Silva Ultramind has been around for years. It was created by Jose Silva of Laredo, Texas back in the 1940's. To date the program has been used successfully by millions of people all over the world.

This originally was a self help type program that taught people the power of creative visualization through achieving the relaxed alpha state of consciousness. The normal waking state of consciousness is beta and although it is great for day to day life, it doesn't really suit us at all in visualizing the things we really want in life.

If you are making it a point to focus on anything when you are in a fully awake beta state, whether it be your goals, or even doing your homework, you will find it more difficult to keep your mind on the task at hand. This is because beta is a highly analytical "multi tasking" state of mind. You might focus on your goals for a period of time, but you quickly and frequently will find your attention shifting back to your homework, or thinking about something else altogether. If you were to try to focus completely on your goals in beta, you would also find alot of resistence coming up from an overly analytical mode of thinking. For example, if you had a goal of owning a new car and you focused on this in beta, you would hear alot of voices telling you all of the reasons why you could not buy a new car such as the fact that maybe you were unemployed.

By going into alpha, the brainwaves slow down to the point that the analytical mind chatter dies down and goes to sleep completely. Whatever one puts forth as a projection, a possibility or just pure intention is accepted by the mind without question when in alpha. If you were to now visualize buying a new car, you would find it much easier to see it clearly as well. Even imagining how nice the new car smell is as you are driving down the highway with the wind blowing in your hair and being able to visualize how you paid 20% down in cash to get great financing would not be questioned with limiting beliefs such as "it's impossible because you do not have a job". Alpha is a very powerful mind state where realities literally can be dreamed into existence to the extent one is capable of being clear about exactly what it is that they want.

I decided to use the Silva Ultramind System to go into alpha and visualize myself being able to become completely lucid. The program consists of 8 CD's which I converted into MP3's so I could play them while I was laying bed. As I would listen to the guided meditations, I would visualize myself being able to completely control my dreamstates as well as being able to reinforce certain dream mantras such as "This is a dream".

To date I have been using the system less than a week, but I have gotten results that were good enough to write about. In just the first night my dreams were far more lucid and my dream recall went up to being able to remember several dreams instead of just one or two a night.

At least twice in the last two nights I have found myself fully lucid in a dream flying around. In both cases I was unable to get the momentum I needed to really fly around at full speed, but I still think the results I am getting with these MP3's are great. I will post more of my experiences here as my lucidity increases.