The Benefits of Lucid Dreaming

People often ask me if, apart from the obvious fun aspects of lucid dreaming whether or not there are more practical benefits.

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.

Here are a few.

Overcome Your Fears

Nightmares

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.

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.

Much of the fear in a nightmare is that of being hurt or coming to harm. You cannot be hurt when you are dreaming. That knowledge and empowerment gives many people the edge they need to finally put their nightmares to rest.

Social interaction

Many people have problems with confidence in social situations. Facing those situations in a lucid dream can sometimes help because your actions have no consequences.

Are you afraid of public speaking?

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.

Experiencing these situations, although only in a lucid dream can give you added confidence in the real world. Practicing time and time again in a safe little world of your own where nobody can ridicule or harm you can have astounding benefits.

Imagine standing in front of an audience of thousands and then getting up and talking. You can do this because you are in your world and in your world you can do ANYTHING!

Enhance Your Abilities

Improve your musical skills

As any musician will tell you ‘practice makes perfect’. As you will see later in this book, when we lucid dream our brainwave patterns are very similar to when we are fully awake.

This gives us the opportunity to practice things within our lucid dream that will carry through into our waking life. The same mental processes will take place just as though you were practicing in real life. This gives you a much larger scope for practicing because you are not restricted by ‘real life’ hindrances.

When you are lucid dreaming, there is nothing to stop you practicing a new instrument or trying to master a particular difficult piece of music. The very process of performing in your lucid dream will help you in the real world.

If you have a musical recital approaching, you could play a piece of music to a large audience in a lucid dream. The possibilities are limitless.

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.

When you become proficient at lucid dreaming there will be nothing to stop you fighting with Bruce Lee himself!

The ability to summon people into your dreams is covered later.

Lose weight

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.

One of the main problems with trying to lose weight is that eating for many people is habit based and not purely because they are hungry. Keeping the brain ‘satisfied’ as well as the appetite is an important part of weight loss.

This is where lucid dreaming comes in. Food cravings can cause people to eat unnecessarily. This excessive calorific intake is what causes weight gain in the first place. Fending off these cravings can help reduce calorie intake and therefore reduce weight.

When you have a food craving, simply tell yourself that you will be able to eat whatever you desire, but it will be later. Then when you have your next lucid dream, you can gorge yourself on as many cream cakes, doughnuts, hot dogs or anything else that you can think of. The trick is to make your brain think that the craving has been satisfied.

When you wake up after the dream, you will not feel ‘full’ physically, but you will feel ‘satisfied’. This technique has proven to be very powerful in helping people lose weight.

Creative problem solving

One of the more powerful uses of lucid dreaming is creative problem solving. There are numerous techniques that you can use to solve everyday problems whilst lucid dreaming.

Some people are even able to solve complex mathematical problems within a lucid dream whereas others often solve difficult electrical or mechanical design problems.

One very powerful technique is to use a dream character as a doorway to your subconscious. More on this later in the course.

As you can see, the benefits of lucid dreaming are far reaching and limitless. Those that do not know how to lucid dream are missing out on one of life’s greatest experiences.

Before we move onto Step1 of the lucid dreaming process, just to whet your appetite here are some of the things you will be able to do when you have acquired your newfound skills. You will learn more about these skills later.

• Learn how to fly.
• Creative problem solving.
• Sexual encounters.
• Magic powers.
• Walking through walls and windows.
• Traveling into space and exploring the universe.
• Meeting people who have passed away.
• Meeting famous people.

But why stop there? By the time you have completed the steps in this guide, you will be able to do anything that you can imagine. A whole new world will open up to you. A world in which you can do anything your heart desires!

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Magic powers.
Monday, 25 April 2011 09:35

mae

I don’t know if it was lucid dreaming but I just float into air usually when escaping from a monster or just for fun but most of the time I used it for escaping. I once have a good dream at the start and later it turns out to be a monster filled dream. Then I can remember clearly that I used fire coming out of my hands as my powers and floating too.Is this lucid dreaming?

Weight loss
Friday, 28 January 2011 01:27
Kate

I’m excited to get into lucid dreaming again. Recently I’ve developed this horrible habit of compulsive eating! Fingers crossed and hoping to chow down on some chocolate ice cream while walking on the beach with a perfect body… while I sleep!

might help.
Wednesday, 22 December 2010 23:02
Will

Amy, hope you see this some time. it sounds to me like you have some kind of unfinished problem with these people. you should meet them in a safer situation where they cannot touch you and talk to them. for example imagine yourself in a cafe with the person and a made-up councillor and talk through any problems.

Im not sure
Tuesday, 19 October 2010 03:11
Anon

last night i thought i might of had a lucid dream but im not sure because it felt so real but then again it didnt i was asleep but i could move everything i think it was confusing and cool at the same time by the way this was the first time i tried lucid dreaming

nightmares
Monday, 18 October 2010 00:40
draquel

“dream catchers” really do work, because having a dream catcher makes you feel secure. There is no easy way to put this,but if you dont think hat you willa have nightmares, you wont have them.
-you’re welcome.

Please Answer
Monday, 13 September 2010 13:41
Shaon

Just wondering…I remember when i was younger[which wasn't long ago] but i was able to see certain people in my dreams from my life. they didnt know that i dreamt of them but thats beyond the point. what if 2 friends gained the ability of lucid dreaming at the same time and were able to controle it. I don’t know the full possibilities of lucid dreaming which leadds up to my drawn out question…is there a way that those 2 people can meet up in the “Dream side” and because of their Lucid abilities, be able to remember it when they wake up?

musical skills
Sunday, 29 August 2010 06:26
sir

i tried in a dream before to play something on the guitar, but when i played those frets in real life, they were completely different. How can you just pick up an instrument and know the sound each note makes? You would need beyond perfect pitch for that.

alissa
Monday, 16 August 2010 18:47
today

is it possible to change from dream to dream like you can be with certain people and then they dissapear and your somewhere else… or you dream that you got bitten by a snake but you wake up and realize you just hit your self on the wall or something or in your dream your in the same spot u fell assleep the only difference is that the door is closed and then something scary opens it and when you wake up your sweaty… and the door is really opened

changing who you are in a dream
Monday, 19 July 2010 01:55
Ray

I wonder if during my lucid dream I could become a great inventor or see the future and apply what I know or see in my dream to real life situations. Everyone says you can do anything in your dreams so why not use that to your advantage. I’m sure I’m not the first person to think about this I just haven’t tried it yet. I wonder if there’s any science or any stories out there about people seeing or doing things in there dreams and then applying it to real life. It blows my mind thinking about the possibilities.

Lucid dreaming fun
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 02:54
Dannielle

I love having lucid dreams. I can remember almost every dream I have most nights. I love how much control you can have over it. Where you can send yourself and all the crazy things you can do. I recently tried to draw a cube on a piece of paper in my dream and it was pretty difficult. I can now do it with ease. I have solved problems and I can remove myself emotionally from situations. I just wish I could do that one part in real life. What a fantastic website.

invention
Wednesday, 09 June 2010 19:10
jon

ok im going to try to think of an invention and make millions and i will lucid what to do with it

monsters
Friday, 30 April 2010 04:16
ryan

if there is a monster in your nightmare, why wish it away when you can rip it in half and overcome your fear?

Wow
Thursday, 08 April 2010 04:00
Jake

I can’t wait to get a lucid dream. I’ve already thought up a list of things to do when I do get one. Instead of flying superman style, I think I’ll ride my bike and fly at the same time. It just sounds cool.

I can’t take it anymore,please help me!
Monday, 14 December 2009 01:16
Amy

I keep dreaming about people that have passed away.In my dreams they try to grab me,choke me,hurt me and when i wake up i actually have marks on my body that i could have not possibly made myself.

Nightmares
Friday, 27 November 2009 17:09
bh021552

I didn’t know it was “lucid dreaming”, but I discovered the ability 50 years ago to take control of nightmares. I threatened the monster with “waking up”, which stopped the attack. Had some fun with them more recently – flying.