Lucid dreaming is simply becoming aware that you are dreaming while in the throws of a dream. If it’s never happened to you, your response might be anything from “I don’t believe it!” to “So what?” to “Teach me now!” Well, lucid dreaming not only does exist, but it can be a profoundly powerful tool to improve your waking life. This website supplies the evidence, but first…
Can anyone do it?
I have a friend who told me that he doesn’t dream. Although I don’t share his brain function while he sleeps, I had the audacity to disagree with him. I told him that virtually everyone dreams. The reason some don’t think so is that our biology has built-in “dream killers” that go to work from the moment we begin exerting our physical bodies. Think of tiny pencil erasers wreaking havoc on the canvass of your nightly dreams the moment you stir. There are techniques for improving your recall, many of which are covered on this website. One of the most powerful ways to do this is by keeping a dream journal.
But what about lucid dreams? Aren’t they designated for the weird, the new-age, or the highly gifted and talented? Absolutely not. Everyone who dreams has the ability to become lucid (or “aware”) while in the dream. You need first to believe it, and then practice the scientifically proven techniques.
First, let’s talk about belief.
Anthony Robbins, world renown motivational speaker and peak performance strategist, explains “belief” better than anyone I have ever read. A belief is simply a feeling of certainty, and our beliefs have the power to create or destroy in our lives. But where does the certainty come from? It must, of course, be backed up by evidence. To explain, Robbins uses a metaphor of a table with legs. In a nutshell, here is the metaphor from his book Awaken the Giant Within:
“How do we turn an idea into a belief? If you can think of an idea as being like a tabletop with no legs, you’ll have a fair representation of why an idea doesn’t feel as certain as a belief. Without any legs, that tabletop won’t even stand up by itself. Belief, on the other hand, has legs. References are the legs that make your tabletop solid.”
I have borrowed this metaphor and have personalized it for this website. Since my name is Wagonmaker (No, I don’t really make wagons), and the purpose of this website is to create a vehicle for anyone to learn lucid dreaming, I have turned Robbins’s table into a child’s toy wagon.
If you’ve never experienced a lucid dream, it’s like you’ve never taken a ride on a wagon. I can describe what the ride feels like and try to convey the joy and exhilaration I get from flying down a hill at full speed. I can even extol the benefits of riding a wagon on a warm summer day. But until you experience the wagon ride firsthand, you may as well picture yourself sitting in a metal carriage with no wheels.
The carriage of the wagon is an idea, eye-witness report, or description of lucid dreaming. Without the wheels, which represent the technology supporting the idea, you’ve got no vehicle for use. This website puts the wheels on the wagon for you.
The blog portion of the site is a mixture of my research and my personal dream journal. The journal contains strange and exciting adventures, while my research is a distillation of the data accumulated from the many resources at hand, from books and videos to the Internet. The pages and posts herein are the wheels of the wagon, so to speak, or the evidence that lucid dreaming is real, as well as the technology ready for use so you can take a personal ride down this intoxicating rabbit hole.
I hope you find my site to be engaging, engrossing, and enriching as you journey within yourself to find a limitless world of wonder and awe.
A dedication
I, along with every other lucid traveler today, am indebted to Steven LaBerge, PhD, who pioneered our Western understanding of lucid dreaming and its many benefits. Thank you.
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