Wake Within Worlds of Imagination
November 19, 2006
We are a team of dream travelers
dream weaving, reality unravelers
We are guides of lucidity to purge the infinite manifestations of self will merge while we allow access to worlds stalked by the Standford labs of Stephen Laberge
We are mutual dreamers that infiltrate, rape and pilage your walls and insecurities, for we seek to bleed you and cleanse these impurities
We are creatures of the night
We walk among you sleeping cattle having our way with your ignorance and sabotaging your fears and hate with mindless acts of love – like “free hugs”
“…we are the dreamers we dream the dreams”
We stumbled drunk upon Castaneda’s Gates of Dreaming
We sat at the feet of inorganic beings
We are Gods and Goddesses in embryo
Princes and princesses of universes unseen, expanding with infinite involution
Our dream journals speak of countless deaths, burials and resurrections in
the perfect consciousness that is now
We die nigthly and wake within worlds of pure imagination
Advice from on Lucid Dreaming
November 17, 2006
my question:
I’ve been into lucid dreaming for years. but have had trouble doing it consistently. Any advice? I noticed that keeping a journal and Laberge’s “reality checking” works.
Answer from jordan
Hey there-It´s good to hear about your practice. I have a few things to say that will perhaps help you out. At my best, I was averaging about 2 lucid dreams per week. At the moment, I´m averaging about one or so per week. What I´ve noticed is that if I am sleep deprived, I dont have lucid dreams.
So perhaps you need to look at your sleeping schedule first. In
this way, you need to analyze your life from the perspective of whether having lucid dreams is worth devoting some more time to your sleep schedule. In my opinion, it is, but it´s hard to keep this in
perspective.
Secondly, the frame mind from which you approach your practice is very important. If you are merely looking to your lucid dreams for fantasy or pleasure, you won´t have as many as if you recognize their importance in helping you solve problems, meditate, or evolve spiritually. Lucid dreams have tremendous potential from this perspective, and we can talk about that more if you´re interested.
Last but not least, you need to let your unconscious mind do the work. Your only job is to keep reminding it to do the work. You accomplish this just like you have been, by using a dream journal and performing reality checks. However, you can´t look at your reality checks as the actual¨”thing” that is causing you to lucid dream. Rather, it´s just a reminder to your brain to put in the REAL unconscious effort which actually creates the lucid dream. Your conscoius effort plays a VERY small role in the process, and if you just trust in your unconscious to do its job, you´ll be better off for it. You can´t get frustrated for not having lucid dreams, you need to view every nights sleep, regardless of lucidity, as a step towards lucidity. Every time you remember a dream, write it down, do a reality check, etc., you need to reward yourself for reminding the unconscious. The more positive associations you make with
such little actions, the more weight they´ll carry to your unconscious
mind.
Good luck and look forward to hearing back from you,
Lucid Dreaming technique
November 1, 2006
Lucid Dreaming has been a challenge for me. For over 10 years I’ve been writing my dreams down and trying to figure out how to have regular lucid dreams.
Once technique that has worked has been Laberg’s “Reality Check”. It consists of analyzing your dreams for regular “sign posts” or recurring symbols, then you make a list. You then train your mind to respond by asking “is this a dream?” when ever you see the objects you’ve put on the list throughout the course of the day. By establishing that pattern of behavior in waking life, the next time you see the sign post in your dream you will ask, “Is this a dream?” and wake up.
It seems that the more intensely and consistently you focus on the question “is this a dream?” the more likely you will have a lucid dream. So I will try to think about the “feeling” of being in a dream into every waking moment of my daily life. My theory is that I will have lucid dreams more regularly.
The Tibetan Yogas Of Dreams and Sleep (Outline)
October 30, 2006
Note: this is my personal perception of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s book, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. If you want more information or disagree, remember, I’m merely an ignorant savage with an oppinion. “*” indicates my personal observations and/or oppinion.
The Tibetan Yogas of Dreams and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a reflection of some of the beliefs, traditions and techniques of Tibet Buddists. *Although the tibetan yogas speaks about lucid dreaming it is actually much more and way beyond that.
*The book is profound if one is interested in lucid dreaming or spiritual enlightenment. It is refered to by Stephen Laberg, Ph.D, author of world renound book Lucid Dream more than once. Laberg’s mention and praise of Tenzin and Tibetan Buddhism led me to read this book.
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