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Conscious Dreaming Revealed
Perhaps more commonly known as lucid dreaming, conscious dreaming includes the ability to realize that you are dreaming while you are doing so and the ability to take control of your dreams, dictating the happenings. Once you are able to realize that you are dreaming, you can go anywhere or do anything in your dream.
Think about what you will want to do when you are lucid dreaming. Do you want to enjoy your dreams more, fly in your dreams, hunt down the villain as in a video game or use them to help you solve problems in other areas? It does not matter why you want to lucid dream as long as you have a goal and a mindset to achieve it.
Before you get started, take a step back and think about what you want to accomplish by means of conscious dreaming – do you just want to have more enjoyable dreams, or are there goals in your life which lucid dreaming can help you to reach?
When you decide “why” you want to do this you will begin and learn techniques to help in your quest to start lucid dreaming. Techniques that will help you achieve the necessary frame of mind. Usually people who begin this kind of activity will start with recalling dreams they have had. It’s just a matter of remembering dreams you’ve already dreamt.
This ability is the best way to condition your mind for lucid dreaming. You can start by keeping a dream diary, which you keep at your bedside. Right away after awakening, write down each and every detail you can remember of your dreams of the night.
Another way besides keeping a record of your dreams is to use hypnosis. It will get you to the mindset necessary to have lucid dreams. Hypnosis is a powerful tool that can get you to remember details in your dreams very quickly. Just a few sessions are all it takes. As with the other method, once you have dream recall, you are ready to have a conscious dream.
There are additional methods used in lieu of the dream diary. Hypnosis is a popular method and can help achieve the state of mind needed to enter lucid or conscious dreaming. After a few sessions, hypnosis may help an individual to remember the smallest facts that he or she may have forgotten. Your ready to start after learning this technique.
When you first start lucid dreaming, you might awaken suddenly from them; this is a pretty common occurrence. To get back into these dreams, focus on the details of the dream as you return to sleep.
You can also use this method. Wake up several hours earlier than you would normally and then try slipping back sleep. This mode of sleep and dreaming makes it much easier to stay aware of what you are dreaming. You may not even be sure if you are dreaming or just lying awake in your bed thinking. By doing this on a regularly basis, lucid dreaming is much more likely.
You’ll want to know your sleeping patterns, since this can help you to determine when the best times are for lucid dreams. However, you’ll still want to make sure to get plenty of sleep. When you are fatigued, you’ll have a harder time conscious dreaming.
However, good news. It has been found that lucid dreams have a positive effect on insomnia. By lucid dreaming, the effect is that it can teach your mind to close or shut down the distressful and bad thoughts which keep you awake.
You may think that lucid dreaming will take years to master – however, it’s something you can do with relatively little practice!
Anyone can have lucid dreams with a little practice. Using these techniques, you’ll find yourself in control of your dreams before you know it!
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