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Review: Lucid Dreaming DVD
by Hemi-Sync

Hemi-Sync Lucid Dreaming DVD is first-rate!

I just had a lucid dream! I used the Hemi-Sync Lucid Dreaming Series DVD and had a lucid dream on the second try. The first try was a couple of weeks ago, when I tried it at my normal sleep time. This time, I tried it in the middle of the day and had a great lucid dreaming session! I'm very pleased. (Hemi-Sync notes in its instructions that for some, nighttime hours are best used for rest rather than exploration.)

I dreamt I was flying my paraglider high up in the air (I'm a novice paraglider pilot in real life) -- way high up! It was kind of scary, especially because I was flying straight up at almost a 90 degree angle (pretty hard to do with a paraglider), but then I realized I was dreaming. I thought, "Hmmm, that means I can do this again," and I took off over and over again, going way high up, making turns and feeling the strong centrifugal force each time I changed direction.

What was funny was that I knew I was dreaming, so while I was seeing just empty space and clouds ahead of me and feeling the wind on my face, I was also thinking, "This is so funny that I'm feeling all this centrifugal force while I'm lying here on the couch!"

This is a phenomenal success, having tried this product only once before. Learning lucid dreaming takes time and persistence. And once you learn it, it still takes a lot of persistence to "get good at it" (learning to stay in the dream, learning to control the dream more completely).

Paraglider in the sun I even woke up briefly, even looked at the clock to check how much time I had left. I saw that I had about 45 minutes left on the DVD cut, so I closed my eyes and tried to fly again and was able to fly several more times.

When I "landed," I realized I had very little control, but still realized I was dreaming, so I took it in stride. I sort of ran into a (dream) construction worker on the ground, and we both laughed at the slapstick nature of it.

The first cut of the DVD is supposed to wake you after 90 minutes. I dreamt that it woke me with a woman singing (she's not really on the DVD -- I just made her up, apparently). Next I dreamt that I turned off the DVD and closed my laptop (I didn't). When I really did wake up, there was still 10 to 15 minutes left before the cut was finished.

I'm coming to learn that Hemi-Sync is synonymous with high quality. This DVD set (four programs on one DVD) is excellent. With it, you can learn to program and consciously participate in your own personal dreams. The Hemi-Sync sound technologies help to focus the brain, and I found that the Hemi-Sync tones did help to keep me in that dream state.

The Lucid Dreaming Series is meant to be played on a DVD player (I used my laptop). There is no video portion. It was produced using DVD technology so that it can contain longer sessions than a CD can hold (although now we have MP3-format CD players that can play for 8 hours at a time). Exercise 4 of the Lucid Dreaming Series is designed for an 8-hour sleep period.

Although lucid dreaming is a skill that is mastered through practice and persistence, as well as intention, products such as this give you the best chance for success. If you're willing to put in the required effort (keeping a dream journal is one suggestion, putting notes around your house that ask, "Am I dreaming?" is another suggestion, telling yourself you intend to wake up in your dream is yet another), then using the Lucid Dreaming Series by Hemi-Sync can definitely help you achieve the results you're looking for.

The exercises

Exercise 1 is a 90-minute session that helps you understand lucid dreaming, gently lulls you to sleep, but assists you in maintaining some awareness. Soft rain helps you relax beautifully. Shortly before the session ends, a voice tells you, "You are dreaming now," and after a few minutes, you are encouraged to wake up so you can train yourself to become aware during the dream state. You're encouraged to write down your experiences.

Exercise 2 uses a simple counting method along with the appropriate Hemi-Sync signals to move you through the relaxation process and into something they call "Focus 10." Soft rain again is included in this session. You will again be reminded that you're dreaming about 85 minutes into the session, but you won't be awakened this time. You can make a decision to stay in your dream or wake up and record your experiences.

Exercise 3 is intended to let you "fly solo" in your dreaming experience. In other words, it will lull you into sleep with the "Focus 10" sequence, and you will be reminded that you are dreaming, but there will be no soft rain as in the previous exercises, which you may have used as a signal of dreaming. This exercise is intended to allow you to find your own dream signals.

And Exercise 4 uses Hemi-Sync technology to assist you in all stages of sleep, during an entire 8-hour sleep period. There is no verbal guidance in this exercise. Rather, you are in charge of your dream state. The Hemi-Sync sound patterns facilitate lucidity during the five periods of REM sleep over the 8-hour program, during which you have the greatest chance of achieving lucidity.

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