Lucid Dreaming
Recently I've been interested in the topic of lucid dreams. Simply put, a lucid dream is (if you don't already know) a dream where you can sense, control, and create everything around you. Usually in dreams you can tell what going on but everything is all fuzzy and you have trouble remembering them in the morning. Well in a lucid dream thats not the case and everything in your dream is vivid and clear.
First, all of our dreams occur REM, Rapid Eye Movement. Have you ever noticed that in every dream you can remember you can't really tell where you are exactly and if you do theres something off. Well here's the reason why. Our concious mind while sleeping is not working very much but or subconcious mind is. The Subconcious brain takes all the information that we've ever experienced and rapidly creates the location, adds language, and a little bit of emotion as well. Even though our brain is working its not nearly as active as if we were in a lucid dream. Imagine if you had all the activity in a regular dream; location, speech, visuals, now add all of the senses, the ability to control your enviroment, and control your body like if you were in another universe. (Keep in mind all of this isn't cited and I'm not an expert. Just rambling.)
Now I know that sounds fancy and complicated but really it is. xD. I want to lucid dream for two main reasons. First, like I said, is to really feel a dream and experience it; truly. The other is a bit more complicated but definitely interesting. When you lucid dream your dreaming had in hand with you subconcious and the theory is if your in a nightmare lucid dream you can confront your fear(in the form of anything really), ask it what is represents, and turn it into something good. I have one big problem. Self Esteem. I want to lucid dream to confront this fear (in my head, I'm working on it phsyically) and get rid of it, forever.
This is my first "Topic Tuesday" post. I would appreciate it if you all could comment about something you liked or didn't like maybe a question about this topic or directly to me. Whatever you like, Como Quieres.
-Derin Charles Uras
I look forward to read more of your "Topic Tuesday" writings. This one is great! And I have heard about lucid dreaming; but I don't think it is easy to dream in such a way even if you work really hard. How do you work on that? What do you do actually? And one more question: is the concept of "lucid dream" valid for pyschology standpoint? What I mean is do credible pyschologists agree in such a concept?
ReplyDeleteI've read that some actually do but its not something thats researched professionally I dont think. Basically what you do to prime yourself is to constantly ask your self if your in reality or dreaming. Another really important one is to keep a dream journal. There are many more thing you can do like take certain vitamins or stare at your hands for an hour before you go to sleep but I'm sticking with the simple ones
DeleteCould you train yourself to lucid dream every night??
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ReplyDeleteLucid dreams are real, possible and some agree that you can train yourself to do it. One exception, during lucid dreaming you cannot control your environment.
ReplyDeleteI've heard otherwise but I have yet to expirience it so I wouldn't know the full truth.
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