and exactly what you'll learn.

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The SHADOW App

John Lennon   What Is SHADOW?

Essentially, SHADOW is a smart alarm clock that provides escalating alarms to gradually transition you through your hypnopompic state.

When you awaken, you dictate your dream and SHADOW will transcribe it into words - or you can type it into a blank text box. If you can't remember any dreams, SHADOW will ask you a series of questions to jog your memory.

Once the data is recorded in the app, you decide how far and wide you want to share it. SHADOW is designed to be social, but dreaming is inherently private. So it's really a judgment call - and every dream may be different. Keep dreams to yourself or push them to the cloud, where your personal data is removed and your dream content ready to be analyzed on a larger scale...

 

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Tranquil Turtle by Cloud B Review: Not Just a Cute Face

My goal was to find a way to help our son Fox (then 8 months) to self-soothe at night, but we grown-ups soon became quite enamoured with the device ourselves. We're not the only ones - our friends came round and wanted to test the turtle out - so naturally it wasn't long before we were all sat in the living room with the lights out and the curtains shut, gazing at the ceiling in awe. We may have looked like we were all tripping out but we were, quite simply, enchanted.

Tranquil Turtle is an effective relaxation aid - and it's primary design is for use at bedtime to help calm and unwind. The light show provides an excellent soothing distraction if you suffer from a busy chattering mind when you lay down to sleep. Most people take a few minutes to unwind before they can actually knock consciousness on the head (so to speak) which provides a window of opportunity to indulge in this serene sound and light projector.

Top 10 Best-Selling Night Lights

1. Tranquil Turtle Sleep Machine by Cloud B
2. Fisher-Price Ocean Wonders Soothe and Glow Seahorse
3. Twilight Constellation Night Light by Cloud B
4. Uncle Milton Moon in My Room
5. Uncle Milton Rainbow in My Room
6. Onaroo Danny The Penguin Portable Night Light
7. Train Table Lamp with Matching Night Light
8. Uncle Milton Nat Geo Explorer's Torch
9. Pillow Pets Dream Lites - Pink Butterfly
10. Orion Relief Globe

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10 More Lucid Dreaming Movies to Stimulate Your Night Life

Based on the best-selling book by Alice Sebold and directed by Peter Jackson,The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from a lucid-dream-like limbo, revealing the impact of her death on those closest to her, all the while coming to terms with her own demise. Breathtaking visuals abound.

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Synesthesia and Dreams

An overwhelming 98% of people name the curvy figure Booba (rounded edges logically correlate to the soft 'b' and 'o' sounds) and the pointed figure Kiki (sharp edges translated to the hard 'k' sound).

If you agree with the majority, then you too have a mild sense of synesthesia, where your sense of sounds and shapes are cross-activated. This experiment, designed by Wolfgang Kohler, is now known as the Booba-Kiki effect.

 

Types of Synesthesia

There are a lot more powerful - and surprising - types of synesthestic reactions. These, too, are entirely involuntary -- and synesthetes may assume them to be normal because they've had these cross-associations their whole lives. These dramatic types of synesthesia affect around 4% of the population.

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Are You Dreaming? By Daniel Love: A Book Review

In Are You Dreaming? the lifelong oneironaut, Daniel Love, treats us to a modern and fully comprehensive analysis of the lucid dreaming landscape.

This is no fly-by-night book on the subject (of which there are an increasing number). Love is a committed dreamer and a thorough communicator, and presents here one of the most finely researched books designed for both beginners and intermediate lucid dreamers alike. Even as an advanced lucid dreamer myself I had things to learn from this thoughtful and fascinating read.

 

Why This Book?

If you're investing in a book on lucid dreaming, the first thing you want to check is the author's credibility. There are a slew of lucid dream related books written by amateurs cashing in on the new wave of interest. Be warned.

Without a doubt, Daniel Love is not one of them. A long-time lucid dreamer since the age of five, he has developed his own lucidity techniques (including some personalized variations on the classics) and taught these in lucid dream workshops around the UK for years. Now in his 30s, it is Love's mission to share his passion for lucid dreaming with the world, by introducing it in a thoughtful and scientific manner. We truly need more lucid dreaming advocates like this.

To get a feel for his approach to lucidity and the clarity of his writing, read my interview with Daniel Love.

 

The Scope of The Book

In many lucid dreaming books, the bulk of the material is dedicated to lucid dreaming techniques, for this is where most people struggle to get ahead. Perhaps it's because Love is a self-taught lucid dreamer (developing, as a wee five-year-old boy, his own Catching The Butterfly Technique to induce lucidity - detailed in the book) that he doesn't overly dwell on this aspect. He has much more to say.

Don't get me wrong, some 67 pages (a solid quarter of the book) describe lucid dream techniques in detail; and not just the usual suspects either. Love introduces us to the classic MILD and WILD techniques and then some of his own methods - such as the first ever print version of the complete Cycle Adjustment Technique. He also focuses in on a false awakening based technique and familiar scene visualization: aligning with practices I have been using instinctively myself, without actually naming them.

Indeed, there were several 'aha!' moments in this book where Love put into words personal idiosyncratic habits which I never even realized I was doing. Are these the natural habits of frequent lucid dreamers? I think perhaps so.

Beyond the task of inducing lucidity on a regular basis, Love philosophizes on the relationship we have with our dream figures, as well as self-help applications such as living as a future version of yourself. And of course he writes, in his own elaborately comprehensive style, on the subjects of lucid dream sex, flying, wish fulfilment, rewriting history, solving problems, inspiring creativity, exploring the dreamworld and all the other greats.

 

Supplements and Brain Chemistry

Fans of Supplement Induced Lucid Dreams (SILD) will revel in the brain chemistry explained in the book. Indeed, this is one of Love's three pillars for lucid dreaming and it's critical that we understand how the brain's chemistry influences our dream lives. He's not saying you need to pop pills in order to lucid dream; many lucid dreamers have never taken a dream supplement in their lives. But it is important to acknowledge the natural fluctuations of Acetylcholine (Ach), for example, in your brain at different times of the night in order to target the best times for lucidity. Love does acknowledge which supplements will further boost your lucidity efforts, as well as the effects of everyday substances like caffeine and nicotine on your dream life.

 

A Lucid History

All of this is preceded by a detailed history of lucid dreaming, with references to the major figures that contributed to research (and subsequently influenced its rise in popularity). Love is determined to give credit where credit is due; highlighting such facts that it was not Frederick van Eeden who first coined the term "lucid dream" (as is often cited in the media) but rather Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys (1822-1892) - almost undoubtedly the father of modern lucid dream research.

A further tip of the hat goes to Dr Keith Hearne, the first to scientifically verify the existence of lucid dreaming in the lab in 1975. Though his research was published in the UK, it wasn't quite public enough, and today it is Dr Stephen LaBerge (who performed a similar eye-movement experiment in 1978-9 at Stanford University Sleep Center) who is credited with the landmark discovery today.

This compulsive attention to detail is what makes Are You Dreaming? such a profoundly interesting read. Few other authors go to the extraordinary lengths of reading centuries-old books and speaking with researchers on decades-old research, in order to set the record straight. On his journey, however, Love discovered fascinating tid bits of information which he shares here. Tempted as I am to drop a few such scraps of such history in this review, it wouldn't be fair to steal those moments from the book.

 

Dream Mnemonics

A brief word on mnemonics: systems to significantly enhance your memory (both while awake and dreaming).

Daniel Love is a former mentalist and has picked up some astounding mental tricks along his path. He describes one of his personal workshop techniques, The Dream Peg System, in great depth here. You can use this memory technique to easily summon waking memories (like a specific dream intention) while lucid dreaming, as well as to recall your dreams in greater detail upon waking.

I won't go into the technique here as again it would be an injustice to Love's narrative, but suffice to say it is linked to the classic memory technique of using "pegs" to mentally twin two imaginary items together. The Dream Peg System takes this principle a leap further by applying it to the dreamworld.

 

Final Thoughts

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Lucid Dreaming and The Critical Mind

n'-mix spirituality, that ignores some of the less palatable aspects of such beliefs and cultures, often much to the annoyance of native practitioners. It's also important to note that

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Submit an Article to World of Lucid Dreaming

Writers. Dreamers. Explorers of the mind. I'm talking to YOU!

Since our launch in 2008, World of Lucid Dreaming has become much more than a platform for me to talk about my lucid dream experiences.

It has become a rich community of dreamers from all over the planet, evidenced by our burgeoning lucid dreaming forum and Facebook page. Which is why it's time I opened up the core website itself to external contributions from our long time readers and fans.

 

Your Community: Your Voices I'm inviting you to submit your own articles for permanent publication on World of Lucid Dreaming, to be read by millions of web visitors every year.

This is an opportunity to share widely your:

Most profound lucid dreams Personal techniques and habits Personal stories of overcoming hurdles Info pieces on sleep, dreams and consciousness University research projects and dissertations Lucidity product reviews
...and any other first-hand information you feel would enrich the lives of other lucid dreamers. Articles do not have to exclusively relate to lucid dreaming, and may span the related genres of sleep, dreams, consciousness and the workings of the human mind.

Most importantly, I'm looking for content that is fresh, insightful, opinionated, funny or factual, that can educate and inspire our readers.

Once published, your article will be circulated on all World of Lucid Dreaming social media platforms and take up permanent residence on the website. Full credit will be given to the author, including one external link to your own choice of website.

If you are a true fan of this website, I strongly encourage you to brainstorm some ideas today and make your voice heard among our community. Feel free to run your article synopsis by me first if you have any doubts, otherwise send me your complete article as per the guidelines.

 

Submission Guidelines To qualify for publication, your article should be original, clearly written, and properly researched. Publication is free and will go through my own quality control process to check for copyright infringement among other things. So if you're ready to put pen to paper -- or fingers to keyboard -- I've set out a full list of submission guidelines here.

Reader articles will be published on a first come, first serve basis. I look forward to reading and sharing your valued contributions right here on this website :)

Best wishes,

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Top 10 Sleep Gadgets and Apps

Most of us wake to the sound of a jarring alarm clock in the mornings. This causes an immediate stress response, shocking us out of our safe sleeping place and sharply into our daily routine. It's just about the worst way to start the day.

To overcome this rude awakening, the Philips Wake Up Light simulates the sunrise in your bedroom over a 30-minute period - so that you wake up naturally with red-to-white light. It then plays relaxing sound effects, the radio, or your choice of music via USB.

This approach of bringing light slowly into your bedroom at your desired wake-up time helps to reprogram your Circadian rhythms. Light is the most powerful factor involved in this process, so a sunrise simulator can help you sync your internal body clock and create much better quality sleep all night.

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How To Free Your Mind in Lucid Dreams: The Jump Program

In the Jump program, Morpheus teaches Neo how to free his mind.

Performing impossible feats in the lucid dreamworld, too, demands this kind of mental reconditioning.

In fact, the mindset is virtually identical...

 

"Don't think you can. Know you can."

Early on in his training, Morpheus teaches Neo how it's not his muscles inside the computer-simulated world that makes him stronger or faster. It's his mind.

And so we teleport to the top of a skyscraper, where Morpheus and Neo are standing, both fully aware that their environment is not real.

Just as we are in a lucid dream.

"Don't think you can. Know you can."

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Reader Articles

Lucid Dream Forum

This is a brand new platform for readers and lucidity aficionados to share their finest lucid dreaming insights, tutorials, philosophies, opinions and more. If you'd like to submit an article yourself - or encourage aspiring writers and dreamers to do so - see How to Submit an Article. This includes full author guidelines for contributing to the website.

 

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How to Movie Dream by Samuel Eger

Samuel Eger lives in Virginia, USA. He began his lucid dreaming experience about eight or nine years ago, although he has observed and been fascinated with dreams all his life. He is studying to begin a career in the medical field and is also a painter, a writer of fiction and poetry, and a hobbyist of psychology and dream science. Samuel often uses lucid dreaming to inspire his art and writing. He loves nature and gardening, his Sheltie (Callie), piano, swimming and hiking.

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Interview with Dylan Howard on King Of Oneiros

 

What's your personal experience of lucid dreaming?

I've had many experiences of lucid dreams that gave me such a freeing sensation that carried over to waking life. After my first experiences I realized I was connecting with a much larger intelligence that knows everything. With every question or intuition I got an immediate response and surprising communications from characters within dreams.

One of my most powerful experiences was being in love in my dreams. I was just becoming lucid after the love had turned away and with that switch in awareness I intended for her to come back and it was so. The pure excitement of co-creating a world and truly being an avatar, changing anything I desired, was an amazing yet natural thing that came to me as if I've done it before. As my awareness grew I started to realize the certain fate of the dream's end and having a sunken heart knowing I might not ever see this girl again that I've grown to love so much.

I asked her: "Will I be with you again? How can I find you again after this is over?"

She said to me, "I will always love you and I will always be inside of you, for we are one."

She then filled with light and merged with me in one body and I walked with white robes on the ocean and knew it was almost time. I could feel the dream breaking apart just as I was at a point filled with such unlimited potential. I did not want to return after gaining so much freedom. I tried to cling to the dream but all became white and I woke in my room the most excited and refreshed in my life, feeling all the intensity of what was shared by a girl I had never met before. This was what my film King Of Oneiros was based on.

One other experience I will mention started with a question: what happens if you meditate wile dreaming?

I was not entirely prepared for the answer as I just sat down anywhere and began to center myself in the dream, following my breath into my solar plexus. I felt tremendous gravity inward and a vortex tunnel of amazing light. I became scared that I would not return from this

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The Phase State by Arlindo Batista

I first found out about lucid dream induction when I discovered Robert Monroe in 2007. Shortly after, I came across Stephen LaBerge, Michael Raduga (whom I'd come to work with on research by heading the Phase Managing Department at the OOBE Research Center), and other experts.

Dealing with individuals from Raduga's School of Out-of-body Travel got me to frequently employ the umbrella term phase or phase state to refer to the hybrid state of mind that compounds wakefulness and dreaming - a condition that gives rise to lucid dreams, out-of-body experiences, false awakenings, sleep paralysis, and, as a number of experiments would demonstrate, the recreation of alien abductions, near-death experiences (NDEs), and other numinous encounters.

 

What is The Phase State?

The phase is a hybrid state of mind which incorporates both wakefulness and dreaming. The phase state doesn't always exist in the sense that the term "lucid dreaming" conveys because individuals who enter it don't always interpret or recognise that surroundings to be just a dream. (Some believe their consciousness has exited their bodies to either roam the physical world or perambulate in an astral plane of existence.)

In the phase, a person is able to lucidly experience their dreams and possess waking life memory. Experience in such state can be so realistic that an individual will often mistake it for wakefulness - not just in the case of false awakenings but also upon an intentional phase entrance.

But wait

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7 New Year's Resolutions for Lucid Dreamers

"Put on your Dr Lucid lab coat, and chart your number of lucid dreams each month," suggests Waggoner. "By paying attention to how many lucid dreams you have, you can tell when new techniques or life changes lead to increasing numbers of lucid dreams."

What's the best way to do this? "In the front of your dream journal, just make a simple bar chart," he says. "Plot the number of lucid dreams each month." At the same time, note any occurrences which may impact on your lucid dream life - such as sleep deprivation, emotional upheaval, reading a book on lucid dreaming, taking a supplement, fever and sickness, and so on.

Then look out for any patterns that emerge. This kind of monitoring and measurement can offer real clues as to your personal lucid dream triggers.

 

#2 - Spend Time On The Basics

Ryan Hurd, author of the Kindle book Dream Like a Boss: Sleep Better, Dream More, and Wake Up to What Matters Most, says the basics are still important - no matter how long you've been lucid dreaming.

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Why Don't My Reality Checks Work?

Rebecca says: There are lots of ways to approach lucid dreaming and so, usually, if a technique is failing you, all you need do is switch to another method. However there are certain fundamental skills which every lucid dreamer should master and you have described difficulties in two of them. It's therefore essential you address both of these before moving on.

1. Dream Recall

Poor dream recall is disastrous for a lucid dreamer. Not only will your dreams remain vague and fuzzy, thereby limiting the number of opportunities to become lucid, but even if you do become lucid, you'll likely lose your lucidity quickly and even forget it ever happened.

I've described various ways to improve your dream recall in my Lucid Dreaming Fast Track course, including dream journaling, timed REM alarms, the Cycle Adjustment Technique, the Wake Back to Bed technique, self hypnosis, guided meditation, dream incubation, dream herbs and supplements. I urge you to focus on all these aspects as a priority, before doing any other form of lucid dream practice.

People who struggle to remember their dreams are often so-called deep sleepers (who don't remember waking up in the night), so that by the time they wake up in the morning, all memories of their dreams are long forgotten. So-called light sleepers either partially or fully awaken multiple times in the night, increasingly during or just after REM sleep as the night goes on. For them, dreams are fresh and recent and more easily recalled.

If you think you might be a deep sleeper, don't worry. It is still perfectly possible for you to lucid dream, but you will need to focus more on rousing yourself in the final few hours of sleep, when lucidity is most prolific. You could have a committed partner wake you when they see you displaying Rapid Eye Movements, or if you're a fan of smartphone apps try a dream alarm app like Lucid Dream Ultimate.

When I want to significantly boost my dream recall (which can lead me to remember around five detailed dreams per night) I make the mental decision to wake up at several intervals (eg "I will wake up at 5am" then later "I will wake up at 6.45am"). Somehow, I naturally stir at these times and this means I can recall my dreams much closer to them occurring, and frequently through the night.

Try it - not every night, but as an occasional experiment - and see the impact it has on your dream recall.

2. Self Awareness

Here's another critical skill for lucid dreamers. You say you're talking yourself out of dream signs - and this tells me that your habitual reality checks are only skin deep. That's to say, you're going through the motions but not actually questioning your reality on a profound level during the waking day.

When you ask a question in your dream (whether lucid or not), your dreaming mind creates the answer that you expect to see, or that otherwise fits in with your dream reality. After all, we have evolved over millennia and spent years of our own lives learning to find patterns in our environment. This ability continues on in the dream world, so that if you see a Martian, your unconscious mind will quite happily generate a false memory of Martian's coming to Earth, in order to explain its appearance. Equally, if you try to push your hand through a wall in a dream, and expect it to resist as in real life, then that will probably happen.

In order for your reality checks to work, you need to train yourself up in a new kind of introspection, a way of thinking that you may not be used to. Furthermore you should expect certain outcomes with your reality checks. I've discussed both aspects at length in my article on How to Improve Your Self Awareness so that your reality checks can work (close to) every time.

The article explains how it's not enough to simply count your fingers, or do a double-take at the clock -- instead, you have to study your fingers or the clock with new eyes and see them as you've never seen them before. You can then progress to imagining and expecting the impossible, which is how your reality checks will consistently prove false in the dream world.

I also recommend day-time and night-time forms of meditation to help you become more attuned to your internal state and distinguish differences between your waking world and your dreams. This is another in-depth topic but you will find lots of starting tips in my article How to Visualize for Meditation and Lucid Dreams and further instruction in my ebook Guided Meditation for Lucid Dreamers.

Beyond proper dream recall, your ability to recognize when you are dreaming and become lucid is heavily influenced by your ability to tune-in to the moment while awake. True self awareness, by day and by night, is key.

 

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You Are The Big Bang (Alan Watts)

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How to Have More Lucid Dreams with Prospective Memory

Having good prospective memory is like hearing an alarm going off inside your head just when you need it. It shouts with an inaudible voice: REMEMBER TO DO THAT THING, NOW! It appears to come from nowhere, but in reality this is your unconscious returning a pre-arranged memory cue. Remarkably, as I'll show in a moment, it is often linked to an internal brain clock which boasts an accuracy that is almost to-the-minute.

Here, I'll show you how to improve your prospective memory and make your lucidity induction come more naturally. First, let's look at some common examples of prospective memory and see what you may already be doing.

 

Prospective Memory in Daily Life I think that a natural prospective memory is more powerful among people who are highly conscientious and organized. The more you consider or worry about the consequences of forgetting to do something, the more motivated you are to remember.

We inadvertently train ourselves in prospective memory when we make formal appointments without writing them down, plan to catch a plane which requires good time planning, or do the weekly food shop without a shopping list (with those pesky sporadic purchases we have to make an effort to remember).

Here are some more examples of prospective memory in my daily life, and what I've observed about the nature of this curious mental trait.

Taking a contraceptive pill - A lot of women are well practiced at this. At 6pm every day (or often just before) a mental alarm goes off in my head which reminds me to take my pill within the essential 3-hour window. I never programmed this alarm intentionally, it just happened after years of having a real alarm go off on my phone. Eventually I began pre-empting the phone alarm so I no longer needed it anymore. "Take your pill!" Says the little voice in my head. Sometimes I wake up in the night thinking "S

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Interview with Bill Murphy, Creator of DreamNET

 

What appealed to you most about developing DreamNET? 

Developing DreamNET allowed me an opportunity to exploit several technologies that have made it easier to be outfitted with a wireless EEG. The merging of a compact dry electrode EEG with a mobile device that syncs with Bluetooth made the hardware affordable and accessible.

But the software from Michael Coder is what makes our solution the best one there is. The data has been continuously published for over two years, and the software is regularly updated.

What appealed to me was an opportunity to offer a solution that is within reach of people that are looking for a sensible way to improve their chances of documenting their dream experience.

 

Who is the typical DreamNET user and what can they expect to get out of using it?

The typical DreamNET user could certainly be described as a dream enthusiast. A dream is such a personal experience that people will often readily talk about their adventures, but then you learn that their recollection is limited to just a few dreams that stand out.

We prefer to maintain reasonable expectations when using any method positioned as one that helps people enjoy lucid dreams. However, DreamNET offers a way to detect when a person dreaming has likely become lucid.

 

Have trial users found the DreamNET headband comfortable enough to wear all night long, night after night?

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Ask The Experts #1: Invention

Rebecca Turner: Well I think this quote is interpretive. On the one hand, yes your brain can "invent" a new face, for instance by mashing different features of different people together. Or by making the features preposterous: adding a giant mole, changing the eye color to purple, and so on. Or let's go all-out: ten eyes down the left, eleven eyes down the right, a giant nose and a mouth coming out of the nostril. I'm confident I've never seen that guy before.

On the other hand, our dreams are drawn from real world experiences and unconscious interpretations. Even our imagination, in dreams and in waking life, is based on our attempts to thrust remembered images into new realms.

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Ask The Experts #2: Dream Characters

I am fascinated with dream characters. I have met a bunch and some of them are self aware.   They think and act on their own regardless and despite my own awareness of who I am, and that I am dreaming. I can ask questions and interact with them and they respond like real people and I don't 'put words in their mouths' and they seem like self aware, thinking beings.   Why do some people you meet in lucid dreams have a self awareness separate from your own? - From Michael Scannell

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Ask The Experts #3: Dream Time

Rebecca Turner: It's potentially the same as any normal dream: on any given night, your longest dream period is typically 35-40 minutes in the morning, shortly before you wake up. However there can be exceptions where the dream time extends longer than usual, and especially during lucid dreams the physiological variables are ideal for prolonged dreaming.

My longest lucid dream appeared to last around an hour, based on my looking at the time before a Wake Induced Lucid Dream, and then waking up and checking the time again. It occurred in the morning after I'd already slept a number of hours, which is the best time to lucid dream for most people with normal sleep cycles. Of course, not all lucid dreams last that long: more often my lucid dreams are an estimated 10-20 minutes long in real time. This is usually plenty to fulfil my lucid intention of the day!

 

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Ask The Experts #4: Sleep Paralysis

I've been having these dreams where I'm aware of everything around me as if I woke up but I can't move.   I feel like I'm trapped in my own body, can't do anything about it and I fell very, very scared. I can't be woken up while this is happening (my dad tried to wake me once because my phone was ringing but he couldn't and I saw all that happening). I have no control over when this occurs nor when to wake up.   Is this lucid dreaming or something else? - From Zubana

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Ask The Experts #5: Dream Healing

Daniel Love: This is a great question Highlander, one that has many avenues to explore. The first point I’d like to raise is how we define “healing”, as there are many varieties, all with their own subtle differences, so we must be careful not to use the word too lightly.

The simplest form of dream healing, one which can be easily addressed, is that of psychological health. Indeed, my own personal journey in dreamland started with a form of psychological healing, namely overcoming nightmares. Far back when I was the tender age of 5 years old, I was afflicted with terrible recurrent nightmares. So fearsome were these nightmares that as a child, I lived in a constant, almost debilitating fear of sleep.

Of course, such disturbed sleep and the continued worry was, itself, enough to impact upon my daily physical health; I would be constantly tired, making me more prone to illness and mood swings - some very real and tangible effects of an unhealthy dream life. It was my childhood discovery of lucid dreaming that brought resolution to these nightly conflicts, eventually "healing" me of these nightmares and, by proxy, the afflictions the strain of disturbed sleep had upon my waking health. Having experienced this form of psychological healing directly, and again indirectly through the shared experiences of my students and other lucid dreamers, I can confidently say that, at least for nightmares, lucid dreaming can be used to provide a form of psychological healing.

Furthermore, all manner of other psychological issues may be addressed and hopefully improved upon with the careful use of lucid dreams; I have experienced dreamers tackling anxiety, depression and various other issues through the use of skilled lucid dreaming. However, I would stress that with any health issues, either physical or psychological, one should always approach a qualified medical practitioner before attempting any personal experimentation in self healing. Certainly, with the support and aid of modern medicine and a trained health professional, lucid dreaming can be a useful tool in the healing process, if nothing else it can aid as a positive distraction or morale boosting mechanism. It shouldn't, however, be used as an alternative to real medical help.

To take this a step further and to address what I believe may be the core of your question: “is physical healing possible during lucid dreams?”

To this I can only give the answer, we don’t know. The human body is a marvelously complicated piece of biological machinery, with all manner of self-correcting and healing mechanisms that, as a species, we are yet to fully understand. Mechanisms, such as the placebo effect, go some way to demonstrate that a belief in, or a psychological suggestion of healing, seem to help induce some of these inbuilt mechanisms.

Lucid dreaming obviously offers us an arena in which we can experience fully vibrant and realistic virtual experiences. Perhaps this level of realism combined with healing themed dreams could help kick start our bodies own ability to heal itself.

However, it is unlikely that physical self-healing or the placebo effect can take us very far, for if you think carefully about it, if such a powerful ability to heal our bodies were latent in us, why then would the forces of evolution not have long since made these readily available to us? The evolutionary advantage of powerful physical self-healing would be immense; creatures with such an ability would have long ago held the upper hand over their competitors, and such traits would likely now be common place.

Instead, what seems more likely is that, whilst the human body does indeed have some powerful and astounding self-correcting mechanisms, these are limited - it is unlikely we have further undiscovered powers. However, positivity, humour and a fighting spirit can go a long way in helping to keep the human mind healthy, even when the body is not, and surely that is a good thing.

With humility, it must be said that the jury is still out on this topic and much research into this area still needs to take place. Certainly, as long as lucid dream healing is not used in place of proven medical help, there is unlikely to be any harm in experimenting with what may be possible.

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Do You Make These 3 Crippling Lucid Dreaming Mistakes? By Sean Kelly

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Imagine you are trying to get a promotion at work.

You've desired this promotion for 2 years now and with it will come more money, power, and freedom.

Your boss passed you over 6 times and promoted other people who are definitely not as smart or as hard-working.

After 2 years you finally barge into your boss' office and ask him loudly, "Why in two years have you never promoted me??"

To which he replies: "I'd love to and you're a great worker, but for some reason everyday you come into work with poop smeared on your pants. I have no idea what that's about, but I can't have a poopy-pants manager."

Imagine how embarrassed you feel in this situation. For 2 years you've been sabotaging your own growth.

And why?

Because you never learned to wipe properly.

This post will reveal to you the ways in which you smear poop on the pants of your lucid dreaming growth. And of course I'll show you how to avoid these 3 crippling mistakes.

The result?

Clean pants. Awesome lucid dreams.

 

Mistake #1
Reality Checks: Zombies and Ferraris

We've all seen the zombie movies where brainless undead humans slowly but surely move toward their goal of devouring more brains.

You've got to give it to these zombies, they've got dedication. They don't get deterred, they just keep on marching along slowly.

This kind of slow pace is fine... if you're dead. You've got nowhere to go. Nowhere to be. You just want a bit of brains, that's all.

But for us alive humans, moving that slow just doesn't cut it.

Since you're alive, you have to do reality checks in an alive way. You can't be a zombie while you do them.

When you remember to do a reality check by using your Prospective Memory, you have to stop for a moment.

Stop and truly question if you're dreaming. You might be in the middle of something. So what.

You have to stop. Check in. Are you dreaming?

Sit with it.

When you do reality checks like this, you're alive. It means you'll have found yourself a lucid dreaming Ferrari while everyone else is stuck as a walking zombie.

However, if you remember to do your reality check and take only 2 seconds to do the check, then go right back to what you were doing...you're a zombie. And remember, zombies move slowly.

So if you're ok with making progress like a zombie, then keep doing reality checks that way.

If you want a lucid dreaming Ferrari then every reality check has to be deeply impactful in your life. You have to question the nature of your existence. The nature of your perception. The nature of what reality you are in.

This questioning makes you alive. It brings presence. Awareness. Lucidity.

So... Zombie or Ferrari, what's your choice?

 

Mistake #2
The Devastation of Frustration

Have you ever spent days, weeks or even months trying to lucid dream but have had little success?

Ever wondered why this is?

One of the most crippling downfalls is something we are all familiar with: frustration.

It's a demon on the path of lucid dreaming. It's a slippery foe who pops its head up to sabotage our success in a most efficient way.

How does it sabotage our success?

It has its roots in our expectations. Most people will decide to try this lucid dreaming thing and practice some techniques before bed or throughout the day.

They'll dedicate a certain amount of energy of their life in order to get a certain return from it. They want a certain benefit. It's how we interact with most of life.

Now the problem comes when the expectation isn't fulfilled. In this case, you spend 2 weeks trying to become lucid in your dreams. Every day you read about lucid dreaming and do your techniques.

But in the morning you wake up and realize you didn't have a lucid dream. What often comes next?

Frustration.

Frustration that you are putting in all this work and getting nothing out of it. Frustration that this stupid lucid dreaming thing doesn't work. Frustration that whoever made these techniques is full of crap and lied to you.

Lucid dreaming can be like a board game. You roll the dice and get to move forward 3 squares....yay! You roll the dice again and you land on the frustration square. Darn. Go back 3 squares.

Now you're right back to where you started.

Unfortunately, most people play this frustration game with lucid dreaming. They take 3 steps forward, but still experience frustration that their progress isn't matching their expectation. This takes them 3 steps back.

A person can only play this game for a short while before giving up. But you can play another game. A game that doesn't include a "Go Back 3 Steps" square. A game without frustration.

So let it go. Just let it go.

Tell yourself that you'll do your techniques to the best of your ability and you'll trust that the results will follow.

Do this for however long it takes.

When you let go of your expectations, your progress on the lucid dreaming journey speeds up.

 

Mistake #3
Insidious Inconsistency

Do you practice your lucid dreaming techniques every day? Before bed each night? During the day?

Or do you practice one night then take a couple days off, then practice again and take another couple days off?

Inconsistency will be the bane of your lucid dreaming practice if you let it take a hold of you.

We all have excuses.

"I was just busy today."

"I forgot."

"I'll do it tomorrow."

"Oh... it is tomorrow? Then I'll definitely do it tomorrow."

Let's put the excuses aside for a moment and speak a truth.

You make time for the things you truly care about in your life. If you truly value something you'll find a way to make time for it. Your time is one of the ways you show what matters in your life.

Does lucid dreaming matter to you?

I want you to be honest.

If the answer is no then congrats, you've been truthful with yourself.

If the answer is yes, then you can make time to do your simple practices everyday. Even 5 minutes. Who doesn't have 5 minutes in a day?

We all have a few minutes to spare. It might mean catching yourself when you are getting sucked into Facebook, or the news, and redirecting your energy.

A consistent practice of even 5 minutes a day will allow your lucid dreaming practice to consistently deepen.

It will entrain your mind and groove the pathways needed to lucid dream, night after night.

 

Final Thoughts

You're now in a wonderful place. You can now see the poop that you were smearing on your pants in the form of being a zombie, getting frustrated and being inconsistent.

Now that you're aware, you can recognize the next time you're sabotaging your own progress with these 3 crippling mistakes.

Once you recognize yourself doing one of them, you can make another choice. You can change the game and stop taking 3 steps back for every 3 steps forward.

Enjoy those clean pants and your awesome lucid dreams.

Go get that promotion.

 

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My Most Memorable Out of Body Experience by Adam Palmer

One of my earliest and most memorable dreaming experiences took place about ten years ago, and firmly altered my beliefs, feelings and course in life.

It was this experience that first lead me to what I believe are undeniable conclusions; both that we are far more than our physical bodies, and that our dreams are not random neurons firing in our heads as our subconscious processes the day's information. It is a weak theory, backed by very little proof that simply cannot exist for me alongside my personal experience.

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