What is the main purpose of "lucid dreams"? How does one have a lucid dream?    

A lucid dream is being aware of and directing the dream. Using some specific techniques, experiences in dreams can be intensified. Provided that the necessary effort is made, we can gain the ability to realize we are in a dream while inside the dream. Actually, all experiences we have in the dreams are in the nature of dreams. These seem interesting because today dreams are given the required importance again. Just like awakened life has an energy, style and harmony of its own, life in sleep has its own form. Both lives are in harmony with each other; never separate. Like the two sides of a coin.

We can say that the process of sleep is our entertainment world, play ground. During this process, we can enjoy the joy of the self as   who we are supposed to be, purified from fears and worries. There we are ready for every experience and journey. There are no judging eyes looking at us. There are only us. The joyful child inside us...

There what is important is rather than seeing everything, how what we wish to see will benefit us. It is good as long as we do it to relax, to get pleasure, to find solutions about our lives, to become more successful, more self confident and more responsible. However if it is to escape life, not accomplishing responsibilities of life or the responsibility of being oneself,  and to find consolation in sleep, I'm against that.

Sometimes it is possible to have lucid dreams in a short time with the applied techniques. The intention here is important. What purpose are we doing this for?

Can it be possible to control dreams, wake up in dreams and change them?

Definitely desired dreams can be had, or we can get answers to our problems through our dreams. However even without doing those we are free in our dreams. Dreams are the doors opening to the wisdom inside us. Dreams include unique information belonging to us, putting light to this light in the journey our soul makes into itself. 5-6 dreams we have every night tells us about ourselves. What is important is to be a good dream rememberer, interpret our dreams in the best way and carry the wisdom in them to our lives and to present it to the good of both ourselves and of the Universe.

To be able to control a dream inside a dream sometimes have benefits and sometimes have harms. If you see a dog chasing you in the dream this may scare you. If this dream is repeating at times, the reason must be discovered at once. In this situation the best thing is to be awake in the dream and with the consciousness that this is a dream, to face whatever is feared or escaped from. This way, the person discovers a very important truth about him and solves this problem in his awakened life. Realizing and solving the problem in his dream will prevent it to be carried to the awakened life.

A person experiencing a lucid dream, whenever he was aware that he was dreaming he would say 'I will wake up' and was waking himself up in the middle of the night. The motive behind doing this was not to face a possible upsetting thing inside the dream. Perhaps he ignored many important dreams. As a result of this habitual behavior, he had sleepless nights and his sleep disorder continued.

How can we evaluate lucid dreams?

Many people say "All throughout the dream I was aware that it was a dream". I have these experiences too. Most of these people don't know what lucid dreams are and without any special effort they have this experience. These dreams are especially important for the spiritual growth of the person. Therefore to not forget the dream and to carry the energy of the dream to awakened life, inside the dream they feel that they are in the dream. This is a characteristic of guide dreams. Two years ago in a dream I was walking on the street behind our house. A car on the left took my attention. It was the car of a neighbor who lived in the same building. I asked myself "what is this car doing in my dream?" this sentence made me realize I was in the dream. What was interesting in the dream was the plate of the car. In the morning going to work, I noticed something car owners never did;   the car was put in the entrance of the house. I remembered my dream. I played with the numbers on the plate. I marked the result I got on the calendar. And do you know what happened? I got married on that date! So is the important thing to wake up on the dream? Or to find the meaning of the dream and enjoy it in awake life?

Dreams are often the road signs of life. These messages carry importance for everyone's life experiences. Not forgetting the dream carries an importance not only for the highest good of the person but also of the universe.

In fact the highest good of the person is not separate from the god of the universe.

As far as I know, personal improvement can be achieved by lucid dreams. Can we say that this is the main purpose?    

All our dreams provide personal growth and spiritual purification. Of course to develop talent, to find solutions to the problems that we couldn't solve in awake life, to face the things you fear, to get answers about things you are indecisive about, to discover life purpose, and to find solutions to health problems is possible. I say sleep and awakened life, because they are a whole. Never separate. The higher our level of consciousness level in life, the higher the possibility of our noticing we are in the dream while dreaming. If in life we love, peaceful, joyful, creative, productive and self confident and not escaping responsibilities, our dreams are clear and lucid.
 

A consultant had said that he had dreamed of his coming conference a few times in his dream, and that he got very successful when he carried this experience to reality.

 

Can lucid dreams have negative effects? If it's possible to see many desired things, doesn't this after a while result in getting away from "real life"? Or at least because the person is half-conscious, can it cause effects like fatigue, desire to oversleep, etc?     

Lucid dreams are dreams that are relaxing, pleasurable, awareness increasing, and contributing to growth. You don't feel tired when you wake up. If during the day you are cut off from life, think constantly about the sleep process and do things forcedly, this makes you even more tired.

What we live in the sleep process, is the reflection of our life quality to dreams. If we are individuals living according to universal principles, no matter what we see no dream will disturb us when we wake up. We wake up peaceful and relaxed. Just like in all self-growth works, we need to keep these dream studies in balance, not let it get ahead of our responsibilities to life, not exaggerate, not get far from logic, and not  forget that these are tools in front of our personal improvement. As someone   who has had dream experiences for years, and someone who does research about these, I know that the best dreams are the one that happen by themselves.

People who have the sense of too much control in life are usually tense. I think that being more flexible and open to surprises, to place the pieces of the picture with joy, and to think about the puzzle is much more didactic.

If lucid dreams are evaluated in the right way, both our awareness in dreams and in life will increase. In the light of the purity of our intention, we will become more conscious and be able to make important steps towards knowing ourselves.

It is said that the recorded people who are getting recorded psychological treatment is 26% of people who have lucid dreams and the number dying because of lucid dreams is 600? Can this be true? On another forum it was said that it wasn't possible, at least death wouldn't occur?

I don't think anybody dies because of lucid dreams. However many people because of wrong dream beliefs, and because their dreams are not interpreted and understood in the right way are labeled 'sick'. After a while they start to believe they are sick too. I had a few consultants coming to me with that situation. They were on medicine. They were misunderstood both by their environment and the people they consulted and started medical therapy. We interpreted their dreams, they all carried important messages. Now they have quit medicine. They chose to not fear but live and wake up to their dreams.

Can the main important point about this subject be to get the help of a specialist?

Yes, this is really very important. Until the person learns to interpret his/her dreams, and if he intends to apply these techniques, these have to followed and done by a specialist step by step. In a way like "Dream Coaching". After a while, after reaching an adequate level on this subject, the individual may freely interpret his dreams.