1.4. What purposes can Lucid Dreaming serve?
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This article is from the Lucid Dreaming FAQ, by "Lars Rune Foleide" larsrune@sf.telia.no .
1.4. What purposes can Lucid Dreaming serve?
Those are so many. First of all, it is lots of fun. You can do
whatever you feel like, without putting yourself in danger, or
spending a lot of money on journeys or expensive equipment. It is
great for therapy if you have any psychological problems. If you have
a fear of spiders, that fear can be conquered through Lucid
Dreaming. You know you are totally safe in a Lucid Dream. So you
carefully begin with tiny spiders far away, and as you get used to
them, you might let them go closer and make them bigger. If there is
something you want to get better at, like Tennis or Snowboarding, then
Lucid Dreaming can improve your skill. Lucid Dreaming can be extremely
powerful for motor skill enhancement. This is not only true because of
the vividness of the imagery, but also because the physiological
nature of REM sleep is ideal for establishing neural pattern without
actual movement. Experiments also show that you can get physically
stronger with mental training. Lucid Dreaming can be used for healing
if you have any illness. If you wish to have your subconscious read at
a rate of 1 million words per minute, you can activate that in a Lucid
Dream to gain conscious awareness over the knowledge. You can meet
the author of the book you just read in a Lucid Dream, and ask
questions you are seeking answers for in the book. Or you can sit down
and watch the whole novel on a big screen TV with cinema 3D sound. You
can use Lucid Dreaming for solving a complex and difficult problem,
like mathematical problems. You can share a dream with a friend. Or
even a whole group of people. So you can hang out with your friends
when you are sleeping too, not only when you are awake. It is also
great being a group of people trying to Lucid Dream. If you find your
friends in a dream, you can tell them that they are dreaming. This way
can you help your friends gaining Lucidity, and they might cause you
to gain Lucidity if they find you. If you have full conscious control
over a dream can you also use it to travel in time. You can explore
the future. Even shared precognitive dreaming is possible. With a
little practice can you also use Lucid Dreaming to leave your body and
explore the world. By doing this you can also meet other spirits and
travel in time. More about this can be found in the Out of Body
Experience FAQ.
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