Many paths lead to the world of the Unknown, each of them is interesting and difficult in its own way. But, more often than not, the Unknown lies next to us, you just need to reach out. For example, dreams …
Each of us spends about a third of our lives in a state of sleep, so do we really need such colossal losses of time only to restore physical and emotional strength?!..
At all times, scientists from different countries have paid special attention to dreams. The ancient Egyptians called sleep “the little death”.
Indeed, the sleeper resembles a dead person, many physiological processes slow down, but nevertheless he continues an active life, transferring from his usual real world to the ghostly world of images, the world created by his imagination.
Despite its illusory nature, a dream greatly expands a person's capabilities. In our dreams, we become the owners of strange and, at times, simply unique qualities.
Almost everyone experienced an amazing feeling of flight, saw the sweeping earth beneath him, hovered in the clouds like birds. Others could pass through walls, or create cities and fairy kingdoms just thinking about it.
But the main advantage of internal space (our dream) is its ability to very accurately copy the real world in which we live. I'm talking about the ability to preserve tactile sensitivity in dreams, the ability to emotionally experience events (it is not uncommon for people to cry or laugh during sleep), to communicate with the “characters” of the dream, to enter into physical contact with them, to feel pain, cold, heat, and other sensations. How does this happen, because the work of the main sense organs is dulled or completely turned off during sleep, the processes in the body slow down their rhythmic activity. The flow of information to the brain from the outside world is minimized. But we “see”, “hear” and “feel” during a dream. Where do these irritants come from?..
Some modern researchers of consciousness speak of the existence of a special sense organ. In parapsychological literature, it is called “the field of consciousness”. It acts as a repository of images (and, accordingly, all our knowledge), is responsible for life support (the so-called "seventh sense", the ability to foresee danger, feel a look in the back, feel anxiety for their loved ones when they are in trouble and much more), as well as the exchange of information with the external environment (including other fields of consciousness). That is why people united by common interests, love ties or just long friendship and communication are able to guess the thoughts of their interlocutor or predict his behavior in advance; such people come into resonance with each other, that is, their fields of consciousness are partially united.
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In simple terms, the field of consciousness is a kind of energetic substance that surrounds our brain, into which all our thoughts-images are packed; it is able to "communicate" with other similar fields of consciousness (telepathy). What are the true causes of dreams. Analysis of the literature makes it possible to identify five such reasons:
The first three reasons are understandable and acceptable to us, but then we come across a new word - "lucid dreams". What is it?
In modern parapsychology, the science of extraordinary human capabilities and methods of their disclosure, this reason is given special attention. Parapsychologists argue that dreams can not only be controlled, but also to awaken with their help the hidden reserves of our psyche, including creative abilities.
For example, one of these exercises: “… Before falling asleep, we give the instruction that our dreams will be“lucid”(controlled). Then we consciously observe our falling asleep, monitor this process and carefully register it … Now we need to imagine one of the places where we would like to go. It can be the vacation destination you want, the experience of meeting someone, or a beautiful tree on the side of a mountain. When we fall asleep, these pictures continue to stand before our spiritual gaze as real as in reality. Over time, we will learn how to enter a dream and contemplate it in clear consciousness …”(Parapsychology, vol. 2, p. 614).
What can give us control over our dreams?
First of all - unlimited space for our imagination and creativity. Many of you may have noticed that in dreams your individual qualities manifest themselves in a completely different way. You can compose music, interact with people you've never seen before, perform unimaginable physical exercises, change the objects around you with the power of thought, and much more.
Another possibility is creativity while dreaming! Before going to sleep, you program your mind to solve a problem, and the process of solving it continues in a dream. It should be noted that many famous discoveries were made in this way: Descartes conceived the main provisions of his works on methodology, mathematics and physics in three separate dreams during one night in 1619, Mendeleev discovered the periodic table of elements during sleep.
“In the central mountain range of the Malacca Peninsula lives a primitive tribe called the Temyar; its members have developed to an astonishing degree the ability to solve their life problems in sleep … Members of the tribe learn from childhood to gain control over their thoughts during sleep and even to induce certain dreams. Using dreams “programmed” through preliminary meditation, they are able to get rid of many types of fears and phobias - and as a result, social conflicts among these people are practically eliminated …”(Samuel Dunkell, Sleeping Poses, p. 60).
There is an original exercise that allows you to gain control over your thoughts and learn to travel in the world of images. During one of the seminars that I happened to conduct, we tested it in practice and got amazing results: almost all the listeners of the lecture course noted that their dreams had acquired an orderly character (usually a dream is fragmentary, unconnected scenes), three began to draw magnificent drawings, although before that they did not show artistic abilities, the character became more balanced and after sleep a feeling of cheerfulness appeared!
What did we do?
First of all, we chose a picture for observation - it was a magnificent panel depicting a beautiful pond surrounded by a forest, over the tops of the trees of which the towers of an ancient castle were visible.
I suggested that the audience carefully examine the panel, try to remember it. The task was as follows: close your eyes, reproduce in front of your inner gaze a picture of a pond, a forest and a castle. Walk through the forest and come to the castle, examine it, go inside and try to find the central hall …
Then I turned on quiet, calm music, dimmed the lights and the session began!..
The results were overwhelming: almost all listeners described the castle in the same way, with coinciding details and details: dark corridors with high vaulted ceilings, from which hung dust and cobwebs, antique tapestries worn by time, sullen bats, dissatisfied with the appearance of intruders and - the main feast hall with a long wooden table covered with battered plaster …
Later we conducted several more similar sessions with this panel: we were looking for treasure, traveled along the bottom of the lake, trying to find the inhabitants of the castle. At the end of our seminar, I gave a final session, for which we had been preparing for two weeks: a costume ball was held in the castle, having thought of costumes for ourselves in advance. The task was complicated by the fact that the listeners had to choose a pair from our group and try to notice acquaintances (again from our group) dancing at the ball!..
There are other methods, but they have the same goal - to teach a person to control his imaginative imagination, to make him work under the control of a conscious will, and also to “teach” the brain to think equally clearly in a waking dream.
But the most amazing thing is that dreams are material in nature, that is, we can fix them with the appropriate equipment. This primarily refers to the research of the Perm psychiatrist Gennady Pavlovich Krokhalev, who is working on the problem of recording human thoughts on film.
His works, known all over the world, irrefutably prove the presence of a special radiation coming from the eyes of a person and carrying information about his imaginative thinking.
The experiments of another Permian scientist, my good friend - Vadim Iosifovich Tishkevich, generally border on fantasy: he claims that we can create special energy phantoms. For example, we focus on the image of a ball, projecting it into a space a meter in front of us. After a while, an energy phantom of the ball is formed at this place, clearly registered by the equipment!.. Thus, we come to an understanding of such phenomena as telepathy, telekinesis and damage (the main problem of modern society). But this is already a topic for another article …
Undoubtedly, the topic of dreams is endless, as is the literature on this topic. You just need to open your eyes wider and think about how many interesting years of life we have already lost. But it's never too late to start …
Author: Nikolay Subbotin
