Practising Lucid Dreaming As A Method Of Exercising Control Over The Subconscious
There is a common misconception that lucid dreaming is simply the result of spending too much time on Reddit - but in fact, it is a mental state that can be induced by practicing certain skills and focusing on making one's dreams controllable.
The term 'lucid dream' was first coined by Dutch psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden in 1913. Van Eeden described this type of dream as a vivid, realistic, and self-aware dream. He suggested that lucid dreams could be used in psychotherapy as a means of healing mental illness.
Van Eeden's theory was later supported by the work of Nathaniel Kleitman and his colleagues, who observed subjects for thousands of hours over many years. Their research revealed that lucid dreaming is a natural state that anyone can enter at will - it's just rarely remembered afterwards. The subjects were awake, but only conscious of their dreams when they were dreaming.
Since the early 1900s, lucid dreaming has been a subject of interest for psychologists and philosophers alike. Lucid dreaming is believed to be the state in which one is aware that one is dreaming. In other words, one can control their own dreams.
Since lucid dreaming emerged as a psychological phenomenon, people have used it as a tool for divination and self-improvement. Many people believe that lucid dreaming is the gateway to other forms of consciousness.
Although there are many techniques that can help to induce lucid dreaming, one of the most popular techniques is the 'Lucid Dreaming Method'. Originally developed by Stephen LaBerge and Howard Rheingold, it involves taking a gradual awareness of one's dreams as they happen and performing regular practice sessions. Subsequently, subjects are better able to control their dreams by recalling specific memories, or focusing on details that would affect their dream if they were still asleep.
As research shows, you can induce lucid dreaming by practicing the 'Lucid Dreaming Method' before you go to sleep. Once you've mastered the technique, regularly performing it will lead to lucidity in your dreams.
Practicing Lucid Dreaming As A Method Of Exercising Control Over The Subconscious
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I am sure many of you have already heard of the lucid dreaming technique. It has been around for a long time and is one that many people practice at some point in their lives. A big reason it is so popular is because it works. I took up lucid dreaming sometime during my first year of university, but after practicing the technique for a couple weeks I decided to call it quits, mostly because I felt like something was holding me back from fully achieving the benefits being able to lucid dream would offer me. It made me realize that I didn't have a desire to pursue for exercise as an art form. However, once I started to practice again, I realized that something wasn't quite right with the basic idea behind lucid dreaming.
No matter how many lucid dreams you have, there is always going to be one main thing standing in the way of your success: YOU. As much as you want to believe that you are a super genius when it comes to lucid dreaming, the truth is that you are just not good enough yet. The basic idea behind lucid dreaming is that you are able to have control over your subconscious - which is true. However, this process takes practice, and you must be willing to do whatever it takes to achieve it until that one day when you wake up and realize that it just suddenly happened because you were focused on something else entirely.
The truth is, there is so much that goes on behind the scenes in your dreams that it makes it almost impossible to believe that anyone could ever be able to control them. In fact, if you were to look at the information being processed by your brain while you sleep, it would be nearly impossible for you to understand that you are actually sleeping. Yes, this includes not only what happened in the past 24 hours of your life, but also everything that has happened for the past 20-25 years of your life. On top of that, you also have to consider the part of your brain known as the subconscious. It plays a huge role in your dreams and represents a huge portion of your memory. So much so, that it is actually the most important part to your dreams, because without it you would not be able to dream at all.
Your brain's subconscious weighs about three pounds, but yet it has enough information to fill up an entire universe. In addition to that, it has information from your memories and even your moods. It is constantly taking in new information from the five senses and analyzing it to decide what is most important for you to pay attention to at any one time. As a result, you are actually able to see, feel, taste and hear what is going on in your dreams - even if you are asleep. However, the problem with this is that your conscious mind goes into standby mode and allows the subconscious to take over while sleepwalking through life.
Conclusion
I would like to conclude this post by saying that it is not likely that you will become a lucid dreamer overnight. Taking the steps to become one will require the same amount of dedication and discipline as any other addiction. As a result, you need to be persistent in your efforts in order for them to pay off. Do not give up if you don't get results right away, as you WILL have moments when everything seems to just come together at once.