Are You a Lucid Dreamer?

Have you ever wonder what it's like to be a lucid dreamer or for at least one had been into lucid dreaming? Well, it is kind of fun having or doing it but at the same, it depends on you and how you handle everything.

This is about my personal experience but I have some knowledge about lucid dreaming even before. I really thought that it was all just a bluff or something but since I've been experiencing it a lot, I start to wonder if I'm really a lucid dreamer.

By the way, a Lucid Dreamer is a person dreaming and is aware that he or she is dreaming and can control everything that will happen in their dream, including the characters and the plot. A Lucid Dreaming is totally different from Sleep paralysis. Sleep paralysis usually happens as like something evil is watchinf and doing something to "kill" you and it is about a person dreaming and experiencing something strange but can't "move" from it. Lucid dreaming feels like you're in a Point of View Movie wherein you are the camera man, director, scriptwriter and the main character at the same time.

Back from the beginning when I started to have nightmares, I got scared since I know that people get killed from it. It was just few years ago when I had the chance to learn about this kind of dreaming. At first It thought that maybe this was not a real thing like unicorns in movies. But since I experienced it personally, I started to get curious about it.

Lucid dreaming is actually safe for those people who are mentally stable. It might cause damage for those who have emotional breakdown during scary and frightening scenes. For me, I'm completely aware that I am stable but it doesn't mean that I am okay whenever I dream a very scary thing even though i can control of it. Most dreams that I have are actually can be categorized already as a nightmare. The only difference is that nightmares are where you can't easily get out of since there are a lot of people who died in their sleep, while Lucid Dreaming is taking full control so you decide when to wake up.

One of my experience is coming home after school with my friends in a rainy day then a sudden earthquake occur followed by a tsunami. Me and my friends survived the tsunami attack so we got into a car to see if our families are safe. There were shouts and scares everywhere and since I want to get home quickly, I jumped the time lapse to the part where I can see my family. When I ama about to enter the house, another tsunami was coming. Since I felt tired in the dream, i decided to stop it by waking up.

Even though I think of something different before I sleep, I dream of something out of nowhere. But the fun fact about it is that you can control when to stop or what will be the next move. The thing is, you wouldn't know that it was a dream since what happen in dreams are uncontrollable, you will have the idea that you are really in a real life situation. You will just think that it was a dream after so much struggle and pain in it.

There is actually some techniques on how to lucid dream for those who wantto experience it. Self-awareness is one of the key to do it.