Thread: Lucid Dreaming As a Learning Tool

Zendaia,

I would recommend a two-pronged approach. Don't expect dreams to change your life, but use them to accelerate the skills you learn to be better at life.

Many people who say that they are awkward in social situations are usually comfortable one-on-one. If this describes you, then your problem will be easy to solve. Conscious dreaming is a matter of disciplining attention. Whenever you are in a social situation utilize this attention-disciplining technique. Imagine that there is only you and the person you are talking with. In your awareness make everyone else in the social situation disappear. It is only you and one other person. Easy.

When that conversation ends, allow that person to fade out of awareness just as you would transition into another dream. Slowly scan the crowd as though you are scanning a list of TV shows to choose from. As soon as your eyes meet the eyes of another, just move toward that person and make them your next one-on-one. Never judge the other person. Accept all people as the next one-on-one. Everybody else in the room disappears. If no one comes to talk to you, just go to the food or drink table and someone will.

Dream practice combined with waking practice will make you adept at being comfortable in only a few months. But you have to put yourself in practice social situations. Make it a game that you are getting better at. You can even tell people in social situations what you are doing and they will have fun with you helping you get better at it.

JJ