Have you ever experienced the amazing sensation of lucid dreaming? If you haven't I encourage you to try it out. There are ways to train your self to do it, which I will mention in this article. As always I will present my point through my own past experiences. This means we have to travel. Travel back to the time I was a small kid. We dream since we are kids and the first occurrence of lucid dream was forced upon to me from a young age.

     As I mentioned in another article, there were attempts of bullying towards me. I never really cared so they didn't have any effect in my awake life. However it seemed it had a slight effect because at not so often occasions I would dream about it. I would see these two bullies try to hurt me, thankfully my father would always come and save me. For a child's father is always looked upon as a superhero, so it was logical for me to find liberation to him. This however changed drastically one day. I saw that I was at a pool. It was amazing at first because I could breath underwater. It's one of my life dreams to be able to breath underwater so dreams like that are always welcome. After I got out of the pool, those two bullies came again. They started beating me and at some point my father came to my rescue. This time it was different. They started beating my father up. This changed everything. I have a strong moral for protection. So once I saw that, my conscious brain took over. I completely beat them in order to protect my father. This was my first level up.

Level 1: Never lose in battle.

     This was a warrior level up as anytime after that in my life, if there was a combat conflict I would always win. I couldn't lose in combat. I never fought in real life since I have mad negotiation skillz, but I would fight all the time in my dreams. It's a very liberating feeling, and it is great if you don't need anyone to come to your rescue. Didn't matter how many they were in numbers. I would however lose in other ways. Ambushes, traps, monsters and other things my mind thought of to make me lose.

Level 2: Waking up.

     Level 2 is the one most people manage to do. Level 1 happens automatically, while this one happens on request. There are a lot of signs to understand whether you are dreaming or not. Coming awake in your dreams is actually a matter of practice. You practice noticing different signs while you are awake so that your mind does it mechanically in your sleep, thus helping you understand that you are dreaming.

• The Clock:

This one is the one I use. It is really simple and it's definitely noticeable even without having this knowledge. Even if we humans have great biological clocks that can help us wake up at exactly the time we want, in your dream your mind doesn't understand clocks. This means if you check the time it will show you a time. Then you check again. The time has now changed. This is a huge system error and such you immediately can understand that you are dreaming. So a good practice is to always check the time twice even when you are awake. As I said, this is the method I usually use since your brain can't explain it in dream terms.

• The Hands:

On the other hand ( see what I did there?), we have this method. Unfortunately this is a hard one to achieve but once again, practice makes perfect. In your dreams if you happen to look at your hands they look weird. That is the only way I can describe it. I remember once looking at my hands and trying to figure out what poisoned me, since I knew not to drink from the cup. I thought I was poisoned due to the weirdness of my hands. So keep looking at them during the day and maybe you will realize it while you are dreaming.

• Friction:

In your dreams, friction does not exist. Have you ever tried parking on a hill? You can't. Brakes don't work. I always have to enter conscious state, order the car to stay in one place, re-enter dream state and proceed as if nothing happened. (This is level 4, so hold on.) If you ever find your self unable to write or unable to stop something with friction, you can be sure you are dreaming. 

• Electricity:

Electricity might exist in dreams but circuits don't. If you try turning on an engine, or turning on or off the lights, the switches don't work. This is because your brain won't handle the information of a switch's actions. This unfortunately will get explained to you by your brain so you might ignore it.

• The Feel:

Dreams have a different feel to them. They just don't feel like real life. If you learn to distinguish these two feelings it gets easier to understand you are dreaming. This gets amplified by wrongly placed information in your dream. People that shouldn't be there, or repetition. I once figured out it was a dream because at every kiosk I would go, the people that were eating there were the same. Having people eat spaghetti at the kiosks, or having made so many kiosk stops didn't seem weird to me. But the fact that the people were the same caught up with me.

     There are more ways to figure it out. These however are the most common and easy ones. If you want to master lucid dreaming, learn to combine these. If you see the lights aren't working, also check your phone. If you can't write, look for something that shouldn't be there. You will slowly get the hung of it. It really is quite simple.

Level 3: Rewind.

     I actually haven't found many with this skill. I unlocked this skill and then it actually became passive. I was lucid dreaming one night but then my mind tried to kick me out of my dream. As I saw everything around me get sucked into the abyss I levitated and thought to my self that I really liked this dream. So then somehow I managed to rewind the whole thing right before I noticed this was a dream. So now I am there without knowing this is a dream and thus the dream proceeds. This then made me unkillable in dreams. I would always know what was going to happen since if I was about to lose I would passively rewind the whole thing. So no ambush or trap would ever harm me again. Unfortunately this pissed my brain off so whenever it wanted to give me a nightmare it would give me a psychological thriller, that would scar me for life without having me die.

Level 4: Me Ex Machina.

     This is a skill I developed in combination to all the others. When I am trying to do something I will gain consciousness for a few moments, finish what I am trying to do and return to the dream state again. Like the example with the car. Or once I was trying to write and since it is impossible I would wake up, make the pencil work, then go to the dream state without realizing it. I would understand everything in the morning after waking up. This made as a great tool in everything. I love this one and I don't know how to teach it since it just happens.

Level 5: Return.

     I have trained my self to instead of simply falling asleep, to actually enter immediately in a dream while keeping my consciousness. I usually do this when I don't like the end of a dream. Once a giant lobster creature was chasing me and some others. Everyone was counting on me but the lobster caught up to us and attacked me. That kicked me out of my dream. Instead of waking up, I forced my self back in my dream with my consciousness intact and grabbed the giant lobster right before it hit me and launched it far away. Then I led the people to safety and woke up. To achieve this you have to be able to understand the difference in feeling between the real world and the dream world. Then you force your self to feel that way while imagining the scene you want to enter. This way you can continue a dream, or even CHOOSE what dream to have. This is the most powerful level and then one I am on right now. If I reach further evolution I will keep you posted. 

BE CAREFUL THOUGH, YOU WILL BECOME A LOT MORE PARANOID WHEN YOU ARE TRYING TO FEEL IF YOU ARE IN A DREAM CONSTANTLY!

     Thank you for reading and I hope you have exciting dreams tonight. As always, I am Tsinik and I would appreciate it if you checked all of my work. Goodnight! 

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• Afterlife Explanation

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• How to be Happy (this is an important article)
• Death, What can you do.

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• Hacking in public and what to look out for
• How to cheat at Facebook games

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• I am He who commands Death (actually it's a pleasant post)