{"id":2992,"date":"2010-08-09T07:09:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T11:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=2992"},"modified":"2012-11-08T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T00:31:39","slug":"awake-in-my-dreams-lucid-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/awake-in-my-dreams-lucid-dreaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Awake in my dreams: Lucid dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have to do a post about this, esp since it’s fresh in my mind. This morning I had really vibrant lucid dreams. That is, I woke up within the dream, and could control the things I did\/decided, and I could consciously control some of the dream’s outcome.<\/p>\n

I used to have insomnia as a tween (pre-teen, ages 9-12) and teen. Now, I have trained my mind to fall asleep in usually under 2 minutes. (Much to the astonishment of my spouse, and friends who happen to see it take place.) I usually remember 3-7 dreams per night. I dont’ bother with a dream journal much, because I don’t have several hours to take it all down when I wake up.<\/p>\n

If I can’t fall asleep in 5 minutes or less, I tend to be awake for a while. So, I’ve developed some skills to fall asleep. The one I use the most, and the most effectively is counted down from 100. I concentrate on the numbers (number shape and order themselves), and allow my breathing to grow slow and deep. Often I beginning dreaming immediately as I drift off into unconsciousness.<\/p>\n

A person can develop this sort of (lucid) dreaming as a skill, much like training yourself to remember dreams. Here are some tips to start remembering your dreams.<\/span><\/a><\/span> I also got some quite handy tips on how to wake up a bit better within my dreams from Tim Ferriss<\/span><\/a>, who has researched it a bit.<\/p>\n

For me personally, I’ve always had a vivid imagination, been highly creative, and highly stimulated visually. I had always thought everyone had the chance to dream this way. Since I was a little girl I’ve had fantastic lucid dreams, and I would pick *flying* when I would wake in my dreams. This just seemed like the most fun and exhilarating choice, and crashing didn’t happen too often either. (It’s more like bouncing usually.)<\/p>\n

Can you wake up during your dreams?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Interesting-\u00a0Quick facts about lucid dreams here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Foray into conscious dreaming (lucid dreaming).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5626],"tags":[303,304,371,666,812,844,920,921,977,1039,1040,1041,1042,21,1191,1194,1311,1740,1784,1880,2090,2091,2293,54,2299,2353,2362,2368,2442,3109,3110,3111,3185,6539,3443,6058,3629,3747,3797],"class_list":["post-2992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spark-my-muse","tag-awake-dreaming","tag-awakening-in-dreams","tag-beginners-guide-to-ludic-dreams","tag-christian-mystics","tag-controlling-lucid-dreams","tag-counting-sheep","tag-daydreams","tag-daymares","tag-difficulty-falling-sleep","tag-dream-control","tag-dream-guru","tag-dream-lab","tag-dream-therapy","tag-dreams","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-groups","tag-flying-in-dreams","tag-hypnosis","tag-insomnia","tag-journaling-dreams","tag-lucid-dreaming","tag-lucid-dreams","tag-mysteries","tag-mysticism","tag-mystics","tag-nightmares","tag-no-sleep","tag-not-enough-sleep","tag-out-of-body-experiences","tag-sleep-center","tag-sleep-problems","tag-sleeping","tag-spiritual-awakening","tag-spirituality","tag-tim-ferriss","tag-true-dreams","tag-waking-up-in-dreams","tag-world-of-dreams","tag-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2992"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10628,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2992\/revisions\/10628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}