"Those who are dissociative or have conditions that lead them to lose touch with reality might find the blurred boundaries between dream time and waking life disorienting," Ellis explains, adding "it can lead to a further blurring of the line between what is real and what is imagined."Īs Waggoner adds, he always tells people, "If you can not handle waking reality, then it seems best to avoid lucid dreaming. But if you can handle waking reality, then it seems generally safe to dream lucidly." While lucid dreaming can be powerful and fun, to say the least, it does come with some risks-especially if you have any sort of mental health disorder (psychosis, dissociation, and depression, in particular). Write the entire dream how you realized you were dreaming what you did while aware that you were dreaming, etc. Later, when you wake from your lucid dream, take a moment and write it down in your dream journal. If they do, you will instantly make the connection, "This is a dream!" Try to stay calm and explore the dream environment. Try to remember your last dream did you see your hands?Īt some point in a dream, your hands may suddenly pop up in front of you. If and when you wake up in the middle of the night, gently recall your intention to see your hands and realize that you are dreaming. Stare softly at the palm of your hands, and tell yourself in a caring manner that, "Tonight while I am dreaming, I will see my hands and realize that I am dreaming."Ĭontinue to softly look at your hands and mentally repeat the affirmation, "Tonight while I am dreaming, I will see my hands and realize that I am dreaming."Īllow your eyes to cross and unfocus remain at peace and continue to repeat slowly.Īfter about five minutes or once you feel too sleepy, quietly end the practice. Sit in your bed, and become mentally settled. "Even those who regularly experience lucid dreams can't always do so at will," she says. In time, this reframing can lead to "greater flexibility and adaptability to life's challenges."Īnd according to Ellis, you'll want to bear in mind that lucid dreaming on demand usually takes patience and perseverance. It's even been shown to help treat nightmares, she adds, because if you can become lucid during a nightmare, "you can change the content in a way that feels more empowering right from within the dream itself," she says. Therapist and dream expert Leslie Ellis, Ph.D., adds that "lucid dreaming can bring you in touch with your own deep spiritual nature and bring about a sense of universal connectedness, and less fear of death." Lucid dreams can be opportunities to access creativity, practice certain skills, work on emotional issues, and so much more, he says. But the benefits don't stop there: He adds that lucid dreaming allows people to tap into the seemingly unlimited potential of the dream world and consciousness itself. Since then, it has been validated as a " hybrid state of consciousness with definable and measurable differences from waking and from REM sleep," the sleep stage in which we dream.Īs you can imagine, lucid dreaming opens the door to quite a lot of fun, author of Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self Robert Waggoner tells mbg. Sometimes, this awareness actually allows them to feel in control of their own dreams.Īristotle first raised the concept of lucid dreaming in his treatise On Dreams in the fourth century BCE, but the practice wasn't studied scientifically until the 1970s. Simply put, lucid dreaming occurs when someone finds themselves conscious (or "lucid") within a dream.
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