Lucid Dreaming 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. Am I dreaming I am awake, or am I just waking up? 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 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. 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 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. Create a feeling of heaviness in the forehead area, the same feeling of being pulled into deep sleep. Relax and let go, so much so that noises could not possibly disrupt your inner silence. If the mind becomes active, return to the forehead and relax. By doing this, you rest the entire cerebral cortex. You feel as if your brain is asleep while your mind is very alert. This is the witness or delta state (Week 4) in which the body heals itself from the stresses of the day. The reason: in deep rest there is a minimum of mental activity to interfere with the healing process. You may see bright, colorful dream images. Ignore them and go deeper into wizard rest (Week 11). Dreaming keeps the mind active. Brain sleep teaches you how to meditate continuously: to wake when you dream and dream (be a seer) when awake. At first, your third eye may close down to inner light. This will feel like a pleasant healing, a slumbering wakefulness that connects your consciousness with your subconscious. This is a time of intensive healing. Eventually, your third eye will open up into more light as you move through various healing stages. The frontal lobes (and the third eye) are associated with willpower, planning, and consciousness. The stronger your will, the deeper you can enter light. Some strong-willed yogis put their brains to sleep until they are inspired to use their analytical skills. Other yogis go as far as saying, "I do not think." They integrate with their inner voice, a source of wisdom beyond knowledge. Others find their inner voice by trial and error. They surrender their personal will to the Way (Week 43). Their minds remain in a state of continuous, restful openness. They have learned the consequences of closing their mind even for a nanosecond. Wizard Rest Lucid dreaming begins when a person falls asleep (that is, loses consciousness), then wakes up in another dimension (usually the etheric or astral planes). Wizard rest is a stage beyond lucid dreaming as there is no point of falling into an unconscious state. When wizards rest, they never let go of the thread of awareness. They have attained conscious immortality. Wizards of light see no reason to journey through limited astral levels. They know how to raise their awareness when they rest, and prefer diving directly into the Ocean. They simply surrender and tune (Week 43) their souls to the ascending spiral of musical epiphany. Wizards wake when they dream and dream when awake. Sit in light meditation for as long as possible, then, without using a pillow, rest on your back on a soft, yet firm, surface. With your body warm and comfortable, rest your hands either on your chest or to your side. Become symmetrical: position the left and right side of your body the same. In yoga, this position is called the "corpse pose" as it promotes conscious death. Free your dreams, your imagination, and free your life. Focus on the Heart (Week 6) or third eye, and you will rest in a way that expands your consciousness while your body rejuvenates. As you master wizard rest, physical symmetry becomes less important. Your awareness naturally lives in light. In wizard rest, you are wide awake in the delta and zero states (Week 49). You rest in the self-aware universe, and experience life from a fundamentally deeper level. "There is a field. I will meet you there." --Rumi Go deeper. Become the field of awareness behind your consciousness of something. When your body sleeps, You will be awake. Pure awareness. Pure joy. You are the laughing dragon: the causeless cause of mirth and birth, the witness and the player.
Every level of attainment is eventually humbled
So What! "So what!" is a helpful seed thought when the third eye begins to open and the inner light expands. If you move your attention away from the Heart of light, you will lose your way on the astral planes--and become a victim of your attachments. So go beyond relative realities into the Ineffable. Dive into the Heart and ask, "Is this the most beautiful universe I can create, or can I go deeper?" Realize that the physical, astral, and mental planes of reality are mirrors of the collective imagination. We create the universe as we go bumbling along, Realize that there will always be something else to learn, something more to do before your ego is willing to let go. This is when the inner voice whispers: So what! You are ready now! Just trust all that you are. The Sniffle Tickle Dream Once upon a time, a seeker of truth dreamt he came to a laughing dragon and cried: "I have studied every spiritual law, danced with enigmatic wacky wizards, visited every holy person and every holy place, and still I sit here confounded--I don't know which way to face. Please counsel me before I go bananas." The dragon pondered the earth, glanced at the sun, smelt a flower, then frolicked for fun. Gurgling in glee, he counselled the seeker which way to face, pointing to the magical, crystal blue lake. The seeker looked hard but saw not a thing, so was instructed to count the ripples till he awoke from his dream. Three hours passed--only more ripples, mostly resulting from his own silly sniffles. "My moment of insight must come quick. I'm afraid I'll slip and take a midnight dip." Finally, he opened his heart to the task at hand and felt a tickle! He looked to his side and saw the culprit, cheering: "A blade of grass! What gall to grow inside my dream!" So he gazed back at the lake to continue counting, but could only giggle--more blades were tickling. He laughed all-heartily, then noticed a dragon laughing in the lake. At first the seeker was startled, but then it made sense: he was that laughing fake! "I'm finally free!" shouted the seeker as he awoke from his dream. "No more ripples, sniffles, or grass that tickles! No more pompous wizards, pilgrimages in blizzards, or over-inflated laughing lizards! I'm finished with seeking!" he declared, as he whooped off to the stars--his dragon tail wiggling. |
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