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MINDFULNESS | MARIJUANA
A Novel Way of Achieving Lucid Dreams
Marijuana induced lucid dreams
For any of those who’ve explored lucid dreaming (the ability to gain control of our dreams while remaining asleep), they’re probably aware that there are a variety of ways to achieve this conscious awareness within our sleep. Each of these methods are typically given acronyms. For those new to the world, though, the variety of similarly named processes can seem a little nebulous and overly complicated. There are meditation induced lucid dreams, there are mnemonic induced lucid dreams, there are wake induced lucid dreams, and there are even dream induced lucid dreams.
The acronyms given to these methods can understandably lend themselves to quite a bit of confusion. Whether WILD, MILD, DILD, VILD, or any other new and confusing ILD-ending acronym people have come up with, each of these methods fall within two larger categories: the lucid dreams we enter directly from waking and those we enter when we’re asleep to begin with.
We can learn to identify when we’re dreaming and take control spontaneously, or we can train ourselves to descend into a dream without ever losing sight of our awareness at all. Within both approaches, there are sub-methods.
