Lucid Dreaming:
Being aware that you are dreaming while in a dream. That's what being lucid in a dream means, and while you are aware of your presence in the dream you can either go with the flow and just live the dream as it or you can craft it to your heart desire, and this is a very large topic to cover in future posts.
To be aware in a dream or which mean lucid in a dream can be possible but that requires a bit of practise and a lot of patience and the most important ingredient is the will to reach a certain desination.
Yet there is some ways to hack the patience and reach what is desired. One of those way is using the mugwort herb, or the dream herb as lucid dreamers call it.
If you wanna know more about the mugwort herb you can read a post i did about it, here:
https://steemit.com/herbs/@aminolix/the-dream-herb
My Experience with mugwort:
Everything starts with a post to motivate you to seek truth and knowledge and to experience the unknown, my curiousity led me to lucid dreaming world and the astral world as well.
I started seeking the truth by reading books and joining groupes on social media websites like facebook and so on.
I learned how to recall my dreams how to control them how to recognize them and everything that comes with that package, but something always felt missing, with the whole practise and patience while time is passing by the dreams were rare and hard to control, which to me was annoying so i thought to myself there must be another way to reach what i desire efficiently and easily.
I started digging after having about 5 lucid dreams with no mugworts effect on, till i found that there isn't only mugwort there is a huge world of herbs that can be used to cure my curiosity and there is even pharmaceutical solution which i will post about it too.
I choose mugworts among the other herbs because it was recheable and people have used it and have shared there experiences with it which had no after effects at all, and i was fascinated by the idea that it could be smoked too, so i digged deeper and deeper until i was convised to use it.
So i went and bought 5$ of mugwort from a grocery store near by i made sure that it was mugwort by comparaison, and i was determined to try it that night, the way to use it is mentioned in the previous post i had mentioned as well.
That night:
2 teaspoons of dried mugwort in a glass measuring cup. Added half-cup boiling water and let steep before drinking.
Time steeped depends on you i would say, i made sure to prepared it so i could use it from i get to bed i thought to myself that i should profit from all it's effect, before i get to bed i set up my alarm to wake up after 4 hours of sleep to try a method that i used to get lucid dreams as clear as they might get.
The alarm sound Woke me up after 4 hours i drank a 1/2 little of bottel of water by myside bed to avoid getting distracted, and went back to try The WILD method (Wake-Induced Lucid Dream - A technique in which you maintain consciousness while your body falls asleep. ), and as my body fall a sleep there it was the dream starting to make itself, at that point any excitement or panic ruines everything, i already knew that so i just watched what was happening all those intense colors coloring my unknown world, then something weird happen.
Everything went black for a second, then the colors rushed back in making a more understandable image. and there it was the most amazing place i've even seen in my life, in my living waking life. The sky was colored with a sunset view but more intensive and i could see this dark blue mountain surrended by clouds forming a ring around the top, then i noticed i had a body and there was a river by my right side, the ground was dark blue too, making a walk path towards the mountain that seemed so far.
I started running towards the mountain. I never doubted that i was dreaming i witness it all, as i was running i knew that the dream might end at any second i had to get to that mountain, but the dream desided to end and everything vanished and i woke up.
Happiness doens't describe what i felt then, i was a bit despointed that i didn't reach the moutain but i had experienced something high level, i had never visited the same mountain again since.
PS: There might be some forgotten words or writting mistakes english isn't my language i just try to do my best with what i got.
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Amine.