Are You Dreaming Now?

This blog is a forum for ideas, experiments, and artistic content related to dreams and more specifically lucid dreaming.

For anyone new to the ideas discussed here, lucid dreaming is the conscious experience of dreaming. Imagine what it would be like to experience your dreams with the same level of conscious awareness that you have right now as you read this blog. There is a continuity of awareness during the day that we commonly identify as "our" experiences, and it is this continuity that we seek to carry over into the dream state.

Many times when we are dreaming, our conscious minds are asleep with our bodies. As we encounter chaotic, bizarre, and sometimes frightening dream scenarios that would never occur during our waking hours, that critical part of our mind that would normally alert us to the absurdity of those scenarios is dormant. The main goal of lucid dreaming is to learn to activate this critical consciousness while dreaming, so that you essentially "wake up" while inside the dream.

This blog will discuss the techniques that can be learned to accomplish this, not only occasionally but each night that we sleep (if so desired).