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Lucid Dreams: How do I have lucid dreams?

Dream FAQ Dictionary: How do I have lucid dreams?

How do you have lucid dreams?

A. There are several methods of inducing lucid dreams. The first step,regardless of method, is to develop your dream recall until you canremember at least one dream per night. Then, if you have a lucid dreamyou will remember it. You will also become very familiar with yourdreams, making it easier learn to recognize them while they arehappening. If you recall your dreams you can begin immediately withtwo simple techniques for stimulating lucid dreams. Lucid dreamersmake a habit of "reality testing." This means investigating theenvironment to decide whether you are dreaming or awake. Ask yourselfmany times a day, "Could I be dreaming?

" Then, test the stability ofyour current reality by reading some words, looking away and lookingback while trying to will them to change. The instability of dreams isthe easiest clue to use for distinguishing waking from dreaming. Ifthe words change, you are dreaming. Taking naps is a way to greatlyincrease your chances of having lucid dreams. You have to sleep longenough in the nap to enter REM sleep. If you take the nap in themorning (after getting up earlier than usual), you are likely to enterREM sleep within a half-hour to an hour after you fall asleep. If younap for 90 minutes to 2 hours you will have plenty of dreams and ahigher probability of becoming lucid than in dreams you have during anormal night's sleep. Focus on your intention to recognize that youare dreaming as you fall asleep within the nap.

External cues to help people attain lucidity in dreams have been thefocus of Dr. Stephen LaBerge's research and the Lucidity Institute'sdevelopment efforts for several years. Using the results of laboratorystudies, they have designed a portable device, called the DreamLight,for this purpose. It monitors sleep and when it detects REM sleepgives a cue -- a flashing light -- that enters the dream to remind thedreamer to become lucid. The light comes from a soft mask worn duringsleep that also contains the sensing apparatus for determining whenthe sleeper is in REM sleep. A small custom computer connected to themask by a cord decides when the wearer is in REM and when to flash thelights.

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

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Lucid Dreams: Why would I want to have lucid dreams?

Dream FAQ Dictionary: Why would I want to have lucid dreams?

Why would you want to have lucid dreams?

A. The laws of physics and society are repealed in dreams. The onlylimits are the reaches of your imagination. Much of the potential ofdreams is wasted because people do not recognize that they aredreaming. When we are not lucid in a dream, we think and behave as ifwe are in waking reality. This can lead to pointless frustration,confusion and wasted energy, and in the worst case, terrifyingnightmares. It is useless to try as we do to accomplish the tasks ofwaking life in dreams. Our misguided efforts to do so result inanxiety dreams of malfunctioning machinery, missed deadlines,forgotten exams, losing the way, and so on. Anxiety dreams andnightmares can be overcome through lucid dreaming, because if you knowyou are dreaming you have nothing to fear. Dream images cannot hurtyou. Lucid dreams, in addition to helping you lead your dreams insatisfying directions, enjoy fantastic adventures, and overcomenightmares, can be valuable tools for success in your wakinglife. Lucid dreamers can deliberately employ the natural creativepotential of dreams for problem solving and artisticinspiration. Athletes, performers, or anyone who gives presentationscan prepare, practice and polish their performances while theysleep. This is only a taste of the variety of ways people have usedlucid dreaming to expand their lives.

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

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Lucid Dreams: f you are lucid, can you control the dream?

Dream FAQ Dictionary: f you are lucid, can you control the dream?

If you are lucid, can you control the dream?

A. Usually lucidity brings with it some degree of control over thecourse of the dream. How much control is possible varies from dream todream and from dreamer to dreamer. Practice can apparently contributeto the ability to exert control over dream events. At the least, luciddreamers can choose how they wish to respond to the events of thedream. For example, you can decide to face up to a frightening dreamfigure, knowing it cannot harm you, rather than to try to avoid thedanger as you naturally would if you did not know it was a dream. Eventhis amount of control can transform the dream experience from one inwhich you are the helpless victim of frequently terrifying,frustrating, or maddening experiences to one in which you can dismissfor a while the cares and concerns of waking life. On the other hand,some people are able to achieve a level of mastery in their luciddreaming where they can create any world, live any fantasy, andexperience anything they can imagine!

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

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Lucid Dreams: Is there a way to prevent yourself from awakening right after becoming lucid?

Dream FAQ Dictionary: Is there a way to prevent yourself from awakening right after becoming lucid?

Is there a way to prevent yourself from awakening right after becoming lucid?

A. At first, beginners may have difficulty remaining in the dreamafter they attain lucidity. This obstacle may prevent many people fromrealizing the value of lucid dreaming, because they have notexperienced more than the flash of knowing they are dreaming, followedby immediate awakening. Two simple techniques can help you overcomethis problem. The first is to remain calm in the dream. Becoming lucidis exciting, but expressing the excitement can awaken you. Suppressyour feeling somewhat and turn your attention to the dream. If thedream shows signs of ending, such as the disappearance, loss ofclarity or depth of the imagery, "spinning" can help bring the dreamback. As soon as the dream starts to "fade," before you feel your realbody in bed, spin your dream body like a top. That is, twirl aroundlike a child trying to get dizzy (you probably will not get dizzyduring dream spinning because your physical body is not spinningaround). Remind yourself, "The next scene will be a dream." When youstop spinning, if it is not obvious that you are dreaming, do areality test. Even if you think you are awake, you may be surprised tofind that you are still dreaming!

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

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Lucid Dreams: Lucid Dreaming Exercises and Tips - A Guide to Lucid Dreaming

Lucid Dreams: False awakening and lucidity

How often have you woken in the night, looked at a digital clock, but it has appeared blurred or doesn't make sense? Have you ever reached out to turn on the light - or any electrical appliance - to discover that it doesn't function properly, or not at all? Have you got vague memories of getting up in the middle of the night, trying to open the door, finding that it won't open and going back to bed? Would you believe it, if you were told that you were probably dreaming? A false awakening is a convincing illusion of having woken when, in fact, you are still in dreaming sleep, so the imagery - although seemingly real - is artificial.

Lucid Dreams: Does everybody dream?

Dream FAQ Dictionary: Does everybody dream?

Does everybody dream?

A. Everybody dreams. All humans (indeed, all mammals) have REM sleep. Most dreams occur in REM sleep. [REM=Rapid Eye Movements - in this sleeping stage the eyeballs move around like when awake.] This has been demonstrated by awakening people from different stages of sleep and asking if they were dreaming. In 85 percent of awakenings from REM sleep, people report having been dreaming. Dreams are rarely reported following awakening from other types of sleep (collectively called non-REM sleep). REM sleep alternates with non-REM sleep in 90 minute cycles throughout the night. In a typical 8 hour night, youwill spend about an hour and a half total time in REM sleep, broken upinto four or five "REM periods" ranging in length from 5 to 45minutes. Most dreams are forgotten. Some people never recall dreamswhile others recall five or more each night. You can improve yourability to recall dreams. Good dream recall is necessary for learninglucid dreaming. There are two basic things to do to get started withdeveloping dream recall. Begin a dream journal, in which you writeeverything you remember of your dreams, even the slightestfragments. You will remember the most if you record dreams right afteryou awaken from them. Before falling asleep each night, remindyourself that you want to awaken from, remember and record yourdreams.

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

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Lucid Dreams: What is False Awakening?

Dream FAQ Dictionary: What is False Awakening?

False Awakening

While the basic definition of lucid dreaming is merely the ability to be aware that one is dreaming, this definition can be broken down into two types of lucid dreaming. These two types are "high level lucidity" and "low level lucidity." A lucid dreamer that is dreaming with a high level of lucidity knows that everything being experienced is the creation of the mind. This dreamer is aware that he or she is actually in bed and asleep and can suffer no physical damage as a result of the dream.

Dreaming at the lower level of lucidity, the dreamer is not fully aware that his or her environment is a sole creation of the mind. This would then allow for the dreamer to do activities such as flying, or participating in what is most interesting to him or her at the time. However, the dreamer may still see physical threats and other dream characters as being completely real. While dreaming at this lower level, the dreamer is usually unaware that his or her physical body is actually asleep and in bed.

Being able to control a dream and being lucid in a dream do not always go hand in hand. You can have great control over a dream without the full knowledge that you are dreaming. It is also possible for to be completely aware that you are dreaming with very little control of the dream it self. However, a higher level lucid dreamer has the choice to be the participant or creator of the dream.

Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/C005545/english/dream/lucid.htm

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Lucid Dreams: Encyclopedia II - Dream - Psychodynamic interpretation of dreams

Both Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung identify dreams as an interaction between the unconscious and the conscious. They also assert together that unconscious is the dominant force of the dream, and in dreams it conveys its own mental activity to the perceptive faculty. Freud, however, felt that there was an active censorship against the unconscious even during sleep; in his seminal work The Interpretation of Dreams, he explains and argues for his theory in detail. ...

Treat such dreams with caution and good sense. If you dream that your plane is crashing, there is no good reason to cancel your flight: the dream will simply be a reflection of your tension and a (perhaps unconscious) fear of flying. If you dream that that plane is piloted by a red-haired man with only one arm, and you are welcomed on board next day by a red-haired pilot with an empty sleeve, you might do well to be worried! However, most of them are only concidence according to statistics, although you think that the dream are predicting your future.

Practicality should always be underlined when we think of dream interpreatations. It is not a modern, untried theory - it has been used in many cultures throughout world history - though it is only in the present century that a general concensus has been reached about the way in which we should look at our dreams and discover how they can help us.

Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/C005545/english/dream/lucid.htm

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Lucid Dreams: Keeping a Dream Diary

Dream FAQ Dictionary: Keeping a Dream Diary

Keeping a Dream Diary

Remember, however, that a recurring dream may also have a relevance to some current problem or preoccupation. Consider, for instance, a recurring dream in which a dog appears in a frightening context. It may be based on a subconscious fear of dogs; maybe one frightened you when you were in your cradle, an incident which you have completely forgotten. If you dream of being chased by a dog, the dream may well have its basis in such an incident, but i may recur when you are consciously or unconsciously feeling insecure and vulnerable, under circumstances as different as being offered a position of authority at work, for which you feel unready, or trying to decide whether to make an approach to a woman you fancy, but fearing rejection.

Predictive Dreams

We have always treated predictive dreams with great caution. There are some published examples which are, to say the least, extremely persuasive, and if many of them can be rationally explained, there are others which cannot. It would obviously be silly to look for predictions in every dream we have. Many people, on the night before a long flight, dream of an aircraft crashing. It is impossible to know for how many this has been a fatal prediction, but the number seems unlikely to be large.

Source: http://library.thinkquest.org/C005545/english/dream/lucid.htm

For more dictionary entries, see » Lucid Dreams Dictionary

Lucid Dreams: How do external stimuli affect my dreams?

Dream FAQ Dictionary: How do external stimuli affect my dreams?

How do external stimuli affect my dreams?

A. Sensual "input" while sleeping is incorporated into dreams. Mostnotably, while sleeping, you hear as well as while waking - the earsare never turned off. This leads to the consequence that what you hearwhile sleeping, you'll hear in your dreams. The sound is always comingfrom "somewhere". Common experiences of this kind are a telephoneringing or music from the radio. The same holds for the other senses.Note that it is not important how loud some noise is to get noticedwhile sleeping - even an otherwise unnoticed sound, like a mouserunning over your floor, can wake you up if it is uncommon orotherwise alarming to you - on the other hand, you can get accustomedto high levels of noise, like construction work nearby. (Whatdefinitely will wake you up is someone knocking at your window if youlive at the 10th floor ;-)

It is an interesting experience that you can hear exactly what isgoing on, but will forget it on waking up along with forgetting therest of your dream. This includes things such as news broadcast heardon the radio - after waking up, you have forgotten it. It is like youhave dreamed the news broadcast as well - but distinguishing this factis a good clue to lucid dreaming and the way "lucidity inducingdevices" work.

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

For more dictionary entries, see » Lucid Dreams Dictionary

Lucid Dreams: How can I relieve myself of nightmares?

Dream FAQ Dictionary: How can I relieve myself of nightmares?

How can I relieve myself of nightmares?

A. It's really hard to give an answer, since so much depends onyourself. Moreover, it's always risky to give or follow advice on whatcould be a serious problem from far away, and it's ultimately you whohas to decide whether it is just a nuisance you want to get rid of, orif you really suffer from depressions or health problems and it isnecessary to consult professional help.

The common "light" nightmares of permanently missing exams, falling orbeing chased can often be overcome with learning lucid dreaming (seesection 6). Basically, if you learn to deal with them, they are not aproblem anymore. Or, from a slightly different point of view, you'refacing the problems that cause your dreams and thus overcoming them.

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

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Lucid Dreams: Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Flying

Flying : Dream Interpretation Dictionary - Flying

FLYING DREAM

You first start dreaming of flying when you are 3 to 5 years old. It is a very common dream, though less prevalent in adults. More than one third of the dreaming population has dreamed of flying one time or the other.

Flying dreams are known to have a positive relationship with relief from tension and nightmares.
Lucid dreamers tend to have twice as much of flying dreams.
An intense emotional condition can also trigger off a flying dream
The dreams are not exclusive to the post flying machines era. They have occurred in ancient times too, as records in dream books of Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations reveal.
People with an imaginative personality and creative thinkers have more flying dreams
Those who fly planes have these dreams, though they rather fly like Superman in their dreams, not in aeroplanes.

What triggers off a flying dream? The reasons offered for these dreams are

Psychological - the dreamer has had an intense emotional experience
Physiological � There is a change in the breathing pattern of the dreamer
Physical -There is an actual physical movement of the bed.
Precognitive � In preparation of a flying trip
Consciousness � Awareness of movement around you

At an emotional level, a flying dream maybe your defence mechanism to ward of obstacles or transcend over them. But where is your flight headed? Are you seeking something in your flight or is it one of pure joy of the experience?

You will have to identify which particular meaning is the most relevant interpretation.

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Lucid Dreams: What causes nightmares?

Dream FAQ Dictionary: What causes nightmares?

What causes nightmares?

A. There is the dark side of dreams - nightmares, dreams of fear,pain, irrational bad feelings that often cannot be explained. Thesecan become a serious problem when you often wake up terrified, whenyou even don't sleep because of fear of nightmares... Nightmares occurmostly because some problem disturbs you unconsciously butseriously. Some nightmares carry obvious symbols that may indicatewhere your problems are, but often it is not that easy. Sometimes theycan indicate really serious problems like depressions, sometimes justan inadequacy of getting along with yourself. It's difficult.

How can I relieve myself of nightmares?

Source: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dreams-faq

For more dictionary entries, see » Lucid Dreams Dictionary

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