People get very excited about lucid dreaming, but there is a simpler kind of lucidity I think it would be nice to cultivate (or manifest) in dreams.<\/p>\n
In our waking lives, there are certain questions that deeply interest us. Some of them may have to do with looking at our experience in certain ways. For instance, right now I am involved with a TSK Online program, and in that program we are constantly being invited to explore our experience in various unexpected ways. Or in another dimension of my life, I have been looking at how emotions throw us off balance.<\/p>\n
Now, when I dream, I almost never, that I can recall, ask myself similar questions during the dream. Is this because I am less myself? Because I have another set of concerns? Would there be a way to make this an active practice?<\/p>\n
Here is an example that may be just a bit too cute. Buddhist teachings often suggest the value of looking at your life as though it were a dream. What if you looked at your dream as a dream, not because you knew it was a dream (that’s lucid dreaming), but because you simply carried your daytime practice over into your dreams? Of course, to do that, you would have to be doing the practice pretty actively during the day.<\/p>\n
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People get very excited about lucid dreaming, but there is a simpler kind of lucidity I think it would be nice to cultivate (or manifest) in dreams. In our waking lives, there are certain questions that deeply interest us. Some … Continue reading