What is lucid dreaming and how do you do it?

Question

I'm so confused!! lol.

i want to have better dreams though, i heard eating tuna or cheese before you sleep helps...

what else??

xx

Answer 1

take mind bending drugs a few times - it somehow makes your dreams more real and wierd

Answer 2

go up a gear and try this.

http://www.crystalinks.com/astral.html

Answer 3

A lucid dream(or conscious dream) is a self aware dream. In other words, You know who you are, you have thoughts, you know that you are dreaming, and you are in first person in relation to the dream. While in a lucid dream you can participate in, rather than watch the dream.

According to Wikipedia the two ways that a person enters a lucid dream are

1) During a normal dream, the dreamer eventually concludes that he or she is dreaming

2)A "wake-initiated lucid dream" (WILD) occurs when the dreamer goes from a normal waking state directly into a dream state with no apparent lapse in consciousness.

There are many theories on dream, and why we dream.

The most conclusive evidence points towards the Idea that dream come to us 1) When we are in extremly light sleep, or 2) in our REM cycle, Meaning deep sleep.

Normally Lucid dreams occur for me in light sleep. Because in a REM cycle I'm ... well more asleep and less concious.  But often when i've just fall asleep and enter into a nap, I was thinking prior to sleeping, thinking about something specific, that stands out to me.  This thought doesn't end just because your body has gone into sleep mode.  The fact that you just fell asleep means that you're much more awake, than if you had been sleeping for hours. These two things combined your mind hasn't fully shut off yet, And I believe that this allows it to continue rolling on the thought. You cannot force yourself into a lucid dream, but you can do one thing if you are interested in experimenting, and attempting to initiate the occurance.

I would suggest keeping the idea of having a lucid thought in your head. (This is very plausible, and worked for me but it takes a lot of concentration throught your day, and sincere want to have a lucid dream)  Whenever you have  dream, be sure to record it when you wake up. If you have re-occuring dreams this is the best for recording and thinking on the dream. Reflect on every dream you have. Think about what happened, Why you think it may have happened, what it might mean. Think as deep as you can , and you can even play off scenarios as to how you WISH the dream would have gone, and if you could have done more in it, what would you like to have done?  

After a few MONTHS (yes it's lengthy to attempt to mold how your mind works)  of recording your dreams, Keep this goal in mind "The next time I have a dream, I'm going to change one thing."  That's it. Just one thing. Keep that goal in mind, and continue reflecting on your dreams that you have. This is the first step. Past this step you can eventually train your mind to allow you to have continues lucid dreams. This is really very hard to do , so it could take years.

I have been able to create solitary, as well as re-occuring lucid dreams for months on end. However i haven't been concentrating on them for a year or so, and I do not have them anymore.  The prior explanation is how I acheived such. However, Every ones mind works very differently.

Best of luck. Good dreams to you.

PS. I'm sorry, but on a side note , I wanted to mention one last thing to save you some heart ache. If you're not a very positive "glass half full kind of person"  Or if you have a lot of nightmares I would not suggest trying to create a lucid dream.  IF you imagine your worst most terrible nightmare. Now, Imagine if you honestly thought, during this nightmare, That your life was in danger, that you were alive, and awake, and multiply all of the things that frighten you by 10.  Now imagine that you're trapped inside this nightmare, and don't know how to wake youself up.  (no pinching doesn't always work lol)  This happened to me a few times , because I am a very negative person.  IF this DOES happen... The only thing I can suggest is to be as logical as possible. Since you are concious you should be able to follow a simple train of thought.  The best way to fall out of any dream, lucid or normal, Is to look around you and to list all of the things that are abnormal, Impossible, or strange in the dream.  This always does the trick for me.

Answer 4

Lucid dreaming is where you become aware that you are dreaming whilst you are dreaming.

Once you do that you can control your dreams and do stuff like fly etc

It's hard to do and it takes a few weeks apparently. I've never done it, but apparently if you get in the frame of mind where you are constantly asking yourself "am I dreaming?" then soon enough you'll ask yourself the same question in a dream and you will realise you are dreaming, and then you can control it.

Answer 5

Read the book "Flying Without a Broom: Astral Projection and the Astral World" by D.J. Conway.  It will open your eyes quite widely ... and "sleep" time will be a LOT of fun, I can guarantee it!

Answer 6

keep notes of your first thoughts as you wake. before you go to sleep centre your mind on a problem but as a third person not your self. you will wake with a clearer idea of how to resolve it.