Lucid Dreaming is the act of recognizing you are in a dream, becoming totally aware within your dreams, and manipulating your dreams to give you any experience you want. Anyone can dream lucidly with the right discipline, mindset, and subconscious programming. What you can do with these dreams is only limited by your imagination.
Your Conscious Mind: Your conscious mind controls things that you are aware of or need a thinking process in order to attain. Here are a few examples of your conscious thinking processes...
- Distinguishes values
- Short-Term/Long-Term Memory
- Thinking process
- Changes of Mood
- Likes/Dislikes
Your Subconscious Mind: Your subconscious mind controls things that you need no thinking process. Here are some examples of subconscious thinking processes...
- Human Instinct
- Dream states
- Intuition
- Breathing, heart rate, and body movements
- The 6 senses
Triggers to Help Awaken Your Conscious Mind While in Dream State
When you are dreaming your subconscious mind takes over. The trick to having lucid dreams is to let your body become unconscious while your mind remains awake. You can create triggers which you do while awake. These triggers have to be used often enough during conscious state so that it becomes instinct when you fall asleep. Try asking yourself these questions every half hour or hour daily...
- Is this a dream?
- Can I taste this food?
- Am I breathing?
- Can I see my feet?
- Can I touch this object or my [insert body part here]?
How to set the Mood for Easier Lucid Dreaming
- If you have a light dimmer keep your lights on but dim.
- If you have an alarm set your alarm on music mode (if you have it) 2-3 hours before you are supposed to wake up. If you don't have music mode, alarm mode is fine.
- Sitting in a chair is recommended, but definitely not necessary.
- Find a freeware program on the internet that supports binaural technology. Binaural technology works with headphones and uses the left and right headphone to stimulate certain types of brain states while you are asleep.
General Exercises to Have Your Body Fall Asleep While You Remain Conscious
- Adjust lights in your room so that they are dim.
- Lie down or sit in a chair keeping your eyes slightly open but mostly closed.
- Make sure that you are lying or sitting in a comfortable position so that you can concentrate on your affirmations instead of something that will be irritating you due to the position you are in.
- Constantly repeat to yourself in your head that you are going to have a lucid dream tonight, and that if you fall too deeply asleep you will realize that you are dreaming and will trigger a lucid dream.
