Lucid Dreaming
Ok ya'll, I have wanted to share something with ya'll for a while but I thought ya'll would reject the idea out of hand or think I am nutters. But here it is, have you ever heard of lucid dreaming?
Here is the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming
Here is basically what it is, it is being aware while you are dreaming, when you are aware you are dreaming you can do whatever you want, ANYTHING.
In my experience the easiest way to get a lucid dream is to concentrate on what you want to dream about when you go to bed, sometimes this results in you just dreaming about that but sometimes you are aware you are dreaming and dream about that.
Another method is to go to sleep by meditating, my prefered method of meditating while trying to go to sleep is to lay completely flat and stretched out and slowly imagine your body going numb starting with your toes and working you way up your body, when you get to your head, imagine layers of numbness being layed over and over on your face, you will eventually fall asleep :)
You can also wake up in the middle of the night and think about what you want to dream about till you go to sleep again, once more this may just end up in a dream about whatever you were concentrating on or a lucid dream.
The wiki article I linked explains it more indepth, some people try to link this with magic, or aliens or all kinds of crazy stuff, but I just look at it as one more amazing ability of the human mind, you can create your own world.
As a side note I unfortunately go to sleep thinking about world of warcraft and end up dreaming I am playing it and then I wake up to find I acheived nothing :( not that I acheive anything by playing that life draining game :/
So, to any of your adventerous peeps feel like exploring this awesomeness then tell me about it.
Oh yeah, you also get much better sleep doing this.
Here is the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_dreaming
Here is basically what it is, it is being aware while you are dreaming, when you are aware you are dreaming you can do whatever you want, ANYTHING.
In my experience the easiest way to get a lucid dream is to concentrate on what you want to dream about when you go to bed, sometimes this results in you just dreaming about that but sometimes you are aware you are dreaming and dream about that.
Another method is to go to sleep by meditating, my prefered method of meditating while trying to go to sleep is to lay completely flat and stretched out and slowly imagine your body going numb starting with your toes and working you way up your body, when you get to your head, imagine layers of numbness being layed over and over on your face, you will eventually fall asleep :)
You can also wake up in the middle of the night and think about what you want to dream about till you go to sleep again, once more this may just end up in a dream about whatever you were concentrating on or a lucid dream.
The wiki article I linked explains it more indepth, some people try to link this with magic, or aliens or all kinds of crazy stuff, but I just look at it as one more amazing ability of the human mind, you can create your own world.
As a side note I unfortunately go to sleep thinking about world of warcraft and end up dreaming I am playing it and then I wake up to find I acheived nothing :( not that I acheive anything by playing that life draining game :/
So, to any of your adventerous peeps feel like exploring this awesomeness then tell me about it.
Oh yeah, you also get much better sleep doing this.