Lucid dreaming is the process of being awake when you are dreaming. It is the opposite of daydreaming or dreaming when you are awake. In a lucid dream, you know that you are dreaming. What is more, you can even control your dreams or have the dream of your choice. This makes lucid dreaming a beneficial experience. The ability to solve problems is among the myriad benefits of lucid dreaming.

How do you solve your problems in a lucid dream? Here are 3 simple steps to help you.

Step one: Learn how to have a lucid dream

In order to learn how to have a lucid dream, you must first learn to remember your dreams. The most effective way to remember your dreams is to use affirmations and keep a dream diary.

Affirm to yourself as you fall asleep that you will remember your dreams in full detail. When you wake up, write down everything that you remember of your dreams. With time, you will be able to remember your dreams…you will realize that your dreams follow recurring patterns or that certain objects or places often feature in your dreams.

The next time you dream of these, you will become aware that you are dreaming, and the dream will turn lucid.

Step two: Control Your Dreams

Once you become aware that you are dreaming, you can learn dream control. Start with something simple. You can transform a familiar-looking object into something else.

You must believe in your ability to control your dreams; otherwise, you will find it difficult to do so. Start with simple things, and then move on to something big, such as having tea with Marilyn Munroe.

Step three: Learn to solve your problems

Is something bothering you? The best way out is to use your lucid dreams to find a solution. Remember that you can do almost anything in your dreams; you can even meet your angels or spirit guides or deceased loved ones.

Next time you have a lucid dream, arrange to meet your spirit guide or any wise person you can trust and talk things over with them. Listen to their words of wisdom. When you wake up, make a note of what you have heard. At first, you might not understand your experience. When you mull over it, you will discover the nuggets of wisdom in the message.

Problem solving isn’t the only benefit of lucid dreaming. In your lucid dreams, you can overcome anxieties, traumas, phobias, and a variety of other disorders, you can cure your illnesses or find a cure for it, you can meet deceased loved ones, travel to places that fascinate you, develop your skills, study for tests, and so on. Needless to say, having lucid dreams is a great way to make your subconscious mind work for you.

By: Abhishek Agarwal

After discovering the great art of lucid dreaming, people often ask what is the best technique that can be used to induce awareness while sleeping. Numerous techniques can teach you how to do so, but most of the methods that are taught today are extremely ineffective and time consuming. For those in search of an easy, effective and proved technique to learn how to lucid dream, I have good news.

It gets as easy as listening to recordings while asleep! Yes, listening to Binaural Beats while sleeping is considered one of the most effective techniques used to induce lucid dreams.

What are Binaural Beats?

When you play two different frequencies at the same time (a frequency in one ear, and another frequency in your other ear) – your brain creates a third frequency, known as a binaural beat, which is equal to the difference between those two frequencies.

There are different levels of binaural frequencies and each one of them causes a different reaction in people. The key when using Binaural Beats to induce Lucid Dreams is that there is an ideal frequency that helps people to be aware that they are dreaming.

Frequency range of:13 to 40 Hz are Beta waves and causes Active, busy or anxious thinking and active concentration

Frequency range of: 7 to 13 Hz are Alpha waves and causes Relaxation (while awake)

Frequency range of: 4 to 7 Hz are Theta waves and causes Dreams, deep meditation, hypnosis

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By: Ryan Anderson

Lucid Dreaming is realizing you are dreaming as you dream. When you reach the Lucid Dreaming state, you will be able to control your dreams and experience anything you wish. When you are lucid dreaming, your subconscious mind is very susceptible to suggestion, so you can consciously impress your desires upon your unconscious mind. You will carry these with you into your waking life. This will give your affirmations a great deal more power.

Once you become lucid in a dream, you can do as you please — the dream world is at your fingertips! Whether this means flying around like Superman, engaging in wild sex with a celebrity of your choice, or even harnessing your ability to get over a fear or improve a certain aspect of yourself.

Anyone can have a lucid dream. Unless you’re one of those extremely lucky individuals who experience them naturally, anyone can learn to induce a lucid dream with enough practice. Although there are many ways of achieving this state, one new and fascinating method involves brainwave technology and binaural beats.

Listening to Binaural beats is safe and works very quickly if you want to enhance your Lucid Dreaming capabilities, you should give this product a try. Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli. The brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately, one to each of a subject’s ears, using stereo headphones.

There are different levels of binaural frequencies and each one of them causes a different reaction in people. The key when using Binaural Beats to induce Lucid Dreams is that there is an ideal frequency that helps people to be aware that they are dreaming.

Then how will Binaural Beats induce lucid dreams? The key to Lucid Dreaming is going through the Delta (which causes dreamless sleep) then through Theta states (which will cause a Dream state), but instead of reaching the full Alpha state (that will make you wake up), dip back into Theta before you awake. Your subconscious will awake, but your conscious mind will stay asleep as you go back into the dreaming state. Your subconscious will think you are awake, but then realize you are still dreaming.

Lucid dreaming is achieved when binaural beats encourage the brain to adopt (or ‘entrain’ toward) a Delta state, followed by a Theta state, followed (briefly) by an Alpha state, then quickly back into the Theta state. In other words, the binaural beat encourages deep sleep, followed by dreaming, followed by brief consciousness, then back into the dream where, if everything goes to plan, you are now very much aware of the fact you are dreaming and able to exert an influence upon proceeding.

Lets say that you start in the Deep Sleep Delta State. Once Delta is reached, your brain frequencies rise to the Theta Frequencies where Dreaming begins. If your brain frequencies continue to rise, you will progress to Alpha. When you reach Alpha, you will be awake, and that’s not where you want to be for Lucid Dreaming.

By: Yee Linda

Readers usually get confused between various astral terms such as OOBE, NDE, Lucid dreaming, and astral projection. Many students of astral projection still haven’t come to a conclusion with regard to the differences between astral projection and lucid dreaming. Let us have a look at various astral terms.

The terms OOBE and NDE, though coming under the same umbrella as astral projection, mean something quite different.

What is an OOBE?

An OOBE is an out-of-the-body experience. In an OOBE, your consciousness or awareness is out of the physical body. You can experience an OOBE consciously or accidentally. An OOBE need not necessarily lead to an exploration of the astral realms. Most people who have an OOBE are so startled with the experience that they jump right back into their bodies.

What is an NDE?

Near death experience (NDE) is experienced when a person is close to death. NDEs have been reported in case of people who meet with accidents or suffer from critical illnesses. During an NDE, etheric matter moves into the person’s astral body, and this movement comprises the initial phases of death. People often describe this as, “I saw my entire life flash before me.” Those who have experienced an NDE also report seeing a dark tunnel leading to a circle of light or they experience floating a few meters above their physical form in full awareness of what is going on.

Major Differences Between Astral Projection And Lucid Dreaming

Both are ways to gain entry into the astral planes, and in both cases, you are fully conscious and in full control of what is going on, depending on your expertise. In spite of these basic similarities, the gap of difference between the two is large.

1. In case of astral projection, you project from your body into the astral realms. In case of lucid dreaming, you are not aware of the projection.

2. Since astral projectors consciously leave their bodies, they tend to carry their restrictive beliefs into the astral realms. This might hinder their progress because such beliefs do not work in the astral world. Lucid dreamers, on the contrary, are so used to the freedom and flexibility of the state of lucid dreaming that they can easily lose consciousness and become lost in the dream. You can overcome these challenges only with grit, determination, and practice.

3. Lucid dreamers tend to “create” their own experiences and craft their own dreams. Astral projectors prefer to explore the unknown realms into which they have projected. While a lucid dreamer can easily satisfy the suppressed desires of restrictive earthly living, an astral projector is more focused on exploring hidden realities, undisturbed by unfulfilled desires.

4. An astral projector retains full memory of his or her identity. A lucid dreamer, on the contrary, need not remember his/her identity and hardly remembers what happened before the lucid dream commenced or the circumstances of the waking state.

These, then are the main points of differences between astral projection and lucid dreaming, highly self-fulfilling practices that can be experienced by anybody, provided they put in the right amount of effort in that direction.

By: Abhishek Agarwal