[This Blog started as an editorial re-write of a
previous blog on Lucid Dreaming, but so much changed along the way, that it is
really its own piece. I did a reading of
this Blog on YouTube, if you’re interested]
When you have a Lucid Dream, it feels as though the
Dream is as Real as anything you would be doing in “Real” Life, and often times
even more vivid and intense. The colors are
somehow deeper and brighter than in Real Life.
Yes, the experiential intensity of a Lucid Dream is often nice for its
own sake. It’s like getting high,
right? But, as we can ask about most
Spiritual Things, are Lucid Dreams actually good for anything? Well, consider that when we are in a Lucid
Dream, we are being presented with access to a very deep level in our own
Psychology. So, perhaps the best use for
Lucid Dreams is in deliberately making all the best possible Psychological Choices.
In Lucid Dreams we are probably directly
structuring what will be our “Subconscious” Impulses for Waking Life.
When I look over my early personal history of Lucid
Dreams what occurs to me is that at the moment of Lucidity, I would make the
choice to step out of the ‘plot line’ of the ordinary dreams I had been engaged
in, with their cast of ordinary dream characters, to go to some better and more
Spiritual Dreams with a more inspiring set of Dream Characters. At first it was hardly a deliberate conscious
decision. In the beginning, when I
noticed Lucidity, I would remember I could Dream Fly (which is very fun) and I
would fly away. Back in these early days,
I had not known that Flying always takes you upwards Spiritually.
Now, if you also Dream Fly for the sheer pleasure of
Dream Flying, well, you may find that the energy eventually gives out and you
can no longer sustain altitude or a very great forward speed (though you can
try ‘supercharging’ your Energy Level by taking short rapid but moderately deep
breaths. You will see it working in that
the Visual Intensity and Brightness of the Dream will increase, and, if you are
flying, you will be better able to sustain altitude and speed. The problem with this rapid breathing though,
is that, well, if you are interacting with Dream Characters in the Spiritual
Realms, well, you don’t want to appear perpetually out of breath, do you?). But, yes, in these early dreams, because of
a perceptible depletion of energy, I would lose altitude and be forced to make
a landing. But then I would find myself
in some brighter more Spiritual Realm and the ensuing dream would be obviously
more spiritual than the typical dim lower intensity Ordinary Dreams that I had
left behind (indeed, you should pay attention to the Brightness Color Scale of your
dreams. A Dream does not have to be
Lucid in order to be important, as long as it is Bright with Intense
Colors. Basically speaking, Essentially
Spirituality IS Light). Anyway, as I
gained more experience with Lucid Dreaming, I would use Dream Levitation for
leaving the Realm of Ordinary Dreaming, and then rise up to whatever peak altitude
I could attain and then prepare for a landing, always with the expectancy that
I would drop into some kind of a Spiritual Dream.
Now, I suspect the mechanism that provides these
Spiritual Dreams works something like this:
that the Higher Dream Mind is very busy just in the labors of ‘Screenwriting,
Producing and Directing’ even the nightly Ordinary Dreams, but efforts are also
put into the creation of these Important Higher-Level Spiritual Dreams. Once a ‘Spiritual Dream’ has been thoroughly
produced, it is set aside or ‘Saved”, but will be ‘triggered’ if the Dreamer
should become Lucid and be able to ‘step up’ to the Higher Light Intensity
Level compatible with the ‘saved dream’.
Oh, one needs to think of the complexity involved in creating even an
ordinary dream, where the Dream Production has to be able to account for all of
the Dreamer’s possible Choices. Now, if
one if very predictable than the Higher Dream Mind’s job is an easy one. But if one is growing and developing
Spiritually then the Higher Dream Mind can only guess what directional decisions
the Dreamer will make in a Dream. I’ve
had dreams where the Dream Characters became along the way no longer responsive
– it seemed they didn’t know their ‘lines’, and it was like I was talking to ‘props’. Going over the dream in my mind, I could
fairly well guess where I had confounded the expectations of the Higher Dream
Mind and ‘zigged’ when I should have ‘zagged’. But I wouldn’t worry about such Dreams where
you seem to have left the Prepared Dream behind. I would suppose that your Higher Dream Mind
will see it as His or Her own problem, in the sense that a perfectly Produced Dream
should match up with the Dreamer and not the other way around. So, one can suppose that with Dreaming, both
the Dreamer and the Higher Dream Mind are both learning as the process goes
along.
Okay, these are my views of Lucid Dreaming. Now, I am aware that people who have learned
about Lucid Dreaming from the various New Age Authorities will believe I am not
hitting on the most important points at all.
These people will probably suppose that the Most Important Thing about
Lucid Dreaming is that they can CONTROL THEIR DREAMS. Yes, I believe that it is intrinsically important
to be able to control one’s own choices in these Dreams, but the ideological
belief in the New Age Movement is that one can Control Everything – that one
can effectively summon built-to-order dreams at a moment’s notice. The context of what I heard regarding most of
this is that these are usually Sex Dreams. Oooo Yuk! One only need imagine what this does to one’s
Subconscious Impulses. The Sexual
Impulse is already distracting enough, right? And then by diverting one’s Higher
Intensity Dreams to these Purely Animal Impulses, well, how is this not making
one into a Pervert by Deliberate Design.
Now, of course, I am no Saint, but I can honestly say that I can
interact with people, who present very well physically, with Sex being the last
thing on my mind (though I have come to realize that ‘flirting’ is a great way
of advancing one’s self socially, but I confine myself to distant, indirect, and
‘harmless’ Old Man flirting).
Anyway, I can readily suppose that I can so easily
keep my mind off Sex, because I have made it a practice to NOT jump on people
in my dreams. One should make it a Rule
in one’s Dreams to always Act Like one’s Best Possible Persona. Besides, practically speaking, my experience
with Sex Dreams, from when I was a young man, was that Sex Dreams only wake one
up, and with Lucid Dreams, the worst thing that can happen is to Wake Up. I’ve always found that a Continuing Lucid
Dream is better than Sex. After all, who
can’t have sex anytime one likes. It’s
not like our hands are tied behind our backs, is it?
But, let’s get back to this idea of Total Control. Well, frankly, its impossible and I don’t
believe anybody who claims it. This idea
of Total Control comes from New Age People who read New Age Books written by New
Age Liars and then they parrot the lies back to advance their own New Age
Credentials – “See, I can pretend to do what all the other New Age Kids are pretending
to do, so give me money too”. Anyway, you
just need to think about Total Dream Control and what it would imply: Dream Content in a Lucid Dream comes across
so sharp and well defined, and there must be thousands or even millions of
details in each dream scene, so how could the Dreamer even begin to CREATE all
of that in the spur of the moment. Stephen
Laberge, a big name in Lucid Dreaming, once wrote that he pressed for Dream
Control as the Dream scene before him seemed to hesitate, and his Lucid Dream
turned into a two dimensional cartoon drawn in broad strokes. That is, detail broke down. His Higher
Dream Mind was effectively telling him to go screw himself. So, yes, you can demand to go so far ‘off
script’ that your Higher Dream Mind has nothing set aside to give you.
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