Lifehacking: Lucid Dreaming

Dreams are often viewed as a chaotic torrent of impressions, sensations and ideas. Sleep itself is a confusing necessity. You voluntarily go into a comatose state for anything from six to nine hours, cyclically wildly hallucinating before experiencing an often complete and total amnesia, forgetting most all of your hallucinations.

Lucid dreaming, however, is a completely different event (as an aside, lucid is one of my favorite words ever. It means transparency, luminescence, clarity and understanding, all while being a beautiful word in itself). Lucid dreaming, in short terms, is a dream in which you are aware that you are dreaming. Rather than an irrational event, this is a skill most anyone can learn and often facilitates your taking control of the dream to mold and shape it if you so wish. To some it comes naturally while some spend several months learning it, but most everyone find it both rewarding and energizing.increase your self-confidence

How is this lifehacking you ask? Well, not only can lucid dreams drastically improve both the quality of and the entertainment you experience during your sleep cycle, but you can actively use your nightly hours to practice skills, understand abstract concepts, increase your self-confidence and overcome your fears and anxieties.

More specifically, lucid dreams allow you to directly or indirectly control your entire sensational spectrum and emotional experience.
In particular, this is practical for alleviating fears or pushing boundaries you would normally not dare approach as alleviating fear or anxiety is a lot easier in a dream than when awake.

If any of you can do already this or try to learn it, send me a word of it.
I will actively attempt to learn this skill myself, and if it works I will probably report on my marvelous success and how much more incredible my life is.
(As to how it will affect my sleep, don't expect much in the way of a reliable account of any change; my sleep patterns can be called irregularly regular at best. I am a freak of nature in this respect in the first place.)

So, off to bed.
Sleep tight; dream something astoundingly stupendous, inconceivable and awesome.