Dreams Part III

Lucid dreamers can consciously influence the outcome of their dreams. The area of lucid dreaming offers a larger stage than ordinary life to do almost anything imaginable, from the most mellow to the absolute bizarre.

Through research it has been found that people can learn to have lucid dreams. You may be asking yourself why anyone would want to have lucid dreams. In fact, you may have already experienced an extraordinarily vivid, intense, pleasurable and exhilarating dreams. Not only are lucid dreams amazing entertainment, but they help to improve the quality and depth of your life.

It is recommended that the only people who should not experiment with lucid dreaming are those who cannot distinguish between waking reality and their imagination. Most people can safely use the available knowledge to explore lucid dreaming. You will not lose touch with the difference between waking and dreaming. In fact, you will discover that lucid dreaming will help you become more aware.

Once you learn to awaken to your dreams, you'll add experience to your life and be able to enjoy your waking hours more.

According to Tarthang Tulku, a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, "Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience. When we make good use of the dream state, it is almost as if our lives were doubled."

We carry knowledge from our dreams upon awakening, but we also carry the mood from the dream. If it was a positive, happy dream, we wake up feeling light, happy, confident and energetic. Bad dreams or nightmares can leave us feeling as if we woke up on the wrong side of the bed, because of the negative aspects of the dream.

With lucid dreaming you experience sight, touch, taste, thoughts, and smells just as you do in the waking state. A critical point to remember is what you experience while dreaming originates internally instead of externally.

What happens when you are awake is corresponding to actual people, places, and things. When you're dreaming you don't have a stable outside, stimulating source that you use to build your experiential world. Your dream world can be changed more easily than the physical world you live in.

When you are in a lucid dream, you know it is a dream, whereby you can rearrange and change things more than if it was just a regular dream, You'll find that the impossible can happen, in fact it may increase in clarity and brilliance.

Would  you like to be able to go into lucid dreams where you find you are completely free from all laws of society or physical that might restrain your experiences? To have the ability to do whatever you could possibly conceive or anything you believe you can do?

By increasing awareness of your dreams and while in your dreams, you will be able to add more consciousness to your daily life. Are you interested in deepening your understanding of yourself and have the  added pleasure of enjoying your dream journeys more fully?

Join me next Friday for the next segment on Dreams and moving closer to your own lucid dreams. Until then,

Happy dreaming,

Sue