In addition to lucid dreams, there are five main types of dreams – normal dreams, daydreams, false awakenings, nightmares and psychic dreams. Consider the features of each of these hypnotic states and how each can take you into the phenomenal world that is lucid dreaming.
1. Normal Dreams
While the term “normal dreams” may seem like a contradiction, it simply refers to your usual types of dreams when you don’t know that you are dreaming. A typical dream is when you could be having coffee with the President and not think anything is out of place; you accept your dream as reality.
Every single night individuals have a normal dream. These dreams come from your REM sleep and are necessary to your survival. Without these dreams you could die. When you get the eight-hour standard of sleep you will dream for about 100 minutes, with longer and more vivid dreams happening just a few minutes before you wake up.
Interpreting Dreams
The subconscious mind sends up important messages through our normal jeans. These dreams come from your thoughts and experiences during the day and occasionally memories from a long time ago. During these dreams, you mind can release repressed fears, anxieties and desires through a coded language known as conceptual imagery that comes from the subconscious brain.
Spontaneous Lucidity
These normal dreams are also the main gateway to lucid dreams. When you have a normal dream, it is easy to become spontaneously lucid. All you need is for you to consciously realize that you are dreaming. This turns on your conscious brain and the sensory system so that your dream looks, feels, sounds, smells and even tastes like it’s happening in reality.
Even the most bizarre experiences can feel very real, such as shape shifting or at least to the point of what your body expects the sensation to feel like. When you forget that you are dreaming your lucid dream will return to a normal dream and you will lose all conscious control and awareness of the dream again.
2. Daydreams
Scientific studies have found that for an amazing 70-120 minutes per day people will daydream. At this time, you are semi-awake, but not asleep. However, you also aren’t completely in tune with reality at this time either. Often this form of lucidity starts with a compelling thought, memory or fantasy regarding the future and your imagination soon gets away from you. As the daydream continues, you become more immersed in your private fantasyland.
Daydreaming is actually an important part of dream research. As with other forms of dreams, you enter a hypnotic trance and your subconscious thoughts are allowed to rise to the surface. During daydreams, the right or creative side of your brain become dominant and you lose your awareness of reality. Often your deeper worries or concerns will come to the surface at this time, usually by acting themselves out through the daydream. This can increase your negativity, so when you start fantasizing about bad situation you should try to change it into a positive outcome.
Rehearsing the Future
A lot successful people will use their daydreams as a way to visualize their success in the future. For athletes they will often imagine winning their next big game. Business leaders use daydreams to mentally rehearse for an important speech. These individuals see a positive outcome and can help make their daydream a reality. You can even consider an event in the past and reenact it to provide a different outcome. This kind of daydreaming is very healthy for individuals since you are temporarily able to get away from the difficulties of reality and release your frustrations without having to do anything physical.
Setting a Lucid Dream Intention
You can also use daydreams in order to start your next lucid dream. To do this make a mental list of three things that you want to accomplish in your conscious dream and visualize how to get there. Say you want to learn the piano, fly to the moon and meet aliens. First, picture the concert hall (where you are most likely to find a piano), then imagine what it is like to fly up and go through the roof into the night sky. Picture yourself landing on the moon and finding a group of aliens that are super-intelligent and sitting in a crater. You will have an interesting conversation with the aliens, gaining a lot of insights that come directly from your unconscious mind.
When you become lucid next time, you will instinctively remember your daydream and start to perform it in the vivid detail of the reality of a lucid dream. When you don’t do this preparation, you are likely to jus
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