Lesson Four – Entering the Lucid Dream World

The Astonishing Lucid Dream

The things you can do during a lucid dream are virtually endless. Lucidity is the jewel of the dream world, the golden key of the subconscious mind and the paradise of fantasies. With practice, you can have ultimate pleasure, mind-boggling fun, breathtaking relationships, immense understandings and incredible problem solving skills. Once you learn to become the master of your dreams, the items mentioned above will just become a matter of falling asleep. What an incredible gift, indeed!

Your First Lucid Dreams

Now that you have some control over waking up too soon during a lucid dream and the ability to recognize false awakenings, you can remain lucid and start experimenting with the lucid dream world. During one of my first lucid dreams I decided to fly. Flying is a fairly common desire for beginning lucid dreamers. So, I laid down on the ground and spread my arms out like an airplane. Bare in mind that up to this point I’ve never been one to enjoy being on top of tall buildings and looking down. Skydiving has never been on my list of desires. I decided to start out by flying low to the ground. I flew around my neighborhood about six feet above the ground for several minutes. I bumped into a few things and even crashed a few times, but eventually I had a fair amount of control. I even stopped when I came to street intersections. It was strange how I still observed safety even though I was completely lucid. This was because this was very new to world to me. It didn’t take long in future dreams before I was flying higher and higher until I was above the telephone poles and was swooping up and down at will. My point is that it takes time to become adjusted to the lucid dream world. However, there are some people that have a natural talent to progress very rapidly in controlling their dreams.

While lucid dreaming, things are happening like in non-lucid dreams, but the difference is that you now have the power to change the course of the dream and basically do whatever you want. For example, during another early lucid dream, I encountered a group of guys that I knew were going to attack me. Well, I could have probably just controlled them to become nice guys, but I thought it would be more fun to teach them a lesson. I decided to show off some of my devastating Kung Fu moves, which I most certainly don’t possess while awake. At first, I wasn’t having a great deal of success. I became frustrated and almost woke up. I tried hard to remain calm and soon, I was jumping, kicking, spinning around and attacked my unwelcome dream muggers just like you may have seen in a movie. I knew that I wasn’t really hurting anybody so what the heck! They immediately retreated like cowards. I woke up later with a feeling of power and excitement that stayed with me throughout the day. The key thing here was that was able to stay calm even though it was a very exciting situation. This sounds like a contradiction in terms, but it’s really not. Try staying calm during your lucid dreams and you will have a better understanding of what I mean.

Controlling Your Lucid Dream Environment

During your first lucid dreams you should be able to control things like changing the some situations or controlling some of your own actions, but it will take practice and experience to have complete control of your dreams. You will find that changing some things is easier than changing others. It can be difficult at first to know how much force or desire is required to do or change something. Don’t become discouraged, because with practice, you will improve. Try to remember to stay calm during a lucid dream and things will eventually become easier to do.

To make things happen during a lucid dream you must believe that you can do it. If you don’t believe you can do something, then there is a great chance that it won’t happen.

In the lucid dream world there are new concepts to accept. You can now do things in your dream that you would never think possible while you are awake. Once you conquer this new dreaming belief system, you will become successful at what you want to do. For some of us this will be easier than it will be for others. The key here once again is to never give up. Believe and it will eventually happen. Try doing easy things at first and build up to more complex desires. For example, if you are having difficulty with flying, then just try to float a little bit off of the ground. If you are having a hard time completely changing a dream scene, then just try changing a small portion of it. If you don’t have success with something, try something else. If it just doesn’t seem to be working out, just try observing instead of controlling, but always keep in mind that you are in a lucid dream.

Take it slow. It just takes more practice for some than others. Never worry, it can work for you!

Pleasant dreams.

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