Lately, I’ve been recording my dreams. Even last night, I only remembered the tail end of a dream, yet, as I recorded it in my dream journal, more of it came back to me.
The goal has been to start having lucid dreams again.
Years ago, I had a couple of them. One was my mother, who had passed and returned in my dream time to give me a hug. I knew it was my mother, and even now, some twenty years or more later, remembering it brings tears to my eyes. It was just that special. As a psychic, I know that folks can visit you after they have passed. It’s just another way of staying in touch and something to treasure.
The other one was the first lucid dream that I had. I remember touching and feeling wheat that grew in a field I was walking through. I could feel the stalks and then the grain at the top. I had to bend over to touch them, so I’m not sure just how high wheat gets, but that’s what happened in my dream. It was when I felt the wheat that I realized in the dream that I was lucid. I was so excited! I had been trying to have a lucid dream for some time, and this was the first one.
I looked off into the distance. Everything was golden, I suppose, from a late afternoon sun. I saw my guides, and there was a whole caravan of people, in single file, walking along the ridgeline of some hills. It was too far away to identify anyone in particular, but if there were 20 people there, there were 30 of them. It was a lot. I waved to them and started hollering while I was jumping up and down, “I’m lucid! I’m lucid!” They heard me, or at least I saw they were waving too. That’s when I woke up. All of that was so long ago.
I don’t know why I never really had another lucid one. However, now I’m thinking that I may be dipping in and out of lucidity without really knowing about it.
By the way, you can have more than one Spirit Guide. They tend to cycle through your life, with one when you are younger and as you get older, another might step in. My experience now as a psychic channel is that there are lots of Spirit Guides around.
I have heard that people will say to themselves, "I will clap my hands in a dream and become lucid." With me, it was slightly different: when I touched the wheat, I realized I was lucid. So, one movement causes lucidity to occur, and the other proves it. So, that’s something to consider.
How would either occur? Well, I think mentioning it to yourself off and on throughout the day, particularly as you lie down in bed to go to sleep, would be important. Also, I was reading “Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming” by Stephen LaBerge at the time. I was in the middle of the book, so it only took me that long for the suggestions in the book to work for me.
In general, for affirmations to work, you do not want to use a negative in the phrase. If you say, “I am not fat”, your brain tunes out the “not” and hears, “I am fat”. Or, if you are trying to quit smoking, saying, “I do not smoke” negates the purpose, and your brain hears, “I do smoke” or “I smoke”. So, keep the affirmations short and avoid negative words.
Also, I used to think it was a case of being lucid or not being lucid. However, I now think there are stages leading up to lucidity in a dream. It’s when you begin to notice colors, textures, expressions, sounds, and written words. It’s not complete lucidity. It means you are on your way.
It’s important to remember and then to record your dreams. It’s not going to take that long, and like what has happened to me on more than one occasion, I may go to my dream journal with a fragment of a dream, and as I record it, more of it comes back to me. At the time of my writing this article, I notice that for the last five days, I’ve been able to record a dream each morning. As I go back through the journal, I might go weeks without recording a dream. So, for me, this means progress. I’m beginning to remember them now.
According to Google, a person can have between 4 and 6 dreams a night. Last night and a night earlier in the week, I knew that I’d had two dreams. I couldn’t remember the first one on either day, but the fact that I knew there was more than one dream is good. I think.
Then again, it might have been the same dream that I returned to. It seems to me there were two dreams.
Just think of what you could do in a lucid dream. You could talk to the people in them. You could practice a foreign language in which you might only know basic words.
I remember my husband telling me he felt he was fluent in German when he began dreaming in German. I never got that far, but then my command of the language seemed to get better the more I drank. That’s not an issue anymore because I stopped drinking years ago, but I can remember the feeling of being more fluent than I actually was, or that I supposed I was. Perhaps the same might happen in dreams if you were lucid enough to attempt to speak in a foreign language.
Actually, learning pretty much anything might be improved by bringing it into the dream state. I’d have to conduct an experiment on myself someday. I’ve got an Inkle Loom coming in the mail soon. These are narrow bands that you can weave. You can do plain weave, where you get some heddles (bits of tied string) that lift half of the strings at a time. Then, when you want to do the next row, you press your hand on the other half of the yarn. In theory, this is what I understand. Haven’t really tried it in practice. However, I also have cards with holes punched in the corners for what they call Tablet or Card Weaving. All these weavings go back thousands of years and likely originated as people sat themselves down and tied up the other end of the band (the warp) to a tree. That is called Back Strap Weaving.
Right now, all of this is theory. Although reading about the Card Weaving has to date gotten me all confused. So, perhaps, I might seek clarity in the dream state with that. Who knows? I won’t know until I try. Or, perhaps, once I’m all warped up and have the thread in hand, I might be able to better understand the process.
If it is anything like learning tensioning in crochet or knitting, it might take a while to learn. That is more of a muscle memory. It’s like driving a car. When you first learn, you are all stiff and likely to have a neck or backache. It’s when you become more accustomed to driving that you relax. You “know” what the distances are around the car, so you don’t scrape against things when you park the car. You get a feel for each car you drive as to when to start pumping the brakes. By now, you’ve probably guessed that my car is pretty old.
I don’t think you wake up one morning able to do lucid dreaming. Unless, of course, you started that way. I do have a friend who has had the same dream since she was a little girl. Well, not exactly the same dream. The same dream people who have their dream kingdom. But, for us ordinary Joes? There are steps. With me, these steps have been small and have taken me years. It is a world unto itself, I think. It’s a delightful place to talk to others, to learn new things, and to practice the things that you already know how to do. I would say just take it a few steps at a time, and you can start with working on remembering your dream in greater and greater detail.
As time goes by, perhaps you will start to record a dream a night or eventually more than one dream.
Notice:
- · Colors
- · Motions
- · Textures
- · Sounds
- · Reading
- · Languages
· And, most of all? Have fun with it. Keep it creative. Keep it interesting.
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