I had three dreams to write down. Interestingly, as I recorded what I could remember, the very act of thinking about the dreams and then writing them down, I was able to remember nuanced parts that, upon first reflection, I hadn’t remembered. It doesn’t happen to me like that every time, but I felt it was important enough to mention here. I believe it is a stage of development that happens as a person strives to have a lucid dream.
The other thing about the dreams I had was that they were like different chapters of the same dream. Either it was one dream that fed into another, with two parts, or there were three different dreams. I rarely have that happen. Again, a step in the right direction.
The reason I am recording my dreams is so that eventually I can have some lucid dreams.
A lucid dream is a regular dream on steroids. A lucid dream will allow you to fly, to jump from one train car to another, to produce fairy dust from your fingertips. They get wild, and as far as I am concerned, they are the ultimate dream.
I’m sure there are lots of books out there that can help you have a lucid dream, but there is only one I will recommend. In fact, when I read it years ago, I began having lucid dreams before I was even finished. This book is by Stephen LaBergecalled Lucid Dreaming.
The first step is to record your dreams. To do this, in the beginning, you have to talk to yourself about it just to get used to the idea. Several times during the course of your day, you say silently to yourself, “I remember my dreams when I wake up.” You also want to say to yourself, “I record my dreams when I awaken”. These are called affirmations. You can use these for all sorts of things. They require a lot of repetitions before you can be comfortable doing whatever it is you are suggesting. As time goes on and you get better at remembering and then recording your dreams, you can say something like, “I can remember more than one dream a night.”
You also never want to say a negative word in an affirmation. Like, if you were trying to stop smoking and you said, “I do not smoke.” Your brain, for whatever reason, does not hear the words no or not, just like a child. For better results, you would say something like “I am smoke-free,” “I am slender,” or “I am healthy”. Keep them in the present tense and don’t put a negative in. “I record my dreams” is a good one.
People have several periods of REM sleep during the time they sleep at night. This is where you can observe a sleeping person with twitching eyelids, like they are reading or watching a show. REM stands for rapid eye movement.
When you first start remembering your dreams, it is likely that you’re only going to be remembering the last one you had before you woke up. As time goes on, you can keep a pad and pencil or pen next to your bedside and record one or two words about the dream. Then, later on, once you are awake, you can remember the rest of the dream from what you’d written on the notepad. The point is that you don’t want to wake up at 1:30 in the morning and write your whole dream on a notepad. You will wake yourself up enough that you might have trouble getting back to sleep, so one word should do the trick. Also, if you are sleeping with somebody else, you won’t disturb their sleep.
Who knows? As time goes by, you might be able to recall many of your dreams.
It is important to write them down. As time passes, you will be able to remember details about your dreams. At least, that’s what I noticed. But the first step is to remember and record your dreams.
What is going to happen is that by reading Stephen LaBerge’s book Lucid Dreaming and recording your dreams, the next step is that you’re going to start getting lucid in your dreams.
Being lucid is when you have creative control over your dreams. Like if the bad guys are chasing you, you can fight back. You can hurl them into the ocean. You can turn and say, “Stop!” and they will stop. My own dream life up until I began to channel in 1993 had been me and whoever was chasing me. Dream time was never a pleasant place for me. Occasionally, I would have good dreams, but mostly they were fraught with fear, and there was only one other person chasing me. Also, I found myself in knee-high mud that always made it difficult to walk or even to run.
As a psychic channel, I don’t have bad dreams anymore. Or, at least, not very many of them. When my blood sugar dips low, I can have some doozy nightmares, but it is not often. Mostly, I’ve got friends I know and loved ones who have passed, and my Spirit Guides now who are in my dreams. Most of the time, I am not lucid, but sometimes I am. I can remember the first lucid dream I had after I’d learned to channel.
In the dream, I was on a well-beaten narrow path through a field of wheat. It had grown knee-high. I reached down and grasped a plant to feel it. As I drew my hand up, I felt the tickly, prickly top of the wheat. I realized in the dream that I was dreaming. I looked up and off on the horizon, I saw a number of people walking in a line. I realized these people were my Spirit Guides, and I was surprised there were so many of them. In absolute joy, I jumped up and down and hollered at them, “Look! I’m lucid! I’m lucid!” I was so happy and loud that I woke myself up. Later, I learned that people will sometimes, through the use of affirmations, suggest to themselves that they will be lucid in a dream if they can clap their hands, as if the actual act of clapping is going to force a state of lucidity to the surface.
As a psychic channel, I know that you can visit and talk to folks who have passed on in the dream state. I’ve also had pets who have passed come back to visit with me. I’m not always lucid, so when I wake up and remember the dream, I always say thank you to them for coming to visit.
I have a psychic girlfriend my age (I’m 70), and she's had the same dream since she was a little girl. It’s like a daytime soap opera. The same characters have the same drama: power struggles, love stories, political intrigue, and all the rest of what happens in a normal soap opera. They all live under the sea. It’s beautiful, and this is how her psychicness in the dream state has manifested her entire life. Of course, just like in a soap opera, there are lots of new characters turning up over time. I suppose they get married and have children who grow up too.
My dream is to eventually be able to read and write on the astral, as some people call it. I'd like to be able to practice speaking the languages I am learning. I'd love to be able to sing and to draw in my dreams.
There is another reason to record your dreams, and that is to analyze them. I’ve never been very interested in doing that, but that is an area where people specialize. There are all sorts of archetypal meanings you can assign to details in your dreams. Like a tsunami might indicate a significant change coming that might be overwhelming.
I’m more interested in visiting with friends and loved ones. I’m especially interested in having lucid dreams with them.
For instance, I have lots of dreams where my mother turns up. Many times, she’s had supporting roles in the dreams, like once she was a taxi cab driver. But the one time I was lucid, the dream started as a normal, wonky dream. There was a swimming pool in a darkened room. There was a very narrow walkway around the pool. The pool was inside a building. It was rectangular. I stood at one end, and a bust of my mother rose from the pool at the other end. I could see the water cascading from her statue, as if she were a whale rising. It began moving toward me and became her life-sized self in front of me. My mother. Not a marble bust. My mother.
That’s when I went lucid in the dream. I put my hands around her, and she hugged me, and I began crying. I think it had been a good ten years or so since she had passed on, but it was the first time I could actually feel her, to hug her and to cry because I’d missed her so.
When you begin being lucid, you dip in and out of a lucid state. That’s natural. As time goes on, as you experience more and more times of lucidity, it gets easier. It’s like learning how to drive a car. At first, you are super vigilant about all the stuff you have to be aware of in order to be a safe driver. After time passes, you automatically become a safe driver and can begin to enjoy the trip.
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