How To Experience A Lucid Dream
Lucid dreaming means dreaming while you know that you are dreaming. The term was first used by Frederik van Eeden who used the word “lucid” to describe mental clarity. With practice nearly anyone can experience lucid dreams.
Lucidity is not the same as dream control. It is possible to be lucid and have little control over the dream. However, becoming lucid in a dream is likely to increase your ability to deliberately influence the events within the dream. With practice you may extend the amount of control that you have over dream events. Many lucid dreamers choose to do something permitted only by the extraordinary freedom of the dream state, such as flying.
Some people have objections to lucid dreams. They say that it is un-natural and could be harmful to the psyche. In my opinion this is not true at all. Perhaps if all of our dreams were lucid and controlled there may be some harm, but with our lucid dreams spread out among many “normal” dreams we have plenty of time for non-lucid dreaming.
Edgar Cayce The Sleeping Prophet
Edgar Cayce was born into a farming family on March 18, 1877 near Beverly, seven miles south of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. From the age of 10 he would read the Bible from cover to cover once each year and his stated ambition was to be a preacher and healer.
In December 1893 the family moved to Hopkinsville and occupied 705 West Seventh, on the south-east corner of Seventh and Young Street. Edgar’s first jobs 1894 - 1898 were at Richard’s Dry Goods Store, then in Hopper’s Bookstore both located on Main Street. During this time he became engaged to Gertrude Evans his future wife who he married in 1903.
A Lucid Dreamer Is An Explorer
Our dreams are incredible worlds full of possibilities and wonder, yet most of us never realize more than a small fraction of our dream potential. With practice and self discipline anyone can achieve the lucid dream state. Once you become lucid you are limited only by your own imagination as to where you can go and what you can do. Lucid dreams can be a great way to work out issues, problems, decisions and to help you get in touch with yourself.
The dream world is not limited by physical laws or the limits of space and time. If you really think about it dreams are a wild frontier where new discoveries await all of us - if we will only look for them.
Have you ever had an Out Of Body Experience (or N.D.E.) or wondered what it was like to travel outside your own body? I am a dream traveler, not like a passive passenger on a bus but more like a tourist with a camera and a notebook looking for souveniers.
Dream Workbooks
The Dream Workbook: Discover the Knowledge and Power Hidden in Your Dreams
by Jill Morris
The more a person works with his dreams and incorporates his dream experiences into his waking life, the more he will discover all that he can be. That’s the premise of the 29 exercises in The Dream Workbook.
Jill Morris, a psychoanalyst who for many years has taught a dream workshop at Cooper Union in New York City, offers case studies and detailed guidelines to help the reader utilize “dreamwork” to solve problems, enhance creativity, resolve inner conflicts, learn new skills, and receive intensely pleasurable experiences. Readers learn how to:
- Recognize and interpret specific dream images and symbols
- Keep a dream journal and record the progress of self-discovery
- Uncover the hidden meanings of dreams
- Turn nightmares into sources of power
- Share dreams with a partner for enhanced intimacy and understanding
Nightmares
A nightmare is a dream of particular intensity and with content that the sleeper finds disturbing. They are usually associated with rapid eye movement (REM) periods of sleep, and may be accompanied by physical movements.
Up to about the eighteenth century, nightmares were often considered to be the work of demons, which were thought to sit on the chests of sleepers. Various forms of magic and spiritual possession were also advanced as causes. In nineteenth century Europe, the vagaries of diet were thought to be responsible. For example, in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol Ebenezer Scrooge attributes the ghost he sees to “… an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato…” In a similar vein, the Household Cyclopedia of 1881 offers the following advice about nightmares:
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