Applications of lucid dreaming
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Flying
As you might have guessed yourself, flying is one of the most popular lucid dream activities among lucid dreamers. Because lucid dreams feel as real and vivid as experiences from waking life, imagine how a brief flight would feel like. Feel the wind running through your hair. Feel the rush of excitement, the pull of gravity and the sense of boundless freedom.
Next to the prospect of being able to fly for the sake of flying, flying is the most common means of travelling across the dream world. It is a great way to escape from dream characters, it is a great way to explore otherwise unreachable areas and it is a great way to view your dream world from high above. |
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Breathing underwater
Ever tried breathing underwater? Well, in lucid dreams anything is possible. Start an adventure in the deep blue sea and learn how to breathe sea water. It is interesting to break laws of physics that govern the human body in the waking state. Could you even speak of the "body" in this sense? Because once you think of it, it is all just your mind. What the mind projects as a physical body in the dream is actually just your imaginary dream body.
Are you in any way disabled in waking life? Well, gain new sensory experiences with a brand-new fully functioning dream body. No matter what you do or what seemingly "real" harm could overcome you, you will not die for real. You could only wake up safely in bed.
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Getting rid of nightmares
Do you suffer from recurring nightmares? Use lucidity to get rid of them. Once you know you are dreaming, you know that no physical harm can come to you and more importantly the thing you fear is actually a fragment of your own mind. Truthfully, nightmares are dreams in which you ultimately merely scare yourself. The monster or serial killer that is chasing you is actually a projection of your own mind; a projection of your own fear.
Overcoming nightmares is thus overcoming your own fear. Learn lucid dreaming and open yourself up to a world of self-mastery and personal growth.
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Meeting a passed away family member
Do you have any relative that has sadly passed away recently and you would loved to have had the time to say something in particular to that person? Use lucid dreams to finish up any unfinished business. Although you would not actually speak to the real 'ghost' of your loved one in your lucid dreams, reports of lucid dreamers show that lucid dreamers feel they have really had a second chance for a nicer and more comfortable form of closure; although they know it was all just a dream.
Although dreams are not real in an absolute sense, the experiences you gain in your lucid dreams are as real as any other experience in waking life. Use lucid dreamers for closure, for experience how to fly, to rehearse presentations or situations in which you tell someone what you really think of him or her. Once you wake up from a lucid dream you feel like you have experienced and potentially learned something deeper about yourself.
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Secretly in love?
Thought about using your lucid dreams to kiss someone you secretly love in waking life? Find out how it feels to be more close to that particular person in your lucid drams and tell him or her about your true feelings. Although dreams are not real, this very fact becomes the very reason to start learn lucid dreaming. Lucid dreams are the most realistic, vivid and anonymous experiences you could ever have.
Imagine what this kind of practice could potentially mean for your behavior in waking life. Would it feel easier now to be closer to that particular person once you meet him or her again for real the next morning? Many lucid dreamers report it does. Think of the applications, think of the ways in which you can use lucid dreaming as a tool to foster your quality of everyday life.
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Discover your true potential
Embark on a journey to discover who you really are beyond your physical and psychological conditions at this moment. Experience a journey where you meet dream characters who tell you all about YOU. Meet your true Self on a intergalactic journey across the universe. Meet your spiritual guides and let them tell you all about hidden feelings that might be of good use to you.
The brain responds neurophysiologically the same to dream experiences as experience from waking life. The brain doesn't know the difference between waking and dreaming, both on a physiological as well on a psychological level. During REM the brain is so active that it is able to produce the level of realism and immersiveness of the dream state. Experiences in dreams and lucid dreams are transferred into the waking state because you obviously use the same brain for waking as for experiencing dreams. Feel blessed in a lucid dream, feel blessed when you wake up. Feel strong in a lucid dream, feel strong when you wake up. Feel loved in your lucid dream, feel loved when you wake up. Lucid dreaming could be a playground to experiment with a wide range of experiences that could not be possible in everyday life.
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Being invisible
This is a great way to observe dream characters within your dreams without them noticing you. Or magically hide when you play hide and seek. It is also challenging to think about your dream body in this way. If you are able to be invisible and you are able to make your dream body disappear, why do you as the conscious awareness don't disappear as well? What are you then? Not a body? Consciousness? A spirit? Nothing?
Use lucid dreams to engage in philosophical adventures to experience the nature of the mind. What is 'identity', what is 'reality', who or what is actually 'lucid' in a lucid dream?
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Telekinesis
To be able to move any object without touching it physically, is a nice skill you can use in several occasions when lucid dreaming. It is a great way to refurnish your dream home for example, or to be able to defend yourself in nightmares. It is also a relatively easy challenge to work with when you first start applying dream control in your lucid dreams. Understand how your idea and expectations of gravity could challenge you to lift a sky scraper just as easily as a small rock.
Of course, 'physical weight' has no meaning in the dream world; it is all imaginary. Do you own the flexible mental state to overcome these boundaries and lifting up entire planets without breaking a sweat? Free your mind.
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To the moon
Ever stood on the moon and witnessed an 'earth-rise'? It is a beautiful start to embark on an exploration of your own universe. Travel further into space and check out other planets or even other civilizations, witness super nova explosions from close up or be a super nova exploding star yourself.
Although this might sound silly, imagine how your brain would fill-in the experience of such an marvelous imaginary event. An outbreak of emotions? An overwhelming feeling of love maybe? Meet silly looking aliens your mind makes up and let them teach you new foreign dream control techniques that you can share with the rest of us here on the site.
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Strength
Try to pick up a car, a house or an airplane. In your lucid dreams you have all the strength you will ever need. Although you can not actually train your real muscles in your dreams, you do train the nervous systems that are needed to stimulate the particular muscle groups you are using at that moment in your dreams. In other words, the brain activity of walking in a lucid dream (or non-lucid dream) is actually the same as the brain activity of walking in the waking state.
Rehearse extreme sports, tennis moves, soccer games or martial arts. You can use your lucid dreams to train yourself in all kinds of physical domains. Of course, strength can also be defined as an inner attitude towards certain situations you face during your lucid dreams. Do you have the strength to tell your girlfriend or boyfriend in your lucid dream you don't love him or her anymore? Do you have the strength to face your worst nightmare? Experiment and become stronger overnight.
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Telepathy
Visit a dream character in your lucid dream and try to talk telepathically with each other using only your thoughts to communicate. Everything is possible in lucid dreams, so why not try out this one? It comes pretty handy when you want to invite a distant dream character to visit one of your lucid dream parties at some other mystical place in the universe.
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Materialization
And in times you are in need of some object that you cannot find or don't have at the moment; try materialization. Just materialize the thing you need at the place you are right now. Do you need a key? A girlfriend? Or a planet? You own the power to magically let any object appear or dissappear that you want to be there at that moment.
Experience how it feels to materialize an unlimited amount of money in your pockets. Experience how it would feel to materialize a certain product you want to buy in real life but don't have the money to buy in waking life. Use your lucid dreams to create paintings or other designs that might inspire you to be more successful at work.
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Deliberately waking up
If you find yourself at the end of your most beautiful lucid dream, deliberately wake yourself up in order to write down the dream as soon as possible in Lucidipedia's DreamJournal. If you would like to escape a terrifying dream instead of confronting it (the latter would have the preference!), deliberately wake yourself up. This is paradoxically done by doing just the opposite; falling asleep in the lucid dream. In most cases this would result into a false awakening, either way, you are in another comfortable place again.
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Defending yourself magically
During your dream explorations you might encounter a few monsters. Are you ready to magically battle them? Or do you simply fly away? Well, either way, if you like to battle evil, practice some nice moves you have seen from your favorite movies. Stop bullets like Neo did in The Matrix movie. Transform into a Super Saiyan like Goku in the Dragonball Z series. Mutate into a giant more terrifying monster yourself to overpower the very evil your are facing. Turn into James Bond and shoot your way out. Transform into the super hero you have always loved to be.
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Walking over water
Want to impress your dream friends? Well, walking over water should do it. It is also a nice exercise. Consciously try to overcome your expectations of gravity. Think this one is easy? Try walking on top of dream spikes without feeling hesistant about it (you won't really hurt yourself, it is just a dream!). Try walking through dream fire or walking on invisible stairs.
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Mind control
Control the minds of your dream characters and let them behave however you want them to behave. It's also a nice skill to "set-up" an actual real-life experience you have had. It is a great way to re-do or reflect on past experiences from you everyday life by letting your dream characters act the same way as they did in waking reality at that time. You suddenly have a second chance to act differently than you did the last time. Experiment how different behavior or actions could result into more positive outcomes. Learn from your lucid dreams and improve your waking life.
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Transformation
Ever experienced being a tiger or a dolphin? Lucid dreaming provides the freedom to be your favorite animal. It could also be interesting to transform yourself into a house or a chair. Whatever you can imagine is possible in the lucid dream world. Sprint as fast as a cheetah, dive as deep as a whale or fly as high as an eagle. Gain more respect for nature by being different creatures of the animal kingdom.
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Teleportation
Traveling in your dream world could mean you have to travel great distances. Instead of flying, teleportation could really be the thing for you. Instantly transport yourself from one city to another, from one country to the next, or from our galaxy to one at the edge of space. Transform dreams instantly.
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