We have all been dreaming since we were little kids. To enter the land of infinite possibilities where literally anything is possible is what every kid wishes when he or she dozed off to sleep. When we sleep our subconscious mind at times starts to make up situations and sequences which we see in our head. These situations and sequences are called dreams. These series of events that our mind makes us see can feel very vivid and real. Whatever a human can possibly think of can exist and can be even experienced in the dream world.
But we usually don’t have the ability to control our dreams. Nor do we realise that we are in a dream. But imagine being able to control your dreams and dream of whatever you want. That way of dreaming is known as lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is an art of dreaming where the dreamer is aware that he is in a dream and has control over it to some extent. Lucid dreaming is an extremely difficult and near impossible skill. One may train his mind to lucid dream for the whole of his or her life and still not master it.
This is because our brain is a very complex organ if not the most complex organ. That’s why every part in our body can be replaced with a man made machine except the brain. And gaining complete mastery over the subconscious part of the brain comes out to be a bigger and near impossible challenge.
Imagine being able to control your dreams and experience anything you can positively think of. Be in any scenario, literally be the god of your own world. Lucid dreaming seems pretty amazing on paper but unfortunately can’t be done by everyone.
One reason why mastering it becomes especially hard is that we do not dream every time we sleep. Nor can we control when we dream and when we don’t. Lucid dream is about a dream where while in your dream your subconscious brain snaps and becomes conscious of the fact that it’s dreaming.
But it is no way close to deciding when to dream. We also dream for approximately 5-10 mins when we dream which may seem like a long time in the dream world.
People have come up with methods to try to lucid dream but none of those prove to be successful. One method to try to dream lucid is counting your fingers.
If one develops a habit of counting their fingers throughout the day and accidentally the subconscious mind starts to make you count your fingers in the dream you might start to lucid dream. This is because when only the subconscious part of our brain is awake we are unable to process numbers so if in a dream you start to count something. You would not be able to. And that error counts as a snapping factor, whenever the number of fingers you have in your dream do not add up to 10 your mind instantly becomes aware that you are dreaming and gains a bit of control.
Good luck trying to lucid dream.
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