| If you’re reading this article then you are | | | | each dream. |
| interested in lucid dreaming. I have been | | | | The reason for the dream journal is to train your |
| interested for quite a few years. The concept | | | | mind to remember your dreams. To give your |
| of being able to control dreams, to have a lucid | | | | mind a message that dreams are now important |
| dream has always fascinated me. | | | | and that you want to recall them. |
| I can remember back to my first experience with | | | | By using the sound to enhance the quality and |
| lucid dreams when I was a child. I dreamt that I | | | | quantity of my dreams in conjunction with the |
| was falling and I remember thinking to myself | | | | dream journal had me to the point that I was |
| that I was going to hit the ground and die. Then | | | | dreaming up to five separate dreams each night. |
| I decided to change the ground into a lake of | | | | I wasn’t quite to the point of lucid dreaming |
| water. I had just taken control of my first | | | | yet but I was close. |
| dream. At the time I did not know that this | | | | The last step to creating a lucid dream was to |
| experience was called lucid dreaming, it was just | | | | train my mind to take control of the dreams. |
| fascinating to me that I was able to modify my | | | | To do this I created a simple script based on the |
| dream while I was dreaming. | | | | scientific research that I used before going to |
| It was not until years later that I became aware | | | | sleep each night. I wrote down this simple |
| in the concept of lucid dreaming. As I grow older | | | | statement, “Tonight when I am dreaming I will |
| I’ve become more interested in the | | | | hear myself say the word gelbelong. When I |
| metaphysical aspects of life. One area that | | | | hear the word gelbelong I will know that I am |
| particularly interests me is dreaming. Personally, I | | | | dreaming and I take control of my dream.” |
| believe that when we dream we are touching a | | | | Every night just before I go to sleep I would read |
| much deeper part of us, a much wiser part. I | | | | this statement to myself fifteen times. This |
| wondered to myself, if this is true, wouldn’t it | | | | trains my subconscious mind to say the word |
| be great to be able to not just receive | | | | “gelbelong” sometime during the dream |
| information passively through a dream but instead | | | | and for my mind to then know that I was having |
| be able to interact with the dream. This way I | | | | a lucid dream. |
| could receive much more information. | | | | The word “gelbelong” is a word I made |
| The question was, “How to Lucid | | | | up. You want the word or phrase to be |
| Dream?” How would I create a lucid dream | | | | something that you would never hear in waking |
| whenever I wanted? As I began to do research | | | | life so that there is no confusion as to whether or |
| on the subject I read a number of books on the | | | | not you are dreaming. |
| topic written by scientific researchers. These | | | | The addition of this phrase gave me the last |
| researchers broke the process of creating lucid | | | | piece I needed for having all of the lucid dreams I |
| dreams into three steps. | | | | want. Now I explore an entirely new world |
| For the first step you had to begin to dream. | | | | whenever I sleep. |
| What I found through my reading was that the | | | | I actually have to admit that I look forward to |
| easiest way to create dreams whenever I | | | | going to sleep now. It’s like I am taking a |
| desired was through the use of sound. | | | | vacation each and every time I go to sleep. And |
| Specifically sounds that tap out a rhythm or a | | | | more to my interests, I have gained insight into |
| beat pattern that allows the two halves of the | | | | some amazing things about myself. |
| brain to synchronize with each other. | | | | So if you want to begin to have lucid dreams, |
| I started to use these binaural beats (that’s | | | | just follow the three steps I’ve given you. |
| the scientific name) as I was falling sleep. I | | | | First, begin to create more dreams through the |
| immediately noticed that I was recalling more and | | | | use of a binaural beat program. |
| more of my dreams. At the same time, my | | | | Second, write down your dreams in a dream |
| dreams were becoming much more detailed and | | | | journal. |
| vivid. | | | | Last, create your own trigger word and begin to |
| Second, create a dream journal. Each morning I | | | | enjoy the amazing world of the lucid dream. |
| would write down as much as I could recall about | | | | |