Today you are going to learn the single most important lesson for
lucid dreaming and when you understand this, everything else is going to
fall into place and makes sense.
So if you only ever watch one video on this channel make it this one.
And I know what you're thinking.
Who is this oily little hype monkey?
Is this just standard YouTube?
Click bait.
Well, I promise it isn't.
But I'll make a deal with you if by the end of this video you haven't learned
something that completely changes how you think about lucid dreaming, then hit
the down vote button and leave some nasty comment but if on the reverse side of
that you find this a useful video, hit the like button and let me know down below.
Lucid Dreaming can come across as really complicated there are so many
different techniques philosophies ideas teachers videos all saying slightly
different things, and it's really hard to know where to invest your energy.
And unfortunately, most people are investing their energy in the wrong things
so what is the right thing to do when it comes to lucid dreaming?
So one of the most important first steps with lucid dreaming is defining.
What it is you are actually trying to achieve.
Now, I'm not talking about the obvious, knowing that you are dreaming when you
are dreaming because that's basically the definition of lucid dreaming.
But what is it you need to do to get to that point?
Now, there are loads of ideas thrown around out there, mindfulness awareness
meditation hypnosis binaural beats etc.
etc.
So many techniques, so many practices for lucid dreaming.
But they all boil down to one principle, at least the ones that work.
But most people don't even understand that principle and that is what
today's video is founded on.
So you'd be forgiven for thinking that lucid dreaming is some weird, exotic,
possibly mystical state of mind because that's how a lot of people talk about
it, but it's not, you are lucid.
Very, very often, most of your daytime is spent in moments of lucidity and clarity
but what is lucidity?
So to understand, lucidity, you need to understand this principle and what.
So that wasn't a real glitch at all.
I put that there.
But what happened in your mind?
Did you get distracted?
Did you get frustrated?
Did you try and fix the issue?
I.
Or did you take a moment to analyze what was going on?
Lucidity is nothing more than not drawing the wrong conclusion it is
about having an accurate and correct response to these circumstances.
You find yourself in a present and logical response the circumstances, it's when our
conclusions are based on evidence rather than simply reacting to what's occurring
so if during that glitch you simply reacted without thinking, one possibility
may be that you are dreaming then you are not thinking in the correct way.
When it comes to lucid dreaming.
Lucidity isn't anything fancy.
You do it all the time.
It's when you analyze what's going on and you draw conclusions
based on the evidence.
It's what we do throughout the day.
We don't do it all day long because a lot of the time we are running on
autopilot but when we are present, when we are logical, when we are
thinking clearly, that's what we do.
The only difference between Lucid Dreamers and non Lucid Dreamers, normal
people the Muggles out there is that we lucid Dreamers add to our list of
possibilities that this could be a dream.
And if you are a smart cookie you can probably tell that reality checks
otherwise known as reality tests are an artificial way of forcing this
behavior so that you have moments of lucid clarity during waking hours where
you analyze the evidence of your world.
But as lucid dreamers, we don't want to be only doing this in an artificial
way we want this to become a default behavior, and we want one of our default
conclusions to be, could this be a dream?
So the most important lesson for a lucid dreamer is to not be reactive
not to be unthinking, but instead to be logical and reflective, to take
our time to analyze what's going on
now.
We often fall out of lucidity in our waking hours when something surprises us
and it goes wrong when our emotions bubble up when there's a disaster, when there's
something confusing, there's a whole list of things that take us away from logical.
Reflection, but as lucid dreamers, we need to inject logical reflection
into the moments when we are least logical, when we are most reactive.
And a logical response to watching this video right now would
be to hit the like button and subscribe if you haven't done so.
Already.
So our dreams are spent in reactive mindset.
It doesn't mean that we're not conscious and we're not there but we are reacting
rather than reflecting and being logical.
So everything we do towards learning how to lucid dream is about in injecting that
reflective logic into the dream world.
When you are recording your dream journal you are looking for all the ways that you
were distracted and away from reflective, logical mindset in your dreams.
And then, Countering that by changing those behaviors in your waking
life and virtually every other meaningful lucid dreaming tactic
is working around this principle.
Another word for reflective logical thinking is, The prefrontal cortex the
part of the brain that does all of that and that is the part of the brain, which
is mostly asleep when we are dreaming, so what we're trying to do with lucidity
is to wake up the prefrontal cortex that is the seat of logical, reflective
thinking so what you need to do, if you want to be a lucid dreamer, is
not to give in to lazy, reactive, and first thought conclusions.
Those are the enemy.
So if you're getting caught up in an argument stop, reflect, be logical
if you are, if you drop a cup of hot coffee don't scream and shout.
Step back.
Be reflective and logical that is the key to lucid dreaming it is the
most important lesson for a lucid dreamer, but of course there are other
important lessons as well, and you'll find those on the screen right now.
So if you've enjoyed this video, watch one of these.