It’s safe, it’s natural, it’s fun. Plus it’s easy to get lucid.

This post is the first in a three-part series on lucid dreaming.

Can anyone learn to have lucid dreams? Do I teach people how to lucid dream? Do I recommend any supplements or substances to enhance lucid dreaming? Can lucid dreaming help writers?

I’m pretty sure I’ve been asked all of these questions … in just one week!

Interest in lucid dreaming has always been high, but these days, with more attention paid to this exciting and transformational dream-state, I’m getting even more queries from my dreamwork clients, students, and Dreaming on the Page writers.

So, I’ll answer your questions in order: Yes. Yes. No. And Yes.

Well, those are the short answers anyway.

In the next three blog posts, I’ll offer more guidance, and some fresh perspectives, on lucid dreaming as a safe, free, and fun activity that anyone can enjoy. And I’m devoting this much space to the topic because lucid dreaming can also lead to lucid living! This practice can enhance your physical and emotional health, boost creativity, and help you develop spiritually.

PLUS, since I teach courses in dreamwork and writing, I want all creative types, including writers, to know that this skill is can enhance our work on the page, too!

Now, let’s start with some basics.

Q: What is lucid dreaming? Is it something anyone can do?

A: Put simply, lucid dreaming is a hybrid state of consciousness in which you simultaneously enjoy the creative brain chemistry of dreaming and facets of your daytime logical thinking.

It sounds crazy at first: You know that you’re dreaming while you’re dreaming, so rather than just being swept up in the action of the dream, you can make choices and do what you want. For instance, you can hop a train in Duluth and travel directly to the Alps in the space of one breath. You might even do backflips even though in waking reality you’re 48 years old and couldn’t even do a somersault when you were eighteen.

So it’s no surprise that many people, myself included, court lucid dreams.

Anyone can learn to lucid dream, as it is a natural, healthy state of consciousness. For some people, it occurs spontaneously, often as the result of a scary nightmare. But you can practice techniques to help you lucid dream more often. (More on that in the next post in this series.)

Q: My dreams are fine the way they are. Why would I want to experience a lucid dream?

A: There are many benefits to lucid dreaming. Once you realize you are dreaming, it opens up to a whole new level of adventure, wisdom, healing, and personal growth.

Many people see the lucid dream state as a playground. And that’s fine. Especially if you’re using lucid play (practicing walking through walls, morphing into other shapes and sizes) to gain skills to use later on.

But there’s so much more to it than that. I teach and practice lucid dreaming as part of a holistic mindfulness practice as a way to study consciousness, boost creativity, heal psychological or physical conflicts, discover one’s purpose and develop spiritually. 

This post is part of a 3-part series on the basics of Lucid Dreaming.

For more in this series on Lucid Dreaming Basics also see these posts: 

• What Do You Mean I Can Wake Up in My Dreams?

• What if I Can’t Become Lucid?

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