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'.!:))