You have decided you want to be a lucid dreamer, otherwise known as a conscious dreamer. Knowing what you would like to do is good, the question remains on how do you accomplish this?

You also need to think about exactly why you want to become a lucid dreamer. What are the benefits of lucid dreaming? To help us find the benefits, let us first look at ‘normal’ sleep.

What typically happens is you lay down, you close your eyes and you wake six to eight hours later – you may or may not remember any dreams you gave had in this time. In and of itself, not terribly exciting.

This kind of sleep allows us to get the rest we need to go about our activities the following day. Have you ever wondered, though, what it would be like if you could actually take control of your dreams and dictate their events?

What if you could be an active instead of passive participant in your dreams? What if you could take control of your dream instead of being controlled by it? Someone who has managed to become a lucid dreamer can do all of this – they are not bound by anything except for their imagination.

So if you want to become a lucid dreamer how do you do it? There are actually two ways. The first way is having a dream-initiated lucid dream (DILD), which is where the dreamer is in a dream and then realizes that they are, restoring their sense of consciousness within the dream.

The other method is by having a wake initiated lucid dream (or WILD) this is where the dreamer transitions from a state of wakefulness to lucid dreaming without a sensation of falling asleep. The dreamer simply goes straight from being awake to lucid dreaming.

Now that we know the basic how, what are the fine points to entering either one of these lucid dream realms?

Dream Recall

If you’d like to lucid dream, perhaps one of the most successful way of doing so is known as dream recall. Dream recall is simply the ability to remember one’s dreams. By remembering your dreams, you are able to recognize them when you are sleeping, because most likely, you will have the same dream, or at least aspects of it, more than once.

The best way to remember your dreams is of course to write them down. Keep a pen and pad by the bed and immediately upon waking from a dream write it down. The reason you want to write it immediately upon waking is so you do not forget any part of the dream. Dreams tend to fade from our conscious mind rather quickly.

Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD)

This is a technique based on entering your dreams with the intention of realizing you are dreaming or looking for a dream sign. For instance when you awaken in the nigh from a dream and recall a blue dog you mark that blue dog in your mind as your dream sign. Then when you encounter this again you will know you are dreaming.

Wake-Back-to-Bed (WBTB)

This simple process has you taking no action except to set an alarm that will waken you in less time than you normally sleep. For most of us about five or six hours will do it. After the alarm awakens you do not try to fall back to sleep. For about an hour you should read, watch TV or concentrate on lucid dreaming then go back to sleep.

According to Stephen LaBerge, there is a 60% success rate of this technique. The reason why is that you would have woken up during the process of sleep, meaning that your mind is not fully aware of this, and are still in the middle of REM cycle. So basically, it’s like going to your mind and telling it that you want to lucid dream.

Cycle Adjustment Technique

This method was created by Daniel Love in this technique you set an alarm to awaken you 90 minutes before you normally would awaken. This is done for approximately a week. After a week, you begin to alternate between normal wake up and early. On the normal waking days, the body will come alert earlier thereby increasing the chance of lucidity.

Wake-initiation of Lucid Dreams (WILD)

This method was described before. If you would like to achieve a lucid dream this way, all you have to do is to keep your mind awake while you body falls asleep. This is perhaps the most interesting way of entering a lucid dream. It is as if you are getting ready to watch a movie. You are in the real world, you sit on your couch, you turn on the TV and press play (starting to sleep), the screen is black (in the same way as when your eyes are closed), and all you have to do is wait for the movie to actually start.

A number of ways to stay aware are counting, imagine climbing or descending stairs, chant, control your breathing, count your breaths, and concentrate on relaxing the body from their toes to head. (This all falls under the term ’self hypnosis’.) It is best to do this when you are not tired, like in the afternoon.

Like many other areas of our life, technology has made its mark. Today you can find several electronic devices that can aid you in inducing lucid dreams. There are masks that can detect when you enter REM sleep then use a vibration, sound or small lights to induce lucidity.

Definitely the easiest and most reliable way of inducing a lucid dream however is by listening to binaural beats sound frequencies via headphones.

These binaural sounds induce lucid dreaming by causing the hemispheres of your brain to synchronize, making your brainwaves reach the state required for lucid dreaming.

Put all or many of these techniques together and you are ready to begin your journey into the wonderful world of lucid dreaming. It is a simple process that anyone can do.

The term hypnosis has had a lot of negative perception. Many people think the whole concept of is just a big scam. One of the most common approaches is by establishing quick rapport. One of the methods you can use to create instant rapport is called matching of words. It is a form of technique used to “mirror” the conversation of another person.

In this article I will expose some of these truths about hypnosis that hypnotists desperately try to keep a lid on. Unfortunately, it’s pretty easy to mess people up with hypnosis badly. The most common way people are harmed through hypnosis is by the creation of false memories. It’s very easy to create fake memories under hypnosis. Even well-meaning hypnotists can accidentally create false memories under hypnosis.

Hypnosis is fast gaining ground in the world of medical treatment as a new way to deal with behavioral disorders, alcoholism related problems, and depression. Natural trances are a kind of hypnosis you experience in daily life if you want to learn hypnosis. You slip into and out of them while performing common chores like cooking, cleaning or driving. Since hypnosis is one area having a lot of practical applications, the classes should focus as much on hands on experience as on theoretical learning. Ideally, students should have at least 100hours of training that includes both classroom training, and deal with how to administer and receive hypnosis treatment.

It is crucial that you find the right Hypnotherapist with whom you have rapport. Remember that you’re dealing with your subconscious mind which does things very differently than the conscious mind. Do not edit, judge or analyze anything during your session. Thoughts and words are powerful and anything you whip up during a Hypnosis session, you can make powerfully so. The backbone of Hypnosis is the Law of Attraction.

The newest trend in personal development, and certianly in subliminal messaging is the demand for “silent subliminal messages“.

A normal CD will typically feature some form of relaxation music - the subliminals being hidden behind this relaxing mask. These messages enter your brain without any effort required on your behalf. They can be used to improve confidence, improve your health, develop your memory… pretty much any area where you have negative self beliefs.

The new trend for silent subliminal messages is mainly market driven. Often people use the albums at home while relaxing. But the idea behind the silent track is to take this one step further!

The silent subliminals allow people to take their subliminal messages with them everywhere, as it is not always possible to be listening to regular subliminal messaging albumsbut sometimes it just isn’t practical to be listening to ocean sounds or nature music. If the track is completely silent it can be played continuously. It can be played in the office, while cycling to work, and is very effective while sleeping if you are someone who likes a quiet atmosphere.

Here is an explanation of the technical side and how they are made, and how they are different from regular subliminal tracks:

The whole track is basically completely silent. It doesn’t have any relaxing sounds this time. But it will contain the exact same messages just as the regular tracks will. You might be asking how is this possible, but it is in fact quite simple. The subliminal messages are recorded just as any regular ones would be and then altered to a higher sound frequency. However, instead of merging these messages with a backing track of relaxing music the music simply isn’t added.

All of the Real Subliminal CD contain a fourth silent track. There are four tracks in total and the fourth one contains the silent subliminal messages“. It contains some of the key subliminal messages from across the first 3 tracks – but not all of them. So effectively the whole album is contained within the first 3 tracks, and we do still recommend listening to the whole album to get the entire intended benefit. The 4th track is simply a bonus.