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My Lucid Nightmares - A Danger of Lucid Dreaming (Lucid Dreaming Stories)
Please note that my terrifying experiences with lucid dreaming as a child were surely due to my already anxious personality and the fact that http://ge.tt/9K4MNC52/v/0 at such a young age I was ill-equipped to encounter the subconscious in so direct a manner. I believe that, if caution is exercised, lucid dreaming can be put to many good uses, and can potentially benefit humanity in many ways. I do not, therefore, intend for the terrifying experiences that I am about to describe to discourage people from practicing lucid dreaming, but rather, to caution people to do so for the right reasons, and to be cautious when delving into these layers of the mind.

Lucid dreaming is getting more and more attention these days, it seems. If you're reading this, I'm assuming you know something about it, but just in case you don't: lucid dreaming involves learning how to regularly come to the realization, while you are dreaming, that you are dreaming. Upon coming to such a realization during a dream, you may then learn to control every aspect of the dream, creating your world however you like.

I can personally attest that the power of lucid dreaming is indeed amazing, and that the experience itself can be more enjoyable than many things (particularly if you are the type of person who would enjoy flying like a bird or having sex with whomever you wish, or having sex with whomever you wish while in the process of flying like superman/superwoman). However, having also experienced a different, darker side of lucid dreaming, I feel it my duty to offer a word of warning.

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The world of dreams is a doorway into your subconscious mind (and perhaps, some would say, into the spiritual realm itself). The thing about your subconscious that you will do well to remember is that it is rather alien territory to you conscious mind, and may well contain things that will confuse or terrify your conscious mind.

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Here's my story. When I was about ten or eleven years old, I thought up the notion of learning to lucid dream. I'd experienced a few naturally occurring lucid dreams, as many people have, and I thought, "What if I could learn to do that all the time?" I had never yet heard the term "lucid dream" or read anything on the subject. t was just an idea that popped into a child's head. Well, I was a child who had a voracious appetite for knowledge, and who's favorite hangout spot was the public library. So I did my research, and discovered that I wasn't the first person to think of learning how to control my dreams. I obtained a book on how to lucid dream, and immediately began to practice its techniques with a vengeance.

I quickly developed the ability to lucid dream every night. At first, lucid dreaming was a dream come true. Every night, I would float up out of my body, up through my bedroom ceiling (looking down on sleeping body), and then I would fly out over my neighborhood, through my town, and then anywhere in the world I wanted to go. I could change my entire landscape in the blink of an eye, or manifest any object or person I thought of.




 
 
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