People develop interest in lucid dreaming after they saw the Leonardo DiCaprio starrer, Inception. This Academy Award nominated movie is all about the exploration the realm of human consciousness through lucid dreaming.
Lucid dreaming is when you are aware that you are in the state of dream. Sometimes, the dreamer can control and have the ability to do anything they want in their dreams without any social constraints and the law of Physics to bound them. Lucid dreamers feel ecstatic bliss when they are under this bliss because they can do anything from having sexual encounters with celebrities to even flying all over the place just like Superman. There are a lot of health benefits attributed to lucid dreaming, it can treat anxiety, stress, and it can overcome fear by building confidence and creativity. This is one of the primary reasons why people are interested in knowing how to induce lucid dreaming.
Lucid dreaming does not happen instantaneously; it takes a lot of dedication, patience and effort to be aware and to control your dreams. If you want to know how to induce lucid dreaming, you should be in it for the long haul. The following are guidelines on how to induce lucid dreaming, from beginning to be aware of your subconscious state to the time you can actively control and alter everything in your dream.
The process in learning how to induce lucid dreaming begins with having a record of your dreams. Keeping in mind the content of your dreams would help you be aware during your dreams. Keep a journal and pen at our bedside and whenever you awaken during the night, try to trace back the memory of what transpired in your dream. Record down how you felt, the emotional surges that you experience and everything that captivated your senses. The dream journal will help you find the common elements in your dreams. Take notice and special attention to events, activities or objects, that keep on recurring in your dream. These recurrences should be noticed because this will be your trigger lists or dream signs.
When you notice your dream signs recurring then you need to perform a reality check. You need to be persistent in doing reality checks while awake so that when you encounter dream signs, you can distinguish whether you are lucid dreaming or you are awake.
Once you get the hang of how to induce lucid dreaming, the next step would be to control and prolong the experience because if you get excited, you would lose control and end up awake.
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