Blogpost #8: Simply Dream

         Everyone who of use usually dream when we sleep. And those dream makes us more inspired in our real life. But what do actually know about dream? Can you dream without sleeping or thus, what are the facts about dream?

        I think I started to have a dreaming whenever I sleep when I was a kid. I don't know why but I always wake up in 3am in the morning. It sounds crazy but I am scared on waking up in 3am because some says that when you woke up at 3 am someone watching you or a demonic way etc. So, come on and read the entire blog so you will understand as I learned more
about dreams.

           As I read the article entitled "15 Interesting Facts about Dreams" by Lina Davidaviciute at boredpanda.com, and it really help us to learn more about dreaming. One of those are you forget 90% of your dreams. And even the blind people also become lucid in their dream. Everybody dreams but not everyone dreams in color. There are so much to learn more about dreaming but again, it doesn't uncover the mysticism of it

        The article is very interesting yet there are really few things that are not quite accurate for me .I don't know maybe it just happen that I didn't experienced it yet, so maybe for some it is exactly true. Because each and everyone of dream but we differently dream and not all those dream signs are the same for every dreamer. I guess it depends upon on each individual that experiencing dreaming.

        As Lina Davidaviciute stated that, " Many artist have received their creative ideas from their dreams." which I agree with. I, as a multimedia artist I am one of those people in our industry that comes up with ideas from my dream. And added to that it, it is the one of those reason why I appreciated arts.

        Another article I'd read is entitled "5 Facts about Dreams and Nightmares" by Jeanna Bryner at livescience.com. There are things that we will know about what goes on in dreams and how does usually mean by those dreams. Through that, I think dreams are not only gives us more about arts and imagination, because she said that it maybe has an another purpose in why dreams exist. It helps our brain reboot and help us to solve our problems.

        This kind of article is really good to discuss, because those myths of the author came up from those realization with evidence. And I think it has a capability of explaining  why those usual dreams happened. So, it ended up that those kind of dreams has a vivid meaning to us.

         As our author, Jeanna Bryner said that "When your head hits the pillow, for many, it's lights out for the conscious part of you.". It does make sense for all of us, even though it is hard to explain, I think give us message that once you sleep, it is the start of having your dreams from your consciousness.

        Through all this making of entire blog post itself, it has been thousands of information I gain from it. It helps not only to understand more about the dreams but also we learned more ideas and conclusion about dreams. I wished just like me you gain more information about facts and myths about dreams. See you in dreamland guys!

Blogpost #5 (Quick Blog): Single on Valentine's Day

         Sometimes, when we are lucid in dreaming something about love that we can control, we choose not to wake up early because sometimes fantasy is more likely to be good than the reality. Like for our love life, if we have a god story in our dream which maybe we wished that someday will happen.Occassionally, when we wake up, it screwed all those fantasies, then *poof!* back to reality. We should face that in real state some of us our single and having a feeling that we are loser because no one treat them as their special someone.

          It has only one week to go before the Valentine's day. People, most like the "lovers" are really get excited about this day. Why? It is a delucional day that chocolates and flowers float together in the air. So, maybe this day which is the Valetine's Day most like to be a panicky day and some tell  this a desperate day for most people who find themselves a special someone so, they can go with the flow of this day. "Love is in the air" is a motto to all lovers out there.

          But, the most questionable and interesting question that will always ask every time the heart's day will come is that "Do Valentine's Day are only for those lovers?". A kind of question that can automatically answered by no, but some can't avoid to ask this question because some of them are single and ave a bitter taste in love because obviously, they dao't have a love life.

          So, the thing is, how we can enjoy this day without having our special someone? a fullfillment joy that can compare to all lovers out there who also celebrate the heart's day?

          As Catherine Osborne explains how can we enjoy that day in the article"Valentines Day - Love is NOT Just For Couples!" in the website upshiftcoaching.com, she explains further that it is not good choosing over to stay at your home so that you can avoid those lovers walking slowly. Because it doesn't shows the good approach to it, even you do it to avoid those fact. It came a long that you will still feel that you are sad because you are not one of those. She advice that this is like a thing or myth that you do believe even there' a clear thought that it can be change. She express more that we could change our perspective about the Valentine's Day. That we could have a time to focus on what we have, rather than on what we feel we've missing.


          As I read the whole article, I can say it is very short article for this area of love. However, it is an article that can persuade people who are single and satisfy them that Valentine's Day is no longer for romantic love only. It has a fact that in this day, we can show to those people who love us that we appreciate them all this time. Furthermore, it only shows us that love is not about a two people who love each other. Thus, love is all about you treat and appreciate those things that someone done to you.

         As Catherine Osborne leaves one of those message who inspires me a lot, "A person’s worth comes from who they are, not who they are with.". Meaning that neither the person you are with will never dictate on what will feelings would you have but it is yourself who will decide and choose what will you do to make your worth being appreciated not only of those people around you but also for yourself.

         Another article that I read entitled "Lucid Dream Wife" by Rise Alise in the website of luciddreamingstories.com, it's actually a kind of love story happened in his lucid dreaming. On how they were happy with the girl he love but he didn't get a chance to have her in real life. And he tell that even though he has a not good life here in real life, he can still enjoy appreciate it because of his dream with his love one. Further more, he realize that there's a deep meaning between those dream. Find out what is it when you read. And then you will realize those things that he thought that even if you are a single in real life, you can still bear with it because you have the thing that no one will know that made you happy, and that  is because of your dream.

          He's story in lucid dreaming was good. And I am pretty sure that he had fall in love it over and over again because myself either went to that point. That feeling that you take a lot of emotion in your dreams which can affect our reality. But there's a point of him that some kind I am disappoint to, not because he wanted to continue all over again his dreams but I he might consider his dream, a another world or somehow kind of a real thing that really exists. I can say that even though the things that happen in your dream is happier to live with that than the real one. I think he should focus more in his reality because somehow he is responsible of why those some miserable things happened to him like a loner or something. You should do things that makes you a happy and contented person don't just rely on your dream because it's only
a dream, and it is a part of our life that motivates us to have a our life more positive than before.


        But somehow, I agree with Rise Alise statement which is, " I know hiding behind dreams will only worsen my life in reality." because he understand everything. That dream is only a dream that sometimes we forget about it. It is only a one of those thing that inspires us in our daily life. And we should clear that not only for him but also for us.
 
      So, for those single out there who undergo once in a romantic lucid dream, don't consider it as a real one or expect that it will come true. Because sometimes, dreams doesn't matter in life, it is only a thing that gives live entertainment and inspiration for us to have a happier life. And of course, don't loose hope to be happy in Valentine's Day, make your plans and do some things that can make you happy as well as those lovers out there. Have a Happy Valentine's Day everyone!:)

Blogpost #4: How to become Lucid in a Dream

            In some aspects, there are many good things that we can get in lucid dreaming. So, many people always want to try to become lucid in their dreaming. Because in the dreaming state, you can do what you want that no one will ever care about it except for your imagination, of course.

           I remember my first lucid dream way back when I was in the 5th grade, it is a some kind of love story that turns out to a horror-action scenario. I met a guy who was at my age also in that dream. Then, there was the time that his parents were so angry with him because of me they turned out to be a zombies and trying to kill not only me but also my family. In the moment of it, I realized that it was all a dream so, I decided to have a power to protect my family and escape from those freaking zombies that guy I met was trying to help us too. Instead of running so fast, I intend to jump higher so that it will be easy to escape from them. But those zombies never give up on us, I tried to shot them down by my riffles but there's nothing happen. Until, some of the zombies trying to kill me at my back when I am taking my rest, the guy who was the relatives of those zombies pushed me back so that I won't be able to get hurt. So, that guy was bitten by those zombies and affected by the infection.Those zombies were shocked on what happened, they stopped and cried for he (the guy who save me)will be a zombie too.

           In some people who are given with this natural talent in becoming lucid in their dreams, don't have a problem in doing this all over again. But how we can do it, if we are not one of those people? How we can experience those kind of mysticism of the imagination?

          According to lifehack.org from the article, "7 Steps to Start Lucid Dreaming" of Steven Aitchison, generally he came given to us some things that we can do to have a lucid dreaming. The following are the steps which is given by the author:


 1.  Keep a dream journal.
 2.  Remember your ordinary dreams.
 3.  Pick out dream signs.
 4.  Notice your waking world.
 5.  Ask yourself; ‘Am I dreaming?’.
 6.  Your first lucid dream.
 7.  Staying Lucid.

 One of those things which got my attention is having a dream journal, it's like a diary on what you have dream every time you sleep. In in this case you can really remember of the things that you'd dream before and aside from it, you can do the steps automatically. Here you can actually identify on the things which is common in your dreams and maybe that thing can be your dream sign, a sign that you are in the dreaming state like a rabbit which can talk or maybe some actions like having a powers. Then, you can determine what is your dreaming world in reality. For some reason, I think this will be effective if you'll do it regularly because it will help you to become lucid in dreaming.

           As our author, Steve Aitchison said that, "When you are dreaming and you become conscious that you are dreaming you can start to control your dreams and the direction they go in." All those dreams came from our self-consciousness and when you know you  are dreaming, you can control and start putting some exciting scenarios there. And that is the time you are lucid in your dreams.

             Another article, "A Quick Guide to Lucid Dreaming"  by Fenwick Rysen in the website chaosmatrix.org, he give us some effective guidelines to have a lucid dream. One of those is we should always ask to ourselves "I am dreaming?" a good question to have our self-awareness more active not only in the reality but also to our  dreamland. There are some things that he explain further, like you can actually write the main idea of your dream instead of writing it in every detail.

           Even it was a quick blog for us, it has a straight points on how it will help us do the lucid dreaming. And I agree on what he want to tell us, that we cannot know how will it take to have a lucid dreaming in doing those guidelines because it depends on our self-consciousness on how will they work.

          One of Fenwick Rysen's statements which caught my attention is that, "Don't expect success overnight: There is no fast food service line for mastery of the occult arts." which is right. It takes a long time to have a successful goal, same  with the having a lucid dreaming. It takes a lot of patience and time to practice and to become lucid in your dreams.

        Having a lucid dream was so great for me, even it has some creepy scenarios out there, you can still manage those things that you wish will happen. But it takes a particular long process to achieve it, you should be patience to do those guidelines which are given if you really want to experience it. See you in dreamland folks'.!:))

Blogpost #6: Lucid Dreaming and the Inception

           Having a lucid dreaming means a lot for other people, because somehow, lucid dreaming is a kind of living entertainment to all who do it. Because there you have two roles, one is the writer who acts like an architect of the whole story and the other one is being the main actor of the scene. It is like the a mainstream class-A movie for all those people who experience it.

         In our generation today, lucid dreaming raise it's concept not only for those people who are interested to it. It also one of those concept in some movies in our industry. Some of them have the box office rated because of those effects that given and the uniqueness of the story. One of those movies is the Inception. Inception is kind of movie which is related to the concept of lucid dreaming. It is somehow define the concept of being lucid in a dream. Here are some articles that I'd read for the topic.

           According to a news editor named as Rowan Hooper, in his article "Inception: Peering into the Science of Dreams" in the website of newscientist.com. Some of those thing in the movie of Inception were related and inspired by the concept of lucid dreaming. Aside from that he also state that it lies between those previous movies, James Bond film and The Matrix Trilogy. He also relate some informal laws that lucid dreaming and Inception has.

          As for my opinion fro that article, I can say that this kind of movie is well prepared for the story, because they not only do that but they also made a research that somehow when the audience will it and has a thing that we will never forget and get confused on and do some research to know it better.

          One of Rowan Hooper statements that I agreed with, "Dreams follow some "real life" rules". That dream is always a part of our life and like real life too, it also need some rules, rules that from the real world rules. Somehow, we can say that things in lucid dreaming has a connection between the real world.

         Another article I read was entitled, "What is Inception Really About?" by Damian Nordmann in the website som.org that in every words that has a connection between the two, which are Inception and Lucid Dreaming. Other from that, he also discuss how powerful our subconscious is and what is the meaning of being a dead person in a lucid dream.

         The article was great because he actually explains how those concept which relate to our topic, lucid dreaming, applied in the movie, Inception. And I realize that lucid dreaming is like an over acting reference book of the real life because of some points that those two have in common.

        One of Mr.Damian Nordmann statements got my attention is, "Dreams are experiences in the subconscious mind that we have each night when we sleep.". Meaning those dreams that we got every night come from our subconscious mind that's why it is in the dreamland than in the waking state like in the Inception.

          I conclude that Inception reveals some iceberg of lucid dreaming but just like in the movies. Movies is just an iceberg from the whole story of it's book. But even though people have information about lucid dreaming, it won't be able to open the mysticism of the lucid dreaming.

Blogpost #3: Negative - Effects of Lucid Dreaming

Many people push themselves to become lucid in dream again because some things which happen in there dreaming state, is favor for them. And because of that, we didn't realize that some thing are not right when we keep doing this forced of being lucid in a dream. i am sure one of you guys, push yourself in coming back in your dream to continue what is happening there, right? Don't worry because I am one of you who usually do that every time i had a beautiful lucid dream.

But based on what I read in the internet, I realized that there are some things which we never get attention with it like some negative - effects of the lucid. I write about this stuffs because I want you to know guys some things that we do and might actually think that it can't affect our real life would be nothing. Actually, it affect our entire life even the unforgettable hurtful dream may affect our daily life.

According to the article,"Would excessive lucid dreaming be dangerous?" by Tim Post on lucidipedia.com, unexpected lucid dreaming good for us. But forcing ourselves to go back in what we are dreaming even we are awake can affect us. Some people want to experience lucid dreaming only because they want it just for the of fun and desire.

       And after they experienced it, and somehow they are not satisfied yet,the tendency is people will come back to sleep to be lucid again or to continue what they are doing in their dreams. It seems that they really wanting it more than anything else just like a drug which you have addicted of. And from that, pushing us to lucid again in our sleep cause us to lose our sleep and gets dizzy when we work or will study. It's like that you choose the dreaming state and treating it as a real one. So, that's the point when you get a negative effect from lucid dreaming when you got addicted from it.

Next thing is, when you got addicted to it, there's a possibility that you'll be alienated because of your lucidity. It's like you feel that you have a power like some superheroes that save the world in televisions and movies. They will feel it because they thought that they are the only one can do the lucid dreaming. And because of that, everything can cause dissociation between real life and fantasy for you. By the time you are recovering from those of dreams in your lucid dream you may feel very exhausted.

From the article of Ryan Hurd,"Is Lucid Dreaming Dangerous?" in the website of dreamstudies.org, can really satisfies that lucid dreaming is not dangerous to our health especially in out mental health. Maybe  the best way to have control of wanting or being addicted to it is making a boundary for reality and in dream state. Prioritize real life over those dreams. Because those dream was came  with those result because we control it, remember we are the architect and at the same time the main character of our dream. In case, we can prevent wanting dreams more than to live with real life.
Many people critic some topics before they have the real information about a thing. Sometimes, they just grabbed some information which what they'd heard from other people. Like, for lucid dreaming, many people have their own perspective on how does the lucid dream affect our reality and communication for real people. But actually it depends, upon the person who experienced it on how he or she will explain the truth between those lines.

        "There’s no evidence that lucid dreaming can bring on mental illness." . A strong quotation of Ryan Hurd that really satisfy that you can never have a negative effects on doing the lucid dreaming unless it is too much for you to do it.

 Same thing with  thoughts of Tim Post that,"They simply do not matter about those dreams and would only clutter up our waking life concerns".You should leave the thought which are formulated in your dreaming state because when you actually brought those things in real life. There's a tendency that you can have the bad effects of lucid dreaming. Because reality has a big differences between those lucid dreaming and you should always remember that.

           It may have some trouble in doing the lucid dreaming but it will never affect you unless you do not treat it as a "Safe Drug". Because even if is safe drug, there' s always the word drug which we all know that it is harmful to us.

Blogpost #2: Sleep Paralysis: A negative-effect of lucid dreaming?

My research is about lucid dreaming and because of it I found out some negative side-effects of it. Although it's a good thing for us, but in some little ways it can give a bad effects for us. Maybe somehow, we can't really prevent the negative effects of lucid dreaming because it is a part of it. However, we can go through these by overcoming them, just go with the flow but don't really feel it. But in the first place what are the bad effects of lucid dreaming that we might get through it.

I remember when I don't know something about the lucid dreaming, I dreamed that I am awake but when I get up my on my bed, I whole body is still asleep. It seems that my body and my soul are estranged from each other. In the first time I experienced it, I am so afraid that I won't be able to get back in my body. I tried to lay down again, imitate the position of my body and close my eyes again trying to go back in my body. But in the first place, it has nothing work out of it. I closed my eyes and pray to go back to the real world. I try these technique many times, but most of the time nothing happened. But I have the faith in God that all of these will go back to normal. So, it happen that my prayers when I am there in that state were answered.

Another scenario in my lucid dream is when my surrounding is all covered with red and black. When I woke up I find something weird not only because of the color of my surrounding but also there was a girl inside in my room in front of the mirror. I don't recognized her because her face was covered by her hair. She wears a ragged cloth. I was so shock because she's seems scary for me. But before I can shout for a help, she really runs fast heading to me. Then, I was to get up in my bed when she
hold my neck and tried to burke me. I am so afraid from her that I don't know what to do, so I prayed again for my safety.

So, why people experienced this? According to Rebecca Turner in the website of world-of-lucid-dreaming.com in her article "World of Lucid Dreaming: Developing Conscious Dream Control", the first thing that I shared to you is some kind called a "sleep paralysis". It is caused by some things that makes us more stressful like being jet lag, sleep depriviation and anxiety but it is normal for those people who are lucid dreamers. Some people when they experienced it, they will say it is dangerous because you don't might come back to your body.But it says in the article, that the reason why people are scared to experience sleep paralysis because they don't know what is happening and for some reasons I agree for this article because somehow, people are easily to be scared of something or somewhat because of the things that they might actually seen in the real life like in some movies that they watched or some horror books that they've been read. Generally, for me, it depends upon the person on how he/she should handle it.But the more you have fear in your mind the more chances to you to experience sleep paralysis.

Based from we discuss, sleep paralysis is like a rubik's cube for me, you can't solve and complete the puzzle until you understand how to manage or move it to complete all the colors in one plane or side. Same thing with sleep paralysis, it is a part of lucid dreaming wherein you can't escape through it when you are scared, you should left your fear behind and think of the solution of getting rid of it before you can go back to the awakening state. The lesser you have the fear or  you can more control your fear, the better opportunity to think of the method on how you can escape through, because it is also a part of a lucid dream.

But the question is, what will we do to make the sleep paralysis turn to a good thing and how will our fear will left behind when we are in the state of paralyzed while
in at sleep?

From the article of Rebecca Turner in her article "How to Stop Sleep Paralysis and Turn It Into Lucid Dreams" in the website world-of-lucid-dreaming.com,you can prevent to be in panic mode when  you are in sleep paralysis is when you interfeat the fear in your mind. You should read that article so it can help you to recover the sleep paralysis. But of course, primarily, you should relax your mind don't think about some other things that might happen because it will cause you to panic. I think this is the better start so you can think of what will you do next. Just like in real life, you can never organize your things or appointments if you think to them at the same time, you'll never find out the right thing to do first when you are in a panic mood.

So, for me, I think experiencing sleep paralysis is a normal thing for those who acquired lucid dreaming. I know in the first place is really quite creepy in experiencing it but in the end, we can realized that this is one part of the lucid dreaming why is it is treated healthy to us. It's because sleep paralysis is the one which helps us control our fear and have a focus in ourselves that can leads us to have better perspective in real life.

Sleep paralysis is an boundary line of lucid dreaming meaning you can exit and enter your lucid dreaming through it. So, generally it depends on how people will handle the it, it will lead to the lucid dreaming or will experience to a sleep paralysis if the fear will overcome. Thus, its how the fear will work through your dreams. But are more negative-effects of lucid dreaming aside from the sleep paralysis. Maybe others might thought that it is normal, but somehow, I really feel that it is one of the negative effects of the lucid dreaming.

As Rebecca Turner said that "Sleep paralysis is a common human condition, and the hallucinations can be shaped and molded based on your expectations.", I interpret this quotation that sleep paralysis is a common thing for those people who are doing the lucid dreaming. And the basis of it are the things that depends on the experiences and expectations you have. One thing that she said is, "Some people find it helps to sing in their mind as this instantly raises your positivism."which means that you should control your dreams not dreams should control you because at the end you will realize that those dream are fantasy. And you likely to have a positive perspective toward your real life.

I hope I help you for your sleep paralysis problem. Remember, you have to calm to get the entire thing in your control even in your dreams.