If the average person lives a life of about 75 years and sleeps

an average of 7 hours a night, they’ll have spent about 22

years asleep. It is possible to get more out of the 1/3 of our

lives we spend sleeping though the practice of lucid dreaming

and dream control.

Regardless of how well you remember your dreams, everyone

dreams. Studies show that we experience our most vivid

dreams during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep when the

brain is highly active. Large body muscles are relaxed, our

eyes move back and forth rapidly under the eyelids, and our

brain is very active during REM sleep. The REM sleep stage

occurs every 90-100 minutes, 3 to 4 times a night, and lasts

longer as the night progresses.

Often during a night’s sleep, I am very aware of my dreams

and easily recall my dreams in the morning. Lucid dreaming is

simply dreaming while being conscious and aware that you are

dreaming. Have you ever experienced this? While you’re

asleep, has it ever suddenly dawned on you that you are

dreaming? If so, then you have experienced a lucid dream,

regardless of whether you have been able to attain control of

or remember your dream.

During our dreams we sometimes experience a cue that we are

in fact experiencing a dream and not reality. Lucid dreaming

picks up on that cue, with patience and strength of mind, to

experience dreaming in a whole new way.

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Lucid Dreaming

So how is lucid dreaming helpful? Becoming aware that you

are dreaming gives you an opportunity to play with your

dreams and put them to work for you. Anything is possible in

your dreams and you’re not bound by any physical or imposed

restraints. The confines of your own imagination are the only

limitations to the possibilities of your dreams. Lucid dreaming

is also a valuable tool for inspiring creativity, problem solving,

and uncovering your hopes and sense of purpose in life.

To put your brain’s creative power to work for you during the

average 22 years of your life that you’re asleep, first consider

what you’ll dream about as you close your eyes. Think about

that topic as you drift off to sleep. Then, as soon as you wake

and before your feet hit the floor, keep your eyes closed as you

try to recall a dream. Record all that you remember in a dream

journal. Also, if you encounter lucid dreaming, relax and enjoy

it as if you’re watching a good movie and remind yourself that

you can remember all that you wish about your dream.

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