How to Learn Lucid Dreaming
The following is excerpted from the book Net Smart, by Howard Rheingold.
Twenty years ago, I coauthored a book with a scientist who studied sleep and dreaming – specifically the kind known as “lucid dreaming” in which you realize that you are in a dream state and begin to direct it. While writing the book, I needed to train myself to recognize that I was dreaming and then seize control of the plot. The method my coauthor, Stephen LaBerge, suggested worked well: I wrote the words “Am I dreaming?” on a small card and put the card in my pocket. Throughout the day, at least once during every waking hour, I pulled the card out, looked at it, and thought about the question. About three weeks into the exercise, I pulled out the card on an otherwise perfectly ordinary day and noticed that the letters seemed to scramble to get back into place when I looked at the card, as if the letters had been loafing. I had trained myself to question whether I was awake or not at least once an hour, and without consciously intending to do it, I started reality testing while I was dreaming. Although everything and everyone around me looked real, I decided to test my perceived reality by pushing off the ground with my toes. When I began to float above the ground, I realized I was dreaming.
Of course, brainwave entrainment isn’t limited to an individual’s experience of meditation; whether you are new or old to the
practice there is something there for you. With this in mind, don’t you find the idea of being faced by a big scary monster who can’t hurt you in any way whatsoever rather funny.
because you have been programmed liked that, you will have
to build up the confidence by bringing your
body and mind in report with each other.
Everybody is informed about the spiritual world in the ratio of his belief.
The duration of an Etheric Projection may also be shorter
as it is said to depend on the amount of etheric matter
channelled to the Astral Body by the chakras.
it just takes some practice; before long, you’ll be able to use this ability
at will.