Spiritual techniques
lucid dreaming
Bird's Lucid Dreaming Website is perhaps one of the single most important Lucid Dreaming resources on the internet. There is a lot of free information, techniques, and resources shared on his website, but for the very small price of 9.99US there is a digital download of one of the best guidebooks that you could ever obtain for yourself if you are interested in learning to Lucid Dream.
This book is called: The Ultimate Lucid Dreaming Manual: From Basics to Beyond and it is one of the best books that has ever been written on the subject. If you do not have the funds to purchase the whole book right now however, you can test out some of the central methods and techniques that the book revolves around by accessing this page here.
This leads you to the "Six Basic Steps" which are:
1) Doing the mental prep work
2) Increasing your dream recall
3) Keeping a dream journal
4) Becoming familiar with your dreams
5) Adding awareness to your waking consciousness
6) Linking your awareness to your dreams
By clicking on the links above you can read direct and practical information from the manual itself which you can apply to your life in order to start experiencing lucid dreams. These are crucial tips.
There is also a list of some of the most effective reality checks that you can perform throughout the day so that you will begin to do the same at night while dreaming. By building up a framework of tools and techniques that you can utilize then you maximize your chances of success and it can be a very fun and entertaining experience through both the day and the night to increase your lucidity.
The other two most powerful books for ensuring success with your lucid dreaming practices are Stephen LaBerge's "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" and "A Course in Lucid Dreaming".
Contact Jeremy Garner if you are having trouble tracking these books down.
These two books design an entire structured framework in a very scientific and experimental way - so that you will almost feel that you are a practitioner in a very organized test for lucid dreaming. These courses provide direct and clear instructions with various tables and charts to fill out, which can actually be extremely effective to follow such a methodical approach when learning to be lucid. These books will sharpen your daily awareness in both dimensions, and after enough practice, if you are genuine/sincere in your practice, you will inevitably experience frequent lucid dreams.
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Lucid Dreaming Resources
In a lucid dream you can do absolutely anything you desire, in just as much (if not more) realism than you experience in everyday physical life. The possibilities are absolutely endless, and considering how many hours we are asleep and unconscious every night, why not make use of it?
This page could go into more of the details behind what lucid dreaming really is, and some of the best methods to achieve it, but there really is nothing that can be said which would not already be perfectly covered by the previously mentioned resources which will tell you all you need to know.
As a final note, I will also mention another wonderful course that is more designed for inducing WILD's which are Wake Induced Lucid Dreams. It is possible to go to sleep at night, and then once you are in your dream, to become lucid through remembering that you are dreaming. A "WILD" however is when you go from a conscious and waking state, directly into a Lucid Dream, without ever losing consciousness. These are done through a variety of techniques as you are falling asleep which you can perform to achieve success at remaining conscious through the in-between realms.
If this sounds of interest to you to add to your lucid dreaming practices then read and partake in: Ian Wilson's Course on Consciousness.
Though some of the theoretical information is now missing from the introduction to this course, you will find the daily step by step methods which you can practice with each night before going to sleep to awaken your consciousness into the lucid dream realms. The course provides day by day instructions for Two Month,s during which time you will be guided from beginner to advanced.
In the first week you will learn to increase your dream clarity, and dream recall, while becoming increasingly aware of the moments just between waking and sleeping. You will learn to use these moments to experience all kinds of intense visuals and to become familiar with the dream realm.
By the second week you will learn to start lucid dreaming, learn to fly, learn to control the dreams and so on. What is important to remember with this particular course is that the framework is not necessarily one that is likely to keep up with in the sense that you might be highly unlikely to meet the precise experiences outlined on the specific days which you intend to experience them. But the course works as a guide through which you can structure your own disciplines from, and you can take it at your own pace and in your own way based on what feels best for the way that you learn. The methods themselves though are highly effective for the restructuring of subconscious mind towards carrying out your will to induce lucid dreams and other states of consciousness.
By the third week (which may potentially take many more weeks to get to this stage) you will learn all about Shared Dreaming, which is a very real thing. This is the means by which you can actually meet with a friend who may be partaking in these courses too. You will be able to meet with them in the dream realm and interact with each other, and then return to this world with some memories which after practice can be shared (indicating that the dream realm is a real dimension we can collectively access when you unlock the dimension itself hidden beneath subconscious projection).
You will learn how to find your friends in dream realms and create dreamscapes together, and you will also learn how to visit a Dream Network Meeting Place called "Lucid Metro" which is a real place in the dream realms that Lucid Dreamers and other partakers of this course throughout the years have been collectively building and where you can personally add to it, or meet others there. You may even meet a stranger from across the other side of the world, and exchange numbers - and if your dream control and recall is powerful enough on both sides then one of you may actually remember the details enough to physically contact one another after having met first in dreams.
The possibilities are truly endless, and we would all benefit from exploring lucid dream potentials.