Have you ever had a lucid dream? What did you do when you discovered you could control it?

To many, lucid dreaming has become an art of its own.  People practice certain techniques to activate this awareness. This let's them dream up all kinds of fantasies.

What if we could do this in real life?

We can. And this is how:

Lucid thinking can be broken down into 5 steps:

         Illuminate

          Elevate

          Ruminate

          Activate

         Replicate

Once we can master this process, we can repeat it with more ease and accuracy. It allows us to revisit and reshape our manifestation. Most importantly, it let’s us measure our success. This is what motivates us to continue.

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So first things first, illuminate.

Masters of lucid dreaming practice awareness as they drift off to sleep. They turn on a kind of light in their dreams. Once they spot a “glitch in the matrix” or some kind of irregularity in their world, they see the dream for what it is. A fantasy. So they take control.

In a way, that’s what we’re doing in Lucid Thinking. We turn on on a light inside our minds. It shows us the glitches in our own thinking. The lies we believe that hold us back from postive manifestation.

Nothing real can be threatened, so we shine a light into our minds to overpower the darkness or lies that could prevent us from really manifesting positively.

Ask yourself some questions in this process. Are you more optimistic or pessimistic in this moment? Sad or happy? Excited or overwhelmed?

It’s important to guage where we’re at. Our mind is the garden in which we plant our dreams. We don’t want to grow a crop of nightmares, so we evaluate the quality of our soil carefully before we plant.

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Our next step, is to elevate our state of mind. Illumination can only show us where we’re at. Elevation is where we need to be. Notice how we haven’t even started manifesting yet. We’re still prepping our mindscape.

We can't so easily snap out of our emotions, and everyone has their own way of trying to elevate their mind. So think of what has worked in the past. How can you shake the lies? Maybe you talk to a friend, or listen to a song. Maybe you lift weights or go for a run. It could be as simple as sipping a cup of coffee or taking a breath of fresh air. Whatever it is, we need to introduce some kind of ritual or activity to shift our mood and set it up for success.

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Now comes the fun part. You turned on your mind light and you elevated your perspective. Now ruminate freely. Picture the life you want. A life you need. If it was a movie, what's the ending like? Picture it in detail. See it. Feel it. Taste it.

Where’d your mind go?

Some aspirations are more easily defined than others. But they can be intangible too, like skills or abilities.

Where your mind went, focus on how it made you feel. The satisfaction or sense of pride and achivement this thing has given you. Save this feeling.

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Now it’s time to activate the dream. Action may seem premature at this early stage of the process. After all, you only just started to imagine a future you wanted.

We don’t have to be intimidated here. It's important to note that action doesn't have to be big at first. In fact, it's better if it's small so we can make adjustments as we go. The dream is still being formed. So keep the activation part simple. For now, just write down the dream in detail. Maybe it’s a to-do list or some kind of vision board. If you don't like writing, try speaking it alloud. To yourself or a mentor. Give yourself accountability.

Again, don't be intimiated. No one knows what they’re doing when they just start. Don’t set impossible standards for yourself. Remember that perfect is the enemy of good. Allow yourself the space to fail and improve.

From illuminating our minds we were able to identify where we were falling short. Through elevation, we brought our minds to a healthy place to begin positive manifestation. From there we ruminated. We let our minds run wild, and our dream began to materialize. This allowed us to take action, and activate the prophecy.

That brings us back to the beginning. Now that we've been through the process, we can do it again, and measure if our process is yeilding any results.

This is how we go from "incremental change" to "exponential change." It's slow going at first, but as we make another lap around the course, we find we can do it more quickly and with less effort than before.

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Every metaphor breaks down. In a lucid dreaming, the manifesation is instant. In reality, we have a time delay. This is actually for our own good. We don't want to manifest everything, all at ounce. Not only would that ruin the fun, it would put us in danger. The time delay protects us from the whims of our imagination. We have a lot to learn, and we don't want to fly too close to the sun. So we continue to practice, one day at a time.