First of all, how do you know if your in a lucid dream? Ask yourself 2 questions: Are you aware that you are in a dream and do you remember that your body is asleep in bed?

Sometimes in a dream something will happen that causes you to realise you are dreaming. However, most of the time we don't make the full connection and recall waking life. These are near lucid dreams but not quite full lucid dreams.

It's by consciously remembering that your body is really asleep in bed that you go the full circle to become lucid.

Another type of dream is the inverse of a near lucid dream in which you do have full memory of your waking life but you don't realise your dreaming. That can happen like this.

You may dream you get up in the morning and get ready for the day. You get up and get dressed but then wake up and realise it was just a dream. That's called a False Awakening. Those dreams can be extremely convincing because they are so solid and vivid. They indicate just how powerful the subconscious is to be able to construct such a realistic dream environment.

Yet without the knowledge that you're dreaming, no matter how bright and clear it is, it is not a lucid dream.

So to be able to say "yes" to both of those questions we need a way to consciously access the subconscious.

Most lucid dreaming methods rely on mental techniques to access the subconscious. However, in this presentation we're going to focus on using the body's own biology to automatically put us in a subconscious focus by using something called Sleep Paralysis.

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