How would you like to be able to recall things long lost in your memory? Languages, things you've read, things you've heard? All of those thing are still in your brain, the difficult part is trying to remember them. What if you could do that easily? What if the same techniques you used to remember things easily could be used to speed up your learning curves on new information as well? There is such a technique and it's called Lucid Dreaming.

A lucid dream is a dream in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming. Once someone is consciously aware that they are dreaming it then becomes possible to control the dream... think of it as your all access pass to your own mind. You ever had a dream that was so real you almost couldn't believe it wasn't when you woke up? It's like that, except you can do whatever you want.

So lets explore how you can enter a lucid dream. Like any other skill you need to walk before you can run (or fly in this case). Before you can take control of your dreams you need to at least remember them. The first technique to use is keeping a sleep diary. As soon as you wake up, write down or record to the best of your recollection your dreams.

The next technique for inducing a lucid dream is a technique called MILD (Mnemonic induction of lucid dreams) which was developed by Stephen LaBerge. MILD has 2 very simple parts, first you must focus on the idea that you will realize that you are dreaming and you will remember to test your reality. The other part is testing your reality. There are a few ways to do this but the most common are either counting finger/toes or reading lines of text then looking away and checking to see if the text is the same... this text can be on signs, books, clocks etc. If you are dreaming these things will often be abnormal and you will be able to realize that you are dreaming. [...]

So have fun using lucid dreaming to do whatever you want. Feel free to fly, drive Ferraris and sleep with models... but after a little while remember to use it on recall memory, learning and positive conditioning as well

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I remember I always used to lucid dream like a year ago, it was cool, because when you know you are dreaming you can think about anything happening and it comes true. I never tried recalling any memories though... that's pretty cool, I'll try that out next time I'm lucid dreaming.

The way I triggered lucid dreaming was by flying or floating... I can always fly in all of my dreams (I wonder what this means, I am very adventurous... mhhh...), and everytime when I jump out a window and just fly off, I'm thinking... "oh, I can fly... I am dreaming."

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