Lucid Dreaming

Lucid Dreaming is heightened awareness while in a dream state. To lucid dream is to know, while dreaming, that you are dreaming, learn to “direct' the dream while still in the dream - from a point of conscious awareness and creation. It is in this state that a warrior can create her double and learn to bring heightened awareness into ordinary consciousness.

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It has taken me a long time to have lucid dreams.  finally a few weeks ago, had one, everything was as real as in woken states.  There was a feeling of being in control, powerful.
 In a dreaming class, one of the excercises was to ask ourselves at all times of the day am i dreaming?  This is how i realized I was aware in a dream.  An awesome experience. 

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Gypsy ladee;  do you have any techniques, tools or excercises that enhance the dreaming experience you would like to share ?

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When I first starting exploring lucid Dreaming, I rarely remembered my dreams, let alone go lucid. When I did remember them, they were almost always in shades of gray or black and white.

There were a number of things I did and many of them had some positive effect.

I discovered, for instance, that if I remembered a dream, it was most likely during a nap, rather than during night dreaming. Then I'd read that sleeping off the ground enhanced Dreaming. So, for a while, I took my daily nap (I'd been taking a daily nap for as long as I could remember) in a hammock. My first breakthrough came when I remembered a dream in which there was color. I was ***so*** jazzed. I went to my friend/mentor and fairly danced, “The napkin … it was BLUE!!!” (that color is still vivid in my mind.)
 
Encouraged by this experience I tried a number of things …

• If I read, go to sleep by music or tv, or engage in physical activities just prior to going to sleep, I usually don't remember my dreams … a meditative state seems to enhance the possibility of dreaming and dreaming lucidly
• I concentrate/allow myself (give myself permission) to go lucid in my dreams, as I fall asleep
• In most of my dreams, everything seems real… except for that floating thing I do … LOL … so I suggested to my sleeping self, that if I was floating, I *just* might be dreaming
• I've read a number of places that if you can set a trigger for yourself: like seeing your hands in dreaming … and then go lucid
  
• I know a number of folks who record their dreams, whether lucid or not (helping them to remember with better detail)… for me, by the time I reach for a pen and paper, the dream drifts away too quickly. So, instead, I lie in bed with my fingers tented over my heart and work backwards through my dreams.