What is dream control? To too many sleepers, their dreams are only visions they get when they’re sleeping soundly, that they cannot control. Some are very nice dreams and some aren’t. We are starting to know that you can control your dreams, to the extent of being able to do what is called lucid dreaming.
But what is lucid dreaming and how does one do it? What are the benefits of being in the driver�s seat for these nocturnal journeys? Keep reading to find out more about the practice of dream control or lucid dreaming.
Exactly What is Dream Control?
Dream control, or lucid dreaming is when you are completely aware that you are dreaming while you are doing so � and in control of the events which take place within your dream. Even while your body is sound asleep, your mind knows that you are dreaming and you are in the director�s chair for the proceedings.
Dream control can be a great help to people who suffer from recurring nightmares. The simple, yet powerful technique of lucid dreaming can enable these people to get a full night�s sleep.
Common Techniques For Inducing Lucid Dreaming
Using binaural audio is a great way for reaching the lucid dream stage, through this you listen separate frequencies (in unison) for the purpose of getting the brain waves synchronized, which allows you to relax, and the stage where lucid dreaming is able to occur known as REM (rapid eye movement) sleep.
Before it was possible to find CD and DVDs of binaural audio, the primary methods used to induce lucid dreaming were self-hypnosis and meditation. While these both work very well, it takes time to develop these abilities far enough to reliably gain dream control.
Other than these methods, many others have been used by psychologists and sleep researchers. However the mind is trained to assert dream control, the object is the same � to enable the dreamer to realize that they are dreaming and to begin taking the reins of their dreams.
To accomplish this, it takes us being completely awake it start, with the secret being the ability to remember to either say something or do an action in the dream, which will bring on the appropriate realization in your mind and permit you to control the next events happening.
This can be as simple as telling yourself that you will be dreaming and that you will do or say a certain thing in the dream; which will tell you that you are dreaming, setting off a state of lucid dreaming.
This form of dream control training is called MILD (mnemonic induction of lucid dreams) and was developed by the scientist Dr. Stephen LaBerge. This mnemonic technique allows you to start using dream control to decide how your dreams will play out. Once you are lucid dreaming, there are no limits except for your own imagination!
Starting a dream journal can also help prepare you for lucid dreaming. Keep this by your bedside and as soon as you wake from a dream, write down everything you can remember from it. Once you have been doing this for a while, you�ll begin to start lucid dreaming � remembering is the first step to dream control.
You can beat back those nightmares, go anywhere, do anything and talk to anyone you want in these dreams. There are no limits except for your imagination to your dreams once you have mastered the techniques of dream control.
Experts warn though, that the one danger to lucid dreaming, is doing it too often can have adverse effects. The central reason being that dreaming naturally often informs us of critical things we would otherwise not know. Go ahead and have fun with lucid dreaming. It truly is an interesting experience, but always also let yourself have some times when you just dream regularly!
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