What is Lucid Dream? Science has proved that you can control your dreams.

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What is a Lucid dream? Are lucid dreams proven by science? What are the benefits of learning Lucid dreams? Can it be learned?

I know that you will have many questions in your mind regarding lucid dreams. And why not, this is a very wonderful and mysterious thing.

Introduction

A lucid Dream is also called Conscious Dream. This is such a human ability in which the dreamer knows that he is dreaming. Within the dream, the dreamer comes to know that he/she is viewing the dream.

In short; a Lucid Dream is a process that turns the unconscious dream world into a conscious reality. You can experience the dream world as authentic as the real world.

All the things you see or seem in your dream feel like you are seeing them in your real world. In this type of dream, anything is possible.

If you become lucid in your dreams, then the whole dream world runs according to you. Dreamworld changes its properties according to your wish.

This is a very exciting thing. You get an alternative world where you can do anything. Yes, you can do everything you want to do in a Lucid dream.

Whatever you can imagine, you can do in a lucid dream. You can fulfill all your fantasies and all your desires. There is not much difference between Lucid dreams and reality.

Everything is a game of consciousness. Dreams look like dreams because we have very low consciousness in the dream world. We have very low awareness and very dim consciousness in dreams.

When you are going to sleep, then slowly your awareness goes on losing. You slowly go on drowning in sleep. You have no idea how you fell asleep and when you went to sleep. you don't know anything.

You never looked that how sleep comes to you. How do you lose your awareness of your surroundings? No, you never have looked into this.

It's a very strange and sad thing. If an average man lives 80 years then he sleeps for 30 years. A man sleeps for 30 years and still does not know how to sleep comes. This proves that man is very impotent. Till now he has not even been able to know sleep. How ugly is it?

When we go to sleep, our conscious mind gets shut down and our subconscious mind starts working.

The subconscious mind does not know any difference between dreams and reality, so in dreams, we do not know that we are dreaming. It is only after waking up that we come to know that hey man, that was a dream.

Are lucid dreams proven by science?

In 1913 the Dutch Psychiatrist and author Frederik Van Eeden used the term "Lucid Dream" in one of his articles 'Study of Dreams' and published it worldwide.

Then in 1980, Dr. Stephen Laberg did a lot of research on this. A lot of research was done about the Lucid Dream and it became famous all over the world. Many ways of learning it has been invented till now.

There are many schools, colleges, and institutes where it is taught how to become aware of dreams. Worldwide there are many forums and communities about lucid dreaming where people from around the world interact with each other and share their dreaming experiences.

You can find them on Facebook, Google, and various other platforms.

But you will be surprised to know that Tibetan monks already knew about such dreams thousands of years ago. Its description is found in Indian Tantras such as Vigyan Bhairav Tantra which is 4000 years old. Then later this technique was taken from India to Tibet. The Buddhists also knew about it for a long time.

"Once Gautam Buddha said to his disciple Ananda if you become fully aware of your waking hours then soon you become aware of your dreams."

Can it be learned?

Experts say that Lucid Dream is a learnable skill. Anyone can learn it with proper practice. Whether you're 8's or 80's, it doesn't matter, if you want to learn it, you can.

There is no boundaries or age limit to learning it. Even children can learn to have lucid dreams. It is far better than daydreaming and fantasies.

For a skilled Lucid dreamer, the dream and the experience of reality are the same things. There is no difference between walking in a dream and walking in reality. It takes little time to master lucid dreams.

You shouldn't panic in the beginning. You have to keep patience and be always motivated about it. On average it requires 3 to 9 months to achieve success in this type of dream.

What are the benefits of learning Lucid dreams?

There are many benefits of learning Conscious Dreaming:-

In a Lucid dream, you can dream the dream you want to see.
You can meet your famous personalities. You can talk to them.
You may get opportunities to meet your dead loved ones again. You can spend time with them again. This would be so pleasurable.
It also has spiritual benefits. Many Tibetan monks use it for meditation as well.
In Conscious Dream, you can heal yourself. You can make your health better.
Your dreams can give you a lot of knowledge to you.
You can able to do table talk to your subconscious mind. You can ask any question to your 'self' in a dream about anything you want.
You can able to leave your old bad habit in dreams by doing practice to leave them.
Dreaming is a tremendous process. It can be used to learn any type of skill. It can be used to be better in any art.
Many athletes of the world use lucid dreams to achieve mastery in games and arts.
You will be amazed to know that through lucid dreams, very advanced lucid dreamers are able to predict the future also.

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When you learn to dream like this, you will know for yourself that there are many things that can be done with it. You will be amazed that such amazing things exist and I was unaware of it till now.

Final Thought

Lucid Dream is a very rare skill. You must learn it. It does not have any harmful side effects. The lucid dream will change the quality of your sleep.

Your sleep will get better. You will wake up smiling in the morning. People spend many years in dreams without knowing their significance. They never think that dream is important. But we have to change this concept.

A dream is also as authentic as reality. There are many advantages to learning lucid dreams. That's why it should definitely be learned.