Assume you are going to jump down from a high-rise building. As always people are walking, vehicles are moving in the road. Thus you touched the bottom at one time. Then what will happen? Surely you will die. Don't worry! You're dreaming. But can you change the context of your dream? Of course, you can. You can by lucid dreaming.
As usual, We can't control our dreams while we are asleep. Our subconscious mind is not awake then. When our conscious mind wakes up, our dreams are shattered. But when your conscious mind wakes up during asleep, and you can realize that you are in a dream, then you can regulate your dream. That's called Lucid Dream.
You may compare lucid dreams with video games or cinema. Maybe a virtual reality-based game that you play wearing a VR headset. Just as you can control a video game, you can control lucid dreams. 23% of the total population of the world see lucid dreams naturally or by practice.
Once upon a time, dreams seemed like a riddle. Many think dreams are a golden opportunity to infiltrate into the spiritual world. Many think of the dream as a prophecy or indicator of the future. Since ancient times, people have been thinking lucid dreams. We dream 4-6 times in a night. Our eyelids tremble intermittently while dreaming. Sometimes a change of facial expression can be noticed with the theme of dreams. This process begins at the REM(Rapid Eye Movement) stage. When you recognize somethings of the dream in this stage, the first phase of lucid dreaming is started. Many people wake up at this stage. But who can continue this stage and start dream hallucination, they can experience lucid dreams.
You can eradicate your psychological problem through a lucid dream easily. You have some nightmares for which you are afraid to go to sleep. You can change the context of those dreams by lucid dreaming. You can modify the context on your way. Now you may think how can you experience Lucid dreams?
There are many ways to experience lucid dreaming. This can not be explained in one post. The simplest way is to say inwardly before sleep in several times, I will experience lucid dreaming tonight.
Many may be thinking, Is there any side effects of lucid dreaming? Of course. You can blend your real-life and dream by experiencing excessive lucid dreaming. As the world of dreams is more exciting and attractive, you may be addicted to lucid dreams. Many of us watch one of the famous movies of Christopher Nolan, "Inception". Mal, wife of Cob in that movie is one of the ideal paradigms. Mal chose the world of dream over real-life and for that, she loses her life. Lucid dreams have many pros. Researchers are continuously working on how to make it better for people by utilizing lucid dreams.
