Even if you just live out your wildest fantasies during a lucid dream, it would probably be enough. However, I do encourage doing much more than just fulfilling fantasies during lucidity. I love to have pleasurable experiences like the next person, but there are much more productive endeavors you can take advantage of during a lucid dream. Let’s take a look at a few.

Fantasies

There are no social or physical consequences of your actions while acting out your lucid dream fantasies. You could do virtually anything at all without any apparent consequences. I would caution you with intimate fantasies. If you are married or have a significant other, it may not be appropriate to have intimate relationships with other partners even though they are not actually real. That’s up to you to make your own decision. Having said that, lucid dream fantasies are virtually endless, so enjoy your most pleasurable desires.

Nightmares

Lucid dreams may be a way to end nightmares. The fear you feel during a nightmare is real, but the danger is not. If you know you are dreaming, then you know that your nightmare cannot cause you any real physical harm. The best way to end your nightmare is to face the source of your fear. I mentioned in one of my earlier lessons, while I was lucid dreaming, I was being attacked by a group of thugs. Briefly, I did feel some fear, but knowing I was in a lucid dream the fear quickly vanished. I knew that I had nothing to worry about. I confronted all of the thugs and had fun doing it. After I defeated them all physically, I felt a sense of strength, bravery, but mostly, it was just fun because I knew that I really didn’t do any harm. The key to overcoming nightmares is to become lucid in your dream so you can realize there isn’t an actual danger. Then you can put an end to the  nightmare by confronting and defeating the source of fear.

Creativity and Problem Solving

While dreaming, our thought process can engage in a variety of ways of thinking that are rare during waking life. Our creativity and problem solving skills can be extremely enhanced while dreaming. Tapping into this advantageous way of thinking through lucid dreaming can help us to create, invent, discover, build, and solve a problem. Lucid dreaming taps into our subconscious mind to assist in this process. Many lucid dreamers report using dreams for problem solving, creativity and artistic inspiration.

Practice

Many people use lucid dreaming to practice a variety of events in order to be successful in waking life situations. You can use lucid dreaming to practice:

• Public speaking in front of an audience of millions or just a few people
• Confronting someone that you need to face up to in waking-life
• Talking to someone you are attracted to, but are too shy to do so during waking life
• Practicing your athletic skills
• Memorizing information for presentations or tests
• Planning for the future
• I’ll bet you can think of several more. Give it a try

Physical and Mental Healing

The vivid positive imagery of lucid dreaming may be used to alleviate physical pain and emotional disturbances. Study has shown that some people have utilized lucid dreaming to alleviate physical pain, overcome phobias, anguish, and social and sexual anxieties. Greater self-confidence can also be archived by lucid dreaming.

Spirituality

Lucid dreaming can assist us in looking past everyday experiences and tasks. It provokes spiritual questioning and the desire to learn more about our own spirituality. This can be a tremendous assistant in spiritual awakening and increasing our spiritual consciousness. It forces us to look beyond everyday experiences and explore the positive realm of spirituality.

Dream Guide

You can create your own dream guide that you visit during a lucid dream. A dream guide can be a person, a spirit, an animal, a tree, a rock, or anything you want it to be. It can be who ever you feel comfortable taking advice from. A dream guide can be a very powerful dream ally, advocate and adviser. Dream guides possess a vast amount of insight and wisdom. For many lucid dreamers, the primary advantage of mastering lucidity is the ability to summon and consult with their dream guide. Your father, mother or any other loved-one or friend can also regularly guide you, give you counsel and become your dream guide. Its totally up to you. You can even create a place to visit your dream guide to seek wisdom. Ask and listen for guidance from your dream guide. Your dream guide is your subconscious mind delivering you the ultimate personalized information and guidance that is custom-fit to you. After all, who knows yourself better than you! With that stated, perhaps your dream guide is more than just your subconscious mind!?

Dream guides will be discussed in more depth in a future lucid dream lesson.

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