Lucid adaption

Hey I'm new can anyone give me a view on how much lucid dreaming can change your life?

Interesting question. I find it a very good way to explore your own mind and desires. For me dreams have always been very important.. but can you be more specific about what exactly do you want to change? These are just dreaming after all. You need to do more work in the waking world to change your life :)

It very much depends on you personally. Your goals, your interests, your spirituality, your belief in what lucid dreaming is, the amount of time/dedication you put into it (or luck you have), your creativity when it comes to controlling the dreams, how creative your dreams are to begin with, etc. etc. etc.

Have you ever had a lucid dream?

Personally it's made me much more relaxed and confident in my everyday life, and also let me zoom around in the air or play I've got superpowers, which is very fun. So having a good lucid dream is like having an awesome day at an amusement park or something, I always wake up happy from them and it usually keeps me smiling for an entire day, if not longer. I also am pretty proud of myself for having taught myself to lucid dream, it's nice to have a hobby (some people wouldn't see it as a hobby, but I do), and it's also good to have a skill to be proud of :) Not to mention I still have not gotten over the complete mind-boggling sensation of "I just did all of that in my head!" :tongue:

Some people use lucid dreaming for other things. Exploring their creativity and coming up with music and art, or designing things (Tesla was supposed to have designed and built many of his machines in his lucid dreams, or so I've heard (not sure how true that is), but if it's true I'm sure it changed his life!). You could potentially use it to battle a crippling phobia and drastically increase your quality of life. You could use it to 'visit' the memory of someone who has died or who you can no longer see again, and come to closure or just 'visit' someone you miss a lot. The possibilities are, literally, infinite so it really just depends on you and what you want out of your own dreams. No one can really tell you (though some people love to try).

Lucid dreaming is something that requires willpower and concentration, both something I kind of lack. I think that trying to master lucid dreaming it increases both, so that should be positive.
Also, before I tried recalling my dream I would never wake up for school and be grumpy when I had to get out of bed, but now I have something that motivates me to get out of bed. I think that's a good improvement too.

Personally, I am trying to learn to lucid dream to have some fun, but it could help you combat nightmares etc.
Also, if you're a shy person, you could be the kind of person you want to be in your dreams, and this will probably carry over into the real life.

all of the things above, and also since I am into hinduism/budhism lucid dreaming really reaffirms my view that this world is fake as well, since if dreams are so real and can look just like this world then nothing prevents this world from being an illusion as well, only a more stable one, that is.

As someone who allways loved fantasy stories and alike, when I found out about lucid dreaming I was amazed... I am still amazed, amazed to see that lucid dreaming hasn't yet became popular all over the world.

When lucid dreaming, you can do -EVERYTHING- what ever you can get yourself to imagine, or, let your mind to the work for you and just enjoy. You can cast spells, fly, have superpowers, take part of events... anything... I'ts so amazing, I just can't bring it to words... I guess that everyone sees this in a different way.

I was once told by a friend about lucid dreaming and recalled having something alike sometime in the past, I told that friend that it sounds cool but I didn't do anything about it... few years later that friend talked to me about lucid dreaming again and I decided to read about it over the internet. It was about two months ago.. I started my dream journal and after about 3 or 4 days I had my first... sleep paralize. I was pretty happy to expirience it, it made me feel I'm on the right way. Few days later, when I started to question the chance I'll expirience a lucid dream again, (although I read that it might take weeks and even months, I saw it as a sign of weakness not to have one in few days, since my friend told me he had his first one the night he started) excectly one week after i started, I had three lucid dreams in the same night. All of them wasn't very vivid, and didn't last long either, but I did manage to fly for few seconds before sinking back into the unawarness. I can still feel the air and the wind against my face as I fly... if men could fly, I bet it would feel just this way. This is the potential of lucid dreams - to do whatever you ever wanted, thought of, imagined, and a little more.

So far I had five lucid dreams, none lasted for long but now I understand it takes time to master this and I'm pretty exited every night when going to bed, perhaps I'll have one this night?

Try look at it this way: You can create another world, unlimited by any rules, morals and physics.

When I was a child I wanted to belive magic is possibly, that one day I'll get a letter calling me to join Hogwarts...
Now I know it is possible, and you can master it with little practice.

This was my first post here, I hope i didn't get any of you bored, I had to spill out all my thoughts about this matter :)

Makes me very happy, it's a high that only hang gliding can top. :D

Thanks for all the replies, I'll definatly put some time and effort into this.

Well a couple years ago i wondered whats the next Gen games gonna be like n i imagined it as your in a virtual reality wheras you feel stuff you smell touch hear just like realife but there are no killer consequences lucid dreaming is along the same lines i guess thats why im interested in it.