Originally posted by ronso
Hi dreamers!

I'm doing this huge project in school about lucid dreaming and I could use your help - if you don't mind, please answer the questions below.
The project is about explaining what lucid dreams are and in what ways we could benefit from them in our waking lives.

On questions 1 and 3 just answer, in your own words, for how long you've known about them and for how long you've been having lucid dreams.

Answer the other questions by writing "2. a" (for example). You don't have to answer with just one option, you could write "5. a, b" as well.

1. For how long have you known about the existence of lucid dreams?

2. Have you ever had lucid dreams?

a. Yes.
b. No.

3. If so, for how long have you been having lucid dreams?
*
4. Have you ever used lucid dreaming to ”enrich” *your waking life in any *
* * * * * * * * * * way (Intentionally or not)?

a. Yes.
b. No.

5. If so, have you used it to…

a. Create a sense of empowerment and/or joy that lasted for a day, maybe *
* * * * * * * * * * more?
b. Overcome any fears?
c. Increase your self-esteem?
d. Train yourself for upcoming waking events such as training moves before *
* * * * * * * * * * *your karate lesson?
e. –Other- (Please explain in what way)

If you feel like I left something important out, you're more than welcome to leave a comment!
Thank you so much for your help and please spread the word about this thread!
1. Known about Lucid Dreams since the publication of Dr. Ann Faraday's "Dream Power" -- about 1975... 30 years.

2. Yes, I have had numerous Lucid Dreams.

3. .... 30 Years....

4. yes, there are benefits. Firstly, one learns how to ask precise and meaninful questions.

As an example of a Dream which provided an extended period of pleasant afterglow:

White Light Paramahansa Dream
This most important of Lucid Dreams occurred, surprisingly, while I had dreamt of having been a Commando/Terrorist who had hijacked a bus. We had just conducted a raid and my part was to cover for the evacuation of the Main Team. So I hung back to fire upon the pursuers. But they did not come in my direction... the idiots thought our escape route was off in a whole other direction. I shot at them as they went by a few hundred yards away, missing them, and thought it was time for my own escape, in a third direction. So that was where I boarded a passenger bus and hijacked it. I acted very tough and took charge, or tried to take charge. But there was a young lady who began to talk back, and I realized I would have a problem. If she continued to call my bluff I would have to shoot her and I didn’t want to do that, and so I asked the bus driver to stop the bus... I was simply going to find another escape, if this particular one was going to be so unpleasant. I looked down and noticed I was not wearing shoes.
Here is a Hint! When you are not wearing shoes in a Dream, it means you are on Holy Ground. Getting off the bus, it looked like a gravel pit next to a rail yard, but it was exquisitely beautiful too. This was where I became Lucid. I levitated up and folded into a lotus postion and intoned an AUM. the air seemed to turn Violet (pinkish purple) and the air rippled and shimmered in waves before about 20 feet in front of me the very fabric of Space tore open and there was the Pure White Light
Becoming Lucid, I asked the driver to pull over so I could get out. I noticed that I was not wearing shoes, which, of course, plainly means that I was on Holy Ground, and so I looked around to see what was so special. I was on the outskirts of a City, near the rail yards and gravel pits. Just meters away was an old rusty iron railway overpass. But it was all exquisitely beautiful and so I had no doubt about it being Holy Ground.

In keeping with the sacredness of the moment I decided to Meditate. I intoned an AUM and arose up off the ground to hover a few meters off the ground in quiet serenity. And, true to the Guru’s words, not seconds transpired when the air shimmered in waves and ripples and turned a wonderful shade of violet-pink. I was in a state of curious expectancy about it all when just then the space some 10 meters in front of me simply tore open and out poured the Pure White Light, like magnesium burning before a chromium mirror, bright and real.
The substance of the Light quickly took up a form – a Paramahansa Swan… not a living bird but a very ornate statuesque representation of one. It was large – more than a meter high and wide. And it was amazingly beautiful – in the brightest White Light but still one could discern the textures of the shapes and detail. But there was little time for amazement when the Swan shot across the distance between us and penetrated into my forehead. And then a new one formed up to replace it, and it shot over into my forehead as well… and again and again and again, each time more quickly, but each time the ornate and elaborate Paramahansa Swan became simpler, more streamlined. As they formed up more rapidly, they became plainer and plainer. Finally they were coming at a rate of 8 or 10 per second, and the birds were mere ‘Vees’, like as in the way young children draw birds flying in the sky, as two joining lines tapering outward. And they were all flying into my forehead.

When I awoke, the sensations acquired in the Dream persisted. My Agna Chakra was still pulsating with the feeling of this Spiritual Energy, no longer perceptible as Light but tangible as a pressure sensation. The sensation by proximity also energized my Crown Chakra as well as my throat and heart chakras.


As far as Self Esteem goes... I have had dreams in which Guide and Angel Figures have given me the gift of True Discernment, in which they assured me of Immortality and in the shared being of the Cosmic Christ. I have had dreams where I was shown celebrations after the Day of Judgment where I would dine at the Table of Saints. I've had dreams where I was honored and promoted, treated with respect and behaved effectively, honestly and courageously. yes, these successful dreams were good for my self esteem. But, earlier on, dreams were not necessarily so successful, but in these cases, the dreams were repetitive and worked toward areas of progress and improvement, until their could be some accomplishment and pride.