My Lucid Reality

Have you ever had a nightmare that you couldn’t get out of?  A Dream that would improve drastically with the slightest change?  Lucid Dreaming is a term for being able to control your dream, the more you learn about it, the more you’re going to like it.

Lucid Dream Definition:

“A dream state in which one is conscious enough to recognize that one is in the dream state and which stays in one’s memory.”

So… it’s a dream that you can control, and what good is it if you can’t remember it afterwards?  I wrote a little about how to develop the ability to remember your dreams.  So that need not be addressed.  But what should be touched one is how to control them.

How to lucid dream is so frighteningly easy, that being told, may be offensive.  Simply, while in a dream… recognise that you are dreaming.  For me this usually comes in the dream when I try to write a book.  Generally in a dream when you look at the text on a page it shifts, it’s hard to keep solid, that is a signal I use to realize I’m dreaming.  Another signal I’ve taught myself is intense fear.  I generally don’t face situations where I’m gastly afraid in the real world, and when I do face something unrealistically frightening, I say “Am I dreaming?” 

There is a Mask that you can buy that will flash a light whenever you reach REM sleep, when it senses that you are dreaming it’ll send you a signal, this has been used by many people to lucid dream, it’s a nice trick, but I’ve never resorted to such.

Realizing you are dreaming is something that most people do, but when they do it, they wake themselves up.  A real trick is to not wake yourself up, instead… use your mind to control where you are at, or what you are doing.

I had a dream, I was in a house, and around the house there was absolutely no protection from anything.  As I ran through the house I had the feeling of being trapped, of being in danger, of knowing terrible things were going to happen to me.  I remember standing there, I’d look to one window then the other, and in the most horror movie type way, shadows would move past the window.  I then stopped for just long enough to do a reality check.  “You are dreaming” my mind whispered quietly to me.  “Should I wake up?” 

 I thought… that instead I imagined my arms were gatling guns, and then they were.   With two arms that were capable of tearing down walls I pointed towards where the shadows were, and from left to right I blew the sides out of the house, whatever frightening thing was there I knew would not last under such firepower.  I took great pleasure in fighting against the nightmare in with such boldness.

I believe being able to conquer your nightmares and the inability to control such a major part of your living experience as your dreams, lends itself to being able to control your waking life.

Another dream where I took control was after I first started studying about the control you can have of lucid dreams.  I had realized that I hadn’t flown in my dreams since I was young, I believe a lot of people grow out of this ability, and if that is what it means to be a grown up, I want no part of it.  I reached out in my dream, and when I realized it was just a dream I spun (a trick I read regarding avoiding waking up) and then jumped into the sky to take flight.

Please tell me about any experience you have had when you’ve controlled your dream.  When you’ve realized it’s dreaming and woke up?  What kind of a dream did you wake from?