In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection
is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception
takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams,
without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn
to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is
still happening.
Stephen LaBerge
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Have you ever been dreaming and then suddenly become conscious
that you were in fact dreaming? Well this is what is considered
lucid dreaming, where the dreamer is AWARE that they ARE
in the middle of a dream
Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for
promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing
self-confidence,
improving mental and physical health, facilitating
creative problem solving and helping you to progress
on the path to self-mastery. Stephen LaBerge
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Lucid dreaming is
somewhat controversial because it sounds "New
Age-y," like reading crystals or undergoing color light
therapy -- things not everyone believes in. There's science
behind lucid dreaming, though. One study monitored subjects
with electroencephalograms (EEGs -- a test of the electrical
brain activity) as they slept. The participants motioned
with their eyelids when they were in the middle of a lucid
dream. The EEGs confirmed that they were in REM sleep while
they signaled their lucid dream state [source: LaBerge].
The fact that people can have lucid dreams isn't under dispute.
The question is whether or not people can control their dreams.
Some scientists claim an enthusiastic yes.
Stephen LaBerge (born 1947) is a psychophysiologist
and a leader in the scientific study of lucid dreaming.
In 1967 he received his Bachelor's Degree in mathematics.
He began researching lucid dreaming for his Ph.D. in
Psychophysiology at Stanford University, which he received
in 1980.[1] He developed techniques to enable himself
and other researchers to enter a lucid dream state
at will, most notably the MILD technique (mnemonic
induction of lucid dreams), which was necessary for
many forms of dream experimentation.[2] In 1987, he
founded The Lucidity Institute, an organization that
promotes research into lucid dreaming, |
Lucid dreaming has been mentioned in the
study of sleep since the time of Aristotle. The layperson
may be surprised
to hear this, because few people know about or experience
lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming, also known as Lucidity,
is defined as consciousness during sleep, in which the
dreamer realizes he or she is dreaming. Stanford University
sleep researcher Stephen LaBerge coined the term “awake
in your dreams” to describe lucidity (LaBerge 2).
It is a difficult definition to understand, and can be
easier to grasp through quotes of lucid dreamers. Lucid
dreams tend to be more vivid and often very peaceful or
spiritual compared to regular dreaming. Although few are
aware of the existence of lucid dreams, it can open many
new doors to scientists and the layperson alike. When a
dreamer opens the world of lucid dreaming their life can
be dramatically altered. Consciousness during sleep can
improve the dreamer's life physically and spiritually.
Lucid dreaming is a state of consciousness where the dreamers
are fully aware that they are asleep, and that what they
are experiencing is a state of reality completely manufactured
by the dreaming mind. At its best, lucid dreaming is a
completely conscious state of mind where the doors to the
conscious and unconscious minds are fully open to each
other -- available for exploration, examination and to
be fearlessly embraced.
Around 350 B.C.E Aristotle said, “often,
when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness
which declares that what then presents itself is
but a dream” (quoted by LaBerge 19). In this
quote Aristotle implies that he or someone he knew
regularly had lucid dreams. |
People often ask me if, apart from the obvious
fun aspects of lucid dreaming whether or not there are
more practical benefits.
Pause now to ask yourself the following question: "Am
I dreaming or awake, right now?" Be serious, really
try to answer the question to the best of your ability
and be ready to justify your answer. ~Stephen LaBerge |
Learning to lucid
dream can have quite an impact on your everyday ‘waking’ life
in more ways than one. Apart from the obvious feeling that
you have a special
skill that ninety percent of the people around you have
no idea exists or how to learn it, lucid dreaming has many
other practical uses.
Benefits of Lucid
Dreaming
“ But why are people interested in learning
to be conscious in their dreams? According to my
own experience, and the testimony of thousands
of other lucid dreamers, lucid dreams can be extraordinarily
vivid, intense, pleasurable, and exhilarating.
People frequently consider their lucid dreams as
among the most wonderful experiences of their lives.
If this were all there were to it, lucid dreams
would be delightful, but ultimately trivial entertainment.
However, as many have already discovered, you
can use lucid dreaming to improve the quality
of your waking life. Thousands of people have
written to me at Stanford telling how they are
using the knowledge and experience they have
acquired in lucid dreams to help them get more
out of living.”
Stephen Laberge, Exploring
the World of Lucid Dreaming,
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Some people have found that lucid dreaming is an excellent
way to combat re-occurring nightmares. The
main problem with people’s nightmares is that
they are usually a victim.
The
Stigma Surrounding Lucid Dream Therapy In PTSD
Whether they are running away from a monster, being threatened
in some way or re-living a traffic accident and seeing
themselves or a loved one come to harm, they are always
a ‘victim’ in the nightmare with little to
no control over how the dream pans out.. There is always
a negative element that is oppressing them.
Lucid dreaming can help here because in a lucid dream
it’s you that is in control. If you don’t like
the nasty monster then wish it away and it will go. If
you can become lucid whilst in the middle of a nightmare
you can literally take control and end the negative aspect.
“If you are having a dream and you think
it’s real, it can get very scary. Say you are
dreaming you are tightrope walking across Niagara
Falls. If you fall off, you plunge to your death.
So you are walking very slowly, very carefully. Then
suppose you start lucid dreaming, and you realise
it’s all a dream. What do you do? Become more
cautious and careful? Noo, you start jumping up and
down on the tightrope, you do flips, you bounce around,
you have a ball – precisely because you know
isn’t real. When you realise it’s a dream
you can afford to play.
The same thing happens when you realise that
ordinary life is a dream, just a movie, just
a play. You don’t become more cautious,
more timid, more reserved. You start jumping
up and down and doing flips, precisely because
it’s all a dream, it’s all pure Emptiness.
You don’t feel less, you feel more – because
you can afford to. You are no longer afraid of
dying, and therefore you are not afraid of living.
You become radical and wild, intense and vivid,
shocking and silly. You let it all come pouring
through, because it’s all your dream.
Life then assumes its true intensity, its
vivid luminosity, its radical effervescence.
Ken Wilber, The Essential Ken Wilber: An Introductory
Reader., Page: 33
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Lucid dreaming is NOT just
a load of “New Age hippy crap.” Neither
is it the work of Satan.
Lucid dreaming is quite simply the ability to achieve
lucid awareness while dreaming. Numerous scientific studies
have shown that lucid dreaming confers significant mental
and physical benefits to the practitioner. Here are some
the ways in which conscious dreaming has been shown to
improve people’s lives:
Lucid
Dreaming: Psychophysiological Studies of Consciousness
during REM Sleep
•Improved problem-solving
skills:
Lucid dreaming helps you process much of the subconscious “babbling” in
your mind that distracts you and prevents you from being able to concentrate
on a task at hand. When you quiet these voices your ability to think
critically and solve problems increases significantly.
Scientists understand the benefits of lucid
dreaming; some have used it to enhance their problem solving
skills in extraordinarily creative ways.Take Friedrich Kekule's
discovery of the structure of the benzene molecule; Otto Loewi's
experiment on nerve impulses; and Elias Howe's invention of the
sewing machine. These dream-inspired inventions highlight the
stunning power of the dreaming subconscious mind.
The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural
evolution. It's something that we are talking about
and learning about, not biological evolution. Stephen
LaBerge
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Once you learn the basics of lucid dreaming, you can solve
problems on demand - and on a whole new level. That's because
you are not limited by your logical conscious brain. Instead,
you can solve problems creatively in a 3D environment,
or by drawing deeper insights directly from your subconscious
mind. Just ask any question to your lucid dream and wait
for the answer...
Stephen LaBerge Lucid Dreaming Videos 1-10 Here
•Enhanced creativity: Lucid
dreaming allows a person to go directly to their inner
source of creativity to stimulate ideas and solve problems.
Your subconscious mind is the source of creative inspiration.
Many artistic geniuses — Salvador Dali, William Blake,
Paul Klee, Mozart, and Beethoven among them — say
they came up with their best ideas while asleep. By establishing
direct, unfettered access to your subconscious mind and
then learning how to manipulate it your capacity for creative
thinking will explode.
Conscious dreaming is an exceptionally powerful way to
improve your creativity. Salvador Dali, William Blake and
Paul Klee created famous artwork inspired by dreams.
What is consciousness? Our brain simulates reality.
So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming,
which is to say, they are mental models, simulations,
not the things they appear to be.Stephen LaBerge
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Mozart, Beethoven and Wagner - pointed to dreams as the
source of their inspiration. In fact, some of the most
beautiful music ever heard takes place in lucid dreams.
They reveal our most creative side because of the free-flow
of ideas arising from the subconscious mind.
To improve your creativity in lucid dreams, you can follow
this avenue. First, make an announcement in your dream: "show
me something amazing!" Your subconscious will respond
in unpredictable but often deeply inspiring ways.
The benefits of lucid dreaming are far-reaching.
You can take on a new life in lucid dreams, free
of all your fears and inhibitions, confident that
you can do absolutely anything. This has a real positive
impact on your waking life. |
•Greater
self-confidence: When you control your
dreams, you can face your fears head on and learn how
to overcome them. These triumphs will carry over to
your waking life and will empower you with a new sense
of self-confidence.
Do you lack confidence in the waking world?
If so, you can use conscious dreaming to release your inhibitions
and be totally free in a realistic dream world. If you
want to improve your public speaking abilities, you can
rehearse the event in a lucid dream. Having practiced your
speech in a realistic environment, you will find you have
more confidence when it comes to making the speech in real
life. Remember - practice makes perfect.
Lucid dreams are a playground for experimentation. You
can try out any concept imaginable - from business, to
sports, to relationships - anything you like. By rehearsing
a situation or simply toying with different outcomes, you
can improve your confidence in any number of waking scenarios.
You can practice new skills in lucid dreams.
In Exploring The World of Lucid Dreaming by Dr Stephen
LaBerge, there is a testimony from a surgeon. Before
going to sleep, he would review his surgical cases
for the next day. Then he would practice them in
precise detail in lucid dreams. He has a solid reputation
as a surgeon because of this, being able to refine
and polish his techniques and perform procedures
much faster than the average surgeon. |
• Greater
self-awareness: What are the deep-rooted
anxieties that fill you with unease? You can confront
them in the safe environment of a lucid dream and understand
what you need to do in your waking life to resolve
this issues and attain a higher level of peace
The benefits of lucid dreaming are far-reaching.
You can take on a new life in lucid dreams, free
of all your fears and inhibitions, confident that
you can do absolutely anything. This has a real positive
impact on your waking life. |
• Greater
self-control: Do you suffer from addiction
issues? Looking to lose weight, perhaps,Losing weight
is something that almost everybody would like to do
at some point in their life, both for health reasons
and for self image.or quit bad habits and pursue a
healthier lifestyle? When you control your dreams,
you can enter into a self-hypnotic state in which you
can retrain your own mind to adopt healthier behaviours.
Hypnotherapists recognize the value of dreams
for revealing information from the subconscious mind and
venting blockages and frustrations as therapeutic change
occurs. They know the power of an active imagination in
hypnosis and the waking state. Think how much more powerful
that active imagination can be in dreaming. Dream content
is as vivid and rich as perception during the waking state-in
fact, even more so. The dream world is multi-dimensional,
multi- textural, and so "real" that studies have
shown physiological response to take place as if the event
were actually happening.
Along with peacefulness and joy, lucid dreams
can provide mystical and transcendental experiences
to their dreamers. In this example a subject recounts
a profoundly spiritual lucid dream:
" Lucidity faintly pervaded the initial stage of the dream, was lost, but
then returned with brief but devastating clarity… I wandered off the road
into an open space where multitudes of people were assembled. Then, somehow,
sense of time and self were lost… and I couldn’t bear to leave that
bliss…but inexorably I was waking up (Green 51)."
This exhilaration is characteristic of most lucid dreams, and can
be therapeutic to the dreamer. The next example illustrates a subject
releasing stress in a dream; annoyed by a person she was having dinner
with:
" I realized with the utmost clarity that I was dreaming and could do exactly
what I wanted…The scene changed and I found myself in another room, walking
toward this woman… and we hugged each other (Green
134)."
Lana Del Rey - Once Upon A Dream (Music Video)
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• Fewer nightmares: Nightmares
are dreams where YOU are the victim. But when you control
your dreams, you are no longer the victim. You can turn
Freddy Krueger’s knife gloves into harmless butterflies
and chase him away with a baseball bat, should you so choose.
And if you have a recurring nightmare that has plagued
you for years, you can choose a different ending for it
and finally exercise the night-time demons that have been
haunting you for so long.
Nightmares
and Night Terrors: The Horror Movies of the Mind
Public speaking can be a nightmare for lots of
people. Does the thought of giving a speech at a
wedding or an after dinner party make your blood
run cold? Lucid dreaming is a great way to overcome
these obstacles. |
• Improved
memory: Do you ever wonder where all
your forgotten memories go? They’re still in
your brain — they’re just so deeply buried
your surface mind can no longer access them. But when
you lucid dream, you can relive those memories and
greatly expand your powers of recall.
• Better, more restful
sleep: Sleep issues are often the result
of residual stress and anxiety. But when you learn
how to lucid dream, you can resolve the issues that
are causing that stress and anxiety. Not only that — when
you spend your nights having incredible experiences
such as flying, exercising supernatural powers, shape-shifting
into whatever animal you want — you will be excited
to go to sleep each night because you will be so excited
to embark on your next nocturnal adventure.
Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state
that comes to you every night to have a stimulating
reality. Stephen LaBerge
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Fears and nightmares can devastate people to the point
that sleep becomes a painful association. With lucid dreaming,
you can face these fears and nightmares knowing that you
are safe and cannot be injured. Imagine also being able
to change elements of your dream in order to help you defeat
those nightmares.
What are the Advantages of Using CES for Lucid
Dream Induction?
The majority of users who have tried the CES method have found it
to be similar to Galantamine in terms of lucid dream inducing capabilities
and at times superior in terms of recovery of full cognitive ability.
It does not seem to stimulate the cholinergic system and hence has
no tolerance with Galantamine, Huperzine-A, Nicotine etc ... It does
not exhibit tolerance with itself from night to night and actually
appears to have a reverse tolerance effect if used frequently. Most
importantly, it appears to potentiate AcH boosting supplements. Finally,
it does not cause insomnia like Galantamine can. The CES method in
concert with supplements is about as close as anyone has come to
what a lot of people are looking for. Lucid dream induction on demand.
It also represents a viable alternative for those who have developed
an inter use tolerance to AcH boosting supplements, but who want
to continue to experience multiple lucid dreams per week source
BT
Plus
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•Higher energy levels:
This one follows naturally upon the last… If you
are sleeping better at night then you will be better rested
during the day. Not to mention that when you’ve spent
the whole night fighting off supervillains you will wake
up feeling supercharged and ready to take on anything the
waking world will throw at you!
One dreamer, after having a lucid dream said
that she was left with “ 'a feeling of bubbling joy'
that persisted for a week or more” (LaBerge 10).
Lucid
Dream Therapy As A Treatment For Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder:
Face Your Fears The
benefits of lucid dreaming are far-reaching? Conscious
dreaming allows you to face your fears in a controlled
setting. If you are afraid of heights, why not jump out
of an airplane? In the alternate reality of lucid dreams,
you can slow down time for a controlled fall, and float
gently to the ground. Once you have done this at 10,000
feet you will be surprised how you feel about heights in
the waking world.
How does it work? One explanation is
that dealing with a worst case scenario in a positive way
creates new neural patterns in your subconscious mind.
Reinforcing that belief with more experiences that seem
real can dissolve the fear altogether. From skydiving to
spyders *(Why not ask that spider what he represents? He
may give you an astonishing response that finally allows
you to rationalize your fear) you can face your fears and
reprogram your subconscious reactions, knowing that absolutely
no harm can come to you.
Practice a martial art As
any martial artist will tell you, repeated practice of
a martial art is essential if a high level of competence
is to be achieved. Your brain needs to learn the various
different forms and movements so that you can react to
a given situation instinctively and without thought. What
better way to go through your different fighting styles
and movements than in a lucid dream? In fact there is nothing
to stop you fighting with an opponent to improve your sparring
skills.
Break the bonds of reality. We live in a world full
of rules. What’s acceptable and proper, what’s
allowed or forbidden. Lucid dreaming lets you live
in a world run by your rules, so let your imagination
run wild.
• Learn how to fly in Dreams.
• Creative problem solving.
• Sexual encounters.
• Psychic powers.
• Traveling into space and exploring the universe.
• Meditate like a Zen momk
Dreams can carry over feelings into
the waking world – just as a
nightmare can induce stress into your
daily life, an inspirational dream
can keep you happy and motivated throughout
the day. Many people use lucid dreaming
techniques to give themselves that
needed kick to jumpstart their day.
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Solve life challenges
Problem solving is definitely possible in conscious dreaming. In a lucid
dream, you can get rid of traumas, phobia, anxieties, and a number
of other disorders; you can develop new skills, travel to fascinating
places, and so forth. Needless to say, conscious dreaming is the best
way to ensure that the subconscious part of your mind works for you.
But that's not all...
Transcendence:
Lucid dreaming demonstrates the fact that the world we
see is a construct of our minds. It forces us to look beyond
everyday experience and ask the question, "If this
is not real, then what is it?"
Dreams look real, but they're in your mind, so you
realize that the physical world is also a construction,
which shows that the mind can affect reality in more
ways than you can imagine. Stephen LaBerge
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Conscious dreaming is a fascinating experience. The realism
is amazing, yet you are in a completely safe and controllable
environment. It's against this background that you can
face your fears, enhance your creative problem solving
skills, improve your confidence and practice new skills.
That's not to mention the enormous fun that comes from
playing within your own virtual reality dream world and
how it relates to your own subconscious mind. Soon you
will see it is all interconnected - conscious and unconscious
- enabling you to use this playground for profound personal
growth and insights.
Lucid dreaming is a skill that anyone can develop with
motivation and effort. The enjoyment and benefits are well
worth it. What could you do with the third of your life
that is spent sleeping? How could you use it to benefit
the other two-thirds? Through lucidity the line between
the dream world and the waking world begins to blur, providing
unique opportunities to interact consciously with your
subconscious mind.
You might believe that dreams are the random sparks produced
by chemical processes in the brain, or symbolic worlds
in which we continually replay and re-examine the experiences
of our waking life, or gateways to a multi-dimensional
universe our feeble human minds can barely comprehend.
Whatever your thoughts on dreams, there’s no denying
that establishing a stronger connection to your subconscious
mind can result in huge benefits to your waking life — benefits
you would be crazy to ignore.
From early childhood, I was interested
in understanding how the world worked, and assumed
I would be some kind
of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was,
I didn't know there was another kind of world, the
inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more
relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. Stephen LaBerge
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The REM-Dreamer consists of circuit board tucked inside
the mask. The REM-Dreamer board includes LCD display. There
are two lines in the LCD. Upper line shows menu entry (for
instance: 1. Delay time), lower line shows value of parameter
of the menu entry (for instance: 00:10:00 of the delay
time).
There are 13 menu entries on LCD display:
1. Delay time.
2. Preset.
3. Flash brightness.
4. Sound volume.
5. Cue length.
6. Cue frequency.
7. Length of series of cues.
8. DreamAlarm.
9. TWC.
10. REM detector test.
11. Generated series of cues.
12. REM detector sensitivity.
13. Turn off the REM-Dreamer.
More about using the REM-Dreamer can be found in the manual
included with the device.
When only the best will do
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REM-Dreamer Pro
REM-Dreamer Pro is a new version of REM-Dreamer
which can record and play voice messages. The only
cues in the REM-Dreamer are flashing lights and beeps.
In addition, REM-Dreamer Pro can also play voice
cues with recorded message, for instance: "You
are dreaming". This type of cues is much more
effective than just flashing lights and beeps. REM-Dreamer
Pro plays voice cues after generating flashes and
beeps in the REM state.
REM-Dreamer Pro has its own small speaker
which is located on the board. REM-Dreamer Pro can
also be connected to an external speaker for louder
volume of audio, to a set of headphones or to our
special flat headphone designed for sleep (which
can be placed close to your ear). Thanks to that,
you will hear voice message without waking your partner.
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Other options
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Lucid
Dreaming Kit CD set
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