Ever wondered what it would be like to fly; to be able to just jump up in the air, and take off, effortlessly gliding around buildings, and up in to the blue skies above?
Ever wondered what it would be like to walk through walls, or go back in time?
Strangely enough, all this is possible through the bizarre art of lucid dreaming.
Lucid dreaming is the art of becoming conscious of the fact you’re dreaming, while you are dreaming. What most people don’t realise that the dream world seems every bit as real and as vivid as waking life, but without any of the troublesome limitations of the physical plane. All the five senses are stimulated and anything and everything is possible, and once you gain lucidity you have absolute power to shape every little detail of the experience; with God-like abilities to create, do, change and destroy whatever (or whoever!?) you like. If you’ve seen ‘The Matrix’ movies, it’s very much like the ‘construct‘.
The first step in learning the art of lucid dreaming is to develop sufficient dream recall to enable you to remember your dreams when you awaken. Stephen LaBerge, a Stanford University professor and one of the leading figures in lucid Dreaming research advises keeping a “Dream Journal”, where you jot down a few notes when you first wake up regarding the content of your dreams from the night. When I tried this exercise, I found at first I remembered very little about my dreams, but over time I gained much greater recall of my nightly adventures and eventually started remembering multiple dreams from different sleep phases in the night; and once you reach this point, the fun part starts – learning to Lucid Dream.
