Can You Control Your Dreams?

19 January 2012

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Sometimes you have dreams and they reveal something to you that you never knew about youself, other times you dream about something totally random. Did you know you can control your dreams?

Dreams have always been a bit of a grey area. Sometimes you have dreams that reveal some deep dark thing to you that you never really knew you wanted but suddenly is astonishingly obvious that you do, and sometimes you dream about something and it seems to be related to absolutely nothing in your life, and completely irrelevant to anything.

Apparently, after some time and cleverly honed skill you can control what you dream about. So if there is something in your life you have been wishing you had the guts to do, but haven't quite muster up the courage this could be your perfect opportunity to let off some steam.

Whether it's telling your mother-in-law what you really think of her cooking, telling your boss where they can stick their extra hours, or flirting with that bloke you desperately fancy, controlling your dreams could be the way for you to realise what that would really feel like.

Who knows, it might give you so much of a rush that it inspires you to do the thing for real. That, or it could make you feel dreadful the next time you see them, and riddled with guilt for dream-abusing them!

It's called lucid dreaming, and essentially all you have to do, is be able to unconsciously realise when you are dreaming and when you are not, and once you have mastered that you should be able to control the actions of your dreams.

If you thought Inception was complicated, this isn't far off to be honest, but for some people who have the energy to keep going with it, they could have some good stories to tell!

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of the week.William Dement

Also, you don't have to understand the science of how this works to make it work, if you just follow the simple steps, you should be able to control what you do.

It takes on average between 3-27 days to be able to lucid dream, so it's not an easy task. You have to follow quite a strict regime so that you really embed the method in your mind, and run freely with it once you get there.

The steps are reasonably easy to follow, and if do exactly as they say for a few weeks you should soon find yourself being able to fly, go to the moon, or do the things you wish you could in reality.

Step 1:
Keep a dream diary.
You have to write down every single dream you have, even if it is only popping down to your local supermarket because you forgot to buy cheese, you have to write it down.
It's a good idea to keep the book by your bed so that you can write the dreams down as soon as you wake up so that you don't forget them.
This first step just initiates you into recognising elements of your dreams that often crop up, this is the start to recognising your dream state so that you know when you are dreaming!

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