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5 Life-Changing Benefits of Lucid Dreams
by David O'Donoghue
Ultraculture
Lucid dreaming isn’t just a way to have mystical experiences—it’s also an incredibly useful day-to-day life skill. Here’s five ways you can use it to gain incredible advantages in your life
Once a relatively obscure practice studied only by sleep scientists, artists and mystics, lucid dreaming has become an incredibly popular subject. Although many are aware of the phenomenon of being consciously aware and in control as you dream, few know the diverse applications the skill can have.
As someone who’s been lucid dreaming for over half a decade, please let me share five of my favorite benefits of waking up in your dreams.
1. Fun
This is probably the most simple attraction of lucid dreaming, and yet it can give the most fundamental, primal joy. Imagine the most vivid, open-ended video game you’ve ever played or even conceived of. Lucid dreaming, when properly practiced and mastered, is like the most realistic VR simulation you can imagine, combined with a degree of complexity and open possibility that make GTA V look like pong. Want to fight Nazis on a flying motorcycle? Overthrow an empire? Visit distant planets? It’s all possible. Fun might not be the deepest or most sophisticated reason for wanting to get into lucid dreaming, but just one session battling ninjas on Jupiter will give you the kind of encouragement you need to further pursue the practice and achieve some of its more abstract and holistic benefits.
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Source: http://www.riseearth.com/2014/11/5-life-changing-benefits-of-lucid-dreams.html
