About three weeks ago, I read Lucid Dreaming: A Beginner's Guide to Becoming Conscious in Your Dreams by Charlie Morley. Ever since then, I've been trying to have a lucid dream using the techniques taught in the book. And I haven't had much success, until the night before last.
Lucid Dreaming: Guide To Becoming Conscious in Your Dreams
One of the things I've been practicing from the book is checking to see if I'm dreaming or not by looking at my hand. Apparently, when you are dreaming, you can't maintain an image exactly the same from one scene to the next. So, as you flip your hand around, it's going to change into something else. It might dim. It might grow. It might turn purple. Or, as it did for me the other night, you might start to see right through it.
But my hand wasn't what tipped me off about the dream. One of the other things you are supposed to look …show more content…
I was starting to wonder if I would ever realize I was dreaming again.
Lucid Dreaming: The Beginner's Guide
I've had lucid dreams before - when I was younger, but I haven't been able to have them for a long time. This book by Charlie Morley was the first thing I saw when I went into Chapters to buy a book on lucid dreaming, so I got it! And I'm glad I did. I plan to buy another book of his that, he says, goes more in depth into lucid dreaming.
However, Lucid Dreaming: A Beginner's Guide to Becoming Conscious in Your Dreams is great for learning more about lucid dreaming and gathering some techniques to help set you up for a great chance of having a lucid dream. There is a lot of great insight about being lucid in your dreams in the book, and it will stick out in your mind as you go through your day (or weeks) which can only help improve the chances of your mind picking up on it in a dream and bringing about lucidity.
In the following Ted talk, Charlie Marley talks about your nightmares (which is one of the things he talks about in the book) and lucid
Lucid Dreaming: Guide To Becoming Conscious in Your Dreams
One of the things I've been practicing from the book is checking to see if I'm dreaming or not by looking at my hand. Apparently, when you are dreaming, you can't maintain an image exactly the same from one scene to the next. So, as you flip your hand around, it's going to change into something else. It might dim. It might grow. It might turn purple. Or, as it did for me the other night, you might start to see right through it.
But my hand wasn't what tipped me off about the dream. One of the other things you are supposed to look …show more content…
I was starting to wonder if I would ever realize I was dreaming again.
Lucid Dreaming: The Beginner's Guide
I've had lucid dreams before - when I was younger, but I haven't been able to have them for a long time. This book by Charlie Morley was the first thing I saw when I went into Chapters to buy a book on lucid dreaming, so I got it! And I'm glad I did. I plan to buy another book of his that, he says, goes more in depth into lucid dreaming.
However, Lucid Dreaming: A Beginner's Guide to Becoming Conscious in Your Dreams is great for learning more about lucid dreaming and gathering some techniques to help set you up for a great chance of having a lucid dream. There is a lot of great insight about being lucid in your dreams in the book, and it will stick out in your mind as you go through your day (or weeks) which can only help improve the chances of your mind picking up on it in a dream and bringing about lucidity.
In the following Ted talk, Charlie Marley talks about your nightmares (which is one of the things he talks about in the book) and lucid