Thread: Lucid Dreaming As a Learning Tool

So I'm aware that Lucid Dreaming can be used to help you solve problems or even as a way to practice a skill. However I have heard that is true but only to a certain extent. What are your thoughts/experiences on this? I'm a very shy person who has trouble with social situations and I would like to use Lucid Dreaming to help me get over that fear.

Hmm, this is tough for me, as I don't really use lucid dreaming as a way to overcome situations in my life. But, I see how I could so, I'll just share my thoughts on how I personally would go about it. The way I would view this is, I could go about it a few ways, with varying levels of intensity. First, I might try just to talk to my DCs in a comfortable environment and just practice that there. But, let's say that, that didn't work, as I feel it wouldn't really for me, which isn't to say, though, that it wouldn't work for you. Second, I might try and actually meet my dream guide or a character like my dream guide and ask them to help me overcome the fear with the help of lucid dreaming. And, let's just hypothetically say that, that doesn't work, although I feel like that could work even if it was just a placebo effect. But, lastly, I would try to speak to my subconscious directly, by manifesting it as an entity in my dreams. While speaking to it I would try to figure out why I had social anxiety and how I could overcome it, maybe even make some deal or come to some conclusion with it on how to overcome it. Anyways, good luck with this, and if you have anymore questions feel free to ask.

In a tv documentary on LD yesterday - a neuroscientist proposed the hypothesis that learning and practising life is the purpose of dreams in general.
They interviewed an artistic gymnast doing parallel bars professionally - he said he learns in LD for it.
Slow motion, third person perspective, simulating a pro, who teaches him was his favourite method - he swears on it - and there are others in sports as well.
You can not learn something, with which you have no prior acquaintance with - but practise and refine that what you are doing irl - surely.

Wow. That is very interesting. Thank you!

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

GizEdwards did a video about this on his channel, you could check that out and maybe that input could help. Maybe...