| Are you aware that you spend nearly a third of your | | | | yourself able to recall your dreams better and better |
| life sleeping? Don't you think it would be wonderful if | | | | as the days go by. |
| you could utilize this time to solve problems, cure | | | | 3. Reality Checking |
| yourself, gain creative inspiration, or have fun? The | | | | This technique trains the mind to identify a dream. The |
| great news is that you can utilize sleep time to the | | | | idea is to develop a habit that might find its way into |
| fullest. You don't have to snore the night hours away. | | | | your dreams. Make it a point to ask yourself every |
| Lucid dreaming enables you to use your sleeping hours | | | | now and then whether you are dreaming or awake. |
| as creatively as possible. | | | | You might repeat this pattern in your dreams and |
| Lucid Dreaming Defined | | | | suddenly realize that you are having a dream, a |
| Lucid dreaming is the ability to stay awake as you | | | | realization that will make the dream lucid. |
| dream! While your body is asleep, your conscious mind | | | | You can do the reality checking in two ways. |
| is fully aware that you are having a dream. What's | | | | A. Write a few lines on a sheet of paper. Take the |
| more, you can even control the events of your dream, | | | | paper out every now and then and read what is |
| given that you have gained enough expertise in lucid | | | | written on it. Ask yourself if the writing has changed or |
| dreaming. | | | | if the words make sense. If you cannot read the |
| If you have never had a lucid dream in your life, you | | | | writing or if it has changed in some way, you must be |
| don't have to despair. You can easily train your mind | | | | dreaming! |
| and body to have a lucid dream. Just follow these | | | | B. As you are drifting off to sleep, imagine that you are |
| time-tested and proven techniques of inducing a lucid | | | | having a dream. What would you do now? Imagine |
| dream. | | | | that you are able to do whatever you want...fly, jump |
| 1. Improve Your Ability To Remember Your Dreams | | | | over a building, meet your favorite celebrities, and so |
| Natural lucid dreamers can remember their dreams | | | | on. This practice teaches your mind to recognize |
| very well. In fact, learning to recall your dreams is the | | | | dream stuff. Your imagination might find its way into a |
| initial step to learn how to have lucid dreams. | | | | dream, and you will immediately recognize it. |
| If you cannot remember your dreams, you can train | | | | Most techniques of initiating lucid dreaming follow a |
| yourself to remember them; however, it is a | | | | basic pattern. They all aim at training the mind to think |
| time-consuming process and requires a lot of patience | | | | in ways that might be repeated in dreams. If they do, |
| and will power on your part. | | | | your brain immediately recognizes that these are |
| 2. Keep A Dream Journal | | | | dreams. |
| Keeping a dream journal facilitates better dream recall. | | | | You will take a long time to master the art of lucid |
| Write down the details of your dream or whatever | | | | dreaming. Learning lucid dreaming is like opening the |
| you remember of it immediately after waking up. Don't | | | | doors of a brand new world. You then stand the |
| put it off until later in the morning. This is because you | | | | chance of tapping into the rich sources of your |
| will forget even the little that you remember if you fail | | | | unconscious mind to find answers to questions, gain |
| to write it down immediately. | | | | inspiration, overcome phobias and anxieties, and many |
| The practice of keeping a dream journal teaches your | | | | more. |
| mind to recall your dreams better, and you will find | | | | |