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why control you dreams?

Imagine that you can dream of what you want, get rid of your nightmares and visualize your goals while dreaming, wont that be a great thing? Fortunately this is not just imagination, controlling your dreams is something that can come by training, the only requirment is inducing a lucid dream, because when being lucid you become aware that you are dreaming and so you can control your dream.

reality testing and controlling your dreams

if you want to control your dreams then you should first teach yourself how to know if you are dreaming or not, (see the guide to lucid dreaming), one of the popular methods that can help know if you are dreaming or not is called reality testing.

Reality testing is constantly testing your surroundings (while awake) to proof that you are not dreaming, this can be done by writing something on your palms then checking it every now and then to proof that you are not dreaming.

If you kept on doing reality tests few times each day you may end up finding yourself doing reality tests while being asleep too, and so you will know that you are dreaming and thus have a lucid dream!!

suggestions and inducing lucid dreams

Suggestions are one very powerful ways for inducing lucid dreams, you just have to keep thinking of getting a lucid dream just before you fall asleep. One thing that can make the technique much more effective is walking up at the middle of the night staying up for few minutes then getting back to sleep while focusing on getting a lucid dream.

Cycle adjustment technique

This method for controlling dreams was developed by Daniel Love, the main idea of this technique is making you aware of your dream in the last part of the night,becase at that time the rem cycle is the longest and so the posibility of dreaming is much higher. You just have to wake up 90 minutes earlier for serveral days and do any of the reality checks, after that you should revert back to your normal waking up time again, if it wass successful you may find that in the last 90 minutes of sleep you started to do the regular reality tests although that you are still asleep and so you may have a lucid dream.

dream control final notes

Dreams are not just hallucinates, they are a method of communication between your conscious and unconscious mind, controlling your dreams may lead you to loose a healthy channel of communication that was already there, and so you may go a little step further from self understanding. My advice is do it control your dreams when you really have to or when you want to get rid of a nightmare and not just when wanting to have fun or trying a new experience.

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