Imagine being able to control your dreams and take dreaming to a whole new level. There are various types of dreams, however I would like to inform you about an interesting type called lucid dreaming. It is can be a fascinating and overwhelming experience at the same time. Many benefits can come from lucid dreaming, and like anything else, there must be disadvantages. However, lucid dreaming has been traced back many centuries ago which have shown that it is very beneficial.
Lucid dreaming can help people to face their fears. Dreaming about spiders, for example, can help you get rid of your fears of spiders. You experience something frightening but in a safe environment. Nothing can hurt you. If spiders were all over you in your dream, you will see that they cannot hurt you, so your subconscious changes its reaction to spiders. Spiders become less frightful then they were before.
A dreamer is able to see things in his dream that he could not think of while he was awake. For example, a painter can have a lucid dream in which he is in an art gallery. He will see all the creative paintings in his dream and have an idea about what to paint when he wakes up. Also musicians, for example Mozart, got inspired mostly by dreams. Mozart had lucid dreams about music; he listened to music in his dream, and he repeated it when he woke up.
Lucid dreaming can boost you confidence. For example, if you’re tense and anxious about giving speeches, you can rehearse in your dream and then feel much better about it when you wake up. As I said, your subconscious changes its reaction about what you think about the subject of your dream. It makes you feel comfortable about it.
Another benefit is practicing new skills. A surgeon named Stephen Laberge stated...
... middle of paper ...
...p what you want to dream and that you want to remember your dream. You have to say it several times. “Am I dreaming?” asking yourself this question during the day is the third tip. If you do that then you will eventually start asking yourself that question in your dream out of habit. You will be able to differentiate the answer. The fourth tip is you have to keep a book in which you write down what you recall from your dreams. The last tip is to try to wake up during your sleep so that you interrupt your dream. You are expected to have memory of what you were dreaming.
In conclusion, this phenomena is incredible to experience. It has been shown that there are far more advantages than disadvantages. Having the opportunity to leave reality for an hour a night sounds fantastic. I hope that one day I would experience it and tell my fellow classmates about it.
Thank you.
Dreams can be used to that person advantage by lucid dreaming and create many stories so they will be able to write books about them like the famous author Stephen King. He wrote many of his stories by his dreams. Whenever he has trouble finishing a story or doesn't know where it should go next he will dream it and incorporate it in his stories. Some dreams may be show a glimpse of a person's future and give important information to them. King’s says, “Precognitive dreams are a staple of our supernatural folklore”(39). Every story and film that has come out has eventually started out from a person's mind and they must of gotten that vision from a dream. Turning that dream into something that everyone can see whether it's a book or film. “ Creative imaging and dreaming are just so similar that they've got to be related” (King 42). It must be, it all comes from the mind and just like daydreaming seeing a vision in the mind when the individual is conscious and is able to have control over
This brings me to the next point of using dreams to help us heals our minds. “Since dreams are so visual, they hold an image related to that subject in your mind as you fall asleep.” (Roberts, 2011) If we fall asleep with a thought in mind that we don’t talk about, then it’s possible for us to dream about because we were not able to speak about it. When we don’t let things out or we are having problems, then it’s possible that we dream about them as well. “About one half of the students dreamed about the problem and one-quarter of them solve it.” Dreaming is a problem solver for those who can’t think about solutions or just don’t know wh...
Ultimately, being an active participant is very necessary, such as taking mental notes during the dream. One way of investigating is looking around and asking yourself questions like, what color, how many, why, or who. During lucid dreams, you have the ability to control what you do and where you go. In a way, it is almost like playing chess and your view of the situation is more objective. Being asleep but awake in your dream is amazing it gives new meaning to the word, surreal. Have you ever wanted to talk to someone but could not find the right words or an old friend or relative you have not seen in a long while? The perfect place to practice is in a lucid dream, you can go visit them and go with them anywhere. Dreams in general always take place in our subconscious and in non-lucid dreams; we are not actively participating, but merely a bystander. Our subconscious is the creator of our lucid dreams, which occur between REM sleep a...
All over the world different people, scientists, and civilizations have different dream theories. For instance, the Senoi tribe in Malaysia has a fascinating tradition of dream telling. Every morning the people of the tribe begin their day by discussing and interpreting their dreams with each other. The children, as they grow older, actually learn to control their dreams by simply wishing bad dreams into positive ones. It is observed that, by paying tribute their dreams, the people of the Senoi tribe learn to have faith in themselves. Also, they have very few, if any, mental problems “could working constructively with dreams be part of the answer” to mental issues? (Peirce)
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, dream is defined by a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring involuntarily in a person’s mind during certain stages of sleep. Dreams have fascinated humans since the beginning of time. The recorded history of dream interpretation dates back to 3000-4000 B.C. with the Sumerians in Mesopotamia. They documented their dreams on clay tablets. People back then saw the dream world as an extension of reality, but that it was a more powerful realm. Furthermore, they believed that when they dream, their souls would leave their body during sleep and travel to the dream world.
During my sophomore year of high school, my friend Jacob and I had a conversation about lucid dreaming. He described to me that lucid dreaming was the ability to control oneself in a dream. He further explained that I could train myself to experience lucid dreams by keeping track of my dreams in a journal. This conversation sparked my curiosity and I immediately began experimenting. The next morning...
Dreams impact what we decide to do in our life and the choices that we make. Having dreams allows us to see life more
Dreams are series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person’s mind during sleep. Dreams occur during a certain stage of sleep known as REM. Several different psychologists, including Freud and Hobson, have studied dreams. Psychologists have provided many theories as to what dreams are and the meanings behind them.
We spend one third of our lives sleeping and 15-20% of that time is spent dreaming. (1) Dreams are a sequence of images that appear involuntary to the mind of somebody who is sleeping, often a mixture of real and imaginary characters, places, and events, according to the Encarta dictionary. There are many types of dreams. Lucid dreams can be the most fascinating if one can master them. In lucid dreams you realize that you are dreaming and instead of automatically waking up you stay asleep and control every aspect of your dream. Your thoughts can effortlessly paint any dreamscape and you have full mental faculties as you would if you were awake.(4) Your imagination is the limit! Another more mysterious type of dream is precognitive dreams. This is where time and space no longer seem to fit any rational logical meaning. Precognition is an ability to know and experience a future event before it ever occurs (4) Many experience this type of dream and slowly forget it over time, until it happens in real life. When it occurs in real life you automatically feel a sense of déjà vu and you notice something familiar about the s...
Lucid dreaming is the ability of an individual to consciously direct and control one’s dreams. It transforms an individual’s inner dream world into an alternative reality – where everything the dreamer sees, hears, feels, tastes and even smells is as authentic as real life. Lucidity transpires during altered states of consciousness. According to Snyder & Gackenbach, as cited by LaBerge, lucid dreaming is normally a rare experience and only about a percentage of 20% of the world’s population reports to having lucid dreams once a month or more (LaBerge, 1990) which probably does not justify the existence of lucid dreaming. In addition, people have argued that lucid dreaming is just another theory and it is seems critical for one to be aware in an experience such as this.
The dreamer is like a hobbled version of my waking "self." Perspectives in a dream often shift in bizarre ways - one minute I am watching a movie, the next I am in the movie, first as one character then as another - but there is generally a "me" in the dream. When people describe dreams they say "I did this. Then I saw that." Despite all the shifting imagery we perceive ourselves as being "in" the dream.
Dreaming is the series of visualizations or feelings during a period of time when you are asleep. It is a form of thinking...
For thousands of years humans have experienced a phenomenon which we describe today as dreaming. It has puzzled and sparked interest to all whom experience it. For as long as people have been dreaming, there have been people trying to understand and interpret them. This research paper examines the causation and deeper meaning of dreams. It will compare and contrast the differentiating ideas on the subject by famous psychologists and also examine first-hand accounts from real individuals. The objective of paper is to shed some light on this complex and bizarre behavior.
Although an individual believes a dream has no importance, statistics have proven that dreams can be sent as warning messages or messages of reassurance. The aftereffects of the dream can leave feelings ranging from foreboding to understanding to complete confusion. The only part left to figure out is how the dream applies to daily life.
All of us dream, several times at night. It is believed by some that we sleep in order that we may dream. Dreams can come true if somebody makes them true, as the saying goes, “A dream is just a dream, unless you make it come true”. Dreams provide us the actual picture of our thoughts. Dreams may tell us about any physical event which took place with us or which is going to happen with us. The dream is trying to inform the dreamer about his condition in any walk of life. Basically, we can dream about anything logical or illogical, fictious or non-fictious and reasonable or unreasonable.