Lucid Dreams – A Brief Overview

Dreams that you have where you know they are dreams and control the final outcomes of the dream are called lucid dreams. These are the type of dreams where you pick the subject or the person they are about and make the dream come out the way you want yet you feel like you are fully awake, similar to day dreaming.

There are no limits to what you can experience when you are lucid dreaming. You can be the star of a romantic fantasy novel, or high action adventure, you can control the outcome or change the endings to what makes you happiest.

While normal dreams may make you feel that you are not in control, when lucid dreaming, you are in the controller’s chair. At times lucid dreams can be so life like that you need to check whether it’s a dream or the real world!

In a dream, certain things will not seem right, like reading words, or colors may not be pronounced. There are simple tests many people do to see if they are really are having a lucid dream or are in a state like sleep walking, for example.

Someone you want to be with may be impossible in real life, but in a lucid dream, you where anything is possible, you can be sitting and talking with a loved one that has passed or a guy you saw at the subway station.

All you have to do is change what is happening in a lucid dream, so that what you want to happen in the dream is what the outcome is. Your creative part of your mind controls your dream, you can be with that person and talk to them as though they are still alive or possibly dream of how you prevent their death in the dream.

Lucid dreams result because the mind is still conscious on some level, even though the body has a biological need for rest. Parts of the mind keep going whether in REM sleep or a semi-conscious lucid dream mode.

Lucid dreaming is more easily accomplished by some people than others although it can be learned over a period of time if you can learn to control your mind and be more aware of your dreams.

You can begin by recalling your dream. Recall the images and express and remember each miniscule detail as poignantly as you can. Your bedside table should have a pen and paper ready to record your observations and images. Initially you may not be able to recall everything. However, you don’t need to dwell on that. With practice your dream will repeat itself and that will enable you to completely record it. This method will help you to record all your lucid dreams and compile a manual which can be referred to when you want.

Writers will often use this technique to line up their next novel, using some of the scenes and characters from the lucid dream as the basis for the storyline. Lucid dreaming is a good outlet to channel your ambitions to come up with an action plan to make them a reality.

You need to try and bring to mind all the minute details you can and then try falling asleep again. Most of the times you will be able to return to the point where you left your dream and carry on from there. These dreams repeat themselves and each time your recall will be sharper than the last.

If you wake a couple hours before your normal time, this is often when lucid dreaming happens, much like day dreaming where it seems you are awake the whole time, but you have actually been asleep.

Techniques, such as self-hypnosis can sometimes help you to recall vividly your lucid dreams, but many people find recalling lucid dreams easy to do.

You can sometimes put your mind into the mode of lucid dreaming using other techniques, such as binaural beats, which are a recent development in sound technology. By using sound waves to put parts of the brain responsible for lucid dreaming to work to instantly put you into the lucid dream condition and help you recall lucid dreams.