Comments on: How to Become a Lucid Dreamer—and Why

By: Zachary L. Zavid

Zachary L. Zavid — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:17:52 +0000

fascinating I tend to have Samadhi during the Long Obligatory Prayer; when I just submit to the Creator..

beautiful post

By: Wendy Scott

Wendy Scott — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:24:43 +0000

In reply to Maya K. Bohnhoff. My dreams never make sense either. I've had some that misled me into getting up to try to take an action regarding what was being portrayed in the dream, and I found it was all nonsense. LOL

By: Wendy Scott

Wendy Scott — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:18:26 +0000

In reply to Patricia Bastani. Wow. Can't say much more than that! What a dream you had!

By: Patricia Bastani

Patricia Bastani — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 18:45:32 +0000

My dreams have directed my career as a therapist. I was not sure early on in my psychotherapy practice that I was serving the Faith in the best way possible. Abdu’l Baha came in a dream and blest my work by sitting in my therapist chair and smiling at me with my library of books all around him. I was too busy serving others to come over and sit with him and he was also pleased with that. It deeply strengthened my belief in my work. I have had others like that each leading me to a more solid foundation of my work being my most effective path to serving God. Thank you for your articles on dreams, very helpful.

By: Rodney Richards

Rodney Richards — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:41:10 +0000

I’ve had one lucid dream of being hugged and welcomed by the Master, which I treasure, and some others. I definitely agree with the base interpretation: that the soul exists.

By: Melanie Black

Melanie Black — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 22:31:44 +0000

I used to remember my dreams all the time, and when I was in graduate school I too had learned to dream lucidly. The first time it happened, I happened to be flying, and it shocked me, because all of a sudden, the air was sliding by my body and I was up in the sky looking down at the lights of civilization. it was exhilarating. My lucid dreams became more mysterious, I went to heaven in one, I saw a beautiful sculpture in another that haunted me for years. In non-lucid dreams, I’ve been guided very often by major figures of Baha’i Faith. Once I left the Faith. I believe God sent me a dream some years later which was a sign to me to rejoin the Cause. It changed my life. I will write of this at some later date. Thank you!

By: Maya K. Bohnhoff

Maya K. Bohnhoff — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 21:18:32 +0000

I manipulate my dreams shamelessly, especially when they’re dreams that present themselves as being fodder for a story. My first published novel, THE MERI, was based on a dream I manipulated by having the characters do retakes until I was satisfied I’d remember it when I woke up. I frequently dream story ideas and there’s a particular movie-like quality (sometimes with credits) and a sense of urgency to them, as if the dream itself and the characters in it are telling me, “you must remember this and you must write it down.” My husband finds this annoying, he says, because his dreams never make sense. I have those kinds of dreams too and think of them as flushing out the system.

By: Csaba Kerekes

Csaba Kerekes — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:44:18 +0000

Hello, there is a very quick and extremely simple method that will create lucid dreaming automatically usually within a few days. Remind yourself to spin around for a second standing on one foot once in every hour. It becomes a habit very quickly, then one day you’ll do it while being in a random dream and – surprise – you’ll spin around freely without any friction whatsoever and immediately realize it’s a dream. Have fun!

By: Paul Hanley

Paul Hanley — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:28:43 +0000

I lived by myself for four years in a remote area, in an off-grid house. I spontaneously developed the ability to dream lucidly and control what happened in the dreams to a certain extent. One of things I could do was what might be called flying of a sort. When I got married and moved back to a city this disappeared. I think it had something to do with there being so little stimuli from other people, noise and electromagnetic fields, but that is just a guess.