Lucid Dreaming - Playing With Our Dreams
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In modern societies we constantly have less time to enjoy ourselves than we would like to have. Weekends and holidays become the only moment to forget about our daily routine, to be who we always want to be, and to do what we always wanted to do. But there is always something that doesn't allow us to enjoy this time as we wish to. Maybe we can't get that special experience we seek, either we don't have enough money, time or both. Or maybe what we really want is impossible to get. We can only dream with those experiences, literally. In our dreams we can do whatever we want, there are no limits. The problem is that usually we don't decide what to do in them.A lucid dream however is a dream in which you take conscious control of what happens next, you decide either you eat your favourite dish, or punch your boss, fly with the motorcycle you always wanted into the sky or even meet your favourite film character. By learning how to lucid dream the person can take advantage of that spare time we spend sleeping to transform it into a playful time. Learning how to control your dreams implies at first remembering in detail what happens in a dream, wich is by itself an enjoyable experience. But as the dreamer learns how to lucid dream, in some weeks he can be able to also control the dream, doing in it whatever he wants. Thus, dreams can become the perfect time to relax and enjoy oneself, being able to remove the stress that almost everybody accumulates in everyday life. With better control over your dreams you can feel relieved of anger or problems on a daily basis. You won't have to wait for those desired holidays to enjoy yourself. Lucid dreams are an answer.Playing with the unconscious mind - how much control do we have and how much do we need?Lucid dreaming is the experience of being aware of being dreaming. In a lucid dream you can be from slightly aware to be able to control the things that are going on in the dream. We all have had the feeling in some dreams that we somehow knew that it was a dream, you were a bit aware of it; but in these cases you can't control what is going on at all. In a full lucid dream the control of the dream is overwhelming. The person who knows how to lucid dream can make from his dream almost anything he or she wants. It is true, though, that the influence has its limits, there is no total control to speak of. The dreamer can learn how to lucid dream and influence what is happening, the dream's landscape, the characters involved, the course that the dream takes and such things.But there are always some things that don't fall under our control. Some may argue that if I have total control of what is going on in the dream, the surprise factor drops to nothing, making the experience not so grateful. But this is not the fact. When someone is lucid dreaming, the dream still presents some unexpected events. What a lucid dreamer consciously puts into the dream is not the last word as it experiences a feedback process with the somehow unconscious tendencies or paths that the dream takes for itself. This is why having the control over your dream is such a powerful experience. Because not everything is said, because the lucid dreamer can play with his dream, challenge his own unconscious and see with joy what it has to respond to what he consciously creates. In this sense we can say that not having total control makes a lucid dream even more powerful.
