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Lucid Dreaming: One Heck of a Side Effect
We make audio recordings to help people fall asleep. However, there is one interesting side effect for some who use our dreamscapes for that purpose. Lucid dream induction. If you dig around on this website you can find references to it. I purposefully do not highlight this use for our sounds, as the subject of lucid dreams is esoteric and some people might consider it as fanciful. If you have never had a lucid dream then the concept might seem 'out there'. I have had lucid dreams... too many to count. It is interesting to note that the original idea for Virtual Dreaming; combining natural soothing sounds with background audio that sets a particular mood, was based on a lucid dreaming recording I heard seven or eight years ago.
If you follow along with a virtual dream, lets say The Old Lighthouse, and visualize the scene then you would start from the top of the lantern room (where you are turning on the rotating lamp), walk down a long metallic spiral staircase, open the door, and walk outside. Outside you hear, amongst other things, a flag flapping in the wind and a storm blowing in... all done with no narration what-so-ever. It is the sounds that tell the story. Simple enough, right? It is the act of visualization that stimulate the mechanics of sleep however every now and then something wonderful happens. I start dreaming... and I know I'm dreaming. I am awake in a dream. I am lucid dreaming. If you have never experienced this phenomena let me tell you, it is incredible. Lucid Dreaming and Visualizing
Why am I writing about this now? Because I had a lucid dream last
night. I was listening to Amazon Zip-line (you won't find it in the
regular section but in the Specialty
Vault ) I imagined soaring over a rain forest. I visualized the
terrain below me and the zip-line itself. I imagined reaching the bottom and
briefly walking to my tent. I listened to Why this side effect occasionally occurs is obvious to me. Soothing natural or peaceful nature sounds induce relaxing Alpha brainwaves. The addition of background sounds that can be visualized induces Theta (daydream) brainwaves. When we imagine we are stimulating the Secondary Visual Cortices. This is the same area of our brains where dreams occur. The fact that the secondary visual cortex is already stimulated brings on dreams faster. So fast that we might technically still be awake when the dream begins. Voila! Lucid dream.
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the jungle sounds and visualized birds and monkeys. I
visualized the river flowing and a rain shower beginning and then... I was
in a dream and fully aware that it was a dream. I was not in a
jungle, however. I was in a field. There was a Peruvian fellow standing
before me in brightly colored old-time garb. He had a young llama next to
him. I say 'young' as it was short in stature. I remember thinking the llama
was a sheep at first as it had very long hair. The Peruvian gentleman never
said a word to me. It was, as far as my consciousness was concerned,
real. I felt gleeful. I wanted to fly but know that flying, for me
anyway, will hasten the end to the lucid dream. Lucid dreams are notoriously
short. I walked around the man and his llama taking in detail. The man just
stared at me, seemingly not caring. I was amazed at the detail... and
then it was over. Lucid dreams can be so inspiring and shockingly
realistic that you can get sucked right out of them just from the adrenaline
rush.
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