Lucid Dream.

Lucid Dream. Tool to know your imagination.

Strange, marvelous, and even impossible things regularly happen in dreams, but people usually don’t realize that the explanation is that they are dreaming. Usually doesn’t mean always and there is a highly significant exception to this generalization. Sometimes, dreamers do correctly realize the explanation for the bizarre happenings they are experiencing, and lucid dreams, like those recounted above, are the result.

Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/Q7Rfz, [Public domain].

Lucid dreaming has been known for centuries, but has until recently remained a rare and little-understood phenomenon. Lucid dreams can be used to fight nightmares, as a tool to get to know your-self or entertainment. In dreams, where the dreamer has a sufficiently high level of control over the content of dream, any desire can be realized.

Dreams are physiological creatures similar to the hallucinations that occur during a sleep. During one night, we dream for 1.5 to 2 hours. They occur during the REM (Rapid Eye Moves) phase. One dream cycle lasts 90 minutes. At the beginning of the night the REM phases are short (_about 10 minute_s). With time, they become longer, even up to 45 minutes. At the same time, the NREM phases are shortened.

Sleep Phases.

When falling asleep, we enter the NREM 1 phase. During this phase, we see characteristic, colorful images. It lasts a few minutes.

During the NREM 2 phase, the physiological functions slow down, we lose contact with reality and the brain waves are prolonged.

The NREM 3 phase appears between 30 and 45 minutes after falling asleep. There are delta waves in it. It lasts a few minutes, and allows the body to go into phase 4.

Source: https://www.howsleepworks.com/types_cycles.html, Image credit: Luke Mastin.

The NREM 4 phase, the deep sleep stage (sometimes called delta sleep), accounts for 10-15% of the total sleep time. All physiological functions are maximally slow, the brain produces the slowest delta waves. During this phase there are such phenomena as sleepwalking or bedwetting. The body then goes through the NREM 3 and NREM 2 phases again, and then enters the REM phase. In this phase, some areas of the brain are as active as during the day, eyes make quick movements and we dream. At this point our body succumbs to natural paralysis, so that we do not hurt ourselves doing some sudden movements while sleeping. In this phase there is the greatest probability of achieving a lucid dream, which achievement depends on our self-awareness.

When it comes to sensory perception of the phenomenon itself, it is not just an attempt related to visualization. Our reality is just a dream compared to this state! This is the reason why many novices are shocked when they find themselves in it. When it comes to perception, it is really a parallel reality.

Source: http://akademiaducha.pl/6-hour-lucid-dream-music-the-hidden-valley-deep-sleep-dream-recall-creative-imagery-relaxing/, [Public domain].

Being awake in the dream world is like being awake in the real world.. except that you aren’t bound by the laws of physics and you can do as you wish, without permanent consequences. The practical side of the phenomenon of lucid dreaming are really big possibilities associated with it. In this state, you can travel around the Earth, Universe and control everything what is happening.

Many people experienced lucid dreams after reading or hearing about lucid dreaming for the first time. Many others, on the other hand use different techniques to better understand the essence of this phenomenon and realized it. Autosuggestion is the easiest way to get this state. You should just go to sleep with the intention of experiencing a lucid dream.

To other known methods we can include:

• Keeping a dream diary, allowing to write down dreams and remember them.
• See specific elements during your journey and recognize them in a dream.
• Recognition the activities, context and form that a given visualization takes.
• Also important are concentration, discipline and will power, in the perception and training of dream consciousness.
• Certain substances, also found naturally in various herbs, can help to achieve lucid dream.

Source: http://www.finerminds.com/consciousness-awareness/stay-in-lucid-dream, [Public domain].

So this phenomenon is in general highly connected with our "strength of mind". People have lucid dreams from a long time, but only recently have they been proven and aroused the interest of scientists.

It shows how little we know about our "world" and its image. Some things are still unexplained, but we still have access to them. We just need to know how to fully use their potential and capabilities, that they offer to us.

References:

[1] http://users.telenet.be/sterf/texts/other/exploring_the_world_of_lucid_dreaming.pdf
[2] https://www.obe4u.com/files/faza_pl.pdf
[3] http://www.astraldynamics.pl/upload/Vision.pdf
[4] https://www.howsleepworks.com/types_cycles.html