We are interested in the dream world and all the benefit we can get out of the interpretation of dreams. But while we sleep we can find extraordinary experiences of difficult explanation, such as lucid dreams, those in which you can intervene and that you can modify at will. A lucid dream is sometimes confused with a trip to another dimension because of the strange of sensations, but it is not the same. This time, in Female Diario, we tell you the differences between lucid dreams and astral trips. It will seem the most interesting!
We have ever talked about lucid dreams in our Dream Dictionary. They are not dreams like others, they are different dream experiences in which you are aware that you are dreaming. The lucidity of the vigil is maintained and, therefore, you know that you are dreaming. And as you are aware, magic occurs when you look capable of intervening in sleep and transforming it.
The lucid dream is an excellent tool to lose the fear of nightmares, since if you stay lucid during sleep, you can change everything that happens in it. But we must make clear one thing, your experiences in lucid sleep are not real, they are still dreamlike and, therefore, the product of your imagination. Can you imagine being an observer and sometimes suffering from your dreams to become the director of what you dream?
Having lucid dreams is not a dream experience without more, they can also help you very useful. Taking into account that the interpretation of dreams serves to detect problems, when you are having a lucid dream you can even solve that problem that appears in your recurring dreams. It is a way to test a solution in the dream world and then transfer it to reality.
Lucid dreams are also important to improve creativity, since everything is possible in the world of dreams and you can live surrealist adventures and fantasies created by yourself. But expect because there is even more, because people who have lucid dreams usually demonstrate a greater capacity for reflection and analysis during the day. It is not necessary to insist on the importance of these skills to overcome the obstacles that life presents to us.
But what is that of an astral trip? It is not a matter of witchcraft or spells and it is not supernatural phenomena, but rather it is a natural phenomenon accessible to all. The astral trip is an extracorporal experience in which the body unfolds, or so it seems. What really happens is that consciousness temporarily abandons the physical body and uses the astral body to move in another dimension.
The time to experience an astral trip is just before falling asleep. If you keep consciousness one more moment, your astral body can be unfolded from the physical body. It is not a definitive separation of the two bodies, so you can return. And be careful, because a trip or an astral projection does not always happen induced or voluntary, sometimes it occurs spontaneously and that is when you think that something supernatural is happening to you.
Although not all people who experience astral trips refer to the same sensations, there are some quite frequent. The first thing you feel is that just before falling asleep it seems that you fall. At that time do not worry, let yourself fall because it is your astral body trying to separate from your physical body.
You also notice that you cannot wake up, although you are not completely asleep. And you can’t move either, have you ever dreamed that you were paralyzed and you couldn’t move? Maybe it was not a dream but the beginning of an astral trip. If you can let yourself go, it will seem that you float on your own body, you can even see you lying in bed and sleeping while your conscience travels to another plane.
And do not miss you too much if you notice certain vibrations throughout your body and even sounds that you cannot recognize. At that time you are already traveling, so it allows your vibration to move forward to discover that new dimension that does not cease to be very real.
Now that we know what a lucid dream is and what is an astral trip, we can begin to intuit its differences. It is true that both are experiences that are perceived from a place other than the body and that both are altered states of consciousness but from there, everything are differences.
+ The place where both experiences occur is different. While in the lucid dream, everything happens in the dream world, in the case of the astral journey everything happens in a different dimension, outside the physical world, precisely in the astral plane.
+ When you have a lucid dream you are more aware than in the rest of the dreams and you can do what you want, but in the dream. That is, you are not in your reality, you are in your dream. On the other hand, in the astral trip or projection you are in reality, even if it is a different reality and in a different dimension.
+ In a lucid dream you can change what is happening and manipulate the actions of the people who appear in it. It is you the architect of lucid sleep, of everything that happens in it. However, on the astral trip you can also act, but since it is a reality and not a dream, you cannot make things happen to your will.
+ It seems that during the astral trip, if you look down, you can see yourself sleeping, you can see your sleeping body. This does not happen in lucid sleep, you can’t see your reality from the outside, you can simply see your fantasy from within.
Whatever experiences, a lucid dream or an astral trip, enjoy the experience. And take note when you wake up or when you return to the physical dimension, you can surely take more advantage than you imagine this extraordinary situation.
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