Lucid Dreaming for Mind/Body Health and Healing In a broad sense, you could categorize the lucid dream potentials along these main areas (included with illustrative examples): In my first book, Lucid Dreaming – Gateway to the Inner Self, I illuminated the ‘open platform’ nature of lucid dreaming which allows for near-infinite investigations, as well as very practical uses. Besides these traditions, many shamanic approaches and solitary practitioners worldwide have used lucid dreaming as a tool for inner exploration for millennia.īut what about experienced lucid dreamers today? What potential do they see for lucid dreaming? These ancient spiritual seekers could definitely see how to utilize lucid dreaming as a practice to gain spiritual insight, wisdom and more. Augustine, the 5th century Christian philosopher shares a lucid dream in which the lucid dreamer discovers how he will continue to experience ‘existence’ in the after-death state. The 12th century Sufi writings of Ibn al’ Arabi suggest how lucid dreaming can connect one to their divine source. Naropa, the 11th century Buddhist yogi declared Buddhist dream yoga – which relies on the technique of lucid dreaming – as one of the six paths to enlightenment. As scholars of lucid dreaming have noted, before the scientific evidence for lucid dreaming appears in the late 1970s work by Keith Hearne in the UK and separately Stephen LaBerge at Stanford University in the US, lucid dreaming has a multi-thousand-year history amongst spiritual traditions. The most frequent application (81.4%) was having fun, followed by changing a bad dream or nightmare into a pleasant one (63.8%), solving problems (29.9%), getting creative ideas or insights (27.6%) and practicing skills (21.3%).”įor more experienced lucid dreamers, however, lucid dreaming seems an ‘open platform’ where apparently unlimited potential exists to explore dreaming, the nature of consciousness and much more. “Our survey included 301 lucid dreamers who filled out an online questionnaire. Her research abstract reports the following: Why do lucid dreamers persist in this quest? What value do they find in lucid dreaming?Ī 2012 survey of lucid dreamers by researcher Melanie Schaedlich suggests that present day lucid dreamers see several practical applications to lucid dreaming, but tend to use this special state to have fun. But either way, the quest continues to experience that extraordinary Zen-like moment of suddenly realizing, “This is a dream!” Every night around the world, hundreds of thousands of people try to induce a lucid dream.
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