What dreams may come!
Sometimes my dream recall is pretty good, other times it’s non-existent, but what I’ve noticed is that when it’s there, and when I can do it well, it feels like a whole new world opens up before my eyes. Subconscious thoughts become conscious musings and reflections. So long as you can always differentiate between what is “real” and what is “thought”, I think the ability to really look into your own dreams can only be a positive thing. It helps you to know yourself better, if such a thing is ever possible, but what other doors might it open?
It could hold the key to questions you had never thought of asking, or else it may give you the chance to mull decisions and life in another dimension. Once lucid dreaming becomes a reality, well, the possibilities are endless, and the world of sleep might well become favourable to the world of the awake! What a thought that is.
The first step towards relearning lucid dreaming
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’ve been having some difficulty recalling my dreams. Last night I set myself the task of trying not to forget anything I dreamed in the night. Before I went to sleep, I made a point to believe that I would be able to recall my dreams, and I imagined myself as dreaming as part of a reality check so as to establish a difference between the dream world and the real world. I looked at objects and then closed my eyes and imagined them as something else. When I opened my eyes I could see that the objects hadn’t changed, and thus I knew I wasn’t dreaming. I said out loud to myself that I would remember my dreams, and that I would achieve lucidity in them. Lucidity in dreaming is something I have not been able to achieve for many years, but it is something I intend to work on.
Sure enough, as I was dreaming throughout the night, I was able to wake myself up during REM sleep while my dreams were most vivid so as to write down what I had dreamt. I woke up three times with vivid recollections of longer dreams, and also had two or three other dreams that I only have vague recollections of, one involving the monster from the movie ‘The Host’. Being able to remember so many dreams in such depth was a satisfying achievement, although when I got up the next morning I had to consult my journal to remember exactly what I had been dreaming during the night. Sure enough, there were three dreams with not immediately decipherable meanings. I’ll attempt to go through one or two of them today.
I wasn’t able to achieve a lucid dream (that I could recall), but I feel that this was a major step towards relearning that skill.