Extreme Lucid Dreaming

By Ken Korczak

Now let`s discuss something extremely dangerous. I relate this information, only on the grounds that you fully understand that what I`m talking about is highly dangerous, and no one should try it. My subject is dreaming - lucid dreaming to be specific.

You may never have thought experimenting with dreams as being dangerous, but this particular method of triggering lucid dreams in just that dangerous! Don`t try it!

I stumbled upon this sure-fire method of triggering lucid dreams and out-of-body experiences by accident. The technique involves dream deprivation by suppression of dreams with drugs. Here`s how I happened to encounter this dream induction process:

I have long suffered from migraine headaches, and recently, I began suffering a blasting migraine that was painful beyond imagining. Those of you who have suffered true migraines know what I`m talking about. Few things in life are worse than a pounding, nauseating, skull-splitting headache so bad you actually wish for death. Well, to deal with one such headache, which had been tormenting my head for nearly three days, I finally obtained some prescription narcotics oxycodone from my doctor and took to my bed. Because my headache was so extreme, even this powerful opiate was able to provide only moderate relief, but it was better than nothing.

My headache persisted for almost a week, and for about five days in a row, I was bombed on oxycodone. Among other effects, prescription narcotics really mess up your sleep patterns. In my case and partly because of headache pain I never slept deeply enough during that five-day period to enter REM state, the dream state. When my headache finally lifted, I was finally able to put away the energy-robbing, mind-numbing bottle of pain killers.

During that first night of normal drug-free, pain-free sleep FIREWORKS! My poor dream-deprived brain had lost five nights of dreaming, and now it was determined to catch up, and really make up for lost time!

Now I have long been a practitioner of lucid dreaming, and I have learned many good methods over the years if inducing lucid dreams, but rarely have I had as easier time and more conscious control of my dreams than I did that night after having been dream deprived for several days. I was also easily — remarkably easily able to capture the hypnagogic state and practice that wonderful experience of lifting in and out of my body with my dream body, or astral body, or whatever you want to call it.

To make a long story short:

Dream deprivation is obviously a way to powerfully magnify your ability to dream, and to help you enjoy improved control over your dreams so that you can practice your favorite lucid dreaming techniques. There are other, safer ways to deprive yourself of the dream state, but even that can be dangerous for some people so don`t try it. I, however, have continued to experiment with non-drug, temporary dream deprivation techniques as a way to enhance my ability to explore the world of lucid dreaming.