Saturday, January 29, 2011

Lucid Dreaming: An Introduction

Learn to awaken in your dreams and take full control. Live out your fantasies, meet the rich and famous or be analyzed by Freud! Lucid dreaming appears as real as the world you are in right now.

What will you do tonight?

The first step to using hypnosis in lucid dreaming or "dream control" begins with remembering your dreams. A key point to consider is that everybody dreams. You may not remember your dreams when you wake but in an 8 hour night of sleeping you usually have five or more dreams.

Before retiring at night take several deep breaths. Close your eyes and relax each muscle group in turn. Begin with your feet. Tense them and hold for a few seconds then release the tension and relax. Move up your body to your head until you have relaxed your entire body. Imagine that you are descending a long flight of stairs with ten steps. Breathe with each step you take and repeat the word "relax". Once at the bottom, imagine that you are in a tranquil setting and rest there for awhile.


Now mentally tell yourself that when you awaken you will be fresh, rested, full of energy and will remember your last dream in vivid, colorful detail.

Have a pen and small notebook beside your bed; and upon awakening, immediately ask yourself: What did I dream or dream about last night? Focus on taking deep breaths. Then write down your dream in as much detail as you can recall. This is an important step so do not overlook this!

After several days of this practice, look over or review your written dream accounts while looking for recurring themes or "dream sign". For instance, your dream sign might be that you always have something to drink or some sort of drinkable liquid (libation) in your dreams. Your "dream sign" may be similar to or different than someone else's as well as having different connotations or symbolism (i.e., symbolic, archetypal meaning).

Now when retiring the next night go through your relaxation exercise and tell yourself that you will become aware of that you are dreaming when you encounter your dream sign. Tell yourself that it is, in terms of a sign or symbolic beacon, that you should awaken in your dream.



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