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    How to Lucid Dream (The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide)

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    by Aletheia · Aug 3, 2021 · 68 Comments

    Lucid Dreaming picture

    Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience, yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality.

    – Tibetan Teacher Tarthang Tulka

    Did you know you can use your dreams to solve problems, face your shadow self, overcome your fears, practice inner work, and even explore the purpose of life?  

    This scientifically proven practice has existed for thousands of years, dating back to the yogis of Tibetan Buddhism who used lucid dreaming to experience the illusory nature of reality.  

    In this article, my intention is to provide you with a powerful tool which you can learn to use on your spiritual path for increased self-awareness, self-love, and spiritual healing. 

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    Table of contents

    • So What Exactly is Lucid Dreaming?
    • How to Lucid Dream (Pre-Preparation)
      • Exercise 1: Experiencing the World 
      • Exercise 2: Asking the Golden Question
      • Exercise 3: Keeping a Dream Journal
    • How to Lucid Dream Tonight – 3 Lucid Dreaming Techniques
    • How to Stay in the Dream World
    • How to Harness the True Power of Lucid Dreaming
    • Lucid Dreaming FAQ
    • Conclusion

    So What Exactly is Lucid Dreaming?

    Image of blue butterflies in a lucid dream

    Lucid dreaming can be understood as the practice of becoming conscious during the dream state. Those that have experienced lucid dreams report amazingly intense feelings of exhilaration, elation, and vivid feelings of freedom.  

    A man from Minnesota, for instance, described one of his lucid dreams in the following way:

    I was standing in a field in an open area when my wife pointed in the direction of the sunset.  I looked at it and thought, “How odd, I’ve never seen colors like that before“.  Then it dawned on me: “I must be dreaming!”  Never had I experienced such clarity and perception – the colors were so beautiful and the sense of freedom so exhilarating, that I started racing down through this beautiful golden wheat field waving my hands in the air and yelling at the top of my voice, “I’m dreaming!  I’m dreaming!“

    – In Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming  by Stephen LaBerge

    What’s most amazing about lucid dreaming is that you’re able to control the outcome of your dreams. This means that you can fly through the galaxies, bathe in a pool full of diamonds and pearls, make love on rainbows (yes, you heard me ;) ), or travel to whatever destination, in whichever era or planet you like. Basically, the only limit in your dreams is your mind and its level of imaginative creativity.

    So, the question is, if lucid dreaming opens up such an amazingly rich and rewarding world – how do you actually become “awake” in your dreams?  You can find out some introductory tips below.

    How to Lucid Dream (Pre-Preparation)

    Image of a woman in a surreal book lucid dreaming

    Before you start having and maintaining conscious awareness during dreams, it’s important to do some mental exercises. These exercises will help make lucid dreaming a lot easier to induce:

    Exercise 1: Experiencing the World 

    lucid dreaming tips

    This exercise will help you sharpen the five senses of sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing. This, in turn, will help your lucid dreams become more vibrant and vivid.

    You must practice consciousness in order to become conscious in your dreams. The goal is to become aware of what you experience with your senses in everyday life: every size shade, texture, taste, and nuance.

    Here’s how to sharpen your consciousness:

    • Look –  Attune to every shape, color and movement, e.g., a building, a blade of grass, a flying bird
    • Listen – Attune to every pitch and intensity, e.g., the wind, a barking dog, a car
    • Feel – Attune to every texture, weight, temperature, and feeling, e.g., the soil, your legs, the sun on your head
    • Taste – Attune to the bitter, sweet, creamy, crunchy, smooth taste of food, e.g., the sea air, a muffin, a tangy cup of tea
    • Smell – Attune to every odor, whether warm, sweet, bitter, odorous, floral, e.g., smoke, incense, body odor 
    • Become Aware of Yourself – It also helps to become conscious of your emotions, thoughts, and breathing. For example
      “I feel peaceful”, “I am thinking about my friend.”

    Exercise 2: Asking the Golden Question

    how to lucid dream technique

    This is also called Critical State Testing. It involves asking the question during the day “am I dreaming or am I awake, right now?” It sounds a bit silly, but really try to justify your answer.

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    The point of this exercise is to create a habit of testing consciousness in waking life that can be brought over to the dream world. Soon you will find yourself asking the same question in your dreams (“am I dreaming?”). It’s important to plan when you ask the question so that you remember. For instance, you could always ask “am I dreaming or awake now?” whenever you look into a mirror, climb some stairs, or shut a door. Planning will help you test your own reality.

    Exercise 3: Keeping a Dream Journal

    Image of a man keeping a dream journal

    Basically, if you can’t recall your dreams, you won’t be able to remember to become lucid in the dream world.  

    This exercise is about recording your dreams in as much detail as possible, for maximum dream recall. It’s also about finding peculiarities in your dreams called dreamsigns.

    It’s recommended that you keep track of your dreams for 14 days in a row before you attempt to lucid dream. Keeping a dream journal will allow you to collect the dreamsigns that frequently emerge in your dreams – these are essentially unrealistic occurrences in reality. Dreamsigns will help trigger lucid dreams in the future once you’re able to identify your most frequently occurring sign. 

    So what exactly do dreamsigns look like?  Well, dreamsigns are highly personal in nature. Your dreamsign could be that the sun is usually purple or an intimate friend is always a stranger. Dreamsigns can be many and varied. For example they could be:

    • Thoughts
    • Emotions
    • Sensations
    • Perceptions
    • Actions (personal/character/object)
    • Form (personal/character/setting/object)
    • Context (personal role/character role/character place/object place/setting place/setting time/situation)

    After attempting these three exercises, you are then ready to begin lucid dreaming. We’ll explore how to lucid dream next. 

    How to Lucid Dream Tonight – 3 Lucid Dreaming Techniques

    Image of a lucid dreaming woman in water

    Dreams are more real than reality itself, they’re closer to the self.

    – GAO XINGJIAN, Dialogue and Rebuttal

    Now, let’s get to the meat and bones of this article: how to lucid dream. Here are some major techniques to explore either individually, or if you like, one-after-the-other:

    1. Autosuggestion

    Image of a man inducing a lucid dream

    The Autosuggestion technique involves suggesting to yourself that you’ll have a lucid dream the same night or another. This is all done while deeply relaxing and clearing the mind before sleep. The goal is to put yourself in the frame of mind of genuinely expecting a lucid dream to happen soon.  This technique is especially effective with people susceptible to hypnosis.

    Tip:  Don’t try too hard to Autosuggest yourself. Too much effort can be counter-productive, as suggested by many lucid dream researchers.

    2. MILD Technique

    lucid dream tips

    MILD stands for the Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams. Created by Ph.D. researcher Stephen LaBerge, this technique can be used with the above technique for an increased likelihood of lucid dreams.

    The technique relies on the principle that if we can manage to remember to do things in waking life (i.e. hitting “targets”), so too can we while sleeping. How can we remember to do something in a dream that will help us become lucid?  Mnemonic associations are the answer as they help sharpen our memory. Here’s a summarized version of what to do:

    Memory Training

    • Look for a target (i.e. a specific occurrence of something) during the day such as a dog barking, a phone ringing or a bird singing. Every time one of these ‘targets’ occurs (i.e., a dog barking), ask the question  “Am I dreaming?”  Justify the answer and really examine whether you’re awake or not.
    • Use a specially designated dream journal to record how targets you “hit” during the day (by asking the question “am I dreaming?”)
    • Other examples of daily targets might be: The next time I see a flower, The next time I feel pain, The next time I see a blue car, The next time I use the toilet, etc.

    The target can be anything your mind can conceive. Once you’ve done this activity for one week,  you’re then ready to take your memory training into the dream world.

    Next, before sleeping:

    • Resolve to wake and recall your dreams
    • Upon waking, recall your dreams in as much detail as possible.
    • When going back to sleep, single-mindedly concentrate on telling yourself: “Next time I’m dreaming, I want to remember I’m dreaming.” Block out any other thoughts. Focus solely on this desire.
    • Before sleeping also visualize that you’re back in your last dream. Think of one of your common dreamsigns (which is a peculiar symbol that shows the dream is unreal, e.g., you’re crawling instead of the usual walking) and visualize yourself becoming lucid.
    • Fall to sleep thinking solely of your intention.

    Tip:  It’s recommended that you hit at least 2 targets a day for the period of a week before trying to become lucid in your dreams.

    Did you know?
    You can have actual orgasms while lucid dreaming. ;)

    3. WILDS Technique

    WILDS technique lucid dreaming

    WILDS, or Wake-Initiated Lucid Dreams, is another way to induce lucidity. Basically, the idea behind this technique is to fall asleep consciously. WILDS allow you to enter directly into the lucid dream state. A few WILDS techniques are below:

    i) Focus on Pre-sleep Mental Images

    Have you ever found yourself drifting off to sleep, while strange scenes play in your mind – yet you’re not fully asleep yet?  This is called hypnagogic imagery and the premise of WILDS is to focus on this imagery gently.

    At first, the images and scenes in your hypnagogic state will be disconnected and fleeting, but continue to observe. Once the images and scenes become connected and vivid, the idea is to passively allow yourself to be drawn into the dream world. This bit is a little tricky and may require practice, but keep at it and you’ll get there eventually!

    Tips:  Remain detached and passive. If you forcefully try to have too much involvement it’s likely the images will vanish and you will awaken. Being gentle is the key.

    ii) Counting Sheep

    Apparently, counting does work as an effective method for falling asleep consciously. What’s important, however, is to constantly repeat the phrase “I’m dreaming.” This helps to reinforce your intention of becoming lucid while you consciously fall asleep. To do this you must firstly:

    • Relax completely, head to toe. Let go of all thoughts. (Try the Progressive Muscle Relaxation technique if you struggle to unwind.)
    • Start counting once you begin drifting off, e.g., “1, I’m dreaming, 2 I’m dreaming, 3 I’m dreaming…” etc.
    • Keep a gentle and relaxed degree of vigilance.

    iii) Focusing on a Flame

    This technique requires constant visualization. Adapted from a Tibetan technique with a lotus flower, this trick is the most useful for vivid minds. It requires that you:

    • Completely relax your body and mind. Let every thought, feeling, and worry go.
    • Once relaxed, visualize in your throat a flame of fire. See it’s incandescence and focus on it entirely.
    • Observe how the flame you visualize interacts with the other images that arise in your mind.
    • Gently maintain your visualization at all times.
    • Gently contemplate the flame until you simply see it. This means you no longer have any conscious effort over maintaining the image, though you continue to have the same awareness in the waking world as in the sleeping world.

    Tips:  It may help to concentrate on an actual candle flame first, before attempting this exercise. This will help to burn the image into your mind.

    How to Stay in the Dream World

    Image of a surreal landscape from a lucid dream

    I am astounded at the clarity of the stars.  They seem so close.  At this point I become lucid.  The dream “shakes” momentarily.  Immediately I look down at the ground and concentrate on solidifying the image and remaining in the dreamscape.

    – G. Sparrow (Lucid Dreaming: The Dawning)

    It’s a common occurrence for many people to wake up immediately after becoming lucid. Although frustrating, this can be solved a number of ways. Some suggested tricks to stay in the dream world are to:

    • Focus on your senses other than vision in lucid dreams, e.g., smell, touch, hearing, taste
    • Spin around quickly like a bottle or dervish – this is a highly effective technique
    • Simply talk to yourself – remind yourself that you are dreaming!
    • Listening to your dream-body breathing
    Did you know?
    Dreams have inspired great masterpieces like the music of Mozart, Beethoven, and Wagner, the paintings of William Blake, and even the creation of the sewing machine.

    How to Harness the True Power of Lucid Dreaming

    Lucid Dreaming picture

    All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

    Edgar Allan Poe (A Dream Within a Dream)

    From private practice all the way to million-dollar box office hits like Inception, Lucid Dreaming has intrigued the minds of many.

    But there’s more to lucid dreaming than meets the eye. It’s not simply about flying around and sipping cocktails – it can also be used on your spiritual path to improve the quality of your life.

    From overcoming fears and developing new skills to healing your inner child and discovering the meaning of your life, lucid dreaming has amazing potential.

    As mentioned in the previous section, lucid dreaming is the practice of becoming consciously aware during the dream state. So if we spend one-third of our life dreaming, how can we make the best use of this time in the dream world?  You’ll find some amazing possibilities below:

    1. Lucid dreaming improves real-life skills …

    Image of a woman on water learning how to lucid dream

    Lucid dreaming has been used by many people as a rehearsal for living. Using your dreams to improve your skills in real life can be effective in a number of ways:

    • Lucid dreams provide the most vivid kind of visualization. They offer a more effective form of mental imagery and mental rehearsal than in waking life.
    • Lucid dreams can enhance your motor skills. It’s been proven that new skills can be learned by simply thinking about them. Lucid dreaming creates new neural pathways for real-life rehearsal.
    • You can perfect routines and high-risk actions in your dreams – risk-free! Sport researcher Paul Tholey claims that lucid dreams help improve the psychological state of athletes by changing person-orientated focus to situation-orientated focus.
    • Performance anxiety and low self-confidence can be worked on and changed in lucid dreams – and all while you’re aware that there’s no threat and you’re in control!

    Basically, the idea is that we can program patterns of behavior in our dreams that will alter the way we act in waking life, positively.

    Here’s a simple lucid dreaming exercise for practicing and mastering a new skill:

    1. Before going to bed and throughout the day, think about what you want to practice in your dream. Focus on your intention to practice this skill constantly.

    2. Use an induction technique (explored in the previous section) to create a lucid dream.

    3. Once lucid, navigate your dream to the place or situation you desire to practice in. Remember, you have complete control!

    4. Practice your skill. Focus on each moment, and how it looks to master the skill. Push the boundaries and see what you’re capable of. You risk no hurt or judgment.

    2. Lucid dreaming helps you to solve problems …

    problem solving and lucid dreaming

    I discovered in high school that I was a lucid dreamer when I learned that I could study complicated mathematical and geometry problems before going to bed and discovered that I was able to solve the problems when I awakened.  

    –  R.V.  (South Carolina)

    From solving intellectual problems to overcoming nightmares, lucid dreams can greatly enhance your quality of life. It is widely accepted that lucid dreams tap into deep stores of unconscious knowledge not usually available while conscious. Take the following examples of this special kind of problem-solving:

    I’ve had problems to write for a class and before I write them on the computer, I test my way of solving the program during a lucid dream. I’ve found that many of my ideas wouldn’t work, or needed something additional.

    –  L.H.  (Kansas)

    If I’m working on my car and try to repair something complicated… I give up and go to bed.  I purposely dream about the problem.  Always before morning I find a way to do the job, and when I try it the next day, it works!

    –  J.R.  (Washington)

    Here’s a simple lucid dreaming exercise for solving a problem:

    1. Choose and memorize a problem you want to solve before bed. Turn this into a question to focus on, e.g., “How can I meet more people like me?”

    2. Use an induction technique (explored in the previous section) to create a lucid dream.  

    3. Once lucid, seek the solution to your problem. Look for or conjure up the person or place you need to seek your solution, e.g., to overcome your writer’s block it could be Hemingway that you talk with.

    4. Once you’re satisfied upon waking, continue to reflect on the answer during the day – often times you realize the solution was there all along (though hidden).

    3. Lucid dreaming can help you overcome nightmares …

    Image of a nightmare lucid dream

    If you’re like me, experiencing crippling nightmares can make sleeping a horrible prospect. Lucid dreaming, however, can serve to completely abolish the power of nightmares. Take this one  example:

    I became lucid while being chased by a tiger, and I wanted to flee.  I then pulled myself back together, stood my ground, and asked, “Who are you?”  The tiger was taken aback but transformed into my father.

    – from Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge

    During lucid dreaming, the best approach to hostile dream figures is to engage in conversation. This conciliatory approach usually transforms the figures into harmless characters or destroys them altogether. Good examples of questions to ask in lucid dreams are:

    • “Who are you?”
    • “Why are you here?”
    • “Why are you acting that way?”
    • “Can I help you?”

    4. Lucid dreaming can help you explore the meaning of life …

    how to lucid dream technique

    Knowing that I was dreaming, I found myself in an infinite void, no longer an “I” but a “We”.  This “We” was a sphere of pure light.  

    –  C.C.  (California)

    Perhaps most intriguing of all, lucid dreaming can open a doorway to exploring the meaning of life.  

    As author Peter Brent suggested in his book The World of the Sufi, we all may be perceiving the world using the wrong senses. For instance, the Tibetan Buddhists and Sufis alike have used lucid dreaming for thousands of years to explore the nature of reality. Why then, can’t the average person?  

    Ultimately, it’s impossible to know how truly valid a dream’s information is. But those with open minds can explore this fascinating pathway with curiosity and discernment.

    Here’s a simple lucid dreaming exercise for exploring the meaning of your life:

    1. Before going to sleep focus on an affirmation or question. Some examples could be:

    • “Why am I here?”
    • “Guide me to light and love”
    • “What is my meaning?”

    2. Use an induction technique (explored in the previous section) to create a lucid dream.

    3. Once lucid, continuously repeat your affirmation or ask your question. Be receptive and sensitive to the dream, and flow with where it takes you. Detach yourself from expectations of what may happen or should happen. Remain as open as possible. You may like to do some introspection and journal about your experience upon waking up.

    Learn more about how to journal.

    5. Lucid dreaming can help you heal your inner child …

    how to lucid dream technique

    Your inner child is your original self – the very first version of ‘you’ that entered into this world. S/he carries so much wisdom, joy, curiosity, and creativity. But at the same time, your inner child can also be at the root of your unresolved grief, anger, addictions, anxiety, and loneliness.

    Lucid dreaming is an ideal inner child work technique for meeting, embracing, and healing your wounded inner child.

    Here’s a simple lucid dreaming exercise for healing your inner child:

    1. Before going to bed and throughout the day, think about your intention to meet your inner child in your dreams. Focus on your intention constantly.

    2. Use an induction technique (explored in the previous section) to create a lucid dream.

    3. Once lucid, navigate your dream to the place that feels safe, warm, and comforting. This may be a childhood house, a magical forest, a boat in a calm ocean, a rocking chair in front of a woodfire, etc.

    4. Request out loud to speak to your inner child. Be gentle and understand that your inner child may be too shy to meet you (in which case you can move on and do something else). Alternatively, your inner child may appear but might be disguised as a baby animal, elf, fairy, or other creature. You can always ask whatever being emerges in your dream whether it’s your inner child or not.

    5. Be warm and friendly toward your inner child and ask them whether they need anything from you. Listen carefully and be generous and kind-hearted. You may prefer to leave the dialogue open and let them express to you anything that’s on their mind or heart. Don’t expect to be best friends with your inner child right away, particularly if you’ve ignored them for most of your life. The practice of meeting, embracing, and healing your inner child may take quite a few lucid dream sessions, so be patient and go slowly.

    6. Journal about any discoveries you’ve made while talking with your inner child after waking up. 


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    Lucid Dreaming FAQ

    Here are some other common questions people ask when wanting to learn how to lucid dream:

    Q: How do I interpret my lucid dreams?

    A: There are numerous ways of applying dream interpretation to your lucid dreams. Some common techniques include meditation (meditating on a symbol or experience that emerged), journaling, guided visualization, and even inducing another lucid dream to answer your question. See our article on how to understand the meaning of your dreams for more guidance.

    Q: What is lucid dreaming like?

    A: Chances are that lucid dreaming is like nothing you’ve ever experienced before. It’s an exhilarating, surreal, mind-opening, mystical experience that feels crisp and vivid, just like waking reality. The only difference is that you can do anything or go anywhere you like within a lucid dream.

    Q: Is it dangerous to lucid dream?

    A: Nope. Lucid dreaming is basically the art of becoming aware in your dreams – and if you get hurt in your dreams, you simply wake up. There’s no definitive evidence to suggest that lucid dreaming is dangerous. In fact, studies have shown that lucid dreaming can help deal with recurrent nightmares, improve physical rehabilitation, and improve problem-solving skills. However, if you suffer from mental illness, you might like to seek advice from a medical professional before lucid dreaming, just to be safe.

    Q: Can I listen to music to induce a lucid dream?

    A: While there’s no specific lucid dreaming music out there, you can listen to binaural beats to help induce a lucid dream. Try listening to binaural beats tracks that target the theta brainwave state (this is the frequency connected to REM sleep). I recommend listening to this Lucid Dreaming soundtrack as it targets both theta and delta brainwaves.

    Let me know in the comments if you have any more questions!

    Conclusion

    I hope this article has inspired you to explore the exciting, limitless world of lucid dreaming.

    Not only can it be used for everyday issues and struggles, but also for illuminating the deeper aspects of our inner selves and helping us to experience more oneness.

    Tell me, what has your experience been like with lucid dreaming? Let me know below!

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    1. Christy

      April 30, 2022 at 1:26 pm

      What does it mean when youu have an orgasm in a dream. This has never ever happened to me and im so confused, could it be do to some connection i feel with someone else who Ive never met before the connection feels really strong.

      Reply
    2. Asha

      September 14, 2021 at 1:26 pm

      I had 3 lucid dreams involving the man who later turned out to be my twin flame. In the first dream I was in a hospital corridor in the maternity ward and I remember asking myself if my sister was having yet another child I follow the hallway into a delivery room and there I was in bed holding my newborn baby but present me was wondering who the father could be when in walks a Hispanic man I had never seen. In the second one I was at the altar of a church getting wed and there were not many people in attendance and the same man said to me it doesn’t matter that they didn’t show up it’s about me and you. Third dream I was training for some type of job and he was the person who was to train me on food prep. Imagine my surprise when on my first actual day of work I walked in and there HE was

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      • Aletheia Luna

        November 26, 2021 at 1:16 pm

        That is amazing Asha, sounds like you had something called a precognitive dream. ❤

        Reply
    3. Hamod

      August 26, 2021 at 8:37 am

      What is the difference between lucid dream and astral projection

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      • Mateo Sol

        August 26, 2021 at 2:44 pm

        Hey Hamod,

        Lucid dreaming happens in our dreamscape, but still within their own dreams. Those who have done astral projection report a sort of external projection of the psyche/soul outside of their bodies.

        I hope that helps.

        Reply
    4. gratefulness

      December 17, 2020 at 1:36 am

      Its really amazing that you have it all here in an easy to digest sort of way like i have been reading all kinds of stuff from all kinds of places but this is where all my exhausing research ends up all the frigging time. You put it all together in my head in a very co-ordinated, beautiful kind of way if that makes sense, but you already know that im just talking nonsense but but but <3 keep mirroring our golden light to us, im eternally grateful (or trying to be anyway) after a long period of emotional numbness, im finally starting to see the light in my self.. I guess? The thing i love the most is your shadow-work, i rarely find people talking about, i know you will never judge me no matter what, but i still kinda feel bad thinking about you when my mind goes all weird, but it helps <3

      Reply
    5. Gerri

      October 03, 2020 at 4:08 pm

      Thank you for this & everything you share. Your thoughts on my experience would be appreciated. I don’t know what it us or what to even call it & the memory has stayed with me for years. I was having a very vivid dream. When I awoke, the sights & bright colors, many details of the dream were imposed on the ceiling. I know I was awake.

      Another time, I woke from a dream convinced there was a fire. I could see the shadows of flames on the wall outside the bedroom. I got out of bed walked to where the flames would be. There was nothing, no smoke, no smell of burning, but I saw the flame shadows. Seems to be the opposite of lucid dreaming. Thank you for any insight.

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    6. Lapwing feather

      June 18, 2020 at 6:50 am

      I heard that the best way to stabilize a dream is to rub your hands together! And if you want to check whether you are dreaming or not, count your fingers (you usually have 5 fingers in dreams) or pinch your nose (if you’re dreaming, you can breathe anyway). If you’re lucky, you’ll end up doing it in your dreams, and become lucid. I recommend to do it often. And be careful… I heard WILD techniques require experiencing sleep paralysis, which can be really scary for many. That’s why I don’t dare to try it… “wake-back-to-bed” and “reality checks” are much better for me.

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    7. Gina Romano

      December 17, 2019 at 10:52 am

      After having kids I stopped dreaming, or I stopped remembering what I was dreaming. I believe it is because I was not sleeping consistently for extended periods of time. My youngest is now 4 and I am being to remember pieces of dreams. However I don’t have them or I can’t recall them daily. Once I woke up with a clear picture of where my missing keys would be, and others it is just fragments of a dream. I’d like to eventually be able to intentionally lucid dream, yet I’m not certain if there is something I should do to help start consistently dreaming/remembering.

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    8. baccarat

      December 10, 2019 at 11:56 pm

      Love watch Ships !

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    9. Swagnikaa

      September 12, 2019 at 7:06 pm

      Thanks for the article. It gave me a lot of unanswered question. My dreams plays a very significant role in my life. Since, three years I had been dreaming about water, falling in water or struggling to come out of water. Once I felt it, I was climbing a bridge where there was huge waves, it was dangerous, yet it was so beautiful. I was searching for an answer to my dreams all the time. But yet I couldn’t. But again other day I had a dream of me been dancing in water. I might been into a dream and I remember telling to myself, ITS DREAM DON’T YOU BELIVE and i made myself out. It was different. I didn’t have the answer to what just happened. Your blog cleared some of the query.

      Lots of Love
      Swag

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    10. Tina Clark

      September 07, 2019 at 5:39 pm

      I am very interested in being able to lucid dream, however, I have aphantasia and do not see pictures of any kind. For me when I close my eyes everything is pitch black. It also feels like I never dream or do not remember what they are as I can not see dreams either. My partner says I have night terrors and scream out while I am asleep. I have no recollection of this. I wondered if there was anyway to turn this round, I don’t see much on this topic and wondered what you thought. Thanks Tina

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      • Mateo Sol

        September 09, 2019 at 10:02 am

        Thanks Tina for the comment. From what I know about “aphantasia”, it affects your ability to visualize on command when closing your eyes. Since you have night terrors, it could indicate you do manage to have dreams but just don’t recall them. I’d suggest giving these techniques a try, they’ll help you begin to recall your dreams (I didn’t recall any of my dreams for years before doing them, and don’t recall them anymore when I stop practicing the techniques). But if you still can’t after a while, there might be some unexplore wounds that your subconscious is blocking access too causing the nightmares.

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      • eileen

        August 03, 2021 at 8:56 am

        Thank you for the reference to Aphantasia I looked it up and it helped me a lot. I lost my ability to form mental images, probably too many concussions. I do still dream very vividly so hopefully find ways to enhance them. Very grateful for the information. Love

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    11. Pao la

      September 07, 2019 at 2:20 am

      Firstly I`m thankful for both of You, Sun and Moon and for everything You do, your articles are profound, have spirit and they do help. <3
      Personally when I have for the first time woke up in a dream, the excitement of it brought me back to this reality, later when it used to happen I tried to keep attention on details but yes, it is really up to our individually amount of consciousness that we use in daily life that is crucial for how long can we keep dreaming awake. One more interesting tip is to, except to have intention , observe your hands, while in awaken dream i often count more fingers than I (really) have.. And before falling asleep to recall what one was doing in inversely fast sequence, during the day, from the moment of going to bed to the waking up in the morning I have also found encouraging practice for consciousness

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      • Mateo Sol

        September 07, 2019 at 11:22 am

        Thank you Pao for your kind compliment and helpful tips, I’m sure your suggestions will benefit those who try them. I remember seeing the other day the ‘Waking Life’ movie which was great, and a couple of suggestions of ‘dream signs’ there is to notice the time in a digital clock which will prove impossible or to try and turn off the lights of the room. Happy Lucidity!

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        • Kelly

          October 01, 2021 at 11:42 pm

          Hello Sol. “Music is what our feelings sound like”. Kelly

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          • Mateo Sol

            October 05, 2021 at 1:47 pm

            I like that :)

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    12. Menchie

      September 05, 2019 at 3:39 am

      Thank you so much for this great article you have written. I have been having lucid dreams since , i think, i was a small child. Mostly in my dreams then, i was aware that i was dreaming and it felt so great! As i grew up and i have come to understand what kind of experience that is, i have come to enjoy my dreams. I learned how to drive the motorcycle through my lucid dreams. I found answers to so many questions. I flew all over the world, visited the stars and galaxies, jumped from a very high tower as high as Everest, and many many more! Above all, my dreams are my guide. I have come to understand myself deeply through my dreams.
      I also have this experience, while i am in a dream, i am also dreaming, and while dreaming in that dream, that is where i am becoming aware that I am dreaming in a dream of a dream. Very strange to me. But happened to me many times.
      Anyway, thank you very much. Bless you always.

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      • Mateo Sol

        September 05, 2019 at 2:11 pm

        Thank you Menchie for sharing your experiences with this, the ‘dream inception’ sounds fascinating :)

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      • Karen

        February 10, 2022 at 3:24 am

        Menchie, I experience this dream within a dream also. Sometimes in the dream I am watching a “movie” …so I am both in the movie and watching the movie…if that makes sense. The movie may be the dream within the dream? Sometimes I even see the credits roll, then I know I am dreaming because I can never read words in a dream.

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    13. Paz

      September 05, 2019 at 12:35 am

      Lovely article! I have enjoyed the art of lucid daydreaming since I was a child I think!
      I would like to ask if you could talk a bit more about the use of lucid daydreaming to overcome nightmares. It has happened to me, a couple of times during my meditation that a image of a clown appears in my head and is trying to eat me or scare me.
      I have tried lucid daydreaming to confront him and ask him why is he there but he never replies

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      • rand kokernoty

        September 05, 2019 at 5:55 am

        When i was 3 or 4 years old, i have vivid memories of falling asleep and shooting out of my body into outer/inner space. The experience was completely silent while feeling i was traveling at incredible speed. This scared me awake the first couple of times but eventually i relaxed into the experience. The last time i experienced this, i realized i was looking for some kind of boundary in the blackness i was traveling in. All of a sudden i had the realization that there was no end and the experience of infinite space scared my child consciousness and i snapped back into my body. Years passed and when i was in my thiries i had a new experience. I was working as a manager of a gas station and working 18 hr. shifts due to employees quitting. I would come home from work and went to bed and fell asleep immediately. I went thru a stage where i felt like i was in a steel drum where someone was banging on the drum with a hammer. The hammering got louder and louder (turned out to be my heart beat) and then suddenly all was silent. Again i got scared as my sleeping body was breathing so shallow. I felt i was suffocating and woke up. I eventually relaxed into the experience. The silence was profound. When i would have a thought it would turn into an inner movie and i sensed by eyes blinking in REM alpha state. This eventually passed as my sleep cycle improved. Since then, i have had other out of body experiences. Couldn’t maintain the experience though and when i became conscious that i was dreaming, i felt my consciousness gently floating back into my body and i would awake. Haven’t had the experience since then and missing it greatly. I felt so alive.

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      • Mateo Sol

        September 05, 2019 at 2:14 pm

        Thanks Paz. I think what you refer to as lucid daydreaming is more of a guided visualization/vision quest. Sometimes they speak and sometimes they don’t, often because the time isn’t right and the defenses within your psyche are still needed. Though you may also want to try something like a ‘floating tank’ if you wish to confront these figures in a more intense and direct way.

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    14. TeresaE

      August 31, 2019 at 5:37 pm

      Thank you for this, what an interesting subject.
      Thanks to a recurring nightmare as a child, I taught myself to test for dream state, and wake myself up mid dream.
      It wasn’t until I started drinking that my mind overcame this self imposed block and I reached the end of the dream.
      And thanks to self imposed blocks on dreams being of no use to my waking self, it took another 20+ years for me to relive the dream and see what it was trying to tell my child self. As with most trauma, reliving it fully has been my only way to (finally) release it.
      I use the powerful time while falling asleep to reset my programming, overcome issues. I also use a one-two count and rhythmic breathing if my mind refuses to shut off.
      Thanks to you I’ll be trying some new things and see what is happening while my body rests.
      Much love

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      • Mateo Sol

        September 02, 2019 at 10:29 am

        Thank you Teresa for sharing your experience. You’re right, sometimes it takes us many years before we’re mature enough to be able to process something that when we were younger may have been perceived as too ‘unsafe’ to deal with. I look forward to hearing how your experiments with this unfold :)

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    15. Natalie

      June 18, 2019 at 6:56 am

      Ever since my sister died in 2007, I will dream of her and other people I knew since then who have died, but I it’s always a lucid a dream. I’m always confused at first when I see them because I know they’re dead, then I realize I’m dreaming, and I enjoy their brief company :)

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    16. Zlata

      February 20, 2019 at 3:59 am

      I had a lucid dream this one time when I was ten. I was standing in the lobby of the apartment building where I live (I haven’t moved out yet- I’m a teenager), and my mother was standing next to me. And all of a sudden, I was like, “This is a dream. I want to wake up.” And my mom said, “What dream? This is not a dream.” (Those were her exact words. I have a mental voice recording of my mom saying them.)
      And then, most uninterestingly, I woke up.

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      • Goodness

        May 28, 2021 at 7:06 pm

        Well!! Dreams are not actually dreams in true reality…. What we think is a dream is not a dream… It’s actually the true reality… We are all living in a dream which is the false reality… Mayb it was just your higher self trying to tell you the truth…. To make you stay in the true reality…

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