Why achieve the ability to have lucid dreams?

Adventures & Ego Fulfillment

Lucid dreaming helps fulfill ego desires that cannot be experienced on Earth, and this allows the ego to let go more easily than it would otherwise on its hold of identifying itself only as a human and no more. Be a famous movie star, be a professional brain surgeon, be a trapeze artist, invent something, be a mom, fly like a bird over the mountains, swim with the fish in the ocean, travel to the far reaches of outer space… whatever you have always wanted to do, you can do it in this virtual reality machine that is inside you, your imagination. Your dream world is a combination of your human imagination and the imagination of the eternal self that you are. You can broaden your mind and gain experiences that help you with wish fulfillment and satisfaction of desires that are impossible for you to experience in physical reality, or would take a long time to gain the skills necessary for that experience.

Learning & Gaining Skills

Take guitar lessons, go to classes in your dreams, learn new skills, learn about anything you have wanted to learn about. You could visit a teacher in the dream worlds and get better at your skill level in whatever it is that you would like to excel in. If you are going to school or taking lessons of some sort in your waking life, try doing them in your lucid dreams as well, and see how much you can absorb and bring back into physical reality. Your brain actually sets up the neural pathways and develops the ability in the nervous system because it does not differentiate between what is physically experienced or what is experienced in the dream world. It is easier for new skills to get translated into motor skills or human consciousness knowledge if the electrical impulses have already been experienced in the nervous system and the brain.

Rehearse Events In Life

Dreams can be a flight simulator for life. You can practice possible outcomes of situations, practice performances, increase confidence and have experiences of success that will also show up in waking life. Have you ever wondered how you will deal with a conversation you must have in the future? Have you ever wished you could play out a conversation in different ways and see what its most positive outcome will be? You can learn from trial and error by experimenting with different ways of handling a situation. You can practice a speech you have to give in waking life in your dreams and get over your stage fright, learn how to stay calm and deliver your speech confidently because of practice in your dream world.

Problem Solving

Have you ever had something that you just couldn't figure out, and then in a dream you found your answer? Our dreams are trying to tell us something all the time. In dreams, divine inspiration and inventions are born. The person who invented the sewing needle for the singer sewing machine received this idea in a dream. Refer to the Dreams & Dreaming course for more information on how dreams can be a source of inspiration and inventions. You can understand abstract concepts in dreams, learn how to solve a particular problem or try different approaches to a problem. Sometimes you wake up with the answer you need in waking life after you have received insight from a dream.

Healing

Dreams are especially useful for healing, or receiving guidance on what is necessary for healing. You can integrate disowned parts of the self, meet and make peace with your shadow side, and even make peace with relationships, past or present. You can work with "stuck" situations and resolve conflicts. You can inspire healing in waking life by addressing issues in your dream world. This can translate to physical healing as well. One woman told a story about how she was ill with an undiagnosed condition, and even after several attempts by western medicine to solve the problem, her cure was given to her in a dream. She saw a kitten hungrily eating something, and when she ate it in waking life, her illness was cured. In lucid dreams, you can actively search for the cures to illnesses and conditions in the physical, mental and emotional bodies. Miracles can be experienced in the dream world and then translated to waking life. Lucid dreams also lend themselves particularly to increasing your confidence in yourself and your ability to be in control of your life. They also help you learn to realize yourself as eternal consciousness that can have adventures in all sorts of worlds, conditions and vehicles for experience.

Spiritual Experiences

Lucid dreaming is a great launching pad of astral projections and soul travel. The spiritual worlds are most accessible from the lucid dreaming state. You can meet the population in the universe and all the spiritual beings that live there. You can ask questions and gather knowledge. You won't be able to translate everything into waking life in the human mind, but you will remember enough to make it valuable. You will make heart connections that transcend the mind anyway. What you bring back from the dream will enhance your perception of yourself, your place in the dream, your eternal nature and your true identity. You will experience the infinite in the dream world.

Tips For Gaining Spiritual Knowledge:

These are some of the questions that will give you a peak spiritual experience:

1. I seek truth, God, the highest, the divine, the ultimate mystery.


2. I want to meet my true self.


3. Let me see the beginning of all.


4. Who am I?


5. I don't know my heart's desire. How can I find it?


6. I have a duty to perform. What is it?


7. Where did I come from?


8. Why am I here?


9. Where am I going?

Using Lucid Dreams To Overcome Nightmares

You can face your fears in lucid dreams in a way you cannot in waking life. If you face your fears in lucid dreams, you realize them for the illusion that they are or they transform into something you are not afraid of anymore. You can learn how to make the best of nightmare situations. You realize that nothing can actually hurt you. You can "let it happen to you" and experience that you are not harmed. Through this, you can find the gift in the nightmare that a deep part of yourself is trying to tell you. You cannot be killed in your dreams (unless perhaps you have a weak heart), and you will find yourself quite aware and conscious even after death in a lucid dream.

And More…

The uses of lucid dreams are endless. You will find your own uses for lucid dreaming that will be unique to yourself only. If you had a virtual-reality machine at your beck and call all the time, what would you do with it? What kind of experiences would you like to have in a virtual-reality machine that you could not have in waking life? Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the universe that you wanted to go? What would you do with such an opportunity to explore the endless arena of consciousness that you are? This is what your dreamworld is—a virtual-reality machine that is built into your consciousness and can be used by you in any way you wish. Take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to explore yourself and explore the nature of consciousness, even the universe itself.

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