Floating in Dreams
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Nov 16th, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet Many people have described floating in dreams. Unlike flying dreams, where you can often control the direction and height of your flight above the dream landscape, you often have minimal control in floating dreams. You may experience only the sensation of floating in dreams; find yourself floating atop a lake, river, cloud or other buoyant medium; or turn the dream into a flying dream where you can control your direction and speed. A feeling of floating upward is also a common hallmark of a successful astral projection; some people have...Out of Body Dreams
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Nov 15th, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet Sleep and lucid dream researcher Stephen LaBerge has proposed that the sensations of astral projection, or an out of body experience, may be a specific type of lucid dream. These so-called out of body dreams may be related to wake-induced lucid dreams, which occur at the onset of sleep without any apparent loss of consciousness. Unlike a lucid dream– where someone by definition knows that they’re dreaming– people who experience an OBE may feel totally awake and not realize they’ve slipped into a different state of...How to Have an Out of Body Experience
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Nov 4th, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet An out of body experience (OBE) is defined as the perception that you have left your body and are now observing the world from a viewpoint nearby. OBE’s can be triggered involuntarily by illness (especially with fever) and injury, or you can learn how to have an out of body experience. Many people have taught themselves to induce OBE’s through self-hypnosis. Certain perceptual illusions can also fool your brain into thinking your viewpoint is outside your body. Scientific experiments have shown that our brains rely on several different...What Is The Meaning Of Dreams?
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Oct 14th, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet For as long as human beings have tried to understand what dreams are, they have also asked, “What is the meaning of dreams? Where do dreams come from, and what are they trying to tell us?” While the scientific definition of dreams can reveal the neural processes behind dreaming the meanings of dreams are much more subjective and individual. Dream interpretation is the art of discovering the possible meaning behind someone’s dream through tracing the symbolism of the dream and the life context of the person who experienced it. Today,...Definition Of Dreams
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Oct 14th, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet If you look in the dictionary, you’ll find the definition of dreams as follows: a series of images, ideas, emotions and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The definition of dreams today also encompasses daydreams and states of trance and abstraction, Psychologists have defined dreams as mental activity, usually involving a series of imagined events, that occurs in certain phases of sleep. In to the past dreams have been defined in all sorts of different ways in different cultures. It seems that...How To Get Lucid Dreams
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Oct 12th, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet There are literally thousands of books and websites out there with information on how to get lucid dreams. On this site, I’ve recommended exploiting your REM cycle by waking up at different times, letting yourself wake up naturally, and improving your recall as ways to get lucid dreams. All of these methods encourage you to become familiar with your dream state of mind, preserving it as long as possible once awake, and making dreams a priority in your life. That is, all of these methods rely on increasing awareness of dreams and your belief...What Is A Lucid Dream?
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Oct 11th, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet The ability to become conscious in a dream, called lucid dreaming, is a phenomenon that has been recognized by different cultures throughout recorded history. However, if you are just becoming familiar with the field of lucid dreaming, the first thing you might ask is, “what is a lucid dream?” People all over the world have induced dreams in which they maintained conscious awareness for the purposes of spiritual seeking, philosophical exploration, self-improvement and even recreation. Tibetan monks believe that increased lucidity in...Lucid Dreaming Stories
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Oct 1st, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet It can take a lot of time, practice and determination for the average person to achieve a lucid dream, and some of you readers out there may be wondering if the lucid dream experience is worthwhile. Lucid dreaming stories from people who have attained lucid dream states can provide inspiration if you are wondering, “why bother trying to have a lucid dream?” Stephen LaBerge, a pioneering scientist in the field of lucid dreams, has compiled real people’s lucid dreaming stories in his book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreams. As well as...Vivid Dreams
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Apr 8th, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet Vivid dreams are those dreams which are so clear and lifelike that it may be difficult to distinguish them from reality. Most people are familiar with vivid dreams, and have them at least a few times a month. Other individuals are capable of having vivid dreams every night, or even multiple times in one night. Vivid dreams can be caused by a variety of factors, ranging from diet to health to medication. They also seem to be brought on regularly by stressful life situations. Personally, I feel that most of my vivid dreams are caused...Cause of Vivid Dreams
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Apr 5th, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet Vivid dreaming is something that is both desired and feared by different individuals. Vivid dreams can be pleasant, attractive and meaningful but they can also be very frightening. When one is in a vivid dream it can often be difficult to tell whether or not one is actually awake, unless one has worked with various techniques to become lucid in dreaming. When it comes to the cause of vivid dreams, there are quite a wide variety. These can vary from diet to emotional state to medication. As long as the cause of vivid dreams is not an...Waking Up In Dreams
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Mar 30th, 2011 in Helpful Articles | 0 comments Tweet What exactly does waking up in dreams mean? The experience is no doubt extremely different for everyone, but for me it has always been about becoming fully aware of the challenges, opportunities and lessons that are presented to me in the dream state. By waking up in dreams, I am able to become aware of all of their subleties and I am also sometimes able to work with my dreams in such a way that I can learn even more from them. Throughout time, people have been fascinated by the dream state and the things that it can potentially teach...Lucid Dreaming Made Easy
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Mar 23rd, 2011 in Experiences | 1 comment Tweet Drop the books, stop all the research, and simply do. Follow these few simple steps (which require only discipline), and unlock a potential that every one of us was born with; the capability to lucid dream. Lucid dreams present the potential to be fully conscious in a reality that truly is indistinguishable from our waking reality. What’s even more incredible, is that while fully conscious inside a lucid dream, anything we imagine to be, can be. But, this article isn’t intended to discuss what lucid dreaming is, it’s to offer the...What is Lucid Dreaming?
Posted by dr3amh3rbs on Mar 22nd, 2011 in Experiences | 0 comments Tweet Before I answer the question of what lucid dreaming is, I’d like to say that my first lucid dream not only changed my life forever, it grew into a passion that has completely changed my outlook on myself and what we’re capable of as human beings. The fact that I can experience a reality that is as equally as real as this waking reality is something that, almost 20 years later, I’m still trying to fully wrap my head around. Having said that, let’s explore what exactly a lucid dream is: In the simplest terms, a lucid dream is when...