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Healing through lucid dreaming

badfish45

badfish45

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I've been doing this lately. When I was in 8th grade, I used to practice this all the time but I honestly let it start to slip once I got into high school, and now that I can't smoke weed anymore I've really decided to start focusing on it again. I honestly think it's a great stress reliever other than drugs, and it's the one place I enjoy being, inside my own mind. I feel safe, and above all happy, something I have difficulty achieving a lot in the waking world. I haven't gone lucid yet, but even just the process of recording my dreams is nice. Does anybody use this to help with their addictions? It seems like it would be effective, technically, it is "tripping" considering your body is releasing DMT.
 
I'm an avid believer that our lives are influenced by our own higher form of consciousness.
Call it a guardian angel or whatever you want.
A part of our psychospiritual being that is hidden from our conscious mind, trying to lead us towards the light. Our personal connection to the macrocosmical blob of universal consciousness the world calls God.
Our conscious and subconscious would be wandering in darkness if it wasn't for our "higher selves".
by higher selves I mean our own projection of our own superconscious.
When we look inside our minds/souls, we do it with the help of our high-selves. It creates our dreams and epiphany that hint us towards the answers we seek in life.
Those who let the connection of our low selves (subconscious mind) and middle selves (conscious mind) weaken from our high selves, we become more succeptable to harm; wether that harm be from an external or internal source.
Lucid dreaming, introspection, etc. is a way to bring our conscious mind into the realm of this higher-self to better understand the sometimes confusing messages we receive from such a superconsciousness.

Now that I have that cleared.
Yes, I do find lucid dreaming to be a major form of self-healing.
We search for our answers using this tool and when we find it, we bring it back with us to this physical realm for our own use.
 
This topic fascinates me, but I don't really know much about it.. do you guys have any info or links or anything? :)
 
Thank you! Off to bed now but I shall check them out :D
 
Lucid Dreaming is truly a gift anyone can achieve. I've alaways been a dreamer since a kid, but for the past year I've been an avid lucid dreamer almost every night. It came to me when I found myself seeping back into a deep depression which has affected me in the past. I pretty much lost everything and didnt have much going for me. Sleeping a lot is usual for the depressed and I was really given new hope through lucid dreaming. It offered me escape from the reality I was living and adventures I desired. Dreams are beutiful and are meant to inspire us in daily life. I hope to hold onto to this gift for the rest of my life. I love revisting old friends in dreams. Afterall, life is but a dream. ;)
 
Good luck effie :D I know that you'll really like it if you give it a try.

HeWhoHowls: I believe that this knowledge is all inside us, but that our conscience selves cannot see it in waking life. I like your ideaology though, I find people's perceptions on the dreaming state all very interesting, no matter how much it differs from mine.

Moke: I couldn't agree with you more. I see dreaming as a wonderful escape, I love being in my own mind, and dreaming is the imagination expanded.
 
I used to practise lucid dreaming in my late teens and early 20s, but never got the knack of it. Plus, my dream recall blows, and I have a really tough time keeping a dream journal to try to improve it. About once a year I'll get the itch to start working on it again, but old habits die hard I guess.

Of actual interest to the thread though, I've got a bit of a story regarding the use of lucid dreaming to help heal. The woman who owns and runs the yoga studio where I practise has been a yogi for decades and practises all kinds of awesome things. I recently found out though that she pretty well had to learn how to become lucid without any guidance whatsoever when she was plagued with horrible recurring nightmares after the birth of her son. She wouldn't describe the dreams, understandably, but she did say that she was at one point, just terrified to go to sleep because of them. There was some sort of recurring character who was causing havoc, and doing horrible things to her young son (as I found out later). By eventually learning to become lucid, she was able to confront said character, and remove its influence.

I remember reading an old lucid dreaming usegroup (that's how long ago it was!) about how people were using lucid dreaming as a form of self-therapy. It was tied into psychoanalysis, and treated the characters in the dreams, particularly recurring ones, as aspects of the subconscious personality, which could then be communicated with in a manner that would otherwise be impossible. Fascinating stuff, but just a bit over my 14-year-old head.

And.... now I'm feeling like I should start giving it another go. Well, it's been about a year, so why not? ;)
 
Yes dave, that is one of the many benefits of lucid dreaming. Many people have a recurring nightmare character who always appears within their dreams. They can be often more frightening than any normal nightmare a person experiences, and people gain lucidity through these when they recognize it as a dream sign. People often try to destroy these characters, which is not a good idea. Peaceful confrontation through lucidity is a very effective method of ending these.

And you should definitely start again! It's a great method to gain insight and inner peace, and I think with some dedication you could get further than you ever have with it. Sometimes all it takes is a second try (:
 
I think that was what she wound up doing. This character was literally a monster, but rather than killing it, snapping your fingers and making it disappear, or what not, she was able to confront it and eventually pacify it. The courage required to do that was really impressive.

Yeah, I need to get back into it, but step one is always getting the dream recall back up. Hell, I'd like to have better dream recall, period. Oh, and this'll probably be my dozenth or so try :) I've managed to get lucid around 5 or 6 times though, and at least twice without waking up instantly... :\
 
Congratulations on that (: A few things to help dream recall

1. Write down whatever you remember AS SOON as you wake up, no matter how brief.
2. Don't think about anything else.
3. Dont move. It stimulates the brain to create movement and often dream memories disappear very quickly.

And yeah that's a big problem is waking up...I hate it. But it's fun when you can sustain it.
 
The only lucid dreaming I ever had was from about 6 through my teens when I would have flying dreams. I remember that it was always a nightmare and when I would be just drowning in terror I would remember that I could always fly if I worked at it. I can still feel the feeling in my chest and arm muscles that it took to get off the ground but once that was accomplished it was relatively easy to stay aloft. I haven't been able to have a flying dream in years and I really miss them! I'm very curious about flying dreams--who has them and who doesn't. It seems to be more women than men but that could just be the arbitrary sample that I've asked over my life. Neither of my sons has ever had a flying dream, nor has my husband. Have the readers of this thread had flying dreams? were they always nightmare situations?

I have written down my dreams for years--not everyday by any means but in fits and starts, some more prolonged than others. Your advice for how to do it is right on, Badfish. Got to have the pencil right there. I've had two vision-dreams in my life that I could never forget even without writing them down but I'm glad I did anyway because I like to go back from time to time and read the details.

Of course I am literally trying to dream my son back but so far, I have had no success with that. I did have a waking vision of him twice shortly after he died but nothing since. I think I am trying too hard. Any suggestions? I'm really glad you posted this thread, Badfish. I like thinking about this stuff.
 
I have been unable to lucid dream sense I was in high school... once in awhile a little bit but not like I used to. I fear drug use messed with my dreaming forever..

My Nightmeres are horrible and real and I feel them and I rip my self awake screaming.. I don't always have them but when I do there so real I can't sleep after.. I feel pain.. I don't know why.. during withdraw I had them every night im sober now 6months and there rare but they still happen.
 
badfish45 said:
HeWhoHowls: I believe that this knowledge is all inside us, but that our conscience selves cannot see it in waking life. I like your ideaology though, I find people's perceptions on the dreaming state all very interesting, no matter how much it differs from mine.
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My ideaology isn't original.
After reading up on ancient Polynesian shamanism, I found every aspect of physical/spiritual existence easier to understand and solve.
If you want to learn more, I would gladly share with you my knowledge of the Huna teachings.
I'm always looking to crack the nutshells of human consciousness...
 
Herb - don't force it. I've had a few dreams featuring my grandfather after he passed, and while I usually got sad once I woke up they were all such happy dreams. The memories are in you, but they'll only come out at the right time.

badfish - thanks for the tips! I actually knew those already, but I find that I have a hard time getting in the habit of doing anything at that time of day. It's just practise, but it's a surprisingly tough one for me: my mornings are on autopilot until well after I get to work, and things that mess up the routine can really grate on me. But it's for a good purpose, so I really should be doing it.
 
HeWhoHowls said:
My ideaology isn't original.
After reading up on ancient Polynesian shamanism, I found every aspect of physical/spiritual existence easier to understand and solve.
If you want to learn more, I would gladly share with you my knowledge of the Huna teachings.
I'm always looking to crack the nutshells of human consciousness...
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Yeah but it's different than mine. And certainly, I'd be more than happy to hear your thoughts :)

my mornings are on autopilot until well after I get to work, and things that mess up the routine can really grate on me.
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Problem I always had. *alarm goes off*, either I jump out of bed or I endlessly hit the snooze button. I never really thought about my dreams, but slow down, you'll see it pays off, whether you intend to be lucid or not, dreams are very comforting to remember.
 
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