Dreams come to us during rest, when we are immersed in a certain state, which makes it possible to explore our inner world. All people sleep, but not everyone can remember their dream, let alone manage the events taking place in it. Everything that we see during the night's rest is considered beyond control.
Most of us consider those bizarre fantasies, incredible events, and scary characters to be nothing more than a simple reaction to what happened in the afternoon. In our dreams, we are used to acting as an ordinary spectator who takes everything he sees at face value. Only in the morning comes the surprise that awakening takes place in one's own bed. However, such a concept is the result of a lack of awareness and a low level of free energy. If desired, we can always learn to see controlled dreams. How to achieve this and why?
Do we need lucid dreams?
This is the first question that arises in a person who first encounters this topic. Do we need controlled dreams, are they harmful to our mental and physical health? There is nothing to worry about. To consciously control a dream is perfectly normal for any person. This phenomenon is often observed in young children, creating for themselves new worlds, which are then explored with great interest. But are adult controlled dreams necessary? Yes, and there are a number of reasons for this. Among them:
- The emergence of new sensations. These amazingly beautiful landscapes and flights during a night's rest are worth it to master the method of managing sleep.
- Self-knowledge. During sleep, a person finds himself in permissiveness. This gives him a reason to behave completely different from what he does in life. And there is reason to reflect on the newly discovered character traits.
- Care of the fear of death. According to Buddhists, a dream is a transition to another world. That is a little death. Most of those who fall into controlled dreams (the methodology and practice of this phenomenon have already been mastered) are not afraid of death. They managed to make sure that consciousness is preserved even in those cases when the body is disconnected.
Do not be afraid that in a controlled dream you can "get lost." This chance is zero. The physical body of a person is not able to suffer from the fact that his master sees controlled dreams. There is a chance only, perhaps, accidentally fall out of bed. But sometimes those who sleep in “normal mode” also suffer from this.
However, practitioners often face one significant problem - excessive enthusiasm. Especially those who do not get along real life suffer from it. Such people strive headlong into the world of dreams. There is a certain dependence that can be compared with a computer. However, the appearance of such a problem is most likely facilitated by a weak psyche and own dissatisfaction.
What is lucid dream?
The possibilities that control gives us during a night's rest are simply endless. Guided dreams allow you to interact with your own subconscious, improving existing skills, working on eliminating bad habits and getting rid of fears. Ultimately, this helps restore psychological health.
How to make sure that you have a controlled dream at night? The technique of this method can be mastered in two to three weeks. At least half an hour should be allocated for this daily.
Phases of lucid sleep
Everything we saw during the night's rest can be divided into 3 stages. In order to master the method of lucid dreaming, it is necessary to start from the very first of them, then moving to the second and adding the third phase at the end. Consider all three stages in more detail:
- Going to sleep. This phase is based on auto-training and auto-suggestion.
- Being at the stage of controlled sleep and conducting work with the subconscious mind according to a pre-planned plan.
- The way out of sleep , combined with a stimulating psychosuggestion.
There are a number of features of entering a controlled sleep, and they are taken into account without fail. First of all, a person must be in a rested state. This will allow him to control everything that happens.
In addition, the position that the practitioner takes during sleep is a very important point. It is advisable to take a sitting position. Ideally, this is the so-called coachman pose. If you lie comfortably on soft sofa cushions, then, most likely, instead of a controlled sleep, an ordinary one will come to you. It will also be difficult to exercise control over night events in the event that, before resting, you were stressed or had excessive exercise.
What else do you need to know to answer the question "How to manage sleep?". The instruction given by psychologists advises you to choose a time for this when there are no external irritants. However, this is only necessary at the initial stage. Further, when the management of dreams comes into normal practice, no one will be able to disturb you.
In addition, the psychologists who studied the entire ins and outs of dreams were able to develop the most effective methods to begin to control night scenes. You can find these recommendations below.
Want to see
Many people believe that not every night they dream. However, it is not. Dreams come to us daily. So, children dream during 80% of their nightly rest. In adolescents, 65% is assigned to this, in adults - 50%, and in the elderly - 35% of the time.
Those who want to control their dreams need to recognize the fact that we see nightly stories regularly, you just need to remember them. This is the only and most effective method that psychologists recommend for beginners.
Ask a Question
Also, in order to begin to control your sleep, you need to remember a problem whose solution was never found in the real world. 10 or 15 minutes before a night's rest, experts recommend starting to ask questions to oneself. Thoughts should be concentrated on an unsolved problem until the very moment of falling asleep. This may seem surprising, but most successful people found answers to their questions in dreams. For example, in real life, Mendeleev could not compile a table of chemical elements for a long time. The answer to the question tormenting him came in a dream. Schoolchildren and students still use the table of the famous scientist.
Psychologists say that dreams can do a lot. They show the future, allow solving complex problems, present answers to difficult questions, etc. That is why dreams need to be respected. Only then will they benefit you. For example, to someone who today considers himself unhappy, psychologists advise asking a question about the reasons for this to his subconscious. Surely at night you can get the right answer.
Preliminary preparation
Those who do not yet know how to manage sleep, and have not put this technique into practice, should start with the following:
- Supporting the desire to fall into a controlled dream. In this, as in many other cases, the success of the plan depends on the strength of intent. That is, the more a person thinks more about how he wants to see a lucid dream, the more likely it will become that he gets into it. However, there is a nuance here. Excessive desire is sometimes more harmful to the success of an event than complete disinterest in it. Here you need to observe the middle ground, that is, constantly have an interest in this topic and support it, but not so much that each of ordinary dreams brings to despair and disappointment in their capabilities.
- Reading special literature. How to make a dream manageable? Methods of entering this state can be found in books on this topic. Specialized literature will maintain at a certain level their interest in this practice. So, the book of R. Webster, the creations of M. Rainbow and R. Monroe, K. Castaneda and T. Bradley will teach you how to manage sleep. Moreover, not only serious literature will be useful. Various forums and blogs will help to achieve this goal, in which practical tips are given and user experience is described.
- Keeping a diary of dreams. For this, not only a paper notebook, but also a Word file is suitable. The description of dreams is an indispensable attribute of a "successful dreamer." Record nightly adventures need to be done daily, detailing all the details. At the same time, it is important to record the emotions, thoughts and feelings that arose during the “meeting” with the characters of sleep. Or maybe, before a night's rest or after awakening, unusual physical phenomena occurred, for example, trembling in the body, pressing pains in the chest, dizziness, etc.? Then this should also be recorded in the diary.
- Regular practice. Is it possible to manage dreams already the first time? Not everyone is seeking this. Usually people begin to control their nightly adventures only after a week of active practice, after a year or several years. It also happens that the first controlled dream comes when a person has already considered this topic hopeless and completely abandoned it. That is why beginners need to constantly train and try not to lose heart.
- Refusal of stimulants and diet. Can I control dreams without adjusting my diet? Not. It is believed that the practitioner's diet should be free of meat and products from it. Also do not recommend the use of alcohol, drugs and smoking tobacco.
Awareness training during a night's rest should be similar to sports. The result in both cases cannot be seen immediately, but it still exists. Even if there are no signs of controlled sleep, certain shifts in consciousness necessarily occur. Over time, the necessary changes will be accumulated in such a volume that the dream will cease to resemble a movie and allow the sleeping person to correct the events that occur.
Basic techniques for entering the OS
How to manage a dream? The instruction given by psychologists recommends relaxing the body to the maximum, preventing the mind from falling asleep. To achieve this effect, relaxation methods, which include muscle relaxation and breathing monitoring, will help.
First of all, the practitioner must retire to a separate room, close the curtains, turn off the phone and lie down in a comfortable position. This will prepare you to manage your sleep. The technique allows you to light candles and turn on soft music. However, the above can be done only if there is confidence that this will not distract from the main goal.
What needs to be done next and how can you manage your sleep? A few minutes after taking a comfortable posture, you just need to lie down and breathe evenly. It is important to monitor the sensations that arise. Only after this should begin to relax the muscles. There are a large number of techniques for this, but the following methods are most widely used:
- Mentally tell yourself that a particular muscle is relaxed. It is important to feel that this is actually happening. It is necessary to start with the muscles of each toe, then gradually move up and describe each small area of the body.
- Visualize, imagining that in each muscle there is a small amount of a substance (water, metal, etc.). After receiving a feeling of heaviness, you should immediately get rid of it. To do this, it is recommended simply to imagine how water or liquid metal gradually flows out of you.
- Imagine that the body fell from a great height and instantly relaxed. It is important to extend such sensations as long as possible.
However, how can one control sleep if falling asleep occurs as a result of relaxation? Yes, this happens often, and such a reaction of the body is considered normal. Then for relaxation you can try the following methods:
- Swinging . This method involves the mental representation of yourself in a boat on the waves or riding on a swing.
- Visualization of an object in hand. The easiest way to imagine a mobile phone. After the sensation of an object is clamped in the palm of your hand, you need to mentally raise your hand.
- The idea that you are in a pleasant place. In this case, the consciousness has a chance to cling to the picture and go into it.
- Trying to separate from your body. The feeling of pressure on the head helps to “fly out”.
- Movements made by a non-physical body. To achieve the desired effect will allow the usual movement of a hand or foot. The physical body must remain at rest.
The techniques described above can be bewildering. However, in the near-perone state, the execution of the above actions is not particularly difficult.
"Enter" into a lucid dream and helps another very effective method. It involves setting an alarm in the early morning. It can be 4 hours or 5. Having woken up, you need to get up, go to the toilet, it is advisable to drink water and immediately return to bed. All of these manipulations should not take more than 5 minutes. After this, one of the methods of getting into a controlled sleep should be applied.
Behavior rules
In order to adapt as easily as possible in a controlled sleep, it is important:
- Do not be afraid. Emerging fear is the main obstacle to success. Any event that occurs in a dream will not affect real life. Do not be afraid of a state of complete immobility with waking consciousness. Such a phenomenon will indicate that the "entrance" into a controlled dream is already open.
- Use the power of your thoughts. In a controlled dream, you just need to think about something, and it will immediately appear. This will allow you to move in space, create your own worlds and modify characters that are unpleasant for a person.
- Move. Beginners can easily "fall out" of a state of controlled sleep. This can only be prevented in the case of constant movement. Attention should be fixed on any subject.
Control over other people's dreams
You can also control a person in a dream, that is, his night visions. However, this practice is available only to those who are able to control their own stories.
How to manage other people's dreams? For this, first of all, it is necessary to focus your thoughts on the right person. Then you should relax and set aside all extraneous thoughts. Lighted candles of white, blue or blue color, as well as incense will help to do this. Next, you need to imagine the cloud that surrounds the person you need, and go through his white clubs. This method allows you to be in a dream an outsider. Only after that can any picture, sound, action or image be brought into a strange story. But it is worth remembering that a person will see the ordered plot, if all the manipulations are carried out after midnight.
Works of Elena Mir
This author is well known to those who are interested in the subject of lucid dreams. Elena Mir is a psychic, psychologist, parapsychologist, spiritual healer, artist and past life traveler. In addition, she is the author of a number of books on controlled dreams, practicing them for more than twenty years. The most popular is her work “Controlled Dreams”. Elena Mir points out in it that during a night's rest, which lasts a third of a person’s life, we learn about ourselves new information. In this book, the author introduces his reader to all possible methods of conscious transition to new worlds that come to us in dreams. Based on personal experience, E. Mir says that each of us can be aware of our “I” not only in the daytime. It is easy to do this at night, during dreams.
Such a practice, according to the author, will expand life experience and fill being with new events. E. The world indicates that each person can live a second life in his dreams, and opens up parallel worlds to his readers, which can be seen by stepping over the boundaries of space and time.