SECRETS SECRETS OF LUCID DREAMING REVEALE R EVEALED D By S. Rob (C) Copyright 2014 20 14 Casti Castindes ndes Publi Pub lishing. shing. All rights reserved. No part of this publicati publication on may be reproduced, repro duced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods except by the author himself. DISCLAIMER : This book is not designed or intended intended to diagnose, treat presented for fo r or cure any disease disease or conditi con dition. on. Information is presented entertainment entertainment purposes only. Use any and all information presented herein at your own risk. The author and publisher p ublisher assume assume no responsibilit responsibility y for fo r the use or misuse of the information information in this book. This book is presented purely purely as a work of fiction fiction and should be recognized as such. Any and all information information is solely solely the opinion o pinion and/or personal belief of the author and is presented as such. This This book is ONLY intended intended for sale or reading by persons who are 18 years of age or older. Chapter 1 What is lucid dreaming? All of us know what what a dream is even if we cannot always always remember them. We spend a lot of our time asleep and yet many of us don’t see the importance of sleep or even dreaming. Some people see sleep and dreaming as just a waste of time and that any reduction in time spent sleeping and dreaming would be a great advantage. But But this view is short sighted because sleep and dreaming is of great importance to us as humans. The world’s greatest minds have considered: how do we know that our world is real and that life li fe isn’t simply a dream, which is quite sensible when we we consider that people don’t have any control over their dreams: or most people don’t and in fact people can gain control control over their dreaming and this is cal led lucid dreaming; at its most basic it means people knowing knowing you are asleep. But lucid dreaming isn’t just about knowing knowing that you are asleep, it also al so is about the
much more important matter of knowing when we are truly awake. This is because i f you think when in a dream that it is real then everything which happens in the dream will affect you subconsciously whether damaging and awful or good. There are few things as frightening as a nightmare and few people would want these to happen in real life, but they do happen in real life because you don’t know when you are awake or asleep. To not know you are sleep is to not know you are awake. I am sure that most people don’t want to live their lives in apathy: not caring: in a state of not wanting or truly putting effort into what they want. When this happens people are trapped into not getting what they want whether asleep or awake. In fact, being aware of being asleep is a very good form of self control, as it allows people to gain greater control over their subconscious mind: normally something well outside of the confines of the conscious mi nd. Therefore, gaining the skill of lucid dreaming should be considered of primary im portance for a person wanting to gain true internal power. We also need to consider that t he modern world throws many images at us designed to control and influence us, and they are thrown at us by marketing everyday: almost continuously. Our minds are being programmed to want buy and to have certain values, and these messages go straight into our subconscious mind, the same subconscious mind the conscious mind has usually no influence over. This means that our dreams are being controlled by marketing, by subliminal and psychological messages drip fed to us as we are awake, get played out when we sleep, and even affect us when we are awake: made even stronger by the matter than we cannot even tell the difference between sleeping and being awake. We are trapped in the ultimate nightmare. But we are not defenseless and learning to have control and to know when we dream gives us the power over when we are awake. Some people may wonder why the time we are asleep has so much power. Well sleeping is very basic to humanity and also under many circumstances dreams rehearse what we need to perfect when awake. For many people, healthy dreaming is the playing out of scenarios and as s uch is a type of planning and is part of the reason why humanity has so much mental faculty and in fact humans can survive longer without water than without sleep. Our body and minds feed upon sleep, but also many people believe there is another r oot that makes dreams so special and that is that they are just as real as the world we live in. The Australian aborigines class dreams as being in another dimension with differ ent rules and call it dream time. This means that power over dreaming is even more important because it is the one time when you can have unprecedented power over what is around you. This requires however you to know you are dreaming or i n dreamtime as it could also be referred to: more than that to them the power of lucid
dreaming would be practiced because you would exist there aft er death and before reincarnation. Just imagine what it would be like if you could not control dreamt ime and you could find yourself in a very long nightmare in which you have no control awaiting reincarnation. But this world flows from you and it is about you and thought and so you can be king of your own dreams and of dreamtime: everyone who can lucid dream is in a sense a king and everyone else is a slave to it. But the power to lucid dream can be learnt and now is the time to start. But to Australian Aborigines dreaming is more than just a dream and they believe it gives the ability to access knowledge from ancestors, and is a representation of your beliefs, values, and who you are. When dreams run riot all the knowledge you need from your ancestors, and all the patterns for your waking life can be set in your dreams. The human brain has tremendous capacity and so it has the power to solve magnificent problems unsolvable to any other animal or being, to change your life and world. But if you squander this by not knowing you are dreaming then al l this power is lost, even worse others may still have it and give them an advantage over you, and then you work hard and strive and would wonder what they had that you didn’t. But who can learn lucid dreaming? Everyone! It is something which can be learnt and once your mind has it as part of its practice then it will start to be natural and enhance your waking and sleeping life. The way to start this usually is by keeping a dream journal and this means that you try to keep a log of your dreams. This means that when awake, you try to remember your dreams. But you may wonder what should I try to remember? What details ar e most important and so here is an exercise.
Exercise for lucid dreaming You will need: 1 book and pen on which to write your dreams. Quite simply, you need the book and pen somewhere near where you sleep and at first you simply try to get a normal night sleep. But with the intention of knowing your dream when you wake up: intending to remember your dream is important. When you have woken the next morning the first thing you do is to try to remember what you dreamt. Try to work down this list s equentially. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
What could you see around you in the dream or dreams and describe it. Was the dream good or bad? Were there any other people or beings in the dream? If there were other people or beings, what did they look like? If there were any other people or beings, what did they do?
6. 7. 8.
What was the story, what happened in the dream? How did the dream make you feel at different points? Also note anything else you can remember.
Of course, working your way down the list isn’t easy and at first you may find it difficult to remember the dream at all. But do the above on waking every night because remembering your dream is the first step to being able to know you are awake. This is because the most important part of lucid dreaming is awareness. The most important thing is that you write down what you can and that you go to sleep with the intent of remembering what you have dreamt about the next day: this in itself gives you some awareness that you are dreaming. But there are more advanced exercises, and when you feel you have gotten to t he point where you can always remember your dreams the next day and feel you need something more difficult, then you can move onto the next more advanced exercise.
More advanced exercise for lucid dreaming You will need: 1 book and pen on which to write your dreams. As before put your book and pen near where you sleep and t ry to get to sleep with the intention of knowing your dream when you wake up. When you have woken the next morning, the first thing you do is to try to remember what you dreamt. Try to work down this list sequentially. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
What could you see around you in the dream or dreams and describe it. Were there any colour: many people dream in black and white. What was the style of what was around you? What speed did time seem to pass? Did the dream occur in sequence or did it jump around? Did anything in the dream represent something? Was the dream good or bad? Were there any other people or beings in the dream? If there were other people or being what did they look like? If there were people did you know any of them? What type of emotions did they show? If there were any other people or beings what did they do? Did they seem to know each other? What was the story, what happened in the dream? How did the dream make you feel at different points? Also note anything else you can remember.
You should simply work your way down the list when you wake up. You should keep repeating the exercise every night. What this exercise is about isn’t just about increasing your ability to remember, but also increasing your awareness that you are dreaming, and remembering dreams is the first step on the path to being able to master your dreams. What you are looking is to build awareness that you are sleeping: which also is awareness of when you are awake too. In fact remembering helps to build primarily awareness that you are asleep, but to master lucid dreaming you need to master quite a few different types of awareness. You also require the awareness that you can make decisions when asleep: this gives you control over your actions and aids general lucid dreaming. Of course the awareness that you can remember what you are dreaming about is also exercised with the exercises aforementioned and this too is important. What also is crucial is: knowing who you are when dreaming: your actual identity, and this gives you more power over your dreams. Being aware of your dream environment is also important too, and this awareness also leads to more control over your dreams and the dream state. The ability to also know if the dream has any meaning to you also gives you more control over the dream. Also you will eventually gain awareness of your focus and concentration of the dream: something difficult to define but is si mply about understanding you and the dream and how it fl ows from you. But the benefits of these skills isn’t just when you are asleep, it also is when you are awake too. Most people truly don’t know they are awake, they just think they ar e, ust as they do when they are asleep. Knowing is a powerful thing because although it may feel the same emotionally, the knowing and certainty of it means your actions are more likely to be appropriate in that situati on and in life generally, because otherwise you are acting as if you may or may not be in a dream world. You need clarity so that you know how to act and in what state and with lucid dreaming your mind will gain that clarity. You have learnt that by following the rather simple stage of remembering your dreams, you gain the fi rst step forward on controlling your dreams and gaining mastery over yourself awake or asleep. But there also is practices you can do when awake that will give you greater mastery over your dreams: these are practiced whether you think yourself awake or asleep. This may shock some people that to truly gain m astery over your dreams you need to make one simple thing part of your life when awake as well as asleep. The practices I talk of at this stage basically come down to checking you aren’t asleep. I will only cover the more simple examples at the moment such as checking your watch twice because read texts or numbers changes usually in dreams, l ook at your image in a mirror because in dreams many times peoples images don’t appear, poking yourself with your finger because many people’s flesh becomes more elast ic when dreaming, even checking you cannot place your hands through a solid object. I know that this
list seems odd and many of these aren’t needed yet and are mer ely here to give you choice. There are other ways to check that you are awake - one simple principle is to check at least ten times a day. But also be cynical and think what would where you are now would be like if you were asleep, and imagine what your life would look life if it were a dream and when I say imagine: I mean i magine in full detail however you want to. But perhaps the most important principle of this is that you check to make sure you are awake and that you can never be completely certain when you are awake and when you are asleep, unless you have checked, and it is this conscious effort which gives you control. But here is the thing, with practice it becomes s econd nature to check and to have control, and so you will have greater certainty when awake and asleep and so greater self-control. This first chapter is the foundation for control over you not just dreams. Also remember that dreams can be used to our advantage and the person who masters them gains the ability to rehearse things, practice whatever they feel t hey needs to and so their dreams become part of how they learn new skills, consciously plan the future. You then harness your power of imagination t o lengths that are unknown to other people. But the methods and secrets in this chapter already will have helped you improve your mental skills and the ability of having a greater grasp of waking and sleeping. But the most important thing is practice and keep checking you are awake and also remembering the dreams. By the time you have got to this s tage in the chapter you will be ready to try r emembering the dreams without a list of questions and by this I mean to add as much detail about everything you can about your dream and you in it.
Chapter 2 How to know you are asleep One thing which is easy to overlook about lucid dreaming is that one has to be able to get to sleep in order to have the lucid dream. Sleeping is ironically something which many people feel is difficult to get. One easy way to help with sleeping is to try to go to bed to sleep at the same time every night and this helps the person who wants to sleep to get into an easy sleep routine. Some people say that hot chocolate can help but really this works because people know that it should. But never neglect your sleep routine: getting to bed at the same time: because of lucid dreaming because no matter what happens, remember that to be able to lucid dream you need first and foremost to be able to get to sleep. However I also understand that some of the exercises in learning lucid dreaming make ordinary sleep difficult because you are training yourself to lucid dream. But still sleep is very important: in fact key to this entire exercise.
In the last chapter I touched on things to do and to look out for when awake: or think you are: to check that you in fact are awake, and I will now go into much more detail here as to and how to proceed. What you are looking out for is basically s igns that you aren’t awake. These signs however come in two distinct varieties and these are: checks which you perform to make sure you are awake and also those things which simply look out of place. It is best to concentrate upon these one at a time. The exercises are to be performed by you whenever you think you are awake. The first of these are the checks to make sure you are awake. The first is really the simplest of all the checks and here is the exercise.
Method 1 checking you are awake Perform this method at least 10 times every day at first. To perform this method: look at either a piece of paper with something written on it or the face of your watch and then look again and see if anything has changed. In a dream words and numbers tend to change and so this method of glancing at a watch twice gives you the ability to be fair ly certain you are awake or asleep. One advantage with this method is that people tend to have watches with them and is very easy to use and remember. However it isn’t the only method and there are also others too which have great value. But you need to use this method everyday so that you get used to the idea of checking you are awake because by continual practice you will start to also check when asleep and therefore gain the abili ty to dream in the knowledge that you are dreaming. I will however now move onto another method which checks if we are awake or asleep.
Method 2 checking you are awake This method needs to be practiced at first at least ten times a day. To perform this method try to put your finger through you, actually try to pass it straight through you and before doing this ask:”I am awake or asleep?” If your finger pushed through you then you say to yourself: “I am asleep, I am dreaming.” If your finger doesn’t push through you then you are awake and say to yourself:”I am awake, this is real.” This method is a very easy check to see i f you really are awake. One important thing however is not to say the statements out loud because people probably won’t understand and will think you are very ill, ironic when you put into mind the fact that they don’t really know they are awake and so you could say that they are not really in touch with reality. But the most important t hing about the checks is to remember to perform them and use them to check because only by checking when you think you are awake only then will you check and find out that
you aren’t awake. But reality checking isn’t the only way of knowing if you are awake or not: there is also the method is looking for dream signs. A dream sign is basically an object or person or a surroundings that shows you that this isn’t real: and that you are therefore asleep. Therefore here i s an exercise for looking out for dream signs.
Exercise to help you look for dream signs This exercise is to help you look for things around you that indicate that you are asleep and not awake. To perform this simple exercise; spend a week looking for signs of things which fly and shouldn’t fly. Make sure that you are looking for them at least ten times throughout the day and this will train your mind to look for things which mean you are asleep. Remember if you see one you can check again and if it is flying and shouldn’t be then you are asleep congratulations you have had your first lucid dream. Of course this isn’t the only thing which you can look for to see if you are dreaming, there are others too and it is important to get into the habit of looking for things which indicate that you aren’t awake. The next exercise is a little like the other: but this time we are looking for something different. This exercise i s in many ways much more general and builds upon the skills you learnt with the last exercise. It is quite easy, but will help you to know whether you are awake or asleep.
Exercise to check on environment to see if you are awake or asleep This next method is quite easy, but you need to check on things at least t en times a day so that it really sinks in. For this exercise, simply keep looking for things which are the wrong colour, such as purple people, blue dogs. Keep looking for things which are the wrong colour and if you find one look again to make s ure it just isn’t something atypical and if it isn’t a mistake and isn’t just atypical then you are in a dream and you should say this to yourself. Of course colour isn’t the only way and there are other t hings which can make an object or person not be right and look unreal: however we need to be cautious here because in fact some people are very short and objects too can occasionally be of the wrong height. Looking at the scale of things is a good way to see if the world looks as it should and something which is the wrong height or scale is a good indication that something is wrong. The world around us can be very distorted in dreams and we usually just accept it no matter how odd it may be and so we need to program our self to be able spot these dream signs and this means looking for them when you think you are awake: during the day: because you will always normally think you are
awake unless you know how to have lucid dreams such as I teach you now.
Exercise to check on environment for scale Perform this method at least ten times a day. It is really quite easy and all you need to do is to look for objects or people that are of the wrong scale: too tall or broad or too short, or thin. The whole point of this is to get the habit of being able to spot things which don’t look right and don’t look the right height or aren’t real. But if you spot one you should check by using one of t he checks such as looking at your watch face twice to see if it changes and if the watch face does change then say to yourself:”I am asleep I am not awake”. This means that you really know that you aren’t awake. Yes I know that this will come as a shock because let’s face it we normally think we are awake: but this is how we gain mastery of our dreams. The last exercise will help you really get t he idea that you may actually not be awake when you think you are. It isn’t an easy thing to really understand without the dream signs and the checking that you now know how to do. But perform the exercise many times so that you get the dream sign spotting down easy because it has to work automatically: it must be done as a matter of course without work or thought. But of course knowing that you are awake is only part of what lucid dreaming is. But this will help you get the idea of what you are doing and in time you will remember dreams where you realised you were asleep: you should still be keeping your dream ournal and so if you stopped, start again now. But there are more to dream signs than simply things being the wrong scale or colour and there are many subtle nuances which you can learn to interpret so that you have a better sense of awareness. Of course there is more to lucid dreaming than looking for dream signs. But by now you have things to look for to see if you are dreaming, and also periodic checks you can perform to prove that you are in fact awake. Among the many benefits of lucid dreaming are those that you gain when awake: such as better concentration and improvement in memory and other mental skills: i t truly does matter that you truly know you are awake or asleep. But what also mat ters is that you should be keeping a dream journal and this also helps you also know the difference between being awake and asleep and if you stopped keeping one you should look at what you have written in it and then keep on keeping one and writing in it.
Looking at your dream journal Your dream journal is very useful in knowing whether you are awake or asleep because it tells what you think of and what dreams look like for you. Of course it is ever changing and your dreams can keep giving you i nformation on what kind of
dreams you have. But look at the journal and try to see any patterns in what kind of thing you tend to dream about. Now look for these types of things when you think you are awake: the things in the journal which were in fact not every day kind of things: which are strange and look for these alongside the other tell-tale dream signs and things which also indicate dreams. Also it is good to keep track of when you spot a dream sign or anything which isn’t real in your dream log so that you can understand what successes you have had and this will help you stay motivated, but also in the much more important matter of getting more data which can help you judge: although you can of course always use the checks which you have learnt such as trying to put your finger through your body and relooking at your watch face to see if i t stays the same. You will have made progress if you have went through the exercises but remember you can keep practicing them for as long as you feel you need because ultimately they ar e very important steps onto the world of lucid dream ing. Here I will talk about what you can do with lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming when mastered isn’t just about lucidity and the knowing that you are asleep but also the ability to create and change your dreams. To the true master of lucid dreaming, dreaming can be a time to play, but also to advance their waking goals in ways many people wouldn’t think possible. But this is all very ill defined and so I will give some more concrete answers. You can use this time to practi ce sporting skills because visualization actually makes skills easier and improves performance. It is this rehearsing of things which helps people gain true expertise in many skills: alongside actual practice: and so it is easy to see the advantage that lucid dreaming has for the dreamer. Other things which a person can do while lucid dreaming is the ability to perfect strategies and interaction with people, because lucid dreaming gives you the ability to go through different possibilities and even to think of the best way to say something important such as an inter view for a job or asking someone to marr y you, or maybe even a lecture you need to give. But the benefits of doing something which you know you have rehearsed and thought about is immense and even if you happen not to remember; I still consider that the advantages are still great because much of what we do is based on the subconscious mind and if it knows, then we know. One other method which you can start with now is that you can begin to use the fir st wake up lucid dreaming method. To begin with simply set your alarm to wake you up four and a half, six or seven and a half hours after you normally go to sleep. You will also need your dream log and a pen handy and near to where you sleep. This first part is easy and when you wake up, you simply try to remember the dream you
had and write it down in as much detail as you can, and with taking whatever time is necessary. You then go back to sleep and when you wake up you repeat the process. The problem of course with this is that it disturbs your sleep: but it will help you get more feedback from your dreams. But you don’t need to do this every night because obvious though it may seem, sleeping is what is most important thing with lucid dreaming and obviously if you have a bad night and don’t get to sleep, then all of the other techniques will be much more difficult to use. There are however many great methods that follow and these will give you even greater control over your dream state. At the moment you have only just started to gain control over dreams and there is much more to accomplish, but irrespective of anything you will have made progress because lucid dreaming is something which isn’t learnt automatically, it is a skill, but one which needs developing. However it is one of the most dynamic and best methods of personal growth there is. Control over dreams somehow gives us not just control over ourselves but great er control over fulfilling our ambitions and so the waking world too.
Chapter 3 Gaining lucidity when asleep There are several ways to proceed from here to being able to have lucid dreams and what way makes sense can be thought of as being very individual. However I imagine that in fact this is the opinion of many people and they miss the obvious that the best way is simply to use all methods at different t imes and in this way your training get the strength of all the methods. These methods all take you to the same place but by doing your sleep routine differently dif ferent nights then you get the advantage of them all and a much stronger and faster lucid dream control state. I will however show you these methods one at a time and at first it may be best to simply stick to one for perhaps a few days before going on to the other met hods. A very simple add on to all of these methods is meditation to aid sleep, because as obvious as it may seem one cannot lucid dream if you aren’t asleep. Meditation before sleep: in the correct way: can help people get to sleep faster and also get a deeper sleep. Sleeping properly is very important for the human body and good sleep gives you an advantage throughout the day, whereas poor sleep makes everything more difficult and why make life difficult when it can manage to be diff icult enough without our assistance? However I also realize that telling you that meditation aids sleep, helps you little if you don’t know how to meditate and so here are the m ethods to use.
Meditating before sleep The best time to start meditation before sleep is when you are already in bed: ready
to go to sleep. Try to make sure you are comfortable before you begin. Although there are different ways to get to sleep and to meditate, the best is simply t o concentrate upon your breath. As you do this breathe at a relaxed pace: in and out: as you do so concentrate on your breath only and cut everything else out of your mind. You may begin to want to shuffle around in bed or other movements but try not to: this was why it is easiest if you get comfortable first. Also if any thoughts come into your mind push them out and concentrate on your breathing as it goes i n and out, and push all noise or other disturbances out of your mind. Eventually you will find yourself comfortable enough to get to sleep. The meditative method also has other advantages: in that it can be used as the start of lucid dream control methods: but also it is good to maintain a good sleep pattern. However there are also other advantages because meditation gives you emotional control, improved memory and so you are really s tacking methods of selfimprovement over one another. This gives you the best use of your sleep ti me while not actually doing anything difficult or that would reduce your energy levels. I will however also state that there is more than one meditative method that can be used to get to sleep and so I will present this other so that you can choose which one you want to use. However this method can cause quite different types of dreams: it can cause vivid bright dreams and magnifies its colour and weirdness in some people: however some people may prefer it, and so here is the alternative method.
Meditating before sleep alternative method To start this method, it is best to be already in bed ready to sleep. With this method close your eyes. It is at the point where some people think of a god or goddess or many people choose a pyramid because it has a point at the top to concentrate upon and you need a smallish point, or at l east something of importance. You now visualize the chosen thing: I use a pyramid: and as you do so cut out all other disturbances and all that you think of is that chosen object. Now think of it and although you may feel like moving, don’t: you should have made yourself comfortable before you started. You will find that your meditati on will deepen and this will get you into a very good state to get to sleep. The best thing to do is actually to try both methods: also alongside using your dream log: and you will find which method suits you and also the quality of your dreams because if any particular method gives you bad dreams or you feel doesn’t suit you then use the other one. But of course meditation is just the beginning and now I will explain to you an organized method of lucid dreaming. This method is actually very easy and should be used by you as a way of starting to gain even greater control over your dreaming. Think of dreams as being another part of your li fe in which you can enhance and have power over. Many people disparage the use of the word power and
tend to give the opinion publicly that power or people wanting it ar e bad. But power most of the time is what people want when they want something and don’t simply want to be happy: anyway lucid dreaming is power over yourself and this is something which we all deserve, although something some people try to remove from other people. But lucid dreaming is yours f or the taking, and so I will now share the first exercise of development of lucid dreaming.
Method 1, exercise 1 The exercise is as follows. 1. Before you go to sleep, set your alarm clock to go off four to six hours after you will have fallen to sleep and have your dream log and pen nearby. 2. Now use meditation to get you to sleep 3. When the alarm wakes you try to remember the dream and this time simply try to remember the plot: what happened in the dream. 4. Now go back to sleep: but with the objective of returning to the same dream and chant to yourself:”I will be aware that I am dreaming”. 5. When you wake up next morning write the plot of that dream down in your dream log. This first exercise in this method is quite easy and simply relies upon you remembering what happened in the dream. It isn’t important that you remember more than that: but if you can remember more that i s good. But it is important that you simply note down what you can remember. The ability to lucid dream isn’t built in a day: any progress here is beneficial and also notes that you are now starting to learn to know you are asleep to a greater degree and the beginning of control over dreaming and your dreams. But this is sim ply the beginning and it shouldn’t be long before you will want to move onto a more advanced exercise and so here is the next exercise.
Method 1, exercise 2 The exercise is as follows. 1. Set your alarm clock to go off four to six hours after you fall sleep; have your dream log and pen nearby. 2. Use meditation to go to sleep 3. When the alarm goes and you wake up: try to remember what happened in the dream and any people or beings that were in the dream and try to describe them in your log. 4. Try to go to sleep with chant to yourself:”I will be aware that I am dreaming”.
5. Next morning when you have woken up write down what happened and any people or beings that were in that dream; i f you were able to take control of the dream at any point; that you were aware you were dreaming. You have now expanded on what you achieved last time because this time you have expanded what you needed to remember. Of course trying to remember more isn’t the only way that you can gain greater control. The last exercise however is only part about remembering and also part about knowing you are dreaming and more about gaining control. But now I want you to focus more on what you feel you have achieved, because it is important to think about what you have already achieved and by you I mean you specifically. This is because it is important to give sufficient time to what you have already learnt and so now you should appraise your work. However I know that some people are more positive and other more negative and so I want you not to be too critical. However you also need to know what to look for in terms of progress and so here is an exercise for self analysis.
Analysing progress 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. asleep?
How good are you at getting to sleep? How good are you at using your checks to make sure you are sleeping? Are you still looking for signs that you aren’t awake? How good are you at remembering your dreams? Have you shown any awareness in your dreams: that you know you are
I understand that it is difficult to judge how good you are at these areas, and of course some of them rely upon you being able to remember your dreams. I also want you to remember that you are still at a very earl y stage in learning the secrets of lucid dreaming. However I also know that knowing your weak points helps you strengthen them, because lucid dreaming is all about awareness: awareness of whether you are awake or asleep, awareness of how you sleep, awareness of the process and how to gain control and so awareness of what you need to improve will only make progress easier and faster. Therefore I will now describe the last of the exercises in method 1 although there are others you should do on other methods.
Method 1, exercise 3 The exercise is as follows. 1. Have your dream log and pen nearby. Set your alarm clock to ring: four to six hours after you fall sleep.
2. Use meditation to aid sleep. 3. When the alarm wakes you: try to remember everything you can about your dream: what happened, how it looked, how any people or beings in the dreams looked, everything you can possibly remember and write it in your log. 4. Try to go to sleep with chant to yourself:”I will be aware that I am dreaming”. 5. Next morning when you have woken up, write in your dream log everything you can remember about the dream you had after you went back to sleep. This last exercise is the one which you can do for as long as you feel you need to. However as I said there is much benefit to doing all the methods and therefore I suggest the best method is the meta approach: of doing all methods and techniques: and so gaining full control over your dreams and so here is the next part of the metaapproach and it involves waking up during the night and going back to sleep. This method is a very good way of gaining control over your dreams and once mastered this too can give you great control and in some ways it is easier and although sleep disruption is more than the last technique I showed you. The method is easy to explain and here is the first of the exercises.
Method 2, exercise 1 1. Before you go to sleep set your alarm to go off five to six hours after you normally fall asleep. 2. Now simply go to sleep either using meditation or without if you want: use whatever method suits you. 3. When you wake up, stay awake for an hour and concentrate upon being lucid and whether you are dreaming or awake, and keep looking for signs you may be asleep: odd things which aren’t real. 4. After one hour go back to bed and keep chanting:”I will be aware that I am dreaming.” This method is in many ways easier to do than some others. This exercise has the advantage of being less analytical than some of the more advanced exercises: but it is a good exercise none the less. It gives you a good degree of control, however simply looking for things that aren’t real i s only part of control and dream signs are part of the method and all other methods, but also a key point of t he method is the checks that you can perform to prove you are awake or asleep. The method gets the mind used to checking and looking for signs you are in a dream; therefore here is the next exercise.
Method 2, exercise 2
1. As before set your alarm to go off five to six hours after you normally fall asleep. 2. Go to sleep. 3. When you wake up stay awake for an hour and concentrate upon being lucid and whether you are dreaming or awake, and keep checking that you are awake and not asleep. Do this by: looking at a watch or clock twice to see if it changes, prod yourself to see if your flesh feels as it normally does, prod trying to push your finger through your body and if it does go then you are asleep, try to float by thought and if this happens then you are asleep. Keep doing these checks every so often for the one hour period. 4. After the one hour go back to bed and keep chanting:”I will be aware if I am sleeping.” This second exercise actually gets you used to using your checking methods and also helps you do this when you go to sleep and by checking in the middle of two periods of sleep one hour apart, you have actually primed your mind for lucid dreaming. However doing the checks and looking for signs you are dreaming has also to be done together and not just apart and therefore here is the next exercise which puts it all together and it is the third exercise for this method and the one which you would practice in place of any other exercises once you have progressed to it.
Method 2, exercise 3 1. Set your alarm to go off five to six hours after you normally fall asleep. 2. Go to sleep. 3. When you wake up, stay awake for an hour and concentrate upon being lucid and thinking of whether you are dreaming or awake. Look for signs of things which aren’t in real life such as purple cats and odd things, and consciously look for them, also things such as the environment looking odd or strange. Perform checks to know if you are awake or asleep. Do checks such as: l ooking at your watch twice to see if it has changed, most people cannot read in dreams, also check by prodding to see if your body feel as it normally does, and check to see whether you can fly by thing of flying and any other check you can. 4. After the one hour go back to bed and keep chanting:”I will be aware if I am sleeping.”
Chapter 4 Control while asleep But lucid dreaming methods can take many forms and these can also be about
learning to trigger lucid dreams. One such method is basically a technique whereby a person learns to trigger lucid dreams themselves. But this method isn’t very complex and it is simply a matter of repetition so that it can become automatic because really the method is one which is very easy once practiced. But the world of lucid dreaming is also partly about choice, and although some people may settle upon one method there is still much to be gained by practicing multiple methods and therefore the following method is presented here alongside the others in the book. But really this is a method which utilized actual physical movement in order t o do things: lucid dreaming. But the best way for you to learn the t echnique is simply to start and so here it is.
Method 3, exercise 1 1. To start you will need to set an alarm clock to wake you up after you have slept a while, and also you should have your dream log by your bed with a pen to take notes of your dreams. 2. You now try to get to sleep, but when you feel yourself getting slightly tired you move your index finger up your middle finger and back down and then your middle finger up and down your index finger. Keep doing this and don’t focus on anything else. 3. Then after you have done this for a while, check for signs that you may be asleep and dreaming. 4. When you check for something unusual and it is affirmative, like your finger passing through your body, or anything else highly unusual, you are probably lucid dreaming. 5. When you wake up write down as much as you can remember about your dreams. This first exercise is quite easy to do and is good for someone to do no matter what level they are at. However it simply makes you lucid dream and hasn’t any added control methods which you can use, or to measure your control level when you have gotten control over the dream. There are much more to lucid dreaming than simply proving that at a particular point, you know you are sleeping. There are different levels of control to master using this m ethod and lucid dreaming in general and this is because this book is here to teach you the highest level of control over dreams and not just a basic command over the dream self and your surroundings. I will quite soon move onto showing you the next level of control using this method. This is in many ways the most important principle of this book is that we can improve, and that we can reach to higher levels of control. However what is very important is that we move onto the next level at the appropriate time and this means
that you have been able to verify that you have and can regularly know that you are in a dream, and the verify part is very important and by verify I mean that you must be able remember you knowing you were in a dream. Control in dreams has to be verified because you should only move into the next exercise when you have verified you are ready.
Method 3, exercise 2 1. Set an alarm clock to wake you up after you have slept a while and have your dream log and a pen by your bed to take notes of your dreams. 2. Now get to sleep, before you feel yourself getting tired you move your index finger up your middle finger and back down and then your middle finger up and down your index finger as before with the goal of bringing a blue sheep into your dream when you have one. 3. Then after you have done this for a while, check for signs that you may be asleep and dreaming, then go back to your finger action. 4. When you check for something unusual and it is affirmative, like your finger passing through your body, or anything else highly unusual, you are probably lucid dreaming. 5. When you wake up write down as much as you can remember about your dreams. Now if you can remember a blue sheep in your dream you have done very well and have managed to bring something into a dream and this therefore is a higher level of control than you were expected with the fir st exercise, which was merely to know you were in a dream. The exercise shows that you have control in a different way as well as at a higher level because it showed that you could add something into a dream that otherwise wouldn’t be there. However it isn’t the only type of control and there are other ways too. In many ways the sheep exercise is as much about proving to yourself that you have control over your dreams and that they are yours to control and it also gives people a great sense of achievement when they have managed to have made the sheep appear and also means they can make other things appear t oo. However now here is the next level of control.
Method 3, exercise 3 1. You need to set an alarm clock to go off to wake you up after you will have slept a while and have your dream log and a pen by your bed to take notes of your dreams. 2. Now go to sleep, before you feel getting tired move your index finger up
your middle finger and back down and then your middle finger up and down your index finger as before with the goal of playing a football match in your dream: when you have one. 3. Then after you have done this for a while, check for signs that you may be asleep and dreaming, then go back to your finger action. 4. When you check for something unusual and it is affirmative, like your finger passing through your body, or anything else highly unusual, you are probably lucid dreaming. 5. When you wake up write down as much as you can remember about your dreams. Hopefully when you look at your dream log, you will have found that you did i n fact play a football match. You may have found out that you didn’t: but this isn’t a problem because the exercise will seldom work for people strai ght away. This is actually an important point and don’t berate yourself for not getting it right str aight away. This book is about progress and this is i n actual fact an exercise which you can do more than once and in fact change the objective to anything you want because this is the most advanced exercise in method 3, and so naturally is very difficult for people. But I believe it is definitely a very good stepping stone onto the road to total dream control. We can now proceed to other methods of dream control. In many ways the power you gain from one method crosses over to t he next and in strengthens any weaknesses you may have in terms of dream control and manipulation via lucid dreaming. The next method works in a very dif ferent way to how the last method worked, and so is very beneficial and think of it like the other exercises as like a kind of cross training for the various different ways and methods of training the mind for lucid dreaming. But also it sometimes can pay to take a rest night if you feel that your mind is getting tired: because unlike some instructors of lucid dreaming I realize that it can be demanding. But even on a rest day you should complete your dream log. But I will soon move onto the next method and exercise.
Method 4, exercise 1 1. Make sure you have your dream log and pen ready near your bed. 2. Now use one of the meditation methods to calm yourself. 3. Concentrate upon the feeling of your head on the pillow and feel your head sinking into your pillow as you go to sleep and you will pass the lucidity onto your dream state. 4. Try to gain control and do something in your sleep over which you have control.
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When you wake up write in your log what dreams you remember.
This method has many different accompanying parts to it and you should also need to use the tests to know you are asleep: but you should be practicing these anyway and are beneficial to any method. But this method also has m any other ways of doing things, and so there is also a variation and this is shown in the next exercise. The next exercise in this method is actually very subtle and needs some explanation so that you gain what you can fully get out of the method. In the met hod there is the technique of drawing a symbol or word on your palm and this actually represents awareness and for those that are religious it can actually represent awareness of reality through god. For this exercise, we will simply be tracing the l etter “L” on your palm, L, of course, standing for “Lucid” as in lucid dreaming. In fact the awareness is one that is required, but that the awareness is of that you are awake or asleep and that each time you trace the “L” on the back of your hand it is a sign that you need to be aware and challenge the assumpti on that you are awake: but do this merely by being aware of whether you are although if required observation or checks can be performed. What is important is that you also trace the L on the back of your hand during the day because you will not feel you are asleep when you are and so perform the L tracing on the back of your hand many times in a day: at least ten to fifteen I recommend.
Method 4, exercise 2 1. Have your dream log and pen ready near your bed. 2. Now use one of the meditation methods to calm yourself. 3. Because you should have practiced the L for Lucidity when awake, you should trace it when you are asleep and so gain awareness of being asleep 4. Try to gain control and do something in your sleep over which you have control. 5. When you wake up write in your log what dreams you remember. By now you have actually gained a good knowledge of lucid dreaming and you will find that mastery of lucid dreaming is r eally just ahead of you. Of course lucid dreaming isn’t easy but then again what thing is, that is worth doing? The methods however need to be practiced in combination; eventually you will find that all that is required is that you circle around the methods eventually in order to m ove to the final level, because lucid dreaming is a technique that you will want to use to gain more control over your life because dream control is self control. It is really quite amazing how control of one thing gives us control over another. It is quite like Gandhi realized that to change the world he had to start by controlling something
which is small and so he started by controlling what he ate and by doing this gained the power to get India separate from the United Kingdom; I am English by the way. But from controlling one thing we can gain control over other things and dream control through lucid dreaming is a l arge thing to control, and so gives you a great head start to change whatever self or world altering endeavours you choose to do: not that you need to because lucid dreaming means controlling of t he massive time you spend asleep. It is amazing the control people gain through lucid dreaming and things that would seem difficult become easier because you can utilize the time dream ing to help you, and also the self control you will have gained. The time spent dreaming can be spent working out how best to lose weight or simply the gaining of s elf control can help you to do this: self control is very much like weight lifting, and the more you use it the stronger it gets. But many people who people imagine are undisciplined because they don’t have the values they have, and difference is something people mistake f or undisciplined: people imagining that discipline only appears in people who dress or look a certain way: when in fact sometimes these people show through lucid dreaming that they actually possess an abundance of natural discipli ne. But this is because lucid dreaming practice gets to the heart of things, to the root of the person and the root of self control. It also is a good practice to look back at what you have done and so find what you think you could have done better, because self control can only be enhanced by this. But don’t imagine that there aren’t more methods and techniques to know and learn because there is. But still this is a good time to consolidate the method and techniques you know so far and a good time to take stock on your practices of the checks and dream sign looking: checks that you are awake and looking for impossibilities to prove that you are asleep: because you in fact should be still doing these they are the foundation of lucid dreaming. Always keep the methods of checking and dream sign spotting well practi ced and if you need to then you should look up them, so that you know what checks you can perform. It would be a shame if you stumbled at this point because of a lack of consolidation of expertise, although you will have gained much at this point.
Chapter 5 Mastery of dreams This being the last chapter it is one where the most advanced material i s presented, and here is the place where any loose ends are tied up, and by the tim e you have finished this chapter you will have reached the end of the m ethod. This chapter therefore is a great achievement by you: when you complete it. However in this chapter is key information, but also insight into how to move onto the stage where you can gain as much as you can by your lucid dreaming and I also will s how you
some other exercises that are needed for you to complete your trai ning. The world of the dream will finally be yours to control, instead of just yours and like almost the victim of your own imagination like some kind of sci-fi story from one of those shows with “From the” or “Zone” in their titles. No the true fact is even more unusual and that is that many people suffer from their own imagination when asleep for no good reason; when a way exists for them to gain control over their dreams: yes truth is stranger than fiction by a country mile. It is like people starving not three foot from a banquet, it just doesn’t make sense. But then things more unusual have happened in this world and in the dream world too. But now we need to proceed onto a new method which will give you now so far unprecedented control over your dreams. The method is quite easy to do for you by now and will help unleash the power of the conscious m ind as a power for control on the unconscious dream world. Therefore I will now move onto a powerful method for both dream lucidity and control. This method involves looking at a sm all object for a period of time before you go to sleep, with the intent of actually seeing that same object in your dream. The object is up t o you. Some people look at a pencil, some people look at a little statue. I personally look at a small crystal ball that I have. Pick your object ahead of time.
Method 5, exercise 1 This method needs a little explaining and so that you know how to use it. The method centers upon looking at an object before bed and therefore this is quite an easy thing for you to do when awake: although if the object doesn’t appear in your dream then just have the intent to dream next time with the object being in the dream. However here are the steps for the method. 1. First make sure you have your dream log and your pen near where you sleep. 2. Unlike other methods don’t simply go straight to sleep and look at the object of your choice for approximately thir ty minutes before you sleep, and as you do so say to yourself: ”I will dream about this object in my sleep”, and keep saying this to yourself. 3. When you have said this for thirty minutes or when you feel tired go to sleep. 4. When you awake make a log of the dream and if you haven’t looked at the object in your dream then remember next time to dream with the intent of seeing your chosen object (most people don’t need this). This last exercise is one which while different from the others furthers your aim to become a great lucid dreamer. This therefore is there as a progression from the other
methods and by now you will have gained a good ability to control your dreams, and this is obviously what this chapter is about: but there is still more progression that can be made in lucid dreaming. However it is good to appraise what you managed to achieve in this exercise because if you find you weren’t able to dream of a t he object then you should repeat the exercise until you can. But of course there is a greater degree of control that you can gain with lucid dreaming and therefore t here are other exercises in utilising this method. Therefore here is the next method and a way to move onto stronger control over your dreams.
Method 5, exercise 2 1. Your dream log and your pen should be near where you sleep. 2. Look at the object for approximately thirty minutes before you sleep and as you do so say to yourself: ”I will dream about being in a bar drinking with a purple person”, and keep saying this to yourself. 3. When you have finished saying this or when you feel tired go to sleep. 4. When you awake make a log of the dream and if you haven’t looked at the object in your dream and haven’t then certainly haven’t achieved your aim then remember next time to dream with the intent of seeing the object (m ost people don’t need this). You should look at the dream you had and if the exercise has been successful you should have been in a bar drinking with a purple person and theref ore showing a higher level of control than you did with the last exercise. However don’t be too hard on yourself if you have found this difficult because this exercise you have just tried was very difficult to do and really needs a very high level of control f or you to be able to produce the correct result. But if you did then that is f abulous: but don’t get too big headed because there are other things that you can do too and so here i s the last of the exercises with this type of method.
Method 5, exercise 3 1. Have your dream log and your pen near where you sleep. 2. Look at your object for thirty minutes before you sleep and say to yourself:”I will dream of playing draughts (or checkers which ever term you normally use)”, and keep saying this to yourself. 3. When you have said this for thirty minutes or when you feel tired go to sleep. 4. When you awake make a log of the dream and if you haven’t looked at the
object in your dream then remember next time to dream with the intent of seeing the object (most people don’t need this). Now you should appraise your dream and be able to answer the question were you able to play draughts or checkers in your dreams? If you cannot play either of these games then you can replace it for any other board game. However bear in mind that the mind asleep is very much different from the mind awake and so don’t necessarily expect the board game to make perf ect sense, because dreams don’t always work like that. But the act of playing the game in a dream is a very, very high level of dream control. But at the same time this is how you gain the power to stretch yourself and gain better lucid dreaming abilities. There is only one way to improve and that is to do more difficult l ucid dreaming practice. But it needn’t be a long lasting test and it is perfectly okay to simply use the ability you have gained after all not everyone who works out has to be in the Olympics. I would say that once you have the technique from the last exercise a good thing is to use the ability you have and therefore now I will move onto things you can do to achieve things with your new found skill. Lucid dreaming itself is productive. But think how much better it will be, to be able to use l ucid dreaming to improve your waking life too. However at first it is like a student who graduates and then finds that they don’t know what to do? However the world of lucid dreaming isn’t like that and I will not leave you unable to know the next step and I will therefore ease you into the world of lucid dreaming in a more independent way. I will do this by concentrating on applications and way to improve your life. It may seem the lucid dreaming is very different from the other type of world that we are awake in and so we may wonder: how can it help us to gain in wealth.
Seeing chances 1. This time you need to go to sleep with the aim of seeking ways in your life to make money. 2. When you wake up log all the dream and ideas down. 3. Analyze the ideas to see if any are of use 4. Take those that aren’t of use and read these and now think of new ideas: these will have been inspired by the more crazy ideas 5. Now look at the useful ideas from step 4 and step 3 and see how you can improve them
Finding out how to do what you do well enough to make more money
1. Decide on what task you already or would like to do that you need improve 2. When you go to sleep do so with the aim of doing the task from step 1 but doing it many times and seeking to improve it 3. Note down your dream when you wake up. 4. Note any ideas you have had that may be of use, but recognizing that the practice in the dream will have helped too. 5. See how you can use any useful ideas and see how any others could inspire new ones that you can use. 6. Apply the ideas to make improvements. But of course there are other ways that lucid dream ing can help us and these too are useful in our lives. One way is to allow us to free ourselves from emotional pain because there are very few emotionally freeing si tuations like lucid dreaming can be. Therefore here is a great application to help you deal with the death of a loved one.
Dealing with the death of a loved one 1. Go to sleep with the aim of saying what you need to, to someone who has passed away. 2. When you wake the next day write down the dream 3. The dream may have been painful, but also freeing for you and it means you have the opportunity to say goodbye to them: something which many people cannot do in real life and regret greatly. However what is great about this method is that if you find that it didn’t go well you can do it again, but remember that it isn’t meant as a replacement for the real person and is just a way of you moving on, so that you can enjoy your life just like they would want you to. I hope this has helped you realize the power of lucid dreaming, and also the many wonderful things you can do with it. With lucid dreaming you can fly around and learn new skills, perfect old ones, live the t ype of life you cannot normally do: such as living in a grand mansion or flying in a private airplane, doing the impossible. Everything is possible with lucid dreaming there are no limits to the world you live when asleep. Lucid dreaming turns us all into kings, emperors of our own world. Because we should remember that although the waking world is more important when we are awake, when we are asleep it isn’t: the dream world is. But there is also other powers that dreams can give and just as many people have predictive dreams which predict the future: although interpretation needs practice: lucid dreaming reverses this and means that instead of your dream predicting what will be, it can be used as a type of magic to make it so. This occurs through intent or
will and also by sympathetic magic. Sympathetic magic basically i s one thing affecting another and is the principle behind the voodoo doll. I will therefore finish with the method for sympathetic magic dream ing.
Magic dreaming 1. Think of what you want in your life and think of an object which can represent it: such as a golden hen for being wealthier. 2. Before you go to sleep focus on the golden hen: or whatever other object you want to be in the dream: being in the dream and that it will cause more money to come into your life. 3. When you wake you don’t need to do anything and it isn’t necessary to write it down. Remember that what is most important with this method is intent to make it happen, because it is intent and will that partly works the magic, and also the way that the aim has been made into an object which therefore moves i nto your subconscious in the correct manner for a strong magical affect. However you can cast the spell again and again if required and repeat working of this dream magic is in fact a very good thing indeed. There therefore is the last secret of lucid dreaming, and now the dream world is yours and also power of the waking world too. But the most important point of this whole book is that if you do not know when you are asleep, how do you know when you are awake? You don’t, and so the power of truth lies here, that you can be aware and empowered and not need to be in a waking dream or sleeping awake and that lucidity means control and a real life both asleep and awake.
