The Various Ways To Lucid Dream
November 7, 2010 by admin
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Although quite a few people can naturally have lucid dreams, others must put in a lot of effort to arrive at the lucid state. Whatever it may be, there are numerous ways one can bring about lucid dreams and everyone and anyone can achieve this, if you work hard at it.
The initial requirement to stimulate lucid dreams is by living a relaxed life, where you permit yourself to be reposeful and take time to experience lucid dreaming.
In the past just recalling my lucid dreams plus recording them would take nearly two hours. Nowadays, however, I have become preoccupied with other matters and consequently, I have less number of lucid dreams. Therefore, the ideal time to begin to lucid dream is when you’re relatively carefree, for example, while holidaying.
Once you achieve success with lucid dreaming, you’ll discover the following dreams occur rather quickly and you can arrive fairly rapidly at the lucid state.
Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD) Method
Tweak your memory in a way that makes you recollect the dreams you’ve gone through. Once you wake up, attempt to recollect the dreams as minutely as you can.
When you fall asleep again, focus your entire attention on your resolve to recognize that you’re having a dream. Keep repeating to yourself that when you next have a dream, you wish to bring to mind that you’re dreaming. Render this kind of auto-suggestion strong enough to fix your mind totally on this desire with all sincerity. Every time you discover that your mind is starting to wander, thinking of different thoughts, allow the thoughts to proceed on their own and get back to your original center of focus – to recollect that you’re dreaming.
You should prepare your psyche simultaneously to recall the previous dream you have experienced, the moment you awaken. If you have trouble recalling the previous dream, you could return to another dream that you only just had. When doing so, bear in mind that you’re having a dream. In a nutshell, become mindful of your dream condition. For example, if you desire to dream that you’re soaring or poised in mid-air, continue dreaming about this notion until you recognize that you have arrived at the ideal state of visualizing and that you’re really in a dream condition, although not actually deep asleep.
You could keep on going over these steps mentioned above, until you are pretty determined about your desires. Then you can allow yourself to go to sleep. If you notice that when falling asleep, your mind has started to ramble, go over the lucid dreaming method to sharpen your concentration on your desire to recognize that you’re having a dream the next time round.
Catching catnaps
You might also speak of this concept as bringing about some changes in your sleep behavior. For example, you have put the alarm to awaken you a couple of hours prior to your regular wake up time. The instant the alarm rings you get up. Browse through some articles on lucid dreaming and attempt to doze off, this time round with the earnest desire to lucid dream. This also can also be carried out after you have awakened from deep slumber and are still in the initial snoozing period. Without awakening, you could drift off into sleep, with the perpetual thought in your head that you are providing yourself an opportunity to enter a lucid dream condition, where you could experience lucid dreams. In case you could really estimate your Rapid Eye Movement (REM) cycles, when the actual dreaming occurs, then you could fix the alarm at the exact time when your dreaming ends.
The following are a few other ways to arrive at the lucid states:
Gazing at your hands
Now, this is an extremely widely prevalent way to arrive at the lucid state. Hold you gaze steadily on your hands and over time, with constant practice, you will observe that the instant you gaze at your hands, it’s a dream. A fine way to perform this is to gaze at your hands with intent in the day and think whether or not it’s a dream. If you perform this exercise on a regular basis, you will observe your hands in your dreams also. Then you recognize that you’re in a dream.
Augmenting fluid intake
In the first place, take lots of fluid just prior to dozing off which will require going to the toilet at least once in the night. Prior to going to sleep imagine that you’re in the toilet or on the lookout for one. It’s possible that you will either experience a dream that you’re in a toilet or trying to find one. It is at this point that it will strike you that indeed you are truly dreaming. However, here is a warning: your thoughts could appear so credible that you will think you are in fact in the toilet relieving yourself. This indicates there is a possibility of bed-wetting!
Which place am I and exactly how did I reach here?
In the course of the day, when you’re fully conscious, repeatedly pose to yourself the query which place you are in and how exactly did you reach there. Then go back over your steps and find out how you arrived at your present location. If you continuously look for an answer to this query, there is a possibility that you’ll have it reoccur in your dreams also. Then, you will fail to recall how you arrived at your current location, or what took you there. Now, do you recognize that you were really dreaming? Some time back, there was an instance, when I had a dream that I was atop a building, but just could not make out how I got to that height. Slowly I became convinced that I was going through a dream. Therefore, I pursued the most expedient path out of the scenario. I just soared away.
Foods which aid in arriving at the lucid state:
The following are certain foods which can be referred to as lucid nutrition since they assist you arrive successfully at the lucid condition:
* Orange juice: Now orange or any kind of fresh fruit juice ensures the central nervous system is active while relaxing your muscles. This can assist in experiencing more unforgettable and intense dreams in addition to altering the direction of lucid dreams.
* Cheese and Milk: Melatonin is a type of neurotransmitter that is related to sleep and dreaming. Cheese and milk are foods which encourage the manufacture of melatonin. Therefore, taking a glassful of warm milk exactly prior to retiring to bed can enable you to experience lucid dreams.
* Lettuce: A Mirror traveler says that lettuce is wonderful for stimulating dreams that are either unforgettable or the herb might assist in recollecting the dreams afterwards. While the writer wasn’t very well acquainted with the various lucid dreaming techniques or the ways to induce them, his two friends told of its effectiveness and he attempted on three occasions. He was successful thrice with lettuce.
* Mustard and pickles: As stated by another Mirror traveler, consuming one tablespoon of mustard together with an average sized dill pickle exactly prior to retiring to bed can aid in bringing about lucid dreams. This individual gathered this through a radio broadcast, where this recipe was checked out by a dream researcher. Once he attained success, three times consecutively with this recipe, he now performs this weekly, one or two times. Although he cannot recall the researcher’s name or the place he came from, he thinks this is an excellent way to experience lucid dreams. His acquaintances were also successful occasionally with this recipe. However, for the writer, having succeeded a couple of times is far better than not experiencing lucid dreams by any means.
* Ice Cream: While the precise action mechanism is ascribed to amino acids or perhaps the chill temperature which raises the overall stimulation level, having one or two spoonfuls of ice cream indeed is acknowledged to bring on lucid dreams.
* Popcorn: God only knows in what way this food can stimulate lucid dreams, but it’s effective for most people.
* Fish: Most likely it’s the protein that is present in fish as this food was stated to be a lucid dream stimulator in the Lucid Dreaming Power Supplements article.
How to keep on being lucid
Even though after numerous experiments you begin to recognize that you’re having a dream, it might be tough to stay lucid for an extended period. The following are a few pointers and techniques to assist you remain lucid:
* Stay relaxed: Remain serene and be at ease. If you are extremely keyed up, you might awaken soon after you have recognized that you’re having a dream.
* Spinning: Keep on spinning on your own axis, not feeling the least bit lightheaded. While performing this, continue instructing yourself that the subsequent scenario would indeed be a dream. The moment you’ve stopped spinning, you are apparently in a dream condition. Actually even when you begin to imagine that you are fully conscious, you are in actual fact still having a dream!
* Gaze at the floor or your hands: Try and find a source point in the dream, and concentrate on the dot which may be your hands or perhaps a spot on the floor. The concentrating could give constancy to your dream.
* Massage your hands together: Once you massage your hands together, you will feel a sensation of mobility and also friction. As you continue to massage your hands, keep on instructing yourself that the subsequent scene should be a dream.
As indicated by research the most efficacious method is the spinning method and then the hand massaging.











