 If I told you you could have hundreds of extra hours in your life, hundreds of extra hours of time and all you needed to do to actually get those extra hours was just to learn some random new skill that can be learned in one afternoon, well you'd probably be quite interested wouldn't you? So that's what this video is about. So I'm of course talking about lucid dreaming which is the ability to become self-aware during your dreams so that you're able to control the dreams and the reason that I say that this is a way of you know getting hundreds of extra hours in your life is because when you become lucid in a dream you can do whatever you want and you're actually aware of the fact that you're dreaming so it's almost like more time in which you're awake it's almost like an extra day so if you imagine you go to sleep at night and then normally you would just you know be like completely void of consciousness until you wake up you would have just this gap in your awareness where basically the time is just I guess you could say wasted or you're not really doing anything that you choose to do during that time well lucid dreaming is a bit different because you can during that time be still awake it's almost like you never went to sleep you're actually instead of instead of just having this gap in your consciousness what you can do is you can wake up in that gap wake up your mind wake up your consciousness and do things that you want to do and you know you can do anything you can go crazy with it really you can fly around you can have fantasy experiences you can climb things you can explore alien worlds and you know also work on things like on your the personal side of things on your confidence you know on taking away fears from your from your brain and these exciting things as well like practicing job interviews skills learning how to drive faster you know going deeper as well into spirituality and looking at your purpose and why you're here on earth and that sort of thing I do have other videos about that by the way just go on to my channel and you will see them there so there's really a lot you can do with lucid dreaming but I just really wanted to drill into this video I guess is for anybody who's skeptical or who doesn't see the point I just wanted to make it very clear you're going to sleep for a third of your life going to spend a third of your life which is hundreds of hours probably thousands of hours asleep most people 90% of people I'd say in the western world don't use that time to lucid dream they just literally have this huge gap in the consciousness where they're not doing anything they are just sleeping and I know you're going to say well sleep is still good for a number of reasons you know restoring your your body recovering resting getting your energy back boosting your immune system but yeah that's true but wouldn't you rather if you could do all of those things and also experience your fantasies and anything you want in the same amount of time so it's almost like you're having like a double life you're having two lives instead of one in the same amount of time you surely would want to do that and that's really why I started teaching lucid dreaming and became very interested in it myself you know and they say the best way of learning something is to teach it so I actually started learning as much as I could about lucid dreaming and it was so exciting to me that I just had to pass the information on I had to you know teach it to other people as well as learning it for myself hence why I started this channel I started the how to lucid brand how to lucid.com and various other projects as well because it was so exciting to me and so you know interesting to me so I had to share it with everyone so like we said you're going to sleep for a third of your life that's a very long time it makes sense to learn how to lucid dream so that you can actually do anything now you probably have a few questions at this point you're thinking well why would I bother doing that well there's a number of reasons you know you can learn new skills you can practice things you can explore experience your fantasies you can really do anything you want but you will also get some other sort of side effect benefits as well you know you'll sleep better you'll wake up with more energy you'll feel better not only that but you'll wake up feeling more motivated and inspired because if you've just been riding a dragon around some alien world that's quite exciting so you're going to wake up and you're going to you're going to bring some of that excitement and motivation back in to the real world with you and that's going to change the way you view the real world so it really is you know just just like the same sort of feeling you get when you just watch the really really epic adventure or fantasy film like for example avatar or something on star wars you when you come out of the film or out of the cinema you bring a bit of that excitement back in with you and you start you know at least for the rest of the day or at least for an hour or so you will be more excited and motivated to do things and you'll be looking at the world in a different way sort of the same thing with lucid dreaming you know if you have this incredible adventure and then you bring that memory back into the real world you're going to go into life with a different mindset and you know that's something you can you can use that again and again to do things and be inspired in your own life so so if you are interested in this if you do want to learn how to lucid dream please check out my channel how to lucid on youtube and also you know my website how to lucid.com I do actually have you know a really I do have a really powerful gift I would love to give you which is an e-book and a mini course about lucid dreaming when I teach you how to lucid dream in a week or less and all you need to do is just follow the steps it's very simple but you can get that by going to howtolucid.com forward slash gift and that's where you'll find you can just basically go there and get access to the mini course for beginners and also a pdf ebook about lucid dreaming and a whole bunch of other stuff as well you know it's all there for you or you can just check out my channel on youtube and make sure to subscribe and check out my videos there so I hope you're going to be you know ready to get started with lucid dreaming and yeah I'll see you next time