Introduction to Lucid Dreaming - Waking Up in Your Dreams

This is the introduction to a video series I will be doing on lucid dreaming. In this video I define lucid dreaming and the different layers of lucidity. Lucid dreaming is the practice of realizing that you are dreaming while you are dreaming. After this realization you can begin to experiment with altering your dream setting and explore your astral consciousness.

You spend 1/3 of your life sleeping.

Wakeup from your amnesia.

Tune into the other 1/3 of your life.

Reconnect with the astral realm.

What is lucid dreaming?

A dream in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming.
When you become conscious that you are in an internal world, understand the meaning of this, and can willingly adjust the dream as you wish.

Levels/Layers of lucid dreaming:

1 Realize your dreaming and startle yourself awake.
2 Simple awareness but not affecting current dream. ACTOR/PARTICIPATOR
3 Total control of dream state including environment, dream characters, and physical form. DIRECTOR.

Why is it important?

We are socialized to not place importance on our dream state. This is reiterated when you awake from a nightmare and your parents continuously affirm to you that “It was JUST a dream or It was ONLY a dream. Dreams are not seen as important to a society that is focused only on materialism and production.
We are asleep roughly a third or a fourth of our life. Most people completely ignore or have amnesia regarding this period of their life. Dreams are a way of our spirit/subconscious to communicate with our conscious mind. It allows us to sort events, simulate experiences, and allows our body to rejuvenate.
Many believe that there along with this internal world of our subconscious there is also an out of body world known as the astral realm. Some refer to this as the 4th dimension. This is a place where we are connected to source as well as each other where we are not bound by time/space/physics.