Although the purpose and nature of lucid dreaming are only partially uncovered at the moment, there are certain beneficial effects none acquainted with lucid dreaming can deny.

Nightmare control

Very often, it is when we are in danger or face a disturbing situation in a dream that we start questioning reality and realize the events around us are not real. In that case, we are able to take control over the dream and fight the monsters or change the nightmare into an altogether different dream.

This ability of lucid dreaming to give us power over dream reality leads to believe that lucid dreaming is an innate ability of all human beings that is a kind of regulative sleeping mechanism. Lucid dreams, although possessing a lot of other fun and beneficial qualities, are the most convenient and effective means of nightmare control, natural and without foul after-effects.

Contrary to a popular belief, lucid dreams do not exhaust us physically or mentally. Their effect is refreshing and exciting (as opposite to nightmares) and by all means therapeutic.

Dream Analysis

Speaking of therapy, lucid dreams are a very helpful tool of dream analysis. It is true that the classic dream analysis makes no reference to lucid dreaming, working primarily with our usual dreams.

Some people believe that lucidity interferes with the “natural” course of the dream, thus making the lucid dreams ineligible for analysis.

However, the levels of lucidity vary greatly and, although the dreamer is in control of some aspects of his or her dream, it usually doesn’t involve major dream events. It is more like lucid dreaming is a type of interaction between the dreamer and the dream environment and dream characters.

Lucid dreaming enables a dreamer to start analysis already within a dream. This may sound like a paradox but in fact not that different from an old technique of continued dream.

The technique is quite simple: upon awakening don’t get up but try to recall your dream, begin to sort the images and think what the meaning of the dream could be. Meanwhile, you’ll start dosing off and eventually fall asleep for another short period. Now, however, you are most likely to slip directly into a REM-phase and dream another dream. This dream will be connected to the imagery of the previous, the one you were pondering on before. In this second dream there are often tips and key-images valuable for the analysis.

Lucid dreaming isn’t that different from this old and useful practice.

Your awareness within a dream facilitates the work with the images and dream characters, who you may ask directly of their origin and purpose.

Moreover, in-dream analysis makes you go over the events of the previous dream in your mind, which greatly improves dream-recall.

Lucid dreaming has a long history. This phenomenon was known at least in ancient India, and the techniques for achieving and using lucid dreams for spiritual growth and development were cultivated among various Hindu sects, from where it “traveled” to a lot of later Buddhist practices of Tibet.

The phenomenon of lucid dreaming and its scientific potential were thoroughly explored in the works by Celia Green, Stephen LaBerge, Patricia Garfield and other researchers. The data accumulated other years is extensive and leaves no doubt that it is possible to be awake in sleep or lucid enough to be aware of dreaming and even influence environment of the dream.

Some people claim that they never had a lucid dream and thus reject the idea of lucid dreaming as non-existent. However, they may simply not remember it. We usually remember only a small fracture of our dreams, if at all. A man or a woman in sleep experiences from about 5 to 7 REM-phases (depending on the number of hours of sleep), which means we dream up to 7 dreams per night. The dreams that are remembered are mostly the last ones, the longest and the closest to the time of awakening.

I believe everyone has lucid dreams at some point. However, lucidity can be such a brief experience that it doesn’t register as something unusual or different from a regular dream. It takes time and training to prolong and stabilize lucid dreaming experience.

There are also claims that the ability to lucid dream is an innate trait, and some people are simply incapable of lucid dreaming. That is also not true. As the experiments by LaBerge and other researchers of lucid dreaming show, people can learn how to lucid dream even if they had no previous experience. All it takes is motivation and regular practice of techniques developed specifically for achieving lucid state in dream.

If you doubt the existence of lucid dreaming or your ability to achieve the state, just follow the guides and tips in this blog, and I’m sure, in the matter of weeks you’ll be a proud oneironaut enjoying your first lucid dreaming experience.

Music and Motivation

We love music. Music accompanies us everywhere, when we workout, do our chores, study, meditate and, of course, when we party. We cannot imagine our life without music.

It seems only natural that music can have something to do with another aspect of our life: dreaming.

For centuries, music has been an integral part of spiritual practices, shamanistic trances, meditation techniques and prayers. It has an ability to influence our state of mind, making as focused and alert or relaxed, happy and motivated or pensive and melancholic.

Unfortunately, it can influence us only while we are conscious and active. In other words, awake.

Does that mean that music cannot be a part of our lucid dreaming experience?

Music is a great mood-switcher. It also influences our mental abilities, such as focus and concentration, memory, creativity. But not only that. Music also affects us physically alternating brainwave frequency, heart rate and blood pressure.

It was found, for instance, that Mozart’s baroque music synchronizes brainwaves into 60 Hz beat frequency, improving cognitive abilities and ensuring faster information processing.

Classic music was also noticed to stimulate the production of serotonin, which is known to be an anti-depressant and also a sleep-inducing hormone.

Visualization

Beside the obvious purpose of relaxation, you can use music to meditate or visualize. Its ability to invoke images is a good solution for those who find it difficult to work with active imagination, producing images spontaneously. Music can also give shape and flow to hypnagogic images when you practice WILD (waking-induces lucid dreaming).

Falling Asleep

Music can be a good regulator if you find it hard to fall asleep. Noise pollution, over-excitement, pressure and lots of other factors may leave a person sleepless for a long time after he or she retired to bed.

A lot of lucid dreaming practices require that a dreamer falls asleep before his or her focus dissipates under the attack of the untimely anxiousness. Especially for those who practice WILD and need to stay focused as they fall asleep. Anxiety and the consequent lack of sleep successfully kill the mood and the motivation of a lucid dreamer.

Some people, on the contrary, fall asleep too soon, without enough time to adjust, ponder their lucid dreaming goals. It happens to us sometimes after a day of hard work or any other exhausting activity. The reason, however, may be also psychological as well as physiological. Whenever you find you fall asleep too soon to gather your bearings, try to use music that keeps you more alert thus postponing the time of falling asleep

Anchoring

Music may become your anchor, triggering the necessary state of mind. If you choose a tune or a song that motivates you to lucid dream and use lucid dreaming techniques, this may become your lullaby that after some time will automatically put you into the right mood, which is important, since determination is a necessary condition of achieving lucidity in a dream.

Since the ancient mysteries and shamanic rituals music accompanied those seeking awakening helping people to achieve lucidity and inner peace, taking them to higher planes of existence.

Experiment and make music a part of your lucid dreaming experience.

Binaural Beats

Binaural beats are a frequency of brainwave produced by our brain when beats of different frequencies are being introduced to the left and the right ear separately. In that case, the brain will compensate for the difference creating a beat of its own equal to the difference between the beats and thus merging the two sounds.

In order for this to happen, the difference should be less than 30 Hz, or the sounds won’t merge and will be heard as separate beats.

Binaural beats are believed to have various beneficial effects on human mind and nervous system, such as relaxation, anxiety and depression relieve, improvement of the studying abilities and long-term memory etc.

Binaural beats are often used in relaxation and meditative records, usually accompanied by music or sounds of nature, since the beat itself sounds unpleasant.

There are lately also CD’s and MP3’s arranged specifically for the induction of lucid dreaming.

How Does It Work?

There are different frequencies of brainwaves corresponding to various states of mind.

• Betha Waves (13-39 Hz) – high level of activity, the brain is alert and focused.
• Alpha Waves (7-12 Hz) – relaxation, drowsiness, dreaming
• Theta Waves (4-7 Hz) – deep relaxation, meditative state, first stage of sleep
• Delta Waves (0-3 Hz) – deep dreamless sleep, total lack of awareness

The method consists of alternating your brainwave frequency during sleep, thus raising you from unconscious sleep without actually waking you up. As your mind progresses during the sleep from deep phase (Delta) to dreaming (Theta) and then to awakening (Alpha), the playing of the right tune may put you back to Theta-frequency instead of reaching full Alpha-state, thus keeping you dreaming yet raising your awareness.

You may listen to the beat during the night or early in the morning, upon awakening, to go back to sleep later and increase your chances of lucid dreaming. The good thing about the beat is that you don’t have to actually hear it or the accompanying music, which is often distracting, especially at the stage of drowsiness, when you start falling asleep. You brain will pick up on a beat even if doesn’t “hear” it. In fact, reducing the volume to barely audible is recommended when working with binaural beats.

Basing on all we have learned so far (see previous post), we can conclude that music per ce does not exactly affect our lucid dreaming activities.

It cannot penetrate the matter of our dreams without being incorporated, having from little to no effect on our in-dream awareness. Music can help us relax and help to fall asleep faster but certain frequencies can keep us too alert or the sound of music itself may be distracting and interrupt the pre-dreaming state, pulling us back to awareness.

We have also seen that the sound is not as crucial for dreaming as the frequency produced by our own brain and relaxing us into the right state of mind.

Yet the myth of music being helpful in inducing lucid dreaming is very popular.

Is there more to it than wishful thinking?

(To be continued…)

To answer this question, first we have to understand how auditory signals affect our dreams.

Early Experiments

Experiments concerning the use of external cues in order to induce lucidity have been held by various researches. Particularly, LaBarge in 1981 tried to apply auditory clues to a group of oneironauts in the beginning of each REM-phase. His experiment showed no significant change in lucid dreaming frequency or intensity.

Later, in 1983, Price and Cohen have been monitoring a dreamer for 28 nights, during which audio signals were applied during REM-phases. By the end of the period the frequency in lucid dreaming increased. However, the pattern was completely consistent with that obtained by LaBarge.

As the researchers point out, there may be several reasons to the number of lucid dreams. It is possible that the auditory signals induced the subject’s involvement with the environment and thus his awareness in dreaming. But it is also very likely that the subject’s increased motivation and additional lucidity inducing techniques influenced the result.

Anyway, the use of auditory signals requires careful monitoring and proper equipment to be applied in just the right moment, limiting the technique to laboratory use only.

The researchers, however, used specific auditory signals, such as phrases: “You are dreaming” or “Remember, this is a dream”. Which means, not only had the subjects to hear the message in their sleep, but also decipher it and react to it.

It is not that we are incapable of receiving auditory information from the “outer world” in our sleep. However, our dreaming mind usually incorporates sounds into the dream events as a mechanism preventing us from waking up just yet. The sound of alarm becomes a church bell or a voice of an alien. I remember once being woken up by my parrot, whose voice transformed in my dream into broad stripes of cello-tape being ripped off a wall with the characteristic screeching sound.

In other words, any sound and, of course, music, is likely to be incorporated into a dream, without making us aware of dreaming. Even if music from outer source enters our dreams, it can be easily dismissed as a creation of our own mind, thus making the use of music as an external auditory cues during the sleep unreliable, if not completely futile.

There is, however, another technique that lately becomes very popular.

(To be continued…)

Your mind knows that after becoming lucid you are either to return to the unconscious dreaming or wake-up. False awakening is a trick your mind plays to convince you that are already awake, keeping you dreaming at the same time. The setting in the false awakening is usually very realistic, re-creating your usual surroundings in great detail.

False awakening is often induced by nightmares when the dreamer tries to wake up or change the setting. It is hard to become lucid again when you believe you already awake.

False awakening may be so realistic that it even passes some dream checks. The surfaces, for example, stay solid; you won’t be able to pierce them with your hands. Light switching often works, as well as most of the other checks.

However, some tests are still dependable, even in a false awakening dream:

• Suspicion – not exactly a test by itself, but in a false awakening experience you are often unsure if you are awake or still dreaming. This uncertainty is most likely a sign of dreaming and induces further investigation.
• Dream characters – false awakening is usually devoid of any dream characters in your immediate surrounding. If you live with a family or roommates, they are most likely won’t be present. Have a look around. It won’t be a good dream-sign if you live alone, though. Pets, on the other hand, do follow you in a false-awakening dream.
• Reading – texts and numbers stay unreadable. Try to have a look at your alarm clock or notebooks (if you keep them close to your bed). Or try to open a book or start your computer.
• Mirror – another good test. In dream mirrors our reflections are don’t look like us; they are unrealistic, bizarre and usually change as we keep looking at them. A mirror reflection is a sure dream-sign.
• Oddities – however realistic false awakening may be, it is still a dream with all the dreaming inaccuracies in setting and odd events. Some things are misplaced and don’t look like they would in the waking life, their features and behaviour is strange. The good, old “that’s not right, I must be dreaming” check.
• Flying – if you can fly, you are dreaming (unless you are from Krypton).

An Example of A False Awakening Dream

I woke up as I heard my cell-phone ringing. It was still in my purse, on the table in the living room, where I left it as I came home.

Everything was as usual. The rooms were dark and quiet, my cats were asleep on the bed. The living room, it was lit with the yellowish light coming from the streetlight outside the building.

I started to look for my cell-phone in the purse, which was filled with all the usual clutter, including even the bus ticket from the day before.

I found the phone, but it was dead. “Wrong one”, I fought and kept looking. Another was dead to. As I reached for the third cell-phone, it suddenly occurred to me: how many phones do I have anyway?

One.

So, this had to be be a dream.

I tried to pierce the coffee-table. It was solid, as in the real life. The phone-screens were dead to read, so I tried to fly: I jumped and stayed in the air. I was dreaming, and my false awakening turned into a lucid dream.

False awakening is great pre-lucid state. These dreams are more stable then usual dreams and don’t contain characters or plot that would distract you right away. Once you become lucid in such a dream, you can go anywhere and keep lucidity for a longer period of time. If you wish to experiment or try some dream-control technique, the setting is perfect. False awakening provides you with a personal laboratory space. Once you’ve learned how to become lucid and use it, there are a lot of new possibilities.

Experiment and good luck! Let us know how it is going!

Learn more about Lucid Dreaming – check out these stories of those who experienced lucid dreams

Transformation

Transformation is probably the toughest of the advanced dream activities. It needs very vivid imagination since it is not only your appearance that changes but also the feeling of your body and the world perception.

Unlike transportation, transformation doesn’t seem to have any immediate practical purpose. So why would we want to shape-shift anyway? Because it’s fun, obviously. A good enough reason for anything we do in dreams. However, transformation is also a very good training for mastering control over lucid dreaming. It needs imagination, good visualization skills and certain mastery of dream stabilization.

This complicated skill can be approached and learned in four simpler steps.

Step 1 – Hands

In dreams we are mostly unaware of our body. We can hardly tell in the morning how we looked or what we were wearing in a dream unless our appearance is a part of the dream plot.

Hands, however, are usually visible. We concentrate on our hands to stabilize dreams, and they are the easiest part of our body to manipulate.

As you look at your hands notice how unstable their form is. You can pierce your hands (a common dream-check), change their size or colour. You can grow your nails, extend your fingers. Transform your hands into paws, grow claws or membranes. Whatever shape-shifting you are doing, try to feel it physically, don’t just watch it.

You may even insert gems or flowers into your hands or try on a tattoo.

Once this step is mastered, which means you are able to go through any transformation, achieve the result you had in mind, while your dream is stable and the level of lucidity is high, proceed to step 2.

Step 2 – Mirror Image

Most of the times when we do remember how we looked in a dream, it is because we saw our reflection.

A mirror in dreams is much more than a reflecting surface. What it shows is almost never a reflection

but rather an image, a symbol, an inner state or a message.

In dreams, we are pretty much what we see in a mirror. The reflection determines the shape of our dreaming body. Change the reflection, and you change yourself.

So, the next step is the alternating of our reflection.

After becoming lucid find or create a mirror. A big wall mirror that shows your entire image works best.

Start with simpler adjustments: change your clothing, your hair – length and color; recolor your eyes, make them bigger or smaller.

Next, try to change your features, copy some other face – a celebrity, a movie character, a friend. Then change your age, grow huge muscles or a beer-belly.

When you can easily change into another human being, get creative. Grow some fur, extend your teeth or try to be an alien. Experiment with all kinds of fantastic features and shapes. When you feel comfortable enough with humanoid transformations move to step 3.

Step 3 – Advanced Shape-Shifting

Start shifting without a mirror. Go through the transformations you’ve learned so far. Train yourself to be aware of your body and all the changes it’s undergoing.

Ones your shape is stable, start changing your height. It may look simple after all the previous training, but it is not. A giant and a Thumbelina perceive the world in very different ways. The surroundings suddenly getting huge or very small is not to easy imagine or feel. The ability to see the world differently from usual humanoid creatures is important for the next step.

Step 4 – Animal Shape-Shifting

Changing into animal forms may be trickier than the previous transformations. You will have to change your entire world-perception. Imagination and good visualization skills are vital at this stage.

You may divide the process and start with something more human-like, adding details and changing your size and posture. For instance, you may start from a werewolf shape on the way to the wolf form.

Practice visualization even if it is not a part of your usual routine. Reading about shape-shifting may help too. After all, what you need is not a real first-hand experience but a plausible description that you may “try on”.

Mastering transformation make take months or years. But the learning is fun and will help you to sharpen other dreaming skills. Even though I list transformation among advanced lucid dreaming techniques, that doesn’t mean a beginner can’t practice it.

Experiment, have fun and good luck! Share with us your experience!

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The most popular of such energy-consuming dreaming activities are transportation, transformation and world-creation.

Transportation

The thing is, we do not exactly travel in the Dreamland. It is more like locations are spawned as we need them. Most often, our subconscious throws them at us as we proceed along the dream scenario. But when we travel into a certain location we’d like to see, we create it as we go. That is a huge effort that needs a lot of concentration and control. Transportation techniques are basically tricks that, a workaround to make your mind think you follow the scenario and keep dreaming.

Teleportation. Basically, it is the simplest method of transportation, since it needs minimal conscious effort. Just close your eyes, think of a place you’d like to be and, when you open the eyes, you’ll find yourself in a different setting. The drawback is, it is not necessarily the place you had in mind, but keep training, and you’ll master the method. Still, it’s a good beginner technique.

Directions. A good way to visit already known dream locations. As we keep a dream journal (or make a dream map), we gather a lot of interesting dream locations. Visiting them is a good way to continue an old dream or look for certain dream characters.

Ask a character for directions. “How do I get to [name of the location from your journal]”. It doesn’t matter what the answer is “42”. Start walking or flying somewhere and soon you will reach the location you were looking for. Once again, it was “loaded” from your memory as you invoked its name and image. Talking to dream characters stabilizes the dream and, at the same time, makes your level of lucidity to look lower, tricking your mind and preventing you from awakening.

This technique, however, seems to work specifically for familiar dream-locations. Since it takes more time and more concentration than, say, teleportation, the chances to wake up or loose lucidity are higher. Trying to “load” an unfamiliar setting need more concentration and often fail.

Picturing. When I was a kid, I could sit for hours over a beautiful book illustration or an unusual interesting landscape. I would imagine myself striding towards those woods or exploring the moon craters. Well, if a setting on picture captivates your imagination, you can explore it in a dream.

Find or spawn a drawing surface. It is not necessarily canvas; I like to use walls. Whatever is stable enough and easy to work with. If you start with a small surface you can enlarge it later but that would be additional effort. Better to start big.

Watch the surface, remember the picture you’d like to import into your dream and let it develop itself on your surface, like a photograph. Concentrate until it becomes more or less clear and recognizable. You don’t have to work on small details – your dreaming mind will supply it later. Basically, this technique is very much like your visualization exercises. If you train constantly, you won’t have any trouble animating your picture.

Imagine it is nut a wall and a mural in front of you but a window – and a whole world behind it. Then step inside and explore it. The problem is, if the level of animation is low, you may just walk through the wall. Keep trying and training – this is an advanced method that is almost a world-creation technique. It also needs good visualization skills.

There are other transportation techniques, of course. Each dreamer develops techniques of her own over time. Something works better and something worse, methods are very individual and depend on your level of skills.

Experiment, invent and share with us your techniques!

I have finally watched Inception and was very disappointed. I mean, we all dream, every night. So why when it comes to filming a movie in a dream setting, the film-makers invent some kind of virtual reality that has very little in common with dreams? If they wanted an unusual setting for an action movie, where the characters can bend reality rules, they could use more imagination.

However, the movie actually pictures some lucid dreaming techniques quite accurately. The one that drew my attention was the use of a totem.

What Is A “Totem”

In the movie, “totem” is a small object with certain unique feature that would be absent or distorted in a dream. The main character, Cobb, uses a spinning top to determine whether he is awake or dreaming: in a dream, it would spin endlessly, which is impossible in the waking life.

It appears, I’ve been using a similar technique for a while, even before I saw the movie. I always take with me a small book of Edward Lear’s poetry (a great reading for any dreamer, by the way) to kill all that time on my way to work.

Once I was dreaming about waiting at a bus stop. As usual, I opened the book but couldn’t read a word. The pictures were moving and the text was constantly changing. Then I realized that I’m dreaming.

The inability to read is one of the most common dream-signs. The reason is that the function of the left brain hemisphere, responsible for speech and logic skills is passive in the dreaming state. So reading is a great dream check, but written texts are not always available.

A totem, on the other hand, is an object that is always with you, and so you are more likely to have it with you in a dream.

How to Choose A Totem

A totem should be rather small, so you don’t have a problem taking it with you anywhere. It cannot be your mobile or iPhone though: we are too used to these objects to pay attention to them in a dream. Besides, they tend to function more or less normally even in the dreaming state, so it is hard to tell the difference unless your level of awareness is already high.

A totem has to posses a feature that would change or be absent in a dream. Such as a top would keep spinning or a book would be unreadable. You have to decide whether the feature is prominent enough for you to notice a change.

Make a habit of having your totem with you and check it often. I usually do so every time I make reality check. We are unlikely to bring objects from our dreams, but we can take anything into the dreams with the help of conditioning.

The use of a totem is not, strictly speaking, a unique lucid dreaming technique but a variation of other mnemonic methods we know. Yet it may be very helpful, especially when other tests or techniques fail. The laws of the Dreamland aren’t constant, and we can’t always count on the same set of rules. In that case, it is good to have an additional reference point for a reality check.

At the same time, some people suggest that an item we know well will appear and behave in a dream just as it does in our waking experience. That is, as we know and expect it to be. In my experience the method worked – I had several lucid dreams induced by my “totem”. On the other hand, it could work because I used a text as a dream-check, and reading is an almost 100-percent-sure test for dreaming.

As most of lucid dreaming techniques, it is individual. You wouldn’t know until you try.

Let us know how it’s going! Good luck!

Is There A Space Between Dreams?

“Black void” is a strange phenomenon sometimes occurring in lucid dreams. It is quite rare but not too rare to be dismissed as a singular occasion. It is a dark and empty space, where nothing happens but lucidity level is very high and you can literally travel between dreams.

Interesting that everyone who experienced “black void” immediately recognizes it as “the space between dreams”. Each dreamer gives it a different name (“Black Void”, “The Nothing”, “Loading Space”), but the idea remains the same: it is a space outside our usual dreaming. It is hard to say how we know that. But all dreamers agree that it is not a usual dream: it is a very special state of mind, the nature of which is not clear.

If we assume that “black void” is indeed a lucid state between two dreams, we have to accept that we can become lucid in a non-REM phase, when we are asleep but not dreaming. People who practice meditation sometimes achieve similar states. How this mechanism works in sleep, for those who do not practice any kind of meditation, is hard to say.

It is clear, though, that “black void” state does not last for too long. It usually gives a dreamer an uneasy feeling and desire to return into a dream. It is also interesting to note that you neither walk nor fly in “black void”. It feels like nothing but your consciousness exists in this state.

How To Get Into the “Black Void”?

Some dreamers say that you can be “thrown out” into the “black void” if you try to do something unusual and energy-consuming in a dream (like levitating numerous objects, transforming your or somebody else’s appearance or teleporting).

One dreamer received a clear suggestion from a dream character that he should “re-load” his dream in order to perform transformation, and then he found himself in the “black void”, observing the previous dream from the outside.

My own “black void” experience happened when I tried to change a dream subject. I had no idea how to go about it, so I started to fly upwards, so that the current scene would somehow disappear. And suddenly I felt like I’ve crossed some line, a border, and there was nothing around me but the black void, which reminded me about open space. I felt uneasy but wasn’t scared. Somehow I knew for sure where I was: in the space between dreams.

I started to move forward, or maybe upwards – it was really hard to tell. At the same time I was thinking about a good place, full of light, where the previous disturbing dream won’t continue. So the light started to get brighter. I couldn’t see clearly at first, just felt something touching my face. In the next moment the vision became clear and I found I was standing in a sunlit yard surrounded by clean sheets drying on the ropes. I woke up in a couple of minutes.

Basing on my experience and the information I gathered in the Internet, I think at least two factors are responsible for our transition into the “black void” state:

1. You have to be lucid in order to get into the “black void”, because…
2. …you have to perform an activity that is complicated and engaging enough to raise your level of lucidity to a degree when you can completely detach yourself from the dream, observing it from outside or leaving it completely.

The “black void” phenomenon seems to be rare among dreamers. On the other hand, it is not uncommon, and the similarities between the experience of different dreamers are too numerous for it to be merely a common dream-type.

I believe that once we have more information, we will be able to incorporate the “black void” into the common lucid dreaming techniques, improving our abilities of dream control, prolonging the lucid state (since it seems to be unlimited in the “black void”, until you transfer into another dream) and helping us to learn more about dreaming mechanisms.

If you have ever had a “black void” experience, please share your knowledge with us!

Good luck and good dreams!