"The art of dreaming is a magical way to wish the world a good night."
(Carlos Castaneda).
“What if you fell asleep and had a dream, and what if in this dream you flew to heaven and there you picked a beautiful unearthly flower, and when you woke up, this flower was in your hand? What then? (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Scientists, philosophers and esotericists have always been fascinated by the fantastic idea of proving that sleep is as real as life, to take out the "Coleridge flower" from the dream world. Some say that dreams are illusions, others argue that our very life is nothing more than a dream. Who is right?
Lucid dreams are a special altered state of consciousness, in which a person realizes that he is dreaming and can, to one degree or another, control its content. Lucid dreams are the subject of scientific research, their existence has been confirmed by scientists. The term "lucid dreaming" was coined by the Dutch psychiatrist and writer Frederick van Eden.
Western science achieved the greatest progress in relation to dreams with the emergence of the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud at the end of the 19th century. The most important component of this theory was the interpretation of dreams. The essence of this theory is that in dreams, in a symbolic form, desires, fears and anxieties suppressed by our consciousness are manifested.
We are used to thinking that dreams are an illusory reality that has nothing to do with real reality. We think that everything that does not correspond to our usual ideas about reality simply does not exist.
A dream is not an illusion. A dream is a dream without turning off consciousness, and it begins only when we realize that we are sleeping. The mind does not imagine dreams, it sees them. The mind is not used to doubting the reality of what is happening. When the mind regains control during sleep, the dream becomes lucid.
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In a conscious state, we are not used to questioning the reality of what is happening. Therefore, in a dream, we take everything for granted by inertia. The mind is used to controlling everything. But there is one question that always goes through control without checking: "is this really happening?" That is why the mind is constantly falling into the dream trap.
“Dreaming is a virtual journey of the soul through the space of options. We all go into the space of options every night and experience virtual life there. This virtual life has no tangible material foundation, and at the same time it is real. (Vadim Zeland)
There is a mutual connection between dreams and our familiar world - the world of dreams closely coincides with the world of waking. We are not talking about a complete coincidence, they are not alike, like two drops of water, but the nature of our dreams depends on how we live. As soon as we change our way of life, our sleep also changes, and vice versa - as soon as we change the world of our sleep, and our way of life will change. By changing dreams, we can change our lives. With the help of a dream, we can influence the course of events and find solutions to our problems. Dreaming is an inexhaustible source of creativity and invention.
“Achieving the state of sleep with the inclusion of second attention - in other words, dreaming - requires control over ordinary sleep, that is, careful preparation or preliminary meditation. Such a dream begins with the awareness of the fact that we are sleeping, and this understanding allows you to awaken unusual aspects of consciousness that allow the dreamer to use the dream in a new way. (Victor Sanchez)
During a dream, we can understand what we really want, and with enough energy, the events experienced during the dream can be a guiding force in the waking world.
“Dreams are a treasure trove of knowledge and experience, but they are often underestimated as a means of knowing reality. In a state of sleep, our body rests, but we see and hear, move around and even are able to learn. Correct use of the state of sleep is tantamount to doubling the time of our life: instead of one hundred years, we live two hundred. (Tartang Tulku Rinpoche)
The art of dreaming is the way in which sorcerers use ordinary dreams. It is known that the ancient magicians, who perfectly mastered the art of dreaming, left for other worlds deliberately and forever. Their physical bodies also disappeared from this world. For sorcerers who practice dreaming today, this dream is the freedom to reach worlds beyond imagination.
Lucid dreaming is one of the elements of the teachings of the Mexican magician don Juan Matus, who taught Carlos Castaneda the ancient spiritual practice of the Toltecs - "The Way of the Warrior". The great mystic of the 20th century, Carlos Castaneda, showed us the door to the world of dreams and gave us the key to it in his amazing books. The main thing that Castaneda discovers is a different world, accessible to everyone who enters a dream.
As Castaneda teaches, in dreams we have power, we can change things, we can find countless hidden facts, we can control whatever we want. What we experience in a dream must correspond to the time of day when the dream takes place. Otherwise, the visions will not be dreams, but ordinary dreams. The mere observation of dreams is not a dream.
A dream can open up to us the possibility of perceiving other worlds. We can describe these worlds, but we are unable to describe what allows us to perceive them. Dreaming is the perception of what is beyond the possible.
“Dreaming gives us the flexibility we need to enter other worlds, destroying our belief in knowing this world. Dreams are a journey into unimaginable dimensions, when, after we comprehend everything available to human perception, our assemblage point slips out of the human and reaches the incomprehensible. (Carlos Castaneda)
In order to master the dream perfectly, first of all, the internal dialogue should be stopped. We constantly conduct an internal dialogue with ourselves - a mental conversation that is a direct expression of the reality perceived by each of us. We perceive this world and behave ourselves based on what we say to ourselves in reasoning with ourselves. Commitment to self-talk can take you to the extreme of substituting your thoughts for reality.
We take our thoughts for objects of the real world and are convinced that this is how it really is. Everything that happens as a result of the internal dialogue stops the moment we are able to stop this dialogue. Therefore, stopping the internal dialogue is the key to another reality, opening the doors between the worlds.
If we "readjust" our system of interpreting the world, the reality around us becomes mobile, and the framework of our reality expands. Therefore, a dream is actually a door to another reality.
Dreaming requires the use of all our energy, and therefore, deeply immersed in our own life, we are deprived of the opportunity to practice dreaming. We lack energy. Lucid dreaming is a mysterious door to the unknown, in which the generation of energy is possible, and where one can deliberately change the script.
Author: Valentina Zhitanskaya
