ASAP Tuesday: Lucid Dreaming

Last week was pretty busy for me. Extra hours at work and extra hours at play were both contributors to my exhaustion come Friday night. 

Usually when I have a week like this, my weekend has a strict agenda of the following:

- Zero alarms

- Quality workouts

- Expensive almond milk latte's

- All of the internet time on the couch

Something I also notice happening on weekends like this is that my mind is finally allowed to detach from the worries and the pressures and just gets to wander. Which, thankfully, leads to a ton of un-interrupted rest. In bed sometime around 10pm each night then waking up to party texts and snapchats in the morning. 

Uninterrupted rest also leads to dreaming.

Dreaming is a funny thing to me. I don't always feel like I remember my dreams - but the ones I do remember often bother me. I'm bothered that I'm smarter and richer and funnier in my dreams. I'm also bothered that I'm often chasing something I can never quite catch which according to a few sources means that I feel like I've fallen behind or am missing something from my life. When you're trying to get over someone or something, the most counterproductive thing you can do is find yourself creating a fantasy world in your subconscious. 

Enter Lucid Dreaming! The phenomenon of being able to train yourself to realize that you are dreaming and control the scenes that play out in your sleepy memories. 

Set pen and paper by your bed, and begin to record what you were dreaming about the moment you wake up. This way you can train yourself to remember more from the dream, and ultimately reach the point where you can recognize that a dream is a dream. From there, you can eliminate a character from the story or at least not think that you will always have harry potter magic when you wake up. How cruel, dreams! 

Wanna try it with me?