The lucid dream is a dream in which the dreamer is aware of dreaming while you are dreaming.
We dream every time we sleep, and the content of sleep, when we remember, there appears to be completely fantastic and unreal. Often sleep becomes frightening content, and in this case we speak of a nightmare, a frightening dream that awakens us often. Sometimes, remembering a dream very real, we seem to have experienced what happened in the dream, the emotions and memories are intense. Few of us, however, unable to control spontaneously dreams, acting in the dream of being aware of dreaming, directors of the dream itself and not just actors.
The ability to interact with their dreams of enjoying them in person, you can learn like any other mind control techniques. As with all other techniques of this type requires only perseverance and dedication, in addition, of course, to the knowledge base of the method to be applied.
The techniques of lucid dream inspired by a book published anonymously in 1867 entitled "Les Rêves et les Moyens de les diriger; Observations Pratiques" ( "Dreams and how to navigate: practical observations") and written by Leon Jean Marie Lecoq le Marquis d'Hervey-Saint-Denys. The volume is quite long, 498 pages, and presents the author's experiences in learning how to direct his dreams.
The book is divided into three parts according to the following scheme.
- (Four Chapters): Ce qu'on doit s'attendre à trouver dans ce livre et comment on fut composé (What you should expect to find in this book and how it was composed).
- (Six chapters): Ou, tout en rapportant les opinions des autres, l'auteur d'exposer les con-tinue siennes (Where, in relation to others' opinions, the author continues to exhibit his)
- (Eight chapters): Observations pratiques sur les rêves et sur les moyens de les diriger (Practical Observations on dreams and the means of directing).
Overall the book is interesting but a bit 'noisoso and repetitive, especially since reports the detailed description of a huge number of dreams with the considerations in turn very detailed, the Marquis d'Hervey-Saint-Denys. This book has had its followers, and you can say that all the subsequent material was taken from this original text. The lucid dream was the subject of numerous studies and university research: Dr. Stephen LaBerge of Stanford University (LaBerge, Lucid Dreaming, 1986), Cecilia Green, Lucid Dreams published in 1968, Charles T. Tart of the University of California, who published several books on the subject.
The list of books currently available on the market is naturally much longer, and many belong to the series "The lucid dream in a week." It is not difficult to obtain information on sleep shiny, but the best sources are those that I mentioned, and of course the work described in this article, the original source of the subsequent research on the subject.
Hypnosis can be very helpful in experimenting with lucid dreaming, and in promoting the process of learning lucid dreaming. If you can not just following the advice and the method of Saint-Denys, hypnosis can provide the right thrust.
Following excerpt from a work of Hervey Saint-Denys complete on the suggestions and its techniques.
The technique and the work of Hervey Saint-Denys
This singular character, had a particular obsession with dreams, and began to record the age of thirteen. For a boy, he was already very well organized, because it records the beauty of 20 books illustrated with colored figures, representing a set of 1946 nights, or more than five years.
Record dreams in writing, is a very simple way to remember them. Hervey Saint-Denys note that after the 179 night, there are no records relating to the oversight of the dream. From that day onwards for the remaining nights, the dreams always remember the facts. Hervey contends that the same concern that you remember the dream in waking life, led him to remember all the dreams made.
The first time I felt the sensation of reality in the dream, it happened during the night duecentosettesima beginning of the recording of dreams and is reproduced in duecentoquattordicesima.
Within a year he had come to make three dreams "real" out of four. (So you do not called lucid dreams, lucid dream, because the name was by Frederik van Eeden, who cites the same Marquis.)
In the space of fifteen months the process was complete, and Saint-Denys writes "... after that ... I can not say that I happen to abandon the illusions of a dream without finding, at least at intervals, the sense of reality.."
It must be said that in order to better study the dreams Marquis became the nights awake at regular intervals to see if at that time he was dreaming or not. All of these revivals, like dreams, were recorded and subsequently reported in the book, together with consideration of the author. If you can not learn much from this book that the method used by the author to study dreams, it's worth reading.
On the transition from wakefulness to sleep
A philosopher of Geneva, George Le Sage, they say the same about to go crazy, trying to surprise in his mind the transition from wakefulness to sleep, or rather the dream. ... She was wrong then simply did not understand that this fantasy, the dream was just at its beginning, and that torturing their minds with a constant concern, stopped the very natural and spontaneous course of ideas, without which the transition from wakefulness sleep can not be fulfilled. ".
Practical observation on dreams and the means of directing
Recall first some vitally important points:
- There is no sleep without dreams
- Neither attention nor the will must necessarily be suspended during sleep
I think I'm quite sure that you understand, this time, as you sleep and how to begin the dream.
Continue to take examples from my notebooks.
I close my eyes to sleep thinking about some object that I noticed the same evening, in a shop on Via Rivoli, the arches of this road comes to my mind, and see how bright the arches that are repeated and drawing in the distance. Soon there is a snake covered with phosphorescent scales that shows the eyes of my mind. Countless images are uncertain frame. Are still in the period of things confused. The paintings look out and change very quickly. This long snake of fire has taken on the appearance of a long dusty road, burnt by the sun in summer. I also think of walking, and awaken memories saddle Spain. Conversation with a mule carrying the mantle over his shoulders, a performance that makes me listen. The landscape is related to the main subject, from the moment the transaction from wakefulness to sleep is made. I am fully in the illusion of a lucid dream. I offered to mule a knife, which seems to please him, in exchange for a nice old coin that shows me when I was suddenly awakened from my sleep by an external cause. I slept for ten minutes, depending on the person who had awakened me.
The transition from wakefulness to sleep may "be done gradually, without interruption in the chain of ideas, without producing, in a word, between these two states, a kind of interregnum intellectual. The eyes of the body close to the real world, which leave open the eyes of the spirit on the world of imagination and memories. "
One of the surest signs of moving to lucid dream, is the appearance of vivid imagery, very clear and colorful, and more sleep is deeper, the images are vivid and vice versa.
Precondition to direct dreams
Intention and attention are preserved in the dream. For it is by the combined attention and will in the dream that we call the first means to lead and to change the texture at will.
I never got to master all phases of a dream, I never even tried. But sometimes making use of their attention and their willingness to investigate some psychological phenomenon, to restrain or to evoke an image gay, to stimulate the work of memory, drive the development of imagination, to change the course of ideas, these are the actions that are engaged with a real ease, when a certain habit has been established by the mind.
Reasoning and opinion in the dream
There are those dreams in which we are speaking with a certain accuracy, ... for example, those in which I have taken of the consciousness of my real position for sleeping, studying the phenomena of my own sleep.
Memories and imagination in the formation of dreams
The secrets of our memories are like huge underground where light penetrates the spirit better than when he ceased to shine out. Not surprising that so if you review them in dreams people dead or absent for a long time, if you find yourself in detail in the places visited, airs heard, or read entire pages of several years earlier.
Hervey Saint-Denys contains the description of many dreams where the dreamer imagines how will its business, or an animated discussion about things that affect him in daily life and says "Now, if you look good these dreams, they are not able to judge about things you already know, that only the form in which they are offered to our eyes is new, which were, in a word, imagination and reason cleverly personified "
We must therefore admit, after repeated observations, that the imagination can make this work a quantity of material supplied by memory, which comes to form images truly novel together
It will, therefore, I believe, the fact that artificially linking certain sensations under certain very specific ideas, you can take advantage of this link to introduce into the dreams of the items you will be prepared for itself. You should not lose sight that there are two essential conditions for which these means are effective: the ere to find a new sensation at the one who provokes, and the other not to cause unwanted outside circumstances, under the penalty neutralize the virtue. (Therefore, this is still, as it does in the GNP, a sensation of emotions exclusively.)
Conclusions
We suggest three key conditions to get to be teachers of the illusions of their dreams.
Owning, sleeping, consciousness, sleep, a habit that is acquired very quickly for the sole fact of keeping a journal of dreams
Associate certain memories recall of certain sensory perceptions, so that the return of these feelings, combined during sleep, introducing the core of our dreams, the ideas-images we have made supportive
These ideas contribute to self-images to form the pictures of our dreams, the willingness to use (which will never default when you know very well that you dream), to guide development in accordance with the principle that thinking is one thing to dream it
What are the consequences of this discovery, and what the utility?
I will be allowed to answer that everyone finds useful what interests him, the only result of dreaming what looks good will be judged in itself highly useful to anyone we will have fun. But I will not, and I never sought to reduce the size of a simple game, a method applicable to the advances of science, as well as the inspiration of the imagination.
Today
Today, the method is very popular and there is much literature on the subject.
LaBerge has also invented a device based on the emission of light to induce lucid dreams. Similar devices are commercially available in the internet under various names, just search "DreamLight lucid dream."
LaBerge uses a method that provides the reality check several times a day. For example, you count the fingers of the hands of the people we meet, being always very careful to terminate the account of the fingers. This behavior continues in the dream and you may be noticing some discrepancies with the reality that you are dreaming. At this point the dream becomes lucid. (From wikipedia)
The boards of Hervey Saint-Denys always remain valid.
Do not expect immediate results.
If you really want to control your dreams, you must have so much patience and tenacity.
