Lucid Dreaming: How To Control Your Dreams

Lucid dreaming is where you are in a dream and actually notice that you're dreaming. Everyone dreams every night. Many times. But it's rare for us to recall what was in our dreams. When you start to take control of your dreams, you're starting to dream lucidly.

So how easy is it to learn to dream lucidly? And, given that most dreams a pretty odd anyway, why on earth would you want to start to control them?

Learning to lucid dream is like anything in life, it just takes practice.

Up until now, you've probably known when you've dreamed, but only if it was a particularly vivid dream. We all dream every night, several times a night. But we only remember the occasional dream out of all the dreams we have.

Keep your note pad and a pencil close by, maybe on your bedside table. You'll probably also need a small lamp or torch as well. This will be your dream journal.

Each time you wake up, the first thing you do should be to write down as many details as you can remember from your most recent dream. At first, this likely won't be much detail. It only takes a handful of days before you start to remember a lot more detail about your dreams.

Once you've been using your dream journal for a few days, it's likely that you'll start to notice some common patterns in the dreams you've written down. Possibly you have dreams about flying through the air or even space. Possibly your dreams involve water lots of the time. It doesn't matter what your dream subject is, just go with the flow. It's one of your minds ways of resolving the various issues you come up against in the day. There are plenty of dream books that will help you to interpret your dreams.

The next step is to start to control your dreams. This is where the fun begins! It's a big subject but you've already taken the first, very important, step by keeping your dream journal. You can find out more about lucid dreaming here.