This is my main reason for learning this skill, I think it has much greater potential for improving one's life than any self help book. We're always told to change our beliefs about what is possible and what we're capable of by constantly reframing our thoughts until new neural pathways replace old one's. While this works, it takes a long time and constant effort. The quickest way to change behaviours is to act out new ones which can be the hardest thing to do. Lucid dreaming gives us a safe arena to practice and directly influence the brain as it doesn't know the difference between dream actions and waking ones. Stephen LaBerge talks about this and gives examples in his book. The power of this became obvious to me after my first WILD at the beginning of the night. While looking around and marvelling at the realism I responded to something the way I would have if awake simply because there was no difference. After waking I realised I could have acted the way I want to instead of succumbing to old behaviours. |
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