Practical Mind Skills – How to Have Shared Lucid Dreams

One of the wildest and most exciting mind skills is the ability to have a lucid dream, that is a dream where you realise you’re dreaming and can do pretty much whatever you want inside the dream environment, as if you’re running around inside a gigantic computer game of your own design.

You can fly, change shape, meet all kinds of weird and wonderful people and creatures and the experience has an immediacy and intensity that mere visualisation can’t even touch.

But even more interesting than that is the fact that you can actually have shared dreams with other dreamers at the same time. You can literally meet up with fellow dreamers in a mutually created dream realm and get up to whatever you want to get up to.

These sessions are usually fairly short but intense and it’s extremely interesting to compare notes the next day and see how much you both recall.

There’s basically two ways you can do shared dreaming – with or without a lucid partner. With another lucid dreamer is more fun, without is more of a remote influence process.

First things first – you need to learn how to enter the dream state at will. Then you need to make sure the other person is ‘online’ at the same time. Periods of lucidity are generally connected to REM sleep cycles, which is most present in the last 2 hours of sleep.

So if you’re both sleeping in an 8 hour block, your best bet is to aim for the hours between 6 and 8am, assuming you go to bed at 12pm for example.

So how do you trigger the lucid dreams in the first place? There’s entire books on this but here’s the basics – you dream every night whether you remember or not. You need to prioritise dreaming as something important to you to your subconscious mind and the easiest way to do this is to keep a dream log.

When you wake up just make a quick note of your nights dreams. The more you do this, the more you’ll recall. If you recall a dream once you’ve woken up, still make a note.

Anything you do to reinforce the behaviour of remembering your dreams will help, fro example, telling others about them, talking about dreaming, thinking about dreams and reading books on dreaming.

Next you need to wake up in the dream – a common technique is to pick a distinct behaviour that you can do multiple times through the day, making it a habit so that when you do it habitually during a dream you’ll recognise as being the trigger.

The most common example is to look at your hands many times through the day and ask yourself ‘am I dreaming?’, and eventually the answer will be yes!

A better method is to simply learn self hypnosis and program your mind before sleep with a command along the lines of ‘when I awake I’ll remember my dreams clearly in detail’ or simply ‘whenever I look at my hands I will realise I’m dreaming’.

Once you’ve got the hang of triggering lucid dreams, you’ll need to agree on a mutual time to meet up with your dream buddy. Finding them is actually the easiest part of it – intention moulds your dream and the shared desire to meet each other is enough to bring you together.

There are hundreds of uses for lucid dreams and they’re a lot of fun to explore so have fun with this experiment.