Using lucid dreams in sport

[Smudge]

Has anyone used lucid dreaming for sporting enhancement? What with visualisation so commonly practiced nowadays before playing a sport, surely lucid dreaming could be used to some capacity? Any examples from anyone?

[Death-Wuad]

If lucid dreaming could be used to make you better at sports, it would be common knowledge.

[Smudge]

But lucid dreaming isn't common knowledge and so would not be widely used for sport enhancement. Just posing a question that interests me.

[Ev]

well, sometimes I have sport dreams... Funny thing is : I cheat and use all kinds of telekinesis and superpowers to make it more fun

[nina]

I've played sports all my life and have had many many sports dreams. Funny though, especially in those dreams involving soccer, I am usually a lot slower and play like CRAP in my dreams. It's quite frustrating. It would be interesting to have an LD involving sports...I've never thought to try it.

[Smudge]

Sounds like fun Ev, but in your opinion do you think you could be practiced enough in the art of lucid dreaming to use it to your advantage in sport. Have read that lucid dreaming can be used in other ways e.g preparing for a speech (say for someone who has a fear of making speeches)

[gameover]

You can use lucid dream to get better at anything. Music, sports, people skills. Lucid dreaming is often used for more than jsut flying around.

[Smudge]

Fair shout Gameover. How have you used them then my friend, any examples?

[Damascus]

i fail to see how it could help,cant make you fitter and the visualization?you can do that just as well awake. what your suggesting is just plain stupid,i mean lucid dreaming wont help you get stronger,ok maybe you could rerun tactics in your mind but nothing really that would aid you in sport short of thinking/enacting it,which would do nothing for you.

[gameover]

You'd be amazed. Ive used dreaming to help me play the trumpet(Ive played for 10 years). One night I played a mad solo in my dream, where every note was perfect, and I could tell as it happened. When I woke up I was able to re-create a section of it. This isnt the only example you can find. Ive heard of other musicians playing entire pieces and then being able to sight read it perfectly afterward(I wish I rememebr the exact place I read this). The dream world is infinite in recourses that you can use in a million ways to help you in your waking life.

[Smudge]

Don't think the suggestion is plain stupid. In sports such as golf, snooker and even free-kick taking in football visualisation is used. Obviously it won't make you fitter. Is said lucid dreaming is the ultimate virtual reality tool, so if visualisation is used in sport then why not use LD's for sporting gain? If you see (in your minds eye) a shot go in the goal, or a ball go in a pocket or a hole enough times and it you who has done it then it may help when you come to do the real thing. It has worked as suggested by gameover in the area of music.

[sqwump]

I think lucid dreaming can help u in sports. u can practice techniques or try out new moves or ideas. Ive had some dreams about wrestling matches, and i think if i could remember them well enough they would help me.

[OrangeStar]

In Exploring the World of Lucid Deaming, LaBerge talks at length about lucid dreaming helping with sports.

[Smudge]

Have got this book OrangeStar, better get my arse into gear and start reading it. Nice one!

[blackshampagne]

Sweet...I'm still waiting for my first LD...maybe I can slam dunk from the half court line.. Play 1 on 1 with MJ..or something.

[Placebo]

Originally posted by Death-Wuad If lucid dreaming could be used to make you better at sports, it would be common knowledge. Umm.. actually.. there was an experiment done with a soccer (I think) team. From what I recall, they split them in two, and one group would practice once a week, while the other team would VISUALISE playing soccer on a regular basis. They did this for a month or two. The guys who did the visualisation actually improved more than the guys who practiced. Just a thought