This FAQ is a brief introduction to lucid dreaming–what it is, what it takes to do it, and what can be done with it. Please note that this is not the full extent of knowledge available in this area. References to more comprehensive sources are given below. If you are serious about learning to have lucid dreams yourself, then consider taking advantage of the excellent resources.
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Lucid Dreaming has been around for quite a long time, although it is just now becoming a widely discussed topic. The earliest recorded lucid dreams date back to as early as the fifth century, in fact, the record came from a written letter by St. Augustine in 415 A.D. Another well- known record of lucid dreaming came in the eighth century came from Tibetan Buddhists in their Tibetan Book of the Dead. The Buddhists spoke of a form of yoga designed to maintain full waking consciousness while in the dream state. These ancient dream yogis possessed an unequivocal understanding of dreams, which was said to be more advanced than the knowledge we posses today.

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Closely related to the dream journal techniques, using these standards can help you to better recall dreams, thereby influencing your awareness when in the dream state.

Look for patterns and recurring themes in your dreams.
If you don’t “get it” the first time, your brain often sends you the same dream-message again. Many people experience recurring dreams, or even recurring nightmares. That’s just your brain, trying to get your attention and convey an important message to you!

View each character in the dream as an aspect of yourself.
For example, if there is a “devil” in the dream, see what happens if you view that character as “the devilish/destructive part of myself”. Even if the character is someone you know “in real life” try using this technique. Instead of your mother, maybe the character represents the motherly part of you, or a part part of youthat is like your actual mother.
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Now that you understand the basic idea of lucid dreaming, you must wonder what the value of lucidity is. Why should you spend time researching and understanding it, much less bother to practice it?

Lucid dreams are the key to this mind. While in a passive dream, we watch and participate in the dream as though it is real life. We have no knowledge that this seemingly real (though later noticeably bizarre) world is not the physical realm. We waste ours of dreaming because we don’t realize that we are in a place where we have no incapabilities, no restraints, no limits!

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People frequently awaken from lucid dreams sooner than they would like. Nothing is more frustrating than to invest hours or weeks of effort aiming at the goal of having a lucid dream, and then to wake up within seconds of becoming lucid. Fortunately, however, there are several effective techniques that allow beginners and experts alike to prevent premature awakenings from lucid dreams.

The earliest method for stabilizing lucid dreams was described by Harold von Moers-Messmer in 1938. Moers-Messmer, a German physician, was one of the handful of researchers who personally investigated lucid dreaming in the first half of the 20th century. He was the first to propose the technique of looking at the ground in order to stabilize the dream.

The idea of focusing on something in the dream in order to prevent awakening has independently occurred to several other lucid dreamers. One of these is G. Scott Sparrow, a clinical psychologist and author of the classic personal account, Lucid Dreaming: Dawning Of The Clear Light.

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Introduction

Many people have learned that dreams can be used to gain deeper insights to themselves and what is really going on in their lives. However, there is another aspect to dreams that is of interest. Often the scenes themselves seem to make no sense at all when we relate them to our feelings and experiences of the past few days or weeks. Perhaps we find ourselves moving about in a strange place or maybe we dream of the same place now and then. In some cases we may recognize that we are moving. We may see ourselves flying, walking, running or rolling about and even experience such things in the first person. Often, when we awake, it seems to make no sense. Or sometimes we are left with the ineffable feeling that there was some kind of reality couched in that strange series of events that seemed to take place in a far and distant land. It may well be that the land was not so far indeed and that the movement was real. Perhaps the dream was a camouflaged version of an out of body experience (OBE).
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You should not consider the darkness as an aspect of the bad, but try to consider the darkness as an aspect of the hidden. Passing the door of darkness you enter the realm of your subconscious, a powerful and yet unexplored source, which handled in the right way, helps you to master your life.

In some way, when you start your first steps of dream exploration, it is good to be brave hearted, because the way starts with basic instincts, which, as far as we believe, do not belong to human nature, but to animals.
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The Door of Shade and the Door the Light

The door of shade and the door of light are the portals which lead at one side to the unaccepted and at the other hand to the accepted aspects of ourselves. It is typical, that all aspects, whose existence as part of us is denied, are considered as dark. We have labeled the unaccepted aspects as dark, because in the darkness we are unable to see. Having situated these nonbeloved aspects in the darkness we hope, that they stay unseen or even may vanish.
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