How to have a lucid dream. Lucid dreams occure when you appear to wake up in a dream. This state of lucidity is called Lucid dreaming. Site explains how to attain this state of lucidity.
Lucid
Dreams What
are Lucid Dreams?
How to Have a Lucid Dream
Most
of the time we don't realise that we've been dreaming
until we've woken up. But there are certain dreams
that are so vivid that they fall into a category of
their own.
Mr George P from Kansas, USA,
wrote to my Internet column to say "I was dreaming
that I was directing a new film of the classic movie
Rebecca. Suddenly the characters, the set, the landscape
all seemed to burst into life. Everything became amazingly
vivid. It was then that I realised 'I'm dreaming'.
The film Rebecca, as you may know, has a tragic ending
but now I recognised that I was the director and could
make the movie end anyway I pleased.
"As the 'film' progressed
I understood that the dream was my way of sorting
out my uncertainties over a new relationship in my
life with a girl called Becky." continues George
"I realised that I was behaving badly and woke
up with a resolve to completely change my attitude."
Lucidity - Lucic Dreams, Dreaming while still awake
George became conscious that
he was dreaming while the dream was in progress. In
other words he 'woke up' in the dream. His ordinary
dream became an incredibly vivid and George discovered
that he could not only change the content of the dream
but was also consciously resolving his feelings at
a very deep level.
The Dutchman van Eeden called
these dreams 'lucid dreams' and recognised that they
were not only extraordinarily vivid but could be controlled.
It has been reported that 73 per cent of the population
have had at least one lucid dream and lucid dreaming
comes naturally to between 5 and 10 per cent.
Lucid Dreams have been described
for centuries but are only recently being taken seriously
by modern day dream researchers. Freud, Adler and
Jung, although aware of them, virtually ignored them
in their theories.. Yet references to them are found
in the writings of the fourth century philosopher
Aristotle, Saint Augustine records a lucid dream of
his friend Gennadius, and Saint Thomas Aquinas also
reports them.
How to have Lucid Dreams - Techniques
One of the first systematic
studies of Lucid Dreams was made by the ancient yogis
of Tibet who are well known for their extraordinary
psychic,
physical and mental abilities. According to the esteemed
Oxford scholar Evans-Wentz, who edited 'Tibetan Yoga
and Secret Doctrines' the Tibetan adepts mastered
the lucid dream state. "The yogin learns by actual
experience, resulting from psychic experimentation,
that the character of any dream can be changed or
transformed by willing that it shall be."
The Tibetan adepts mastered
the lucid dream state and used them as a means to
realising that all things perceived through the senses
are illusory and that the only reality is Nirvana.
"The Universal Creation, with its many mansions
of existence, from the lowest to the highest Buddha
paradise, and every phenomenal thing therein... are
but the content of the Supreme Dream."
A fascinating discovery of
the Tibetans, and a theme that we will explore in
detail later, is how lucid dreams can be used to trigger
extra sensory perception ESP and as a means to travel
in other dimensions outside of the body.
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