Why Bother with Lucid Dreaming?

[Singer]

Hello, Everyone!
I trust that most of you who are reading this are already convinced as to the value of lucid dreaming and need no explanation as to its importance. However, do you ever find it hard to explain to someone who is not familiar with the concepts as to why anyone would go through all the trouble and years of practice and self-discipline to achieve mastery of our awareness while sleeping or awake?
Here is a listing of some excellent arguments for lucid dreaming (and astral projection) from William Buhlman, Adventures Beyond the Body.
Transformative Qualities of Out-of-Body Experiences
- Greater awareness of reality
- Personal verification of our immortality
- Accelerated personal development
- Decreased fear of death
- Increased psychic abilities
- Increased desire for answers
- Realizations concerning death
- Accelerated human evolution (one of my favorites!)
- Spontaneous healing (this statement has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration ... just kidding! I couldn't resist!)
- More expansive self-concept
- Increased spirituality
- Past-life influences recognized and experienced
- Accelerated psychological change
- Obtaining personal answers
- Encountering a being of light, an angel, or another non-physical resident
- Increased respect for life
- Increased self-respect, self-responsibility and inner dependence
- Reduced hostility, violence and crime
- Increased knowledge and wisdom
- Profound sense of knowing instead of believing
- Inner calm
- Increased zest for living
- Increased intelligence and memory recall; enhanced imagination
- Sense of adventure
The Benefits (of experiences beyond our body):
- Discover and know for yourself the answers to humankind's oldest mysteries:
Do we continue after death? What is the meaning of life?
- Answer the basic questions of you existence:
What am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose?
- Solve the mystery of your final destination:
Where do we go at death? Does "heaven" exist? What does it look like? Why is it a mystery?
- Gain a greater understanding of the challenges and lessons you experience daily
- Observe and understand the incredible, unseen power of thought-energy at work
- Step beyond the labyrinth of beliefs and discover the truth for yourself
- Accelerate your personal evolution beyond the dense limits of matter
- Gain a clearer understanding of your life, your relationships, and your world
- Confront and remove your personal fears
- See and experience the magnificent beauty of our multidimensional universe
- Realize your unlimited personal potential and power
- Recognize and understand the unseen reasons for the past and present events in your life
- Enjoy absolute freedom of movement without limits
- Gain a far greater understanding of modern religions
- Discover and experience absolute firsthand verification of your personal immortality
- Observe and comprehend the subtle energy currents that shape your life and your world
- Receive the knowledge and wisdom that comes only with experience
- Recognize and free yourself from inaccurate opinions, conclusions, and belief systems
- See a clearer vision of the universal plan
- Observe, understand and recognize the natural process of birth and death
- See, experience and explore the biblical "heaven" for yourself
The Joys (of experiences beyond our body):
- The thrill of an exciting adventure
- The absolute joy of experiencing your personal immortality
- The exhilaration of experiences and explorations beyond the ordinary
- The overwhelming sense of personal accomplishment
- The pure joy of exploring uncharted, undiscovered terrain
- The excitement of being a pioneer in a new field of exploration
- The delight of discovering the truth of your existence beyond all beliefs and assumptions
- The intense personal satisfaction of knowing first hand the purpose and meaning of your existence
- The incredible feelings of knowing, instead of hoping
- The joy of discovering new levels of personal growth and development
- The overwhelming feelings of accelerated personal evolution
- The intense inner joy of solving ancient mysteries and discovering the answers for yourself

I am sure there are many more reasons to expand and explore - to know ourselves. Feel free to post and add to this list the reasons that move you the most.
See you in Dreams!
Singer

[SSilhouette]

Quote:do you ever find it hard to explain to someone who is not familiar with the concepts as to why anyone would go through all the trouble and years of practice and self-discipline to achieve mastery of our awareness while sleeping or awake?
Yes, yes I do find it hard to explain to some people why anyone would go through all the trouble.
You've given a pretty comprehensive list. I can't really add much to it right now except to say that my experiences in dreaming have let me see future events one a handful of occasions. So "seeing the future" would be the only one I could think of adding.
"There is only hope in new knowledge"

[Singer]

Thanks, SSilhouette!
I've also had that happen a few times in my life. The main reasons for me are related to reaching my potential and accelerating human evolution personally and universally at the same time. In the 'joy' department, the freedom and the thrill of flying are at the top of my list, as well as meeting / interacting with fellow dreamers.
See you in Dreams!

[seeitall]

The dreamer is capable of using his dreams as a trap door or a spring board into infinity.
~C.C.
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