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Surveying the
Lucid World
We have discussed what exactly lucid dreams mean and touched
on how to experience them, but we’ve not answered an extremely
vital question: why is striving to experience a lucid dream
important? To respond to that query, you should simply
understand that being mindful you’re having a dream provides
you with the chance to wield total and thorough control over
your dreams. When you dream you aren’t restricted by any
corporal or forced fetters – you can do anything. The
possibilities of one’s dreams are only restricted by the
limits of one’s own imagination. That assertion gives the
feeling that lucid dreams indeed are employed solely to build
our own fake realities; that is just a part of the picture.
There also are a few vital sound benefits for lucid dreams
which you must think about, and we’ll discuss that now.
The following are a few regular reasons for bringing on lucid
dreams, split up into the below mentioned categories:
* Social Practice
* Adventure & Excitement
* Problem Solving
* Ending Nightmares
* Miscellaneous/Not so Realistic
Adventure & Excitement
To have a complete lucid dreaming experience, you should bear
in mind that you aren’t regulated by any rules in dreams: you
have total independence. Rather than going to your school or
office on foot, you can fly. Once in mid-journey, you might
suddenly change your mind and choose to discover the
mysterious depths of the sea without any breathing apparatus,
or move at unfathomable speeds and survey the eternal heavens
that surround us without traveling by ship. Or maybe you’ll
call to mind a film or a book that left an indelible
impression on you - perhaps you’ll play the role of the
protagonist of that film or book and briefly be a part of that
story. Or perhaps you’d just prefer to live life on your own
terms, with the additional benefit of not being confined by
any outcomes of your actions. Maybe you’ve always wished to
upbraid your boss, or drive your car at its maximum speed
(perhaps past that) on a clear expanse of highway. At any
rate, it will most possibly take some time for you to wholly
appreciate the thought that you can carry out whatever you
think of - you’ll possibly think things are far from possible
during your initial couple of lucid dreams, and not be
competent of doing them.
Social Practice
In case you have never had lucid dreams before, you are most
likely just abstractedly browsing through this article while
only paying partial attention - you are totally oblivious of
how unbelievably and intensely clear and convincing lucid
dreaming could be. Actually it can really be so lifelike that
you can employ it to prepare for scenarios you may come across
in life. Did you ever yearn to get back a moment in order that
you could alter it since back then you were unsure how to
react? Lucid dreaming plainly cannot make you achieve that,
and recalling that moment isn’t going to be of much use as it
will only infuse a deeper craving to get back that moment.
However, you can practice new behaviors and assess yourself
under various situations and circumstances, and gain knowledge
from the outcomes. Like this you perhaps can train yourself
for moments yet to take place, and perhaps check yourself from
committing otherwise inevitable mistakes. Bear in mind that
all of us make mistakes as all us have a lot of things to
learn. Certain things are perhaps learnt best without having
to learn them at other people’s expense. A few examples of
availing of lucid dreaming for preparation are for public
speaking, social occasions, tough or uncomfortable meetings
(like proposing marriage, sacking somebody), etc.
Obviously, your mind controls everything, hence in whatever
scenarios you discover yourself dreaming about basically
you’re taking a guess how other people will respond.
Apparently this is not very accurate since it’s very seldom
that we are fortunate enough to get the chance to be on really
familiar terms with someone so that we can complete all the
“blanks”; therefore, you will indulge in plenty of guesswork
to establish how other people will respond in your dreams.
Well, in certain instances, it’s rather simple to foresee,
more so when you take into account your own insight and
experiences about who people are. However, be cautious not to
talk yourself into believing that you know somebody really
well enough that you are certain how she or he will respond –
simply because we behaved in a particular way in a particular
situation doesn’t indicate we’ll behave likewise in another.
At any rate, you obviously are capable of producing similar
situations repeatedly, which permits you to better train
yourself for a mixed bag of outcomes. Bear in mind that you’re
simply practicing though…don’t get carried away by your fake
realities.
Ending Nightmares
The majority of us long for sleep as it’s an extremely calm
time and permits us to relax and stop thinking about for a
brief period, the continuous turmoil of our conscious lives.
However, certain people do not look forward to going to sleep
as they are beset by persistent terrifying dreams. Lucid
dreaming can perform an extremely vital part in easing the
dread of nightmares. By means of dream control you could
totally change the context and backdrop of your dream,
successfully conquering your dreadful dream. Even if you don’t
attain complete dream control, being mindfully conscious you
are dreaming would lower the disturbing effects that
nightmares can wrought on you: recognizing a situation isn’t
true considerably eases the dreads or terrorization that would
usually be linked to that scenario. Lucid dreaming might also
eternally free one of nightmares, and may in fact be
psychologically helpful as it gives one the chance to come to
terms with his or her anxieties on her or his own conditions,
which is normally not very likely in the conscious realm.
Lucid dreaming can give you the chance to understand that your
fears may be baseless and assist you discover the confidence
to prevail over them in the waking reality.
Problem Solving
This indeed is an extremely vital feature of REM sleep. Now
sleep is viewed as a time to relax; it may appear odd that the
brain indeed is very much active in REM sleep, as good as when
awake. Certain studies even indicate the brain is very
productive during the phase between conscious and REM sleep,
even though those studies are outside the purview of this
article. A likely reason for the brain’s razor sharp mental
abilities while you sleep is the absence of sensory data - the
brain does not concentrate on our senses like hearing, sight,
etc. Therefore, the brain can concentrate more effortlessly on
productive problem solving. Solving problems while dreaming
evidently can be rather tough as one would truly have to
concentrate on one’s purpose and stop superfluous interference
from diverting him or her. I am certain all of us appreciate
how simple it is to get sidetracked in our dreams, unable to
recall something that occurred a few seconds earlier as
something totally new occurs.
Miscellaneous/Not so Realistic
The 4 reasons for desiring to bring on lucid dreams I’ve
mentioned so far are quite practical and easily comprehended
and acknowledged. There are people who fall asleep at night
and employ their dreams for far more fanciful /contentious
intentions. I don’t possess great knowledge or experience in
this arena, but I will pass on what I know. Lucid dreams is
used in what is known as dreamscaping. Dreamscaping appears to
cover several things, such as sharing your dream with another
- not just having a similar dream, but instead of, actually
connecting somebody in a dream; sometimes it’s also referred
to as collective dreaming. Whether or not this is likely I
cannot say, but there are people who declare it is. The
thought itself I believe is intriguing - to really be capable
of coming across somebody while dreaming - but once more I
cannot declare whether or not it’s likely.
An aditional use that comes under this classification is known
as astral projection. Now, astral projection is indeed another
expression for an "out of body experience" – which, I'm
certain, that all of us at least know a little about. This
entails journeying to far-away regions devoid of our bodies,
or perhaps just the feeling that we've abandoned our body but
have not traveled far. I once more do not have much knowledge
about this, but I’m sure the Lucid Crossroads website offers
more details on OBEs.
A last use that I’ll put in this category may be slightly
familiar to the majority of people. Quite a few of us delve
into our dreams just to seek answers to queries that we cannot
answer otherwise. That earlier sentence says a lot, so I’ll
not explain further.
If you’re keen on reading about people’ reasons for inducing
lucid dreams as well as their experiences, you could see the
Lucid Experiences forum that our message board displays. To
know further about not-so-realistic lucid dream uses, check
out our message board’s Beyond Dreaming. Next, we’ll talk
about how trainable lucid dreaming actually is. |
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