The title is certainly contradictory because people view bad dreams as things to avoid. Bad dreams are considered bad because they have been given bad publicity for a long time. The phrase “bad dream” has become synonymous with anything that is to be avoided. In the modern painkiller society people do not wish to be associated with anything that is unpleasant, even for a moment.

People who know dreams, take them as a barometer of your emotional health. Dreams also act like a safety valve of the unconscious mind. If you block them, you are missing some vital information they are giving you about yourself. It is like avoiding the blinking fuel indicator of your car, because it annoys you; you very well know the consequences if you continue to drive.

The technique of brainwave entrainment offers you a convenient way to learn lucid dreaming and take charge of your dreams – good or bad. So now let dreams remain no longer bad for you.

Dreams are Your Friend

Nightmares are natural process of emotional release; they provide opportunities for self-healing. They are status symbols of your current behavior pattern and emotional health. Sometimes the pattern gets resolved when the dream percolates into the waking state and you knowingly or unknowingly adjust your response.

By changing your attitude towards dreams you allow a natural self-correction therapy. According to psychologist Ernest Rossi, an important function of dreaming is integration, of separate psychological fragments into a more balanced and all-encompassing personality.

Resolving Nightmares

Just as you use your general awareness or mindfulness to solve problems in daily life, you can work on your dreams too. Enhanced awareness while dreaming is the tool that helps replace your habitual responses with new ones. The goal is still to put an end to nightmares and recurring dreams, but by changing their script, and not by blocking or running away from them. There are several techniques available that are quite effective with recurring nightmares. But the simplest do-it-yourself type method is learning lucid dreaming. It can be learned like any other skill.

The first step is to develop the ability to recall dreams, so you need to become dream conscious. You can do this by affirmations, particularly before sleeping. Affirm mentally that you want to remember everything from the dreams. Another useful idea is to keep a dream journal. Pay particular attention to events that can only occur in dreams – for instance, hovering over water, walking in the air, etc.

Becoming Lucid

These signs are used as cues to remind yourself that you must be dreaming whenever you note them. This is how you catch yourself dreaming. Now you can begin taking charge of the dreams; start with something trivial and soon you will be in full command.

Combine these tricks with brainwave entrainment audios designed for lucid dreaming; they directly influence your brainwaves. They cyclically take your brainwave frequencies to waking alpha and dreaming theta regions. Thus helping you be awake and dream at the same time. Their action also synchronizes activities of the left and right hemispheres and creates brainwave landscape that is conducive for lucid dreaming.

In conclusion, dreams are just another natural manifestation of your subconscious mind. No matter how you learn to dream lucidly, your conscious alertness in dream is a great tool to rewrite the scripts of your dreams. Now you are in a position to befriend what you had been avoiding as bad dream and give yourself a holistic healing.

Remember this quote from Akira Kurosawa: Man is a genius when he is dreaming!

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