How To Be Part Of Your Favorite Movies, TV Shows, And Books With Lucid Dreaming

Many of us are fans of certain film, book, and TV series, because of the worlds that they have and the characters that inhabit them. Whether it’s sci-fi, fantasy, or romance, or a bit of both, these fictional worlds are a draw to many people, but oftentimes they are only experienced on the media they are presented at: on the movie screen, on TV, or on paper. But what if there was a way to be part of these worlds, and experience what the characters do? Or even better, be a character in it as well? Well, you can, with lucid dreaming!

What is lucid dreaming?

Lucid dreaming is a dreamstate in which you are aware that you are dreaming, and as such have the ability to dictate what you will be doing and what you will be experiencing in the dream. Pretty much you are in control! And while some people use lucid dreaming to time travel, or even have lucid dream sex with people they are attracted to, fans of fictional worlds can opt to use lucid dream to be part of their favorite universes and experience them fully.

Some people do so as a character in the story, experiencing what other characters do. Others change the story to suit their desires (this is especially important for Game of Thrones lucid dreamers who have had their hearts broken way too many times due to slain characters) and others simply spectate and watch the story unfold from up close.

Regardless of how they want to use lucid dreaming, lucid dreamers who want to experience their movies, shows, and books, will be able to do so with enough practice.

Using soundscapes of different atmospheric textures to help create your ideal space setting, this album also uses frequencies from the Theta Range that promotes fantasy, imagery, creativity, access to the subconsciousness, and also frequencies from the Alpha Range that promote relaxation, dream enhancers and sleep aids.

Basic steps
Setting up this kind of lucid dream experience starts long before sleeping time. In fact, the more you reinforce your mindset, the higher the chances of getting the lucid dream you want. The steps below assume that you are already somehow experienced with lucid dreaming, but if you aren’t yet, read this basic guide to learn how to lucid dream.

1.)    Set your lucid dream intention early – To instill the idea of lucid dreaming your favorite fictional fantasy world, it is very advisable to start early in the day. This can be done a number of different ways, from simply constantly reminding yourself that “tonight, I will dream about…” to something more powerful like actually watching the movie or show or reading the book with a lot of focus. The options that will be available will vary depending on whether or not you have a busy day, so pick the right one for you. The most important thing is that the fictional world you want to experience is in your head already. Learn more about setting your lucid dream intentions in our previous discussion here.
2.)    Set your room up properly - No use having the lucid dream intention done for the day if your room will be a distraction in itself and pull you out of sleeping. Set your room up properly to induce lucid dreaming faster and better. Our basic guide on how to do this can be found here, but basically the idea is to drown out possible distractions (noise, lights, nosy roommates/neighbors) and to set the mood and environment (proper lighting, music, other sensory stimuli.) This will relax your mind and body better to have a lucid dream experience.
3.)    Perform your reality checks properly – Once you’re sleeping and dreaming, it is important to perform your reality checks ASAP. These are what will trigger the lucid dream. There are many ways to do reality checks, some of which can be found here in our guide. The faster you do a reality check, the sooner you can experience the dream the way you want to!
4.)    Relish the experience, confront the negatives – Once you’re dreaming, enjoy it! Do what you set out to do and do it well. But just like in any story, sometimes bad things happen, and a lucid dream can have nightmarish elements. Rather than scare you, do what your fictional heroes do: confront it! This can be part of the story as well.
5.)    Record your dream after – Just like a movie, tv, or book series, it’s impossible to finish everything in just one lucid dream experience. To be able to easily get back to your favorite fictional worlds, record your dreams in a lucid dream journal. This will not only help you remember and relive your dream experience during the day, you can also use it as part of your lucid dream intention as indicated in step 1!

There’s one more thing you can do to enhance the lucid dream experience -  use a binaural beats track for lucid dreaming to help induce the images you wish to see, like this one:

Using a complex series of binaural beat and isochronic tone frequencies, we have divided this music track into four parts. The first part will bring you into a state of deep relaxation, creative inspiration for imagery that you will use for your dreams, and introductory frequencies to help trigger lucid dreams. The second part starts in the Theta range and drops slowly down to the Delta, where deep sleep and lucid dream frequencies can be found. Here, you will have decreased awareness of the physical world and can give an awake awareness to your subconsciousness. The third and fourth parts will continue to flow up and down these Theta and Delta ranges, but focusing more on enhanced inner awareness and easy access to inner resources that will help create the dreamscape. In a spiritual level, these will help you seek inner peace and self-renewal.


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How To Unlock Time Travel Lucid Dreams With Binaural Beats

Time travelling is one of the holy grails of science. There are many hurdles that hinder time travel, like the possibility of paradoxes, split timelines, and of course, the process of time traveling itself. And while true, physical time travel is still out of our grasp, there is another alternative that anyone can try: time travel lucid dreaming!

What is time travel lucid dreaming?

Time travel lucid dream is experiencing a different time period very vividly in a dream, just like one will do in actual time travel (or at least how we imagine it.) Take note, this is very different from the concept of  astral projection time traveling, which we will discuss in a future post. Time travel lucid dreams are just that, dreams, but the vividness of the experience is truly something that everyone will appreciate, especially when it comes to time traveling!

The basics: starting lucid dreaming with lucid dream intent and binaural beats

Time travel lucid dreaming, first and foremost, requires the ability to lucid dream. We have discussed how to do this numerous times in our previous blog posts, and one of the best ways to do it is with the assistance of binaural beats. Binaural beats are tracks of music that rely on two tones of different frequencies to stimulate the brainwaves that govern different domains, like relaxation, creativity, learning, and more. When used in conjunction with lucid dreaming efforts, the brainwaves can greatly increase the chances of entering lucidity.

This is done by listening to the binaural beats track as one starts to sleep, using sleep-friendly headphones or earphones, although there are some binaural beats tracks that do not need these and simply need to be played on speakers.

Whatever the case, a binaural beats track for lucid dreaming can definitely greatly assist in lucid dreaming.

One thing that can also increase one’s chances in entering lucidity is setting a lucid dream intention. This not only conditions the mind to lucid dream, but also to lucid dream a specific way, and in this case, time travel lucid dreaming. Learn more about how to set a lucid dream intention in our previous blog post here. 

Next steps: initiating the time travel

Once you’ve achieved lucidity, it’s time to time travel! There are many ways to do this, depending on one’s creativity, lucid dream experience level, and the lucid dream intent set prior to sleeping.

1.)    Build your time machine – since you are in control of your lucid dream, you can actually build your own time machine in it! You may ask: “But I don’t know how to build a time machine because I have no idea of quantum mechanics and the space-time continuum!” Well, it doesn’t matter! As long as you know and believe that what you are building is a time machine, then it IS a time machine in your dream. It can be anything from a big, steampunk-like machine to just a box. But once you are done building the machine, you can already use it and travel back in time!

2.)    Enter a time portal – a time portal can be anything from a simple door, to a big mystical arch, or an ancient cave. This is similar in concept to building a time machine, but is much more streamlined. However, sometimes a lucid dream will not yield a suitable door or portal, so one might resort to building a time machine if necessary. Also, a time portal has no control of where and when you might end up, so be careful!

3.)    Reverse time with a clock or calendar – when you see a calendar or clock in your lucid dream, you can control its flow either by willing it to move forward or backward, or to fiddle with it with your fingers. But don’t do this too fast, or you may end up too far back or too far forward!

4.)    Lucid dream intention – done before sleeping, this method can immediately send you to the time period of your choosing when you enter the dreamscape. This is done by reading up or studying the time period you want over the course of a few hours or even a few days before your target lucid dream session.

Follow these steps, use the appropriate binaural beats track, and you can time travel in your sleep with ease in no time! This binaural beats track for lucid dreaming is one that you can use to achieve lucidity for time travel fast!  

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Dream Fitness: How To Use Lucid Dreams For Weight Loss

Lucid dreaming is a powerful tool for the mind. It allows the dreamer to take control of what they dream about, and have amazing experiences as they sleep. But as we discussed before, lucid dreaming is so much more than that. Such a power can be used for many different things, and one of them is something that many people are struggling with these days: fitness and weight loss. Sounds unbelievable that lucid dreaming can help you lose weight and get fit? Let’s explore the idea further.

First thing’s first – the dreaming process itself is not the only component of this method. While lucid dreaming an intense dream (such as a triathlon) causes the heart and respiratory system to react, and therefore burn some calories, it won’t be as much as actually doing a triathlon in the waking world. So if that’s the case, “what’s the point?” you might ask? The point is, it’s all about conditioning.

Diet through dreaming

There is a saying: you can’t out exercise a bad diet. And most of the time, a bad diet is because of intense cravings that people have for certain kinds of foods or dishes, whether their body actually needs it or not. There are many causes of mental cravings for food, from stress due to work or school, to a coping mechanism for sadness or loss, or just simple desire for something delicious. We’ll explore this more in a future discussion. But either way, the effects are the same: when we eat excessively beyond what our body needs, it stores it as fat, and we pack on the pounds.

Lucid dreaming can help in this by allowing our mind, a big component in the food craving, to be satisfied, without having to affect the body. How? By lucid dreaming about eating!

Many studies have shown that dreamers have felt lesser and lesser food cravings while they are awake by lucid dreaming about eating the dishes they desire, often in excessive numbers. There are a number of ways this is done.

1. Eating until satisfied – The dreamer dreams about the foods they want to feast on, and enjoys it in a manner that will satisfy their mental food craving. Once this is reached, they stop.
2. Eating until sick – The dreamer dreams about the foods they want, and eats excessively, until they are either sick of the taste, or simply too full to continue.
3. Eating with consequence – The dreamer eats what they desire, but then also dreams about the consequences of such action, like suddenly seeing their legs and bellies grow, or feel difficulty in walking or moving.

Either way, once the dreamer is up and awake, the association carries over in real life, whether it’s through simply satisfied food cravings, or actually being sick and scared of overeating. And this helps in curbing waking world gluttony.

Exercise through dreaming

Exercising, or the prospect thereof, can really turn some people off from fitness. Whether it is because the movements are hard and need getting used to, or that exercise just takes up too much time, this is yet another obstacle in getting fit. But lucid dreaming can help in that too, same as the diet.

A lucid dreamer who wants to exercise can start, or continue, their journey in the dream. For example, the dreamer started doing running as a fitness routine. If in real life they can only manage a mile or two, whether due to low energy, unpracticed movements, or boring scenery, in the dream they can go indefinitely and run in a landscape that is just breathtaking. But the benefit goes beyond that. In the dream, the dreamer can practice their running stride, practice proper breathing, and most importantly, condition their mind to actually enjoy the run instead of think of it as a laborious endeavor. When they wake up, the feeling carries over!

This can be applied for any exercise routine or method that is causing fear or anxiety to the dreamer. Fear lifting heavy weights? Lucid dream about how easy it can be. Don’t like the idea of doing martial arts? Lucid dream about being trained by Bruce Lee! Once the mind is conditioned to not just tolerate, but actually enjoy exercising, the effects will ripple out in the waking world. And remember: the exercise in the dream also causes the body to react, so it also burns calories on its own!

Whether dieting or exercising via lucid dreaming, the effects can be enhanced even further by listening to a binaural beats track for exercise and getting fit, like this one: 

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Meditation for Physical Performance

We previously discussed how meditation can help in business, whether as a business owner, a manager, or as an employee. But the same benefits that businesses can enjoy from meditation, also translate to one’s physical performance, whether in sports or just recreational activities. In fact, meditation is now being integrated into sports training programs offered by different trainers, just like how binaural beats are being used as part of mental conditioning. It is a logical path to take, seeing as how an athlete or a fighter cannot win if they are already mentally weakened by different factors. And this is where meditation comes in.


Not a new concept

Meditation for physical performance is actually not a new concept. In fact, it is perhaps as old as the idea of meditation itself! In ancient times, warriors would spend time focusing their thoughts and emptying their mind of fear and distraction in order to be better fighters. In times of peace, the same ancient warriors who compete in friendly competition did the same before a match. While the process done by our ancient ancestors does not exactly fit the idea of meditation as we know it today, the fundamentals, and the results, were the same, although back then, it was understood as a spiritual effect. In modern times, many athletes refer to the time they spend alone, in silence, before a match, as “being in the zone” without realizing that they are actually tapping into the principles of meditation.

Eventually, athletes and their trainers discovered scientifically why meditation worked in training the mind to function properly during an athletic or physical performance. Russians started the idea of “neurogenic conditioning” in which the nervous system of athletes were deliberately trained and conditioned in order to improve their functioning, and part of this training included meditation.


Why it works

Aside from the aforementioned benefits of brainwave therapy through meditation we previously discussed, wherein meditation helps produce brainwaves in the right amounts to achieve different results, meditation done for sports or other physical activities conditions the mind the same way muscle memory training conditions the body.

A mind that is full of doubt and other thoughts that can impede the functioning of a bodily process can cause that said process to not be executed at 100%, resulting in sub-par performance. But emptying the mind of those doubts and distractions is not simple and easy, and can only be done by constantly practicing meditation, whose effect is to remove all unnecessary thoughts to achieve a state of relaxation and peace.

But why does the mind being empty help in physical performance?

Because it allows the mind to use up all its capacity to command the body to perform at its fullest.
Picture this. Have you ever tried cutting a piece of paper down a straight line with a pair of scissors, only for the cut to be crooked whenever a random thought enters your head, or you suddenly have a doubt about your next movement?

That is how meditation can help the athlete. Regular practice of meditation allows the athlete’s mind to stay solid and be calm regardless of whatever scenario it is put in. This is most especially valuable in high pressure events, wherein the slightest self-doubt or the smallest distraction can mean the difference between losing focus and losing, or staying focused and winning.

But as mentioned above, it is not just beneficial to athletes. Soldiers, policemen, emergency services personnel, doctors, dancers, firefighters, and all the other professions that require a lot from the body’s capabilities to perform, can benefit from meditation.


How is it done?

Traditional meditation methods are the most common ways to practice meditation for physical performance. Usually done before or after a training session, and before an event, one can find a nice quiet place to stay in, sit down, and perform the basic meditation techniques we discussed in our previous post, by focusing on slow, deep breaths, and trying to empty the mind.

But there’s another form of meditation that can be done by athletes: having a mantra.

Having a goal as a mantra, and repeatedly thinking about it as one practices, aids in mental conditioning and helps clear the mind when that specific action is done. For instance, a coach makes a comment to a basketball player’s jump shot, telling him to “roll the ball” as they release it. Constantly repeating “roll the ball, roll the ball” in the mind during practice, can have dramatic results.


Not just for athletes

Meditation employed in this manner is not just for athletes. Anyone who enjoys any physical activity, and wants to be better and better at it, can use meditation to reap its benefits. So start meditating today! Listen to this binaural beats track for meditation to motivate and promote positivity and success, and improve your performance ASAP!

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How Dreams Changed The World

Dreams can yield fantastic imagery (or sometimes terrifying, depending on what you dream about) and to most, the images simply vanish into memory, or in a dream journal to be enjoyed sometime later. However, dreams do more than just make us experience things that are beyond our reality. They can also be a source of creativity and ideas, and in some cases, the ideas from these dreams changed the world. This is why the phrase “it came to me in a dream” is popular in pop culture.


Scientific Advancement From Dreams

Our world has achieved much when it comes to the scientific field, but many people don't realize that many of these advancements came to the scientists in the form of dreams!

The Scientific Method, the process in which science gets to prove or disprove principles and theories, was thought up by Rene Descartes, famous mathematician and philosopher, through a dream that was composed of ghosts, storms, a room full of sparks and thunder sounds, and a peaceful room, with a book that had nothing but one line in it: “What path shall I take in life?” He interpreted this as a calling to find out how to man should think about the universe he is living in, and came up with the Scientific Method followed by scientists to this day.

Other scientists that made advances in the field of science through dreams include Albert Einstein, who came up with the famous Theory of Relativity after it came to him in a dream about electrocuting cows. It is said that in his dream, a farmer had an electric fence where cows were standing, and when he turned it on, he saw the cows jump away from the fence one by one in a wave motion. From there, he put two and two together and realized that things appear differently for different people depending on where they are due to the time it takes for light to reach them: the Theory of Relativity.

And Freidrich Kekule von Stradonitz discovered Benzene -a chemical that not many might be too familiar with, but actually encounters everyday because it is used in the production of fuel, rubber, leather, and so on- after dreaming about snakes. It is said that Kekule went for a nap and dreamt about snakes, who surrounded him and formed themselves into a hexagon shape, which upon waking up, he realized was actually what the benzene molecule was shaped like.

There are many more examples of inventions in the field of industry to medicine to information technology, from Elias Howe's dreaming of being stabbed leading to the invention of the modern sewing machine, to Larry Page dreaming about downloading the entire World Wide Web and coming up with the idea of Google!


Works Of Art

It is quite common for artists to be more associated with creations from dreams, what with the fantastic imagery of their creations often being reminiscent of what one could see from dreams. But some works of art truly shaped the landscape, without whom our world will truly look different today.

The field of science fiction first came to life with the work of Mary Shelley you might be familiar with: Frankenstein. Many consider her to be the mother of science fiction, and her famous work is said to have come from a dream. Or in this case, a nightmare. It is said that she saw a hideous humanoid looking creature in this nightmare, utterly terrifying and like a mockery of life itself. The image was so powerful that it continued to scare her even after she had woken up, and she decided to write it down, thinking that what scared her would definitely scare others. Thus, science fiction was born.

As well, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, struggled with a plot for his story, and is said to have come up with the idea when he dreamed a particular scene involving a window, split in two, showing Mr. Hyde actually undergoing his infamous changing process in front of police. This is an important breakthrough in literature as it set a new genre of the struggle between good and evil inside protagonists, of which many modern stories have derived their ideas from.

Another famous name in the field of literature, HP Lovecraft, is said to have come up with the name “Necronomicon”, a famous book in his stories, when he heard the name spoken to him in a dream.

One of Dali's most famous works

But not all works of art came in the form of nightmares. Salvador Dali was fascinated by the images that occur between the sleeping and waking states, and actually experimented with numerous methods to conjure up the images he is known for, an art genre called Surrealism. One way he would do it is he would put a tin plate on the floor, sit beside it while holding a spoon over, and relax. Images would then appear in his mind as he was about to fall asleep, and when the spoon fell on the floor creating a loud sound, he’d be woken up and he’d capture what he saw.

And then there are musicians like John Lennon and Bob Marley, among many more, who came up with their fantastic pieces of music and their message of hope and love through their dreams..

These are just a handful of examples of breakthroughs that came about through dreams. So don't let your dreams pass by without writing them down on your journal! You will never when your dream might lead to something bigger. As well, improve the experience of your dreams with this binaural beats tracks for dreams!

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Reality Checks And Building Awareness: Triggering Lucid Dreams

In the past we have given some tips on how to start lucid dreaming through preparation of the room and through the use of binaural beats. But ultimately, once inside your dream, it is important that you recognize that you –are- dreaming, and not really awake, in order to start the lucid dream experience. This is important because dreams can be so vivid that you may accept it as reality, only to realize upon –truly- waking up that something was amiss in what you experienced, and that it was a dream instead! This is where reality checks come in.


What are reality checks?

Put simply, a reality check is an action or trigger that will help you distinguish between the dream world and reality. This is because the normal sensory experiences we have in the real world are not enough, because in a vivid dream, they are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing! There is a need for something more for the mind to know whether it is awake or it is dreaming, and that is what a reality check is.

Usually, it is something very simple, something easily recognizable in the real world, but will yield a different experience in the dream world. When your mind realizes that the reality check does not match what happens in reality, this is usually when it accepts that it is dreaming, and triggers the start of the lucid dream experience.


How to do a reality check

The reality check starts, as with everything about lucid dreaming, with the mind. More specifically, the mind doubting whether or not what it is experiencing is real. “Is this a dream? Am I dreaming? Or am I awake?” are very potent questions that, once the mind is trained to ask, can make the act of doing a reality check much easier.

Once your mind begins to “doubt” what it is experiencing, perform a reality check. There are many ways to do a reality check; below is a short list the most common and most effective reality checks

1. Check normal body functions – can you hold your breath without difficulty? Are you having trouble seeing or hearing things, or actually see or hear better? What do your hands and arms look like when checked up close? A common practice is to try to push a finger through the palm of the other hand. Does it go through? If the answers to these questions are not what you’d normally answer when you’re awake, you’re dreaming! 
2. Recognize words/numbers – attempt to read something –a book, a clock, anything you might think are words on numbers-. Try to perform basic arithmetic, or answer very basic questions. If you cannot or are having much difficulty doing so, you are in a dream!
3. Recall common information – try recalling your own mobile number, or home address, or your license plate. If you are awake, this will be easy. But because the part of your brain that controls this is shut off when you’re asleep, if this becomes a near impossible task, you are dreaming.
4. Break the laws of physics – check your feet and see if you can will yourself to hover or fly. If not, jump up and see if you’ll float back down instead of fall normally. Try to lift the first thing you see, and check if there’s weight, or if you need effort to do it. If you feel like you’re starting to turn into a superhero, you’re in a dream!

When to do a reality check and building self-awareness

As a basic rule of thumb, you do a reality check when you feel like it. If you feel like something is wrong or out of place, and have even a small inkling of doubt whether or not you’re awake, perform a reality check. Even if you feel like you’re absolutely positively sure you’re awake, if you feel doubt, perform a reality check.

What this does is it reinforces in our minds what is real, and also makes it second nature for us to doubt and check our reality on a regular basis. Not only does this increase your self-awareness, and awareness in general, in the real world, this habit will also be carried over in your dreams. And this is when it becomes easier and easier to use reality checks as a key to unlock and start lucid dreaming.

To be used to doing reality checks, set triggers that will remind you to do so. A popular and effective way is to do a reality check when you do habitual actions, like when you check your phone, or open your bedroom door, or step out of the house. Any event that you do regularly can be a trigger for you to spend 1-2 seconds of your time on doing a reality check.

If that isn’t enough, you can also remind yourself via notes. Place a note on your door, or your steering wheel, or your laptop or book.

Despite all these things, however, sometimes reality check will fail, and this is not your fault. It simply means either your will to do a reality check isn’t as strong yet, or the dream is so powerful and vivid that it is almost more real than reality itself, which can alter the results of your checks. If this is the case, just go with the flow until something happens that will reveal the dream. And when that happens, do a check again, and keep doing so until you enter the lucid dream state!

To help you strengthen your reality checks, listen to this binaural beats track to increase awareness.

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Is Lucid Dreaming Dangerous?

Lucid dreaming is one of the most amazing experiences one can ever have. We have discussed how to prepare for lucid dreaming, and what to expect when lucid dreaming, with the latter including an insight on possibly encountering sleep paralysis, and how to deal with it should it happen. Sleep paralysis can be a frightening experience, and while it does not pose any physical danger, many people are turned off from trying lucid dreaming because of it. In fact, many people are fearful of lucid dreaming because of all its alleged risks, some of which are even claimed to be fatal. But is lucid dreaming really dangerous?

No. From a physical and physiological standpoint, lucid dreaming is not dangerous.

In fact, some scientific experts have shown that lucid dreaming (more specifically, lucid nightmares) is a very good way to help people deal with their own fears, and is a good treatment for regular nightmares. Being in control of dreams gives people the capability to be more confident in facing their fears, because despite experiencing terror, the phrase “this is just a dream, nothing will hurt me” is ingrained in the dreamer, and will allow them to face their terrors in safety, thus conditioning their mind and having that carry over in their waking lives.

Having said that however, there are some concerns that people often raise and need to be addressed.

Here are 3 of the most concerning.

Lucid Dreaming Concerns

1.) Death in the dream – One of the most terrifying and controversial concerns is about what happens when you die in your lucid dream. Many claim that dying in a lucid dream causes you to die for real, or stay in a “lucid dream limbo” where you can be asleep for days, weeks, or even months, and if you eventually wake up, a long time would have passed and you wouldn’t even know it.

This is false. Dying can happen in dreams; have you not died in a non-lucid dream before, only to wake up in yet another dream, or wake up entirely? That’s precisely what will happen. Granted, dying in a lucid dream may truly be a terrifying experience, with everything being very vivid, but the dream itself will not physically kill you. Oftentimes, claims that people who have died in their sleep was due to dying in their dreams have turned out to be false as autopsies would often reveal other causes of death.

This is when the dreamer’s physical factors come into play. People with a pre-existing condition, especially heart problems, may suffer from side-effects, the same side-effects one may feel with actual traumatic fear when they are awake, like tightening of the chest or shortness of breath.  It is these conditions that may cause physical effects, not the dream itself.

There is also a concern about astral projection and what happens when the silver cord is cut, but this is an entirely different topic and will be discussed in a future article.

2.) Dissociation and blurring the lines of dreams and reality – Lucid dreaming can be very vivid, and can feel very real. Some people claim that doing lucid dreams blurs the lines between what’s real and what’s not, and may cause people to experience dissociation and being unable to live normally, having different expectations from the real world. This is a legitimate concern but one that is easily addressed by being well-informed and well-practiced.

The issue arises when people who have had no ability to remember their dreams before are all of a sudden thrust into remembering dreams due to lucid dreaming, and now have memories that they previously never had upon waking up.

One way to keep the distinction between dreams and reality is keeping a dream journal, which we discussed in a previous blog post. When a dreamer is unsure about what is real and what is not, consulting the dream journal can help. And in time, and with regulated exposure to lucid dreaming, distinguishing dreams from reality will be easier and easier.

But for the most part, people with an average, healthy mental constitution will almost always be able to distinguish memories from dreams and those from reality very easily.

3.) Dream addiction – Another concern is that people may end up wanting to just sleep their lives away and spend most of their time in lucid dreams. This is because of the amazing and fantastic possibilities of lucid dreaming, one that may be used as an “escape” from reality similar to how drugs are used by addicts.

There is a problem with this, because the body cannot always physically continuously sleep that long and that frequently. The body can only have a limited time of REM sleep (roughly around 100 minutes), which is something that most people do not exceed. Remember, dream sleep is different from regular sleep, and just because you will sleep for 8 hours a day, doesn’t mean you’ll dream for the same amount. And once your body has gotten its required sleep, it will be very hard to go back to sleep again, let alone go and get REM sleep again.

There are other concerns about lucid dreaming, those that are more controversial and supernatural, which we will tackle in a future blog post.

As with everything, the best way to deal with concerns about lucid dreaming is through proper information and proper training. Don’t plunge head on into lucid dreaming without studying it properly, and preparing yourself mentally, emotionally, and physically.

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Keeping a dream journal

5 Common Dreams And Their Meanings

We have shared numerous tips on how to start lucid dreaming, and what to expect in lucid dreaming once you do. But lucid dreaming requires practice, and in your quest to learning how to lucid dream, often you’ll end up going to sleep and experiencing regular dreams, like the ones you’ve been having before. You may experience a lot of things in these dreams, but have you ever wondered what those dreams mean? There are a multitude of dream scenarios, and each one has a meaning, but here we’ll discuss just the 5 most common dreams and what they mean.

1. ) Flying – perhaps the most common and most euphoric dream of all, flying is said to represent freedom, escape from troubles anxieties, and unleashing one’s potential and creativity. Many people wake up from a flying dream very motivated and empowered to do a lot on that day due to this. However, a flying dream that is difficult (such as flying low and being caught by tree branches or being lost in buildings, or flying slow as if swimming in molasses) may symbolize a personal hurdle or problem that is holding your back from your full potential.

However, here are many other levels of the flying dream, like flying fast, flying out of control, flying but full of fear, and so on, that may mean many different things, which we will discuss in detail in a post specifically about flying soon.

2.) Showing up naked – a dream like this usually starts like a false awakening: you wake up, go about your routine, and show up at school or at work. All of a sudden, you see people looking at you weird, and lo and behold, you look down or we look at a mirror and see yourself naked! This dream symbolizes vulnerability, anxiety, and lack of security, especially when you experience embarrassment when it happens. This may also mean exposing your true self, which is often the case when the dreamer is used to putting up a façade in front of other people.

3.) Losing teeth – this dream is mostly if not always an unsettling experience. Like showing up naked, it can happen at any moment of any kind of dream, but when it does, it is often accompanied by feelings of dread and fear and loss of confidence and capability. And that is the most common interpretation of this dream. Many people see teeth as symbolic of our ability to live (using teeth to eat our food) and be beautiful (our smile), and when our teeth fall out we feel like losing both. When the dreamer tries to gather or the falling teeth and return it in the mouth, it is symbolic of exerting effort to repair what they feel they are starting to lose in order to regain confidence and the ability to live or survive.

4.) Taking a school exam or making a school project – this dream usually ends up with the dreamer rushing to go to school to take an exam or trying to pull an all-nighter to finish a school project, often only to find out they shouldn’t doing either at all! This is often the case with people who have long finished school and yet are still having these dreams. Many interpret this kind of dream as either a reminder to remember a lesson from the past that can be applied today, or as a trigger to perform a self-evaluation to be a better person. On a more practical sense, this kind of dream symbolizes being focused on work or school, and is often induced by stress and pressure.

5.) Being chased by monsters/animals/a mob/anything – one of the more terrifying dreams, often inducing very real fear and dread, being chased can pinpoint actual problems in our lives. That is because being chased is symbolic of the dreamer escaping or running away from things that need attention, often represented by the things chasing the dreamer. It can be anything from a mob of people, to wild animals, and even aliens and ghosts and monsters. It is said that sometimes the dreamer will have a good idea what needs to be addressed as soon as they wake up even if they didn’t know prior what the chasers are representing.

These are just five of the most common dreams and their meanings. There are literally a multitude more dreams, and we will be discussing more of them soon in future updates. For now, listen to this binaural beat track for relaxation to help induce better dreams.

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Keeping A Lucid Dream Journal: Basic How-To And Benefits

Lucid dreaming is an amazing experience that anyone can have and enjoy if they know what lucid dreaming is about, how to prepare for a luciddream, what to expect from lucid dreaming, and what to do in a lucid dream. But what should you do once the lucid dream ends? What post-dreaming benefits will you gain from lucid dreaming? This is where a lucid dream journal comes into play.

Your Mind’s DVR

A lucid dream journal is simply your way of recording what you have seen, felt, experienced, and done in your lucid dream. Many people have amazing normal or lucid dreams and enjoy the experience while it is happening, but moments after they wake up, it is lost, and they struggle to recapture the amazing feelings all throughout the day. It can be quite a loss to feel that, so the best solution to be able to relive it is to record it ASAP!

Fortunately, it is quite easy and fun to record your lucid dreams; it can even be the first thing you do for your daily routine. And like any skill, the more you do it, the better you become at it, and the more you can enjoy the benefits of the lucid dream journal!

The Basics

We’ll have a more detailed guide on how to use a lucid dream journal to record your dreams in a future blog post, but for now, here’s what you need to know and what you should have:

1. Have a notebook, notepad, or actual diary (with a pen of course!) ready to record your dreams by your bedside within reach. It is important you can easily grab your journal as soon as you wake up because your dreams will start fading at that moment, so be quick!
2. As soon as you wake up, write everything you can remember. It is best to write them in the present tense so you keep the “moment” experience when you read them back.  Be sure to add as much details as you can. Don’t think about grammar or spelling. Don’t correct anything! Write things down!
3. Draw what you saw. It doesn’t matter if it’s stick figures or if it looks like a 3 year old made it. Dreams are mainly visual after all, and this will help you recall your dream when you read back.
4. Don’t skip a dream day. Write it down every time you dream, whether it’s a normal dream or a lucid one. This will train your mind to do it.

Oh, one more thing. It is important to have a dream anchor, something that will trigger your mind to remember your dream when you wake up. To do this, simply select an object in your room before you sleep and tell yourself that that object will make you remember your dreams. Always look at this object before you sleep, if you wake up in the middle of the night, and of course, upon waking up. Training your mind to do so will associate that object to your dreams, making you remember better!

The Benefits Of Keeping A Journal

The main benefit of keeping a journal is improving dream recall, and extending the experience of the dream into reality. Just like how re-reading a book or re-watching a favorite movie evokes the feelings felt when experienced the first time, only more potent and personal. This is most especially important with lucid dreams, as lucid dreams are of your own conscious creations, and like any work of art, you don’t want it to go to waste!

Another benefit is training your mind to be able to revisit your previous dreams, or at least, the theme of said dreams. Have you ever experienced dreaming about very similar places and experiencing very similar things over the course of your life? Imagine being able to consciously go back to those dream places when you lucid dream. The journal, with its records of details, will help you with that.

And finally, it also helps expand your mind. Making effort to recall your dreams, and the skills and the knowledge you have gained in those dreams, makes your mind stronger, its reach bigger than before. Think of it like bodybuilding, but for your brain. And the stronger your mind gets, the more potent your dreams and the potential they carry can be.

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