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New Beginnings With Conscious Dreaming
If you are aware you are dreaming while you are asleep, you are having lucid dreams. This is also referred to as conscious dreaming. Imagine you are in a dream and realize you are dreaming. When you are in this state, you can do just about anything you want in your dream.
Complete power to control your dreams may seem like a fantasy or sci-fi novel, but anyone can achieve this dream state and it is fairly easy to do. You can actually express your inner feelings, along with your desires while in this state of dreaming. There are proven methods that will allow you to achieve a state of lucid dreaming.
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?
Once you know why you want to start conscious dreaming, you will then need to become more practiced in the techniques which can produce lucid dreams. Dream recall is the way that most people choose to begin – this is simply training yourself to remember your dreams.
When you start to consciously dream, you have to recall the details of all the dreams you have, each night. One of the most common ways to do this is to keep a diary by your bedside table with a pen or pencil. Each morning, first thing, is to enter details of your dreams, all of the details that you can remember. The longer you wait to do this, the less you will remember. So this is of the up most importance, so the details are as accurate as they can be.
The more you write the better and soon you will remember more and more of your dream details and job them all down in your dream diary. You will also be able to use the dream diary to refresh your memory. Now your mind is primed to remember the details and will find that it’s an easy step to being aware you are dreaming. Often you may wake up, suddenly, from a dream and realize that it was a dream and not real.
Either on its own or along with a dream diary, hypnosis is a powerful technique for training your mind to recall dreams. In fact, many find themselves able to remember every detail of their dreams with only a few sessions of hypnosis! Once you have gained this ability, you will be able to begin conscious dreaming.
You may find, at first, that occasionally you may suddenly wake up during lucid dreaming and it’s normal. Recall the dream and its events and you will go back to sleep. Focus on the dream and you will go back right into the dream. You can make it do whatever you want.
This method of inducing lucid or conscious dreaming is to wake earlier than usual, now try to go back sleep. In this state dreams are easier to be aware of. You might be unsure whether you are awake or asleep, or simply thinking lying in bed. Doing this regularly and lucid dreaming is much more likely.
Watch your sleeping patterns closely. In this way, you will be able to tell what time is more likely to have this type of dream. Do not deprive yourself of too much sleep, as being extremely tired makes you sleep deeper and lucid dreaming is unlikely to occur in this stage of sleep.
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!
It is so easy to lucid dream that almost anyone can achieve it. Put a little time into it and choose one of these methods to learn the power of lucid dreaming. Try all three methods and see which one works best for you. Discover what lies within your dreams.
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