Set an alarm for five hours after you go to sleep. Ideally, the alarm should go off between 4 AM and 6 AM. Your body may trick you into revealing your mind is awake by performing a sleep test.
The body will send a message to your brain that you need to roll over, touch your stomach, scratch your nose, etc. Resist the urge to move. In the last section, we alluded to the separation between mind and body. Meditation, when done correctly, helps you practice this skill. They can achieve that because their bodies have gone to sleep, yet their minds are awake.
Lucid dreaming is very similar and requires the same skill set. Interested in more details? Learn how to meditate before sleep. You might have listened to binaural beats to help you focus, study, and even sleep, but they can also help with lucid dreaming, too. The two frequencies being played at the same time enter each ear individually and are processed by your brain as a single frequency that merges the two. You can find binaural beat tracks for free on YouTube, or you can purchase an app for more variety.
The trick to making these work for lucid dreaming is to match the Hz frequency to the appropriate brainwaves to encourage the activity.
In this case, you want Theta waves, which are between 4Hz and 8Hz. When you play video games, you immerse yourself in a new world and can explore the edges of this new universe. Studies have shown this supplement is helpful in lengthening REM rapid eye movement sleep and encouraging sleep recall. In this particular study, the likelihood of a lucid experience was 5. Vitamin B6 is associated with lucid dreaming. Like anything, practice makes perfect. However, many people experience their first lucid dream within the first few nights of trying the techniques mentioned in this article.
A lucid nightmare is the unpleasant version of a lucid dream. The good news is that since you are aware of the situation, you can take a more active role in the situation and confront whatever is causing the nightmare. Think about merging a visualization into the patterns, either within the patterns themselves or beyond the patterns using your inner eye.
If you do this just before you fall asleep, you might begin to have some control over your dream or even begin to dream about the scene you have created. You need to keep your consciousness immersed in this state of near-sleep so fight hard to stay awake while giving your full concentration to the images in your hypnagogia.
Keep breathing gently. Try to begin to awaken the other senses - sometimes, the hypnagogia can trigger sounds and visual patterns. The intention is not to get up but simply to wake up and go back to sleep to alter your sleep cycle and give you a better chance of experiencing lucid dreams. As your mind drifts in that semi-conscious state between sleep and wakefulness, the boundaries between sleep and reality become blurred, and you have a stronger chance of being fully conscious in your dream.
You want your body to stay relaxed and in its sleeping position, if possible. It is best to learn to wake up with your eyes still closed and to keep them closed.
Stay awake for a few minutes, and you have a higher chance of going straight into REM sleep and straight into a lucid dream. If you are wide awake or need to use the restroom, it is probably best to get up for a bit. While you are up for a bit, remember to use the mantra and to focus on lucid dreaming.
It is good to stay up for about a half-hour but try not to exert too much energy. Stay calm and think about what you want to dream about. If when you woke up you were still sleepy, try not to move too much. Just shut off the alarm and go straight into the mantra and counting techniques. TIP: Many people believe in focusing on the third eye or the space between your eyes on your forehead. This can be a great focal point for meditation. The main goal of having a lucid dream relies heavily on the fact that you must first have a dream.
All the preparation, relaxation, and meditation are designed to help you enter a deeper sleep to have dreams. Some people claim they never dream, but they most likely just don't remember their dreams when they wake up. If you go through the normal sleep cycles each night, it is impossible to avoid having at least some REM sleep Rapid Eye Movement , which is when dreams occur.
The hard part that takes the most work is learning to become aware while in your dream and continue in that dream.
Think about your mindset and your desire to stay in the dream. Most people wake up a short time after realizing they are in a dream. Keeping a dream journal is highly recommended for those who truly want to learn to lucid dream. Simply telling someone about your dream as soon as you wake up is enough to begin to etch it into your memory so that your dreams start to become a normal part of your life.
When you write down what you remember of your dreams, you find you begin to recall more and more each time.
Very soon, you will be able to recall several dreams from the same night. Think carefully and give yourself time to focus on small details, especially the senses. In fact, it proved almost twice as effective when people fell asleep within five minutes after setting their intention.
Doing the technique after five or so hours of sleep is important, too: Most of our dreams occur in the last two to three hours before waking, and you want to minimize the time between finishing the technique and entering REM sleep.
And if the dream starts to fade or seems unstable, you can try rubbing your hands together vigorously from within the dream.
It sounds strange, but this strategy works by flooding the brain with sensations from within the dream, which decreases the chance of becoming aware of your sleeping physical body, and waking up. With practice, our dream state can feel almost as vivid to us as the world itself—and leaves you wondering, perhaps, where fantasy ends and reality begins. This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. This story is a part of Quartz Ideas , our home for bold arguments and big thinkers.
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