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Imagine a world where you can conquer your biggest fears, travel to any location on the planet, and live out exciting, unbelievable adventures. Experience all this and more when you learn how to lucid dream.

It sounds like a fantasy, doesn’t it? But it’s all very possible.

In this guide, we are going to walk you through all the ins and outs of the fantastical world of lucid dreaming and teach you everything you need to know about this phenomenon. You’ll learn:

  • The benefits of lucid dreaming
  • How to lucid dream
  • Most commonly asked questions
  • Techniques that you can start trying today
  • Tips and tricks for beginners

Get ready, because you’re about to begin an exciting adventure where walking on the sun is a piece of cake and monsters turn into friends.

In the world of lucid dreaming, the laws of physics are turned upside down and there are no limits to the possibilities.

You’ll discover the unimaginable and conquer the impossible.

But first, let’s talk about what lucid dreaming actually is.

What will you learn?

  • What Is Lucid Dreaming?
  • 7 Benefits of Lucid Dreaming
  • How To Lucid Dream Tonight
  • Does Lucid Dreaming Feel Real?
  • Tools to Help Lucid Dreaming
  • Lucid Dreaming FAQ

What Is Lucid Dreaming?

The definition of lucid dreaming is actually quite simple. Lucid dreaming is being lucid, or aware, during a dream.

Think of it like this – are you awake right now?

Do you know that you are awake?

If so, then you are lucid. If you can ask yourself those questions about dreaming, while in a dream, and answer them, then you’ll be lucid dreaming.

A lucid dream is any dream during which the dreamer is aware of dreaming.

You can experience lucid dreams actively or passively. The most popular form of lucid dreaming involves active participation where you create and control your dreams.

Vishen Lakhiani hosting a panel at Mindvalley University Pula 2019

This can be a fun and adventurous way to lucid dream and it’s what most people think about when they hear the term “lucid dreaming.”

However, passive dreaming can also be just as exciting. Obtaining lucidity in your dreams, but letting your subconscious do the rest of the work is a really fun self-exploration tool.

7 Benefits Of Lucid Dreaming

1) Access your subconscious

Imagine a computer that has billions and billions of files that contain every piece of data about yourself, but 95% of those files are in a password-protected folder.

This is essentially how your mind works and that password-protected folder, with 95% of the data, is your subconscious.

This is the land of your dreams and if you’re not lucid dreaming, you’re not experiencing most of what is happening in your mind! If you can imagine the benefits of having the password to unlock that folder, you can begin to understand the benefits of lucid dreaming.

So much of what we truly fear and truly believe is locked away behind the gates of our subconscious mind. Luckily, when we learn how to lucid dream, we get to process all of this information and try to make sense of it all.

2) Interpret your dreams

It’s easy to get lost in the confusing symbology of your mind.

When you have a nightmare about falling or a dream about flying, it’s easy to interpret those experiences as literal.

It must mean you are afraid of falling or you wish to fly, right?

Think again!

A falling dream might just be about your fear that you’re losing control in your relationship and a flying dream may be about your desire to be free from that relationship.

So, how do you figure out what these confusing symbols mean?

Lucid dreaming lets you take a front-row seat to those dreams and experience them in real-time. Learning how to have a lucid dream gives you the password to your subconscious mind and lets you actively seek to understand before your conscious mind has an opportunity to interrupt and confuse you.

3) Conquer your fears

One of the greatest benefits of lucid dreaming is the ability to truly conquer the fears that plague your waking life.

Your subconscious mind wants to help you and it tries to play out these “fear dramas” during your sleep, but if you’re not present to witness them, it’s hard to really get any benefit.

When you have a lucid dream, you get the opportunity to experience and process those fears right at the moment your mind attempts to sort them out.

Many people find relief from their anxiety and depression after a lucid dreaming experience.

You can even train yourself to have a higher pain tolerance. When you begin feeling pain in dreams, you can control your dream and manipulate your reaction.

Lucidity is powerful in the dream world.

4) Stop nightmares

Along the same lines as conquering your fears, learning how to control your dreams can stop you from having bad dreams.

Nightmares are so terrifying because we aren’t aware we are dreaming when we experience them. But if you were able to lucid dream during a nightmare experience, you’d know that all of it was in your mind and none of it was real.

The very act of knowing you are dreaming can stop the nightmare in its tracks.

5) Have fun

Lucid dreaming isn’t just about deep, dark and scary stuff; it can be a lot of fun!

Your wildest “dreams” can come true and you can experience them using all of your senses.

You can do whatever you want in a lucid dream, and many people study lucid dreaming to live out their wildest fantasies.

More immersive than a good book, a TV show, or even a virtual reality game, a lucid dream defies all laws of physics and logic and puts your right in the middle of to experience it in 5D (using all 5 senses)!

6) Practice for real life

Once you learn how to lucid dream, you can begin to steer the dreaming ship.

We are going to talk more about how to do this later and what the experience is like, but for now, let’s just talk about the possibilities.

Once you learn to control your dream atmosphere, you can practice and rehearse for anything.

Have a big presentation at work?

Ready to confess your feelings to someone?

Want to practice being more confident?

You can play out any of these scenarios and let your subconscious work out the best approach. It’s no secret that many great problems are often solved during sleep and this problem solving is even more enhanced when you have a lucid dream.

7) Solve a problem

Speaking of problem-solving, imagine overcoming your writer’s block or solving a complicated equation during your sleep.

It happens.

Mary Shelley, the author of the famous novel Frankenstein, dreamt about the plot of the book before writing it.

Famous golfer Jack Nicklaus improved his score when he realized he was holding his clubs incorrectly in his dreams. Countless scientific discoveries have happened during sleep, including the arrangement of the Periodic Table of Elements.

Your brain can work out some incredible stuff while it’s sleeping, but if you’re not there to witness it, you may forget it ever happened. So go ahead and understand how to have a lucid dream

How Do I Trigger A Lucid Dream?

We are going to cover the basic steps to get you prepared and teach you how to have a lucid dream. Then, we’ll talk about what you can expect and address some common questions and issues that arise when people first have a lucid dream.

If lucid dreaming were just as simple as going to sleep and remembering that you’re not awake, there wouldn’t be an entire industry of courses, workshops, and books about how to do it.

Lucid dreaming is absolutely possible for everyone, but you’ll need to train your brain first.

It isn’t hard to do, but it will take some dedication, practice, and patience.

There’s no luck, skill or intelligence level required; it’s simply a matter of setting your mind to it and practicing the techniques until you get results.

Step 1: Remember your dreams

Remembering your dreams is critical for learning how to control your dreams. If you don’t remember your dreams now, you’re not going to be able to tap into them when you are asleep.

The more you remember your dreams, the closer you are to knowing how to lucid dream. People who lucid dream frequently, report being able to remember up to 3-4 dreams each night.

Here are 6 tips to help you remember your dreams:

1) Keep a dream journal

Journaling session at Mindvalley University Pula 2019

Keep a notebook by your bed and write down your dreams as soon as you wake up in the morning.

Writing in a notebook is advised over using a computer because the act of turning on the computer, opening up a document and typing can cause you to wake up too much.

If you remember a lot of your dream, write down the key details first and then flesh out those details. It’s important to write down as much information as you can before your mind wakes up too much.

2) Keep a dream audio journal

Some people find that the act of writing wakes them up too much.

Also, having to turn on the lights to see what you’re writing can make it difficult to stay in the right state of mind.

By keeping a voice recorder or smartphone by your bed, you can record yourself describing your dream while keeping the lights off and not moving around too much.

For most people, this is a great alternative to writing in a journal.

3) Set an alarm to wake up early

If you don’t have a dream in mind when you wake up in the morning, yo it’s possible that you slipped out of the dream stage of sleep before you woke up.

We actually do most of our dreaming in the early morning and the best way to remember a dream is to wake up in the middle of it.

To do this, set an alarm for an hour before you normally wake up. Don’t worry; you don’t need to fully wake up and start your day! You can just use this technique to help you wake up during a dream. Once you do, be sure to record it in your journal or audio diary.

4) Keep a regular sleep schedule

Your brain loves to sleep in regular cycles, so if your bedtime changes every night, you might want to reconsider.

By going to sleep and waking up at the same time every day, you are giving your brain the cues it needs to know that it’s time to run through the cycles of sleep.

When you do this, you’ll be more likely to enter dream stages throughout the night.

5) Set random alarms throughout the night

Everyone is different, so if the above tips don’t work, you might need to do some investigating. If you’ve tried to record your dreams upon waking and you’ve set yourself up for success, but haven’t had any luck recalling a dream, you may need to find your specific sleep pattern and work with it.

Most people dream every 90 minutes, but this varies wildly from individual to individual. Try setting an alarm for a few different times during the middle of the night.

Set an alarm for 90 minutes after you go to bed and see if you recall a dream when you wake up.

If that doesn’t work, set an alarm for various random times during the night. You might discover that you only remember dreams if you wake up at 3:20 am.

If that’s the case, you’ll need to get into the habit of waking up during that time to record your dreams.

6) Be healthy

Group exercise at Mindvalley University Pula 2019

Healthy people have healthy sleep cycles. A healthy sleep cycle is key to remembering your dreams. If you’re having a difficult time remembering any kind of dream at all, you might want to look into your lifestyle and make some adjustments.

Certain substances like alcohol and marijuana can affect your ability to dream, just as anxiety and depression can cause sleep disturbances.

If you experience the rare result of none of the above tips working for you, you might need to address some underlying issues before moving on…

Step 2: Perform reality checks throughout the day

It sounds silly, but to know you’re asleep, you must first realize that you are awake.

Successful lucid dreamers perform reality checks throughout the day to confirm that they are indeed awake. Those same reality checks performed during sleep let them know that they are dreaming.

However, you can’t just perform a reality check at will while dreaming; it takes practice and training. To do this, you’ll need to form the habit of reality checking every day.

Here are proven ways of performing reality checks that have been successful for other lucid dreaming beginners:

1) Read something

Text and numbers seem to change in the dream world. In fact, it is reported that text read twice during a lucid dream changes 75% of the time, the second time it is read.

That number goes up to 95% when it is re-read a third time.

This makes reading text or numbers one of the most popular reality checks around. A few times each day, remind yourself to look at your watch or read a piece of text in front of you and then re-read it two more times. If it stays the same, you can tell yourself, “I know now that I am awake.”

2) Defy physics

The laws of physics don’t apply to the world of lucid dreaming, so testing them is a great way to find out where you are. You can do these reality checks by trying to push your hand through a solid object or jumping off the ground and seeing if you can fly.

You obviously won’t succeed when you’re awake, so when you fail, you can tell yourself, “I know now that I am awake.”

3) Make something happen with your mind

Whether you want to move objects or make something appear or disappear, you might be able to do it when you’re dreaming. When you’re awake on the other hand, unless you have some incredible gifts, you’re going to fail.

Just like the other reality checks, when you attempt to do this when you’re awake, remind yourself that it didn’t work because you are not dreaming.

4) Make it consistent

The key to successful reality checks is keeping it consistent.’

You’re going to be performing these in your lucid dreams, so don’t confuse yourself by making too many of them. Try to practice 1 or 2 of the same reality checks a few times each day. It only takes a few seconds and it will greatly improve your ability to lucid dream.

5) Do them in bed

Many first-time lucid dreamers have an experience known as a “false awakening.”

When this happens, you think that you have woken up, but really, you are lucid dreaming. These can be frustrating experiences because it’s difficult to distinguish between reality and the dream world when they look exactly the same.

To prevent this, do a reality check before you go to sleep and right when you wake up. Make this a habit and every time you wake up, you’ll know for certain if it is a lucid dream or not.

Step 3: Have A Lucid Dream

Once you’re in the habit of remembering your dreams and practicing your reality checks, you’re ready to start practicing lucid dreaming techniques.

It’s possible that by just performing the steps above for a couple weeks, you could start lucid dreaming without trying.

Does Lucid Dreaming Feel Real?

Think of a dream or a nightmare – any dream you’ve ever had – and try describing it using as much detail as possible.

You may experience a common phenomenon of being unable to really articulate the profound feelings you experienced during your dream.

You might be able to describe the details and events with some accuracy, but when you attempt to convey the emotion and strength of the dream, words just come up short.

Dreams are so powerful, and they can enhance or defy everything we know about reality.

When you dream, you get to experience all of these exciting and mysterious worlds, but you only experience them as a memory when you wake up. Lucid dreaming lets you experience those worlds in real-time; lucid dreams are dreams that feel real.

In the real world, your sensory experiences (sight, touch, taste, smell, and feel) are just processes in your brain that are triggered by something in your body.

For example, when you touch something, signals fire off in your brain and let you experience the touch. The same thing happens in your lucid dreams, which means you can fully experience everything in your dream world.

Lucid dreaming is like a hyper-reality where you sense and feel everything around you, except everything around you is a construct of your infinite imagination!

Tools To Help Lucid Dreaming

There are a few things you can do to help make lucid dreaming more likely. Keep in mind that all of these things are only meant to be used in addition to the steps and techniques listed above.

They won’t teach you how to have lucid dreams on their own, but they can make it more likely to happen!

Tea and Herbs

If you have a medical condition or are pregnant, do not try these herbs without first consulting your doctor. Side effects from herbs can interfere with medications and some medical conditions. Don’t worry – You can find out how to have a lucid dream without herbs as well!

There are many herbs and teas on the market that can help induce a dream state, intensify dreams and have a lucid dream more likely.

These herbs have been used for centuries by cultures all over the world to communicate with spirits, experience prophesies, and visit the underworld. These herbs are legal and you can purchase them at your local health food store or online.

Herbs you can use include: Mugwort, Huperzine-A, Choline, Wild Asparagus Root, Calea, Sinicuichi, and Silene.

Meditation

The best meditation you can do to help induce lucid dreams is mindfulness meditation. Since lucid dreaming is a state of mindfulness, practicing that state during your waking life is a very helpful aid.

Try implementing a 20 minutes mindfulness meditation into your daily routine and see if it increases your chances of having a lucid dream tonight.

If you need help from a guided meditation, try the one below:

Lucid Dreaming Music

There has been a lot of advancement in the science of using technology and sounds to induce a lucid dreaming state.

Playing off our natural brainwave patterns, sound can influence certain states of awareness and make lucid dreaming more likely. If you’re interested in trying this technique, listen to the 8-hour video below using headphones while you sleep.

Frequently Asked Questions About Lucid Dreaming (FAQ)

You now know everything you need to know to start practicing how to lucid dream. Since lucid dreaming takes practice and patience, we’re going to conclude this guide by addressing the common challenges that people experience when trying to lucid dream.

Read through the questions and be sure to re-visit this page if you experience any difficulties lucid dreaming.

Is it dangerous to lucid dream?

Mindvalley University Pula 2019

Lucid dreaming is a wonderful self-exploration tool and is completely safe. In fact, it’s a great way to experience different worlds and ideas without using psychedelics, which can be dangerous.

No one has ever gotten stuck in a dream or done anything dangerous while lucid dreaming. You can do anything you want inside your lucid dream and you’ll be able to wake up in the safety of your bed.

I can’t remember my dreams; what should I do?

We spent a lot of time in this guide going over all the steps you need to take to remember your dreams. If you consistently try all of those steps and you still can’t remember your dreams, you may have a sleep disorder or a medication that interferes with your sleep cycle.

This is extremely rare, so make sure you try all of those steps for at least a month. If they truly don’t work, you may want to talk to your doctor about ordering a sleep study.

I had a lucid dream and it frightened me; is this normal?

Lucid dreams can be frightening if you aren’t prepared for them.

Most people find them to be very exciting and fulfilling, but sometimes it just doesn’t happen that way. The best thing to do if you have a frightening experience is to remind yourself that it is all in your head.

Everything in your dream world is a construct of your own mind. Things that appear frightening are just symbols in a dream. You woke up and you’re safe now, so let that be a reminder that exploring the darker parts of your mind is safe and can help you eliminate those fears.

I’ve been lucid dreaming, but I can’t control it, why?

You’ll never be able to fully control your dreams, only steer the dreaming ship.

Keep this in mind and just keep trying. It can take time and patience to be able to direct where you want your lucid dreams to go and even those who have lucid dreams all the time aren’t always able to control them. Lucid dreaming is really about awareness, not control.

What is the difference between daydreaming and lucid dreaming?

You are fully conscious, but relaxed and distracted when you daydream, but it’s a good start to learning how to lucid dream.

The difference between the two is that you are awake when you daydream and asleep when you lucid dream. Accessing your imagination is a great tool for enhancing your lucid dream experiencing, but it shouldn’t be confused with lucid dreaming.

Most daydreams are far less bizarre and surreal than lucid dreams. If you do a reality check in your daydream, you’ll realize that you are indeed awake.

Can you die in real life from a lucid dream?

It’s not possible to die in a real-life from the death experienced in a lucid dream.

All that you experience occurs entirely in the mind. Your physical body remains safe at all times.

Will I be more tired in the morning?

It’s logical to think an all-night adventure of lucid dreams would make you wake up feeling exhausted. Yet, the opposite is usually true.

Most people wake up feeling refreshed and rejuvenated after a lucid dreaming experience. This happens because lucid dreaming takes place during a very restful phase of sleep that lets our body recover.

Having awareness during this part of sleep doesn’t seem to affect your level of rest.

Can you taste food in a lucid dream?

The short answer is – yes.

Since all sensory experiences are merely neurons firing off in your brain, it is possible to experience them in your dream. You can experiment with this idea right now. Sit back and imagine your favorite smell.

Think about it clearly and visualize the source in your mind. If you try hard enough, you can actually trigger your brain to experience the smell.

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