Ride on dragons, fight monsters, fly around, and do anything that you can ever imagine, in your dreams.

So in this post, I will introduce a new concept called Lucid Dreaming. Lucid Dreaming is basically being conscious in your dreams. Sounds like some Dr. Strange's sci-fi Stuffs right?
Lucid dreaming is science but not at all fiction. It's 100% doable. I am saying it because I have done it, I do it every night.

Little Intro:

So around 3 years ago I got introduced to the concept of Lucid Dreaming. I read a blog about it that claimed that 'Through the concept of lucid dreaming one can control what they dream. One can do extraordinary things while dreaming. One can release his inner soul and let it live.' ** Sounds Funny right? ** I know I laughed at it too.
But I was curious, I did research, I bought a book about Lucid Dreaming. And realized that tons of people around the world are doing this and this changed their life. At that time I was free, I had nothing to do, so I decided to give it a try.
I collected all the information about how to do it (I will be explaining those below), prepared myself that night. And guess what I felt conscious in my dream, well for around 5 seconds and then I woke up out of excitement. I was amused by that thing. I was equally confused about that.

After that night I fell in love with Lucid Dreaming. And now I can say that I have mastered it after doing it for 3 years.

You might have seen the movie 'Inception' directed by Christopher Nolan. If not then you must. Everything in that movie is based on Lucid Dream, well that movie has taken the concept a little to far, but it is worth watching.

If you are still reading this then you are from those believers who want to do this. So hold on your life will be changing forever.

1. What you'll have to do to Lucid Dream?

A lucid dream is to control your dreams and you can control your dreams only if you can wake your self in your dream. I know it still sounds sci-fi but just hold on, trust me and do it once. So you will have to get conscious in your dream. You will have to realize that you are dreaming while being in the dream...

2. How to do it?

The best thing about Lucid Dreaming is that You don't have to meditate for years to do it. You can control your dreams on your first day itself. But for that, you will have to train your mind to realize that it's in your dream. Follow these exact steps:

Step 1

Our main goal is to train our mind to realize that its a dream. For that, first, we will have to train our mind to do a reality check in the dream. Set your own reality check. Reality check could be anything. For a beginner: when you are awake, curl your finger and thumb into your palm and make a fist on both hands. Look at your fists and open one finger at a time and count it. Do this as many time as possible in a day. Do it every hour multiple times. Make it your habit. Make it your obsession. It's a reality check for your brain.

Step 2

Now at night:

• lay on your bed straight, make yourself comfortable.
• Close your eyes and relax.
• Keep saying it to your mind that its a dream, everything you are seeing is just a dream. Keep saying it until you fell asleep

This is how it works...

After 5 minutes you will start feeling sleepy, but keep saying 'its a dream' in your mind. This will keep your mind a little conscious. But when you lose total consciousness your mind will still be saying 'This is just a dream' and at that exact time make sure you take a reality check, ie count your finger.
Your dreams cannot create something as complex as reality, there are always flaws in it. Now when you will do a reality check in your dream you will feel that something is wrong. While counting you might find that you have 9 fingers or you fail to count all the 10. If this happens then **congratulations you are awake in your dream. **

Note:

• When you will realize that you are in the dream for the first time, you will wake yourself up out excitement. This is normal. So try it again. Keep doing it.
• In the process, you might fell asleep, this is okay. Try again next night. Keep training your mind.
• Important thing is to believe in the process. If you won't believe at all, you are guaranteed to fell asleep.

I will be writing an article of my first experience of Lucid dreaming tomorrow, so make sure you follow me.