Finally we have arrived to dreams which are more on the lighter side –
Lucid Dreams. What is a Lucid Dream? A Lucid Dream is having a dream where
the dreamer is totally conscious of what is going on. Basically this means
being awake while you are dreaming. In these types of dreams, anything is
possible and unlike the previous types of dreams, lucid dreams do not fall
in so much to tragic experiences because the dreamer can create their own
dreams just from imagining their ideal scene.
Lucid dreams come in three forms:
* Dream-initiated lucid dream
* Wake-initiated lucid dream
* Mnemonic-initiated lucid dream
A dream-initiated lucid dream happens during the state when the dreamer is
having a dream and then realizes that they are dreaming. It is kind of
like dreaming and then waking up but you're still in a dream, not having
"really" woken up yet.
A wake-initiated lucid dream is when one goes from being awake to falling
asleep, but when they fall asleep, they are still awake, and the dream
begins as they are awake. So it is basically a transition between being
conscious while being awake and then being conscious while dreaming.
A mnemonic-initiated lucid dream is one is confident that they will have a
lucid dream in the upcoming dream. This could mean that they fall asleep
and know they somewhere in the dream, they will come back alive conscious
again. It is not randomly processed, but is done through repetition,
someone like when a hypnotist can tell the mind when something is going to
happen.
Below are some dreams of people who describe their lucid dreams. These
lucid dreams are from a book called Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
by Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D. & Howard Rheingold.
Case Examples of Lucid Dreams
1. I realized I was dreaming. I raised my arms and began to rise (actually
I was being lifted). I rose through the black sky that blended into
indigo, to deep purple, to lavender, to white, then to very bright light.
All the time I was lifted there was the most beautiful music I have ever
heard. It seemed like voices rather than instruments. There are no words
to describe the joyI felt. I was very gently lowered back to earth. I had
the feeling that I had come to a turning point in my life and I had chosen
the right path. The dream, the joy I experienced, was kind of a reward, or
so I felt. It was a long, slow slide back to wakefulness with music
echoing in my ears. The euphoria lasted several days; the memory forever.
(A.F., Bay City, Michigan).
2. I was standing in a field in an open area when my wife pointed in the
direction of the sunset. I looked at it and thought, "How odd; I've never
seen colors like that before." Then it dawned on me: "I must be dreaming!"
Never had I experienced such clarity and perception – the colors were so
beautiful and the sense of freedom so exhilarating that I started racing
through this beautiful golden wheat field waving my hands in the air and
yelling at the top of my voice, "I'm dreaming! I'm dreaming!" Suddenly, I
started to lose the dream; it must have been the excitement. I instantly
woke up. As it dawned on me what had just happened, I woke up my wife and
said, "I did it! I did it!" I was conscious within the dream state and
I'll never be the same. Funny, isn't it? How a taste of it can affect one
like that. It's the freedom, I guess; we see that we are truly in control
of our own universe. (D.W., Elk River, Minnesota).
3. One night I was dreaming of standing on a gentle hill, looking out over
the tops of maples, alders, and other trees. The leaves of the maples were
bright red and rustling in the wind. The grass at my feet was lush and
vividly green. All the colors about me were more saturated than I have
ever seen.
Perhaps the awareness that the colors were "brighter than they should be"
shocked me into realizing that I was in a dream, and that what lay about
me was not "real." I remember saying to myself, "If this was a dream, "I
should be able to fly in the air." I tested my hunch and was enormously
pleased that I could effortlessly, and fly anywhere I wanted. I skimmed
over the tops of the trees and sailed many miles over new territory. I
flew upward, far above the landscape, and hovered in the air currents like
an eagle.
When I awoke I felt as if the experience of flying had energized me. I
felt a sense of well-being that seemed directly related to the experience
of being in a lucid dream, of taking control of the flying. (J.B.,
Everett, Washington).
As you can see from the above, Lucid dreams can offer the dreamer more fun
than he or she usually has when entering a normal dream state. How many
dreams have you had when you woke up and gone through the day totally
unaware of what dreams you have had? To me, and to many others, it would
be interesting to see what types of dreams we have in the moment of
dreaming and remembering with vivid clarity, what we've dreamt the night
before.
In the last past week, we have gone over many dreams in which were totally
absurd to totally mind blowing. All this stuff is possible through lucid
dreams, such as having telekinesis like moving objects with your mind or
supernatural abilities such as flying at the speed of light across the
earth. In the next post, I will explain how one can have a lucid dream and
conclude this series with how we can enlarge consciousness through our
dreams.
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