Newcomers to the world of lucid dreaming might often ask themselves, why it actually makes sense to deal with it at all. Besides the fun aspect, most people who strictly differentiate between the waking life and the dreaming life find it hard to see any benefits in getting conscious in your dreams. That’s why i would first like to talk about these different layers of “reality”.
As a dreamer you might want to ask yourself, why you should actually make a difference between dream reality and waking reality. This has two advantages. Firstly, if you really “live” the presumption that dream reality and waking reality are equal, it becomes a lot easier to dive in the world of lucid dreaming. Secondly, it gives you a total new, more critical access to waking reality as you begin to realize that everything you experience is based on your own creation and how your brain deals with it. You will also notice, that you quite often enter dream like states, not only while actively day dreaming but even when you get from point a to point b or something like that.
In my opinion, both realities actually operate on the same layer. Things you do in waking life have direct influence on objects and persons in the real world, whereas things you do in dreams, in this case lucid dreams, might have influence on the real world later on. Still, on a neurobiological level dreams directly express themselves in reality under real physical laws, because they cause brain activity. What you do/feel/think has the same effect on those synaptic activity as it would in the real world. For instance, in very stable lucid dreams, you could train your soccer skills far away form anything that could interrupt you in real life and you might experience progress in real soccer as well. Many people also use it as an intelligent, productive way to work on psychological problems by dealing with symbols in their dreams that represent inner conflicts.
These examples show how you can direclty affect your real life by “hacking” your subconsoiusness. That’s why i see dreams as an important part of our everyday life. In an average lifetime, you would have spent a total of of about six years of it dreaming. So dealing with dreams in any possible way, not necessary lucid dreaming, might improve our way of life in many different aspects and i think that, if done the right way, it could improve whole societies. Though i don’t actually think it will be exercised on a bigger scale, as everything gets faster and working on lucid dreaming takes too much time, at least nowadays.
Tags: Lucid Dreaming, lucidity, reality
