Lucid dream : the directions for use to control his dreams

Landscape with butterflies, Salvador Dali (1918)

Published the 22.10.2017 at 22h29

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The problem with dreams is that there is nobody at the helm. Every night should be a new opportunity : to travel the seas in a caravel-a butterfly, a trick of Scarlet Johansson with her twin sister or souffleter his head with the stroke of the sneakers. Instead what we get together to discuss cost accounting with Harvey Weinstein.

There is a solution however : it is the lucid dream. As early as the 19th century, the great marquis Leon Hervey de Saint-Denys, professor emeritus of tartar-manchu at the Collège de France, published a manual founder to seize his dreams. First lesson : keep a journal of her dreams.

I had a (lucid) dream

Stephen LaBerge, psychophysiologiste at Harvard and the pope of the lucid dream, followed the valuable advice of the marquis to return the subject to the taste of the day in the 80’s. It is his method which inspires psychologists from the university of Adelaide (Australia), in order to optimize the chances of a successful escape dream-like.

The key, according to their recently published study in the journal Dreaming, is to combine these three techniques.

• The test of reality. It is to take the habit of checking that you’re not dreaming. No need to pinch or have a spinning top on itself : just ask the question several times a day, to gradually become accustomed to do the same when you are dreaming.

• The voluntary interruption of sleep. Waking up after five hours of sleep, then rendormant a few minutes later, it increases its chances of diving in a phase of rem sleep, when dreams are most frequent.

• The self-induction of memory. Developed by Stephen LaBerge, it is, before diving into the arms of Morpheus, to be repeated with obstinacy this mantra : “In my next dream, I will remember I’m dreaming “. It is also necessary to imagine to swim in a full lucid dream.

“[The self-induction of memory] is based on prospective memory, that is to say, your ability to remember things in the future, ” explains Denholm Aspy, the psychologist who conducted the study. A form of method Coué by anticipation…

12 minutes of bliss

The martingale australian works ? It would seem. In 47 guinea pigs who have combined the three techniques, the rate of lucid dreaming was found increased by 17 %, in just two weeks of practice. In total, they managed to arrogate to themselves a 12-minute lucid dream per week. Not bad for novices.

The icing on the cake, already tantalizing : lucid dreams only altered the same not the quality of sleep. Therefore, why hesitate ? To you the waves infinite in the tourism dream. Repeat only : “In my next dream, I will remember I’m dreaming “….