MINDFUL LUCID DREAMING

WILD has a reputation. People treat it like the advanced move, the thing you graduate to after years of practice. Too hard. Too technical. Definitely not for beginners. It's really not. WILDs were my backdoor into lucid dreaming, and they get a worse rap than they deserve.

You aren't sure you're dreaming. You almost know. But what if you're not? So you decide to test it... by trying to fly. You set your eyes on the sky and mentally will yourself to lift off. And somewhere between that thought and your feet leaving the ground, your realization becomes crystal clear. Yes! It is a dream after all! Flying isn't just a mode of transportation in lucid dreams. It's also one of the most popular ways to check if you're dreaming. But if you want to impr

I recently discussed lucid dreaming LIVE on KPBS Midday Edition, focusing on how lucid dreaming can stop recurring nightmares–someitmes with

One of the most unique aspects of WILDs is the potential to experience what’s called metachoric phenomena during REM sleep. This occurs when

New research on 🧘‍♂️meditation-lucid dreaming 🛌 links found that: 1) Open monitoring styles of meditation are most associated with more lucid dreams. 2) Daily meditation is linked with more lucid dreams than weekly meditation. 3) Weekly lucid dreamers more likely to be non-reactive and have transcendent experiences. 💫 Read the full paper in Brain Sciences | An Open Access Journal by MDPI

Meet Paul, an advanced meditator, who embarked on the Mindful Lucid Dreaming course in 2021 with remarkable success. He described it as, "The most credible course on lucid dreaming by a qualified instructor." 🌟 Before joining, Paul averaged only 4 lucid dreams per year. His highest count in any 6-month period was merely 3 lucid dreams. This translated to roughly a 1% chance of having a lucid dream on any given night. Despite trying courses by well-known instructors like Andr

Lucid dream techniques tend not to be described cohesively whether online or in books or science journals. Rather, they tend to come...

Lucid dreaming is a tool for recalibrating automatic responses to nightmares, trauma, and challenging emotions.

Q. I've been trying so hard to WILD but I get stuck in sleep paralysis and I don’t fall asleep all the way. My body feels like a weight, ...

The Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams technique, or MILD, is a prospective memory technique designed to help you set and carry out the inte

Dreams are full of features that distinguish them from waking reality. These features, known as dreamsigns, can serve as signals that you ar

The authors now provide a perspective on these studies that is much more reality-based, showing hopeful growth in light of these topics.