The Art Of Lucid Dreaming
By:
Andrew Strachan
Copyright 2006 Andrew Strachan
“I found myself sitting by the edge of the road on a red hot
summer’s day. The sun was high in the sky and I could feel the
sun beating down on me. I was so hot, why was I wearing my
winter coat? I looked around; some of the familiar buildings
looked strange. This is so odd I thought. Suddenly an
overwhelming feeling ran through my body from head to toe, a
feeling of excitement mixed with anticipation. I understand
what’s happening..... I’m dreaming! This is unbelievable. I am
awake inside my dream.”
The paragraph above is an account of what happened to me one
night when I was a young boy, no older than ten or eleven years
of age. It was many years ago, but I can remember it like it was
yesterday. Although I have had many experiences which have been
similar and often better than that first experience, that
feeling of realization that I had become fully awake whilst
still inside my dream will stay with me forever.
All those years ago, I had no idea what had happened to me, just
that it was great fun, and I couldn’t wait for it to happen
again, which luckily it did. As I became more proficient at
lucid
dreaming I developed certain ideas and
techniques along the way which helped me achieve my lucid
dreams. Unknown to me at the time, (The Internet didn’t yet
exist in its present form.) many other people were having just
as much fun and using their own methods and techniques.
How Does A Dream Differ From A Lucid Dream?
When we dream, we usually have little control over what happens
in the dream. It is as though we are being swept along in a
story and we have very little say in what happens in that dream.
In addition to this, crazy things may happen within the dream
and we just carry on as though nothing is out of the ordinary.
We tend not to rationalize anything or if we do, it gets
explained away. Recently I dreamt about talking with a centaur,
a mythological creature that is half horse and half man. We sat
down on a park bench. In my dream I never once questioned the
fact that I was chatting with a centaur! When we awake the next
day it is often amusing to think about how silly we were for
accepting such strangeness.
When we become lucid, that consciousness and realization that we
feel when we awake the next morning actually happens whilst we
are still in our dream! This enables us to exist in this dream
world with the full awareness that we have in our everyday
lives. The ability to be totally aware whilst still dreaming is
what we call a Lucid Dream.
Why Would I Want To Have A Lucid Dream?
I have been asked this questions many times by people who have
never experienced a lucid dream and I always have a simple
answer for them and that is “because you can!” The ability to
have a lucid dream is in all of us, yet so many of us do not
even know how or why. They are missing out on one of life’s
great experiences. I have lost count of the friends who have
come to me after learning the techniques, had a lucid dream and
then said “Now I know what you were talking about.”
It can often be difficult to express in words how exhilarating
lucid dreaming can be but hopefully after reading this book you
will be able to discover this for yourself.
Imagine a world as real as the one you are in now. You can see,
touch, smell, hear, talk, walk, and run. Everything in this
imaginary world is exactly the same as the ‘real’ world but
there is one major difference. In this imaginary world you can
do anything. There are no rules, no limits. You are limited only
by your imagination. If you can imagine it, you can experience
it, as realistic as the real world is to you now. Just take a
moment to think about what you would like to do given the
chance. In a lucid dream you could do those things.
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Andrew Strachan has been lucid dreaming for
over 20 years. Anybody can learn how to lucid dream. Let him teach
you the techniques he uses so that you can learn to lucid dream
yourself.
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