Lucid Dreaming. Part 1

You spend as much as one-third of your life asleep. Think about that for a moment: one-third of your life is spent sleeping. If you live to be seventy-two years old, you'll have spent twenty-four of those years (almost a quarter of a century) asleep!

You probably think that we only dream 1-2 hours per week. But that is not the case. You dream EVERY night! Yes you heard me, EVERY night, but everyone do not remember it! Almost everyone is a hostage in their dreams. We are forced to do things that we not control but for some people this is not the case. Some people, lucid dreamers becomes aware in their dreams that they are dreaming and taking control over it. If you can do that then you can do WHATEVER you want to do! Do you want to learn how to take control over your dreams? Then keep reading...

The first step to become a Lucid Dreamer is to get a good night sleep. You have probably heard that the body repairs itself during sleep, and it is true. While we're zonked out, our bodies are releasing vital hormones and repairing cellular damage.
When you wake up after a good night's sleep, you feel relaxed and refreshed. But when a disturbing television show, a late-night pizza, or a pending tax audit prompts a night of tossing and turning, you feel drugged, dazed and sluggish the next day.

So first you should preparing yourself for sleep. If you think preparing for sleep begins the moment you hop into bed, think again. Preparing yourself for sleep is a long process.
But I will not go deeper into that. I will give you 8 simple tips for better sleep.
1. Avoid or limit caffeine. Try not not consume much caffeine. Caffeine is very powerful and it will interfere you and a good night sleep. So try to avoid or limit the caffeine.
2. Eat less at night. A huge meal at night takes a terrible toll on the quality of your sleep. In the evening, your metabolism slows down, and heavy meals take longer to digest. And when you are eating, your body begins to work and trying to break down the food and we don't want that when we are going to sleep. So try to eat less at night.
3. Workout as early as possible. Exercise stimulates the body, revving up your heart rate, your breathing and your metabolism in general. That's great for burning calories, but not so great at bedtime, when your goal is to wind down and get to sleep. So try to workout as early as possible.
4. Establish a bedtime routine. Routines, rituals, really are powerful; they allow us to fall into a certain state of mind without conscious effort. A bedtime routine, even a simple one, rewards your dedication and discipline by helping you fall asleep as quickly and easily as possible. It can be reading a book, taking a shower or fifteen minutes in front of the sink, brushing teeth and swishing mouthwash. It can be almost everything. Your routine tells your body, "Hey! Look at what I'm doing! It's time for bed!"
5. Set a regular bedtime. The body will learn when bedtime is if you have a regular bedtime. As the body learns when bedtime is, the metabolism will slow, eyelids will droop, and sleepy, drowsy thoughts will occur at about the same time every night. This will help you fall asleep and it will make your dreaming better!
6. Avoid television just before bed. Bright, flickering light excites your nervous system, contributes to alertness, and makes falling asleep much harder. So try to avoid it before you are going to sleep.
7. Avoid computers just before bed. Computers combine the flickering screen of a television with the hypnotic, on-demand content of computer games, email and web browsers. So same here, try to avoid computer just before bed.
8. Get seven to eight hours of sleep per night. Studies shows that the body need seven to eight hours sleep to recover.

This is 8 good tips to help you get a better sleep.

Then there is one more thing. A nap is a lucid dreamers best friend! It is very common that when you take a nap you fall directly into REM-sleep (the stage of dreaming). A nap should be between 10-30 minutes, it is different from person to person. If you are taking a nap longer than 30 min, your body will lapse into deep sleep.

So, for anyone interested in dreams, getting plenty of sound, healthy sleeps is critical.