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Have you ever noticed that you never remember the beginning of a dream? When you're dreaming, you never stop and think, "How did I get here?" You just take it for granted that this is just the way it is. This is reality. It's much like the waking life in that before the age of three, we don't really remember much at all. One day we just arrived into our "dream of life," not knowing really why we're here.
When you dream, your subtle or ethereal body becomes conscious, and the physical body falls into a state of slumber. During the dream state, you perceive and create our world simultaneously. You do it so seamlessly that your mind doesn't even know that you're doing it.
For the spiritually enlightened, what we call our life is really nothing more than a dream from the perspective of our eternal Self. The phenomenon known as lucid dreaming is a dream state "self realization" where you wake up inside the dream. You become lucid to the truth that you are, in fact, dreaming, and when this happens, you become empowered by this enlightenment. Any fears or anxieties instantly dissolve when you are made aware of this truth. While lucid dreaming, because you know that it's just a dream, you also know that you cannot die, cannot be harmed, cannot suffer--as long as you remain lucid. You become invulnerable.
When dreaming, the subconscious mind is motivated by emotion not reason. Because we perceive and create at the same time, our emotions become extremely powerful. If our waking life is stressful or problematic, the dream life will reflect this by playing it out on the dream stage. It will do this by communicating to us subtly, metaphorically, in an attempt to "wake us up" to the truth that it is we who are causing the problems to begin with. If we are fearful or stressed in our waking life, our dream life will reflect this, and will create stressful scenarios, i.e. "nightmares" that mirror our waking life.
Unfortunately, our species is so accustomed to living a nightmarish life in the waking state that we have become desensitized to the reality that we are indeed suffering at all. The nightmares then serve as efforts to wake us up to the truth that something in our waking life needs to shift, so that we can become lucid and conscious beings.
Practicing lucid dreaming is a powerful tool for becoming lucid or present during your waking life. You do this by programming your subconscious with "suggestion" to awaken during the dream state. The 2010 movie, "Inception," is a wonderful depiction of the power of lucid dreaming. In it, a stratum of dreams are intricately woven together to demonstrate that there is no limit to how many dimensions of reality your consciousness is capable of pervading. There is a deep underlying spiritual truth to this concept that we are not beings of "crude matter" but beings of Spirit, simultaneously living in a variety of planes or "realities" that reflect specific levels or frequencies of Life. Physics calls it "the multiverse."
When you dream, your subtle or ethereal body becomes conscious, and the physical body falls into a state of slumber. During the dream state, you perceive and create our world simultaneously. You do it so seamlessly that your mind doesn't even know that you're doing it.
For the spiritually enlightened, what we call our life is really nothing more than a dream from the perspective of our eternal Self. The phenomenon known as lucid dreaming is a dream state "self realization" where you wake up inside the dream. You become lucid to the truth that you are, in fact, dreaming, and when this happens, you become empowered by this enlightenment. Any fears or anxieties instantly dissolve when you are made aware of this truth. While lucid dreaming, because you know that it's just a dream, you also know that you cannot die, cannot be harmed, cannot suffer--as long as you remain lucid. You become invulnerable.
When dreaming, the subconscious mind is motivated by emotion not reason. Because we perceive and create at the same time, our emotions become extremely powerful. If our waking life is stressful or problematic, the dream life will reflect this by playing it out on the dream stage. It will do this by communicating to us subtly, metaphorically, in an attempt to "wake us up" to the truth that it is we who are causing the problems to begin with. If we are fearful or stressed in our waking life, our dream life will reflect this, and will create stressful scenarios, i.e. "nightmares" that mirror our waking life.
Unfortunately, our species is so accustomed to living a nightmarish life in the waking state that we have become desensitized to the reality that we are indeed suffering at all. The nightmares then serve as efforts to wake us up to the truth that something in our waking life needs to shift, so that we can become lucid and conscious beings.
Practicing lucid dreaming is a powerful tool for becoming lucid or present during your waking life. You do this by programming your subconscious with "suggestion" to awaken during the dream state. The 2010 movie, "Inception," is a wonderful depiction of the power of lucid dreaming. In it, a stratum of dreams are intricately woven together to demonstrate that there is no limit to how many dimensions of reality your consciousness is capable of pervading. There is a deep underlying spiritual truth to this concept that we are not beings of "crude matter" but beings of Spirit, simultaneously living in a variety of planes or "realities" that reflect specific levels or frequencies of Life. Physics calls it "the multiverse."
About the Author:
Spiritual Life Coach, Jason Lincoln Jeffers, is the founder of The Art of Transformation, a company devoted to teaching Self Realization to the masses. His Spiritual Life Coaching practice uniquely synthesizes spiritual wisdom with ego transcendence, holistic health, life path astrology, shadow & pain-body work, heart-based intention, the power of presence, and the law of attraction.
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