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You wake from a restless nights sleep feeling that you have just been pulled from something important and you feel that now you will never finish. You are exhausted, though you have just 'slept' for nine hours. You wish you could just call in sick to work so you can really sleep. Unfortunately, this happens to me all of the time. Most of the time however, I can recall what I have been doing to be so tired. Whether it be traveling on the astral plane to Thailand or participating in my role in an alternate reality, I still awaken only to feel that I need more sleep. Most people wish that they could experience lucid dreams, or being aware of your dreams as they take place. There are problems with lucid dreaming that can lead to exasperation of the body, mind, and eventually the spirit. While your body is in its natural resting mode, sleep, your mind is fully alert and connected to the dream world or the astral or another plane. While it may be okay for an experience once and a while, it is not advisable for an abundantly repetitive process. I have tried diligently to remember as much as possible from my dreams and to experience as much as possible in those dreams for as long as I can remember. This has resulted in my constant lucid dreaming. An example is a recent experience when I took a nap that lasted only one hour. In this hour I was part of a dream where I was learning to move the energy of objects with my hands (without touching it), from a demeaning and crazed Asian man. He actually yelled at me and threatened me for my mistakes (IN MY OWN DREAM). Eventually I could do most of what he asked, but I was too nervous to complete my training with the double sided knife (of course because I was afraid of killing myself). When I regained the ability to sense my physical surroundings (I woke up), I kept my eyes closed so that I could continue to train with the double sided knife. I was concentrating so hard on moving the energy through my hands that I could actually feel my own arms and hands shaking with force. When I finally came completely out of this dream I felt slightly sick to my stomach, tense, and scared (I had just had a double sided knife flying at me). All that and I didn't feel that I had rested at all. How do you achieve lucid dreaming? I have had success, not only by setting my intentions of what I wish to achieve in the sleep state, but also by a few extra things that have seemed to promote lucid dreaming at least in my experiences. First off, keep a dream journal. I am glad that I have always kept track of my dreams. Some of the dreams were so strong that I knew I had actually lived them before and was just recalling them (I later had these dreams verified by a past life healer). The next idea I stumbled across in my procrastination of getting out of bed to go to work. I am great about deciding that I need to get up early to get things done the next day, but whenever that time comes, I won't get up. I simply change my alarm back to its normal hour and go back to sleep. In the time between the two alarms, I have generally had a dream and am more tired than I was when I awoke by the first alarm. It took me quite some time before I was able to put this together about the frequency of my lucid dreaming, but since I have researched it on the internet. I found that according to some scientists, lucid dreaming occurs after the body's resting stage and in the last 90 minutes of your body's sleep. They also note that it is more prominent in those that take naps a few hours after waking in the morning. It is also noted that dreams you abruptly wake from are more likely to be remembered. When you awaken from any dream start writing it down as fast as possible, before your perception starts to change the facts of what actually happened. |
In my experience, past life dreams are very similar to regular dreams, but I have felt a real connection to what happened in the dream. In some of these past life dreams I have had no idea that I looked different than I do in this reality, because I still felt like me, but in one instance I was able to view myself in a mirror thus seeing that I was not in the same body as I am today. So, look for mirrors in your dreams. Finally, we will end on the topic of perception. Perception is difficult to decipher some times. Sometimes we are presented with dreams that carry a message, but it is rarely easy to understand what the dream means unless you can step back and look at the overall picture. For example my mother's friend once lost her keys for days. Her friend called her after about the third day after losing her keys and told my mom of the situation. That night my mom had a dream of being in her friend's home and walking through the living room. She remembered seeing a clock over a doorway that did not exist in reality, but everything else was correctly portrayed in the dream. She noted the time on the clock as 4:20, but never thought much past that. She never saw the keys in the dream, which was seemingly pointless. The next day, while on the phone with her friend, she thought of the doorway and told her to check just past the doorway in the closet. The keys were not there. My mom then suggested checking the end-table again that was located to the right of the doorway. Her friend moved the table and the keys fell. They had been lodged between the table and the sofa. The clock in my mother's dream was pointing directly at that table. Now, this is why I say perception is difficult. Your subconscious mind may be presented with an idea (like where the keys are) that is then perceived as something slightly different (like a new clock pointing to where the keys are). HOW CRAZY IS THAT! I wish they would understand that we on this planet are analytical (for the most part) and can't see everything they can. |
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Brian is a Master Energy Healer living in North Georgia. Visit Brian's personal website Stasis 4 Life. Your comments and questions about the above article are always welcome. |