Hi Seraphis,
Lucid dreaming has a lot of uses. For instace, lucid dreaming helped me face fears and become more self-confident, because i soon realized that just as those self-imposed fears could not hurt me in dreams, they also couldn't hurt me in real life.
You can also talk to spirit guides in your dreams. If you have any communication with people/beings in other realities, you can meet them in lucid dreams. If you have a problem or question, sometimes the people in your lucid dreams can give you suggestions that you wouldn't have thought of in the waking world.
Lucid dreams are great for creativity. If you are a writer or musician or artist, you can get many ideas from your own dreams. It can be something as simple as shouting, "show me something cool!" Really, that works for me :)
I'm sure other people will come up with even more reasons for you.
As for your other question, #2 and #4 happen to me frequently. In fact, it's sort of fun to have dangerous-seeming dreams in which I die, and then say, "No, I don't like that ending" and reshape the dream until I get an ending I like :)
Hello seraphis,
How the Conscious Mind Drifts Down to Theta, Lucid Dreaming or Deep Trance, Connecting with your Spirit Guides.
Imagine that the Conscious and the Sub-Conscious is a football and the football is in an up right position. This is where the Conscious mind is at when we are awake as the football is tilted we slowly drift into a relaxed state, as the football continues to drift down word until its horizontal then the Conscious and Sub-Conscious are at an equal level and we are at the Theta State, Lucid State, or Somnambulism State which is Hypnosis. As it drifts down deeper in an upright position then the Conscious Mind is shut off and we are in Profound Sleep (No Dreams) in this state.
Lucid Dreaming is a state Where the Conscious and Subconcious mind are at an even equal or balance. In that state your in a Lucid State, in Somnambulims which is Hypnosis.
In either case that is the area you want to be in as you astral travel. Here is a diagrapm of what the mind go's through as it transverse into those transitions.
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The same process acures in reverse as you come back to the Conscious State.
I hope this helps you to under stand.
Frank (hypnotist)
Thats an excellent explanation / diagram Frank.
seraphis:
Lucid dreaming can be used for many spiritual and learning experiences. Like Frank said, the state of hypnosis and lucid dreaming (also known as a trance) is necessary or helpful in such pracitces as, obviously astral projection, remote viewing, and especially gaining insight and understanding of yourself, aswell as many other things.
Because lucid dreaming seems so real, I try to use it to convince myself I'll be able to do crazy stuff in reality, such as levitation and flight, as though maybe my mind will cross over, turn on a switch, or something. It hasn't happened, but I like the concept.
However, lucid dreaming makes astral projection much easier for me. I can go lucid several times a week, and every lucid dream is a doorway out of my body, with a (current ratio) 75% success rate.
thanks a lot for the replies! [:)]
the possibility that dreams could be used to speak with spirit guides never occured to me, very interesting.
Naiad: dying in your dreams?! sounds like an experience worth having [;)] what happens when you "die"? (except of deciding you don't like it and doing something else instead)
hypnotist: nice diagramm, it does help to understand the difference between different states of mind. thanks :)
Logic: how can dreams be used for remote viewing? do you see things while dreaming, or do you do something similar to starting an AP from a LD?
astralpwka: i tried to AP from lucid dreams a few times, but no success yet, maybe i'll have to get better at lucid dreaming before it works. and: programming your subconscious mind is a very good idea [:D]
The stage of awareness that you use to remote view is the same as that of lucid dreaming, which is why it can be useful.
btw, if there's any more replies, i won't be able to comment them for a while because i'll be gone until maybe the end of the first week of august.
"Naiad: dying in your dreams?! sounds like an experience worth having what happens when you "die"? (except of deciding you don't like it and doing something else instead)"
Usually I become a ghost, and being a ghost is way more fun than being alive. I go around scaring people, and other than being able to go invisible, it's not much different than being alive. I can still talk to my friends and family and stuff.
Occasionally the world goes black. Once I was reincarnated as a child, along with some friends.
It's never scary for me.
now don't get me wrong, i think that lucid dreams are really interesting and cool and everything :). i was just wondering whether there's any use in them apart from being cool, and what you can use them for. (for example AP might be good for spiritual growth, or visiting far-away places and stuff). what do you do when you become lucid?
some things that happen(ed) to me in my lucid dreams:
1) the first few times i became lucid i forgot that i was dreaming a few seconds afterwards [:I] later i tried to keep it in mind and it worked.
2) on the other hand, while lucid, i can decide to forget that i'm dreaming and go on with a normal dream without problems. (now why would anyone do that?! well, sometimes i get scared because of some nonsense, and then trying to get rid of that is like saying "don't think about a pink elephant on a bike!", so i just drop of into the standard dream-mode, where i'm seldom scared and if so can deal with it well enough.)
3) when i wake up by myelf while lucid (no alarm clock i have to switch off) i can go back to the dream even though i was quite fully awake and aware of my body.
4) sometimes i only half-realize i'm dreaming and forget even that, but i still go on shaping the dream as if it was some story i was imaginging (which i am [;)]), like repeating scenes until i'm happy with them or imagining "alternative storylines" so that when i wake up, i don't know which of them was the "real dream" and which was me imagining alternative scenes in the dream.
does the same happen to you while lucid (or similar like in 4)? and if not, what sort of stuff do you experience? [:)]