Resting your body is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy other dimensions of your boundless being. You are infinitely complex and everything is possible, so there are no limits to what you can experience while dreaming. In quiet contemplation, you have within your Self all the keys to unlock the meaning of your dreams and your life. The master keys are courage, clarity, and self-honesty.

Lucid dreaming is a transitional state in which you realize that you are dreaming: you experience normal waking consciousness while awake in a dream. Most people forget themselves when they dream, so dreaming is a hazy experience.

The more easily you lucid dream, the less emphasis you will put on recollecting your dreams. You will lucid dream while awake doing normal activities. This is clairvoyance: seeing things clearly--from the level of the cause. You no longer look at a lucid dream of last night as more special than this moment. You are lucid living.

As your third eye opens, the boundaries between
waking consciousness and dream states dissolve.

One key for lucid dreaming is an absolute expectation of waking up whenever you sleep. This focused intent is kundalini energy flowing through the third eye. If you rest in white light, there is a good chance of rising  into a lucid dream. Falling asleep is an unconscious habit--suppressing emotions and energy.

When you fall asleep, notice that your center of attention drops from the eye focus to the throat chakra (a center for normal dreams). If you meditate on the third eye for as long as possible before you sleep, your attention will return to the third eye after your consciousness slips to the throat chakra. This is the easiest way to learn to lucid dream. It does not depend on mental tricks, but on the energetic principles of awakening the kundalini.

 "As light, I am always awake."

Sit in light meditation for as long as you can, then prayerfully repeat the above affirmation as many times as possible before sleep. Or try, "Let love awaken me." These seed thoughts take you into lucid dreaming when repeated in an effortless, centered state.

While lucid dreaming, often the mortal mind cannot fathom what is transpiring, so out of fear of the unusual the lucid dream turns into a hazy dream, and so you forget most details by morning. A solution to remaining in this superconscious state is self-talk: "I'm lucid dreaming! Let's fly and float through walls!"

Learn to leave aside visions and be present with whatever is in front of you. You will be passing through one test after another, similar to the after-death tests described in The Tibetan Book of the Dead. See through all astral and mental complexities, reflected in weird or wondrous images. The clearer you become, the more loving and simple you will find your universe.

 I see what I want to see.
Now I wake up and see myself dreaming.

 When scientists of the soul tire of the endless parade of astral phenomenon, they discover wizard rest. Thus, lucid dreaming is a transitional state between unconscious dreaming and wizard rest.

Brain sleep is an alchemical exercise designed to create a physiology based on effortless awareness (Week 10). Feel as if your brain is so relaxed that it is floating in a healing sea of serenity. Eventually, you will feel as if your whole body is riding a wave of ecstasy.

 Resting in the Sea of Serenity.
Awake on a wave of ecstasy.