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Anyone look into lucid dreaming?

by Benjamin Eddy
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Ok so something I have been reading about recently is lucid dreaming. Anyone know much about it or actively doing/trying to do it.

Lucid dreaming is basically when you are dreaming and you realize that your dreaming. Once you know you are in a dream you can start to control your reality.

I can only remember having this happen to me once, but the people that practice the techniques get to a point where they can have one every night. They are able to fully control their dream and do whatever they desire. I have heard of some people using it to be able to brainstorm ideas and such while they are sleeping.

Anyone else interested in the subject?

I have an ebook that I have MRR to and you guys are welcome to have it.

-Benjamin Eddy
yourimdeals.com (soon to come)
#dreaming #lucid
  • Profile picture of the author Ephrils
    I've had a bunch of lucid dreams now. I don't remember how I actually turned the ability "on". Stuff started happening there once I could become lucid though. It's not something that happens every night, but often enough.

    You'll get some interesting abilities after awhile. I now have a "force pull" in the dream state that kind of appeared out of nowhere one night. Flight is common, and if you're lucid you can sometimes fly. Another dream I had ESP, but it's only happened once.

    Mydreams are becoming strange enough without being lucid too, but I'm thinking the stranger dreams and being lucid are connected.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebRank1
    Interesting! I never knew what it was called, however I have had this happen to me several times before. It is easier to do when you first are falling asleep.

    Thanks for the eBook - Hopefully I can master this!
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    • Profile picture of the author colinredk
      I've had that experience before, but for the most part I was treating it as a nightmare, and trying very hard to wake up knowing that I was sleeping and having a dream. It was like I was dreaming inside a dream.

      A friend of mine had one as well, it was so real to her that when she woke up she wasn't sure if she was really awake or still dreaming. She was so shaken up that she sent me an SMS asking that me if she was awake or not. I had to give her a call in the middle of the night. I guess that's what happens if you're not prepared for this sort of thing.

      There are some tribes who teach lucid dreaming to their youngsters. It's like they consciously teach their kids to confront the dream elements, like a wild animal, and defeat them. I just wish that when I have the experience again, I would have the good sense to confront the dream and mold it to an advantageous "dream reality."
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      • Profile picture of the author Ephrils
        Sometimes becoming lucid will end the dream on the spot. Don't forget it still takes some brain control to keep the reality around you going. I guess you've got to do it in a way the dream continues.

        I had a dream where I became lucid once and seemed to walk into another dream. I could control everything, but it was not like before. I got some odd information in that one.

        I've also had those reality type dreams that seem so real when I wake up I feel I left a real place. Having asked someone "How do I get out of here?" is quite an experience too. I think it's possible to move in, out, and through parallel realities in the dream state, and since in the current Out-of-Body experience there is a reality there as well, just outside of sleep, but not yet there(hard to explain, it's like the first layer of leaving your body), that there's lots of possible explanations for lucid dreams.

        Some really aren't dreams. A certain aspect of the dream reality falls apart once you take control. For some otehr experiences the feelings are notably different.
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  • Profile picture of the author zenmn
    I live near the Eckankar world HQ in Minnesota. This is one of the oldest religions (metaphysical) that dedicate a lot of their time studying and interpreting dreams. I went to the temple and there were people from all over the world! Cool place actually and not at all cultish.
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    • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Eddy
      It's nice to see there is a lot of interest.

      I started reading the ebook and got through about the first 20 pages, but recently I havn't had the time to really look into lucid dreaming. One thing I read though that I have been doing is working on remembering my dreams. The book teaches you little tricks on how you can do this and you must first be able to remember your dreams in order to have more lucid dreams. Before this I would pretty much never remember my dreams. Upon waking I would remember small fragments of my dream and then slowly most of the memory would go away, but now I have remembered a pretty good part of my dreams over about the last 10 nights. Just being able to remember my dreams is a plus for me. I have always found dreaming interesting and when I read part of this book it really caught my eye.

      That is awesome that you are having the lucid dreams regularly ephrils. Once I have some time I am going to try and read up a bit more on it and see if I can't start having some lucid dreams as well.
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      • Profile picture of the author Ephrils
        A way to improve your lucid dreaming is to look into the "Third Eye" and how to activate it. It's actually the Pineal Gland at the geometric center of your brain and is sensitive to light. A technique that worked for me just this morning(I know the feeling now of when I'm in a state where it's easier to go into a lucid state than others) is to close our eyes and look up towards your forehead. Visualizing exersizes also work pretty well, but can be hard to maintain before you nod off and go to sleep.

        If you're familiar with that feeling RIGHT before you go to sleep, where it feels like you're neither here or there, that's what you're aiming for and where most people lose control. I habitually pull back in instead of letting myself go lucid since the dream disconnection is a rather odd feeling if you're conscious of it. Try it the next couple of nights. Get to where you can feel yourself dozing off and things becoming distant, and pull away. That point is where you can go into a dream lucid rather than become lucid with the movie already going, so to speak.
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        • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Eddy
          Originally Posted by Ephrils View Post

          Get to where you can feel yourself dozing off and things becoming distant, and pull away. That point is where you can go into a dream lucid rather than become lucid with the movie already going, so to speak.
          So while I'm laying there after I have pulled back, I then try to enter into the dream while knowing that I'm going into the dream?

          Thanks for the post, I will give it a try over the next few days.
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          • Profile picture of the author Ephrils
            Right. So far trying to dream certain things at that spot has never worked for me. It might work for you, but that's because I don't have a fine tuned focus needed to get to that point consciously. That particular point is basically where you go from being awake to being asleep.

            There's a huge amount of possibility there. This is one spot people have lucid dreams, out of body experiences, and Astral travel. The beauty is, they're all connected.

            So once you work out the basics of first recognizing when you're about to move into a sleep state you can start working on honing more stuff. I've had one TRUE out of body experience now, about a week ago. Where I saw myself sleeping. Crazy stuff. But it starts with recognizing when you're about to go too far into the dream to lose control.
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