Lucid dreaming is a spiritual power (siddhi). It is the ability to realize that you are dreaming while you are still in the dream. With this ability comes an opportunity to create dreams that you want to experience by consciously choosing your dream surroundings and making other conscious choices. This can transfer into your daily life and contribute to your realization of yourself as eternal consciousness inside the “dream” of being a human being on Earth, resulting in lucid living.

Lucid dreaming is literally a virtual reality that is built into your consciousness. It is a place where you can experience things as being real. Just because it doesn’t happen on the physical plane, does not mean that it was not a valid experience for your awareness. At here-be-dreams.com, the author of the website says, “A lucid dream is as vivid and real as the ‘real’ waking life. Yet you know you’re dreaming; you can control the dream. In a lucid dream you can go anywhere, meet anyone, do anything. Anything you can imagine, you can experience as real.” Many people wish for what they do not have. Many would like a few tries at getting something right, a second chance, or to have experiences that cannot be had in the waking life human experience. At ld4all.com, the author says, “It seems that your critical, rational side is absent. The strangest things happen, and yet it is absolutely normal. In a lucid dream you don’t take that anymore. You are conscious of your environment, and of the fact that everything that happens is not real. In other words: you dream consciously. So the only difference between a normal dream and a lucid dream is that in a lucid dream you are aware that everything around you is created by your own mind.”

We spend 25-30% of our lives sleeping and dreaming. That time could be spent having experiences in which to spiritually grow and explore our consciousness. It could be put to better use if you are able to dream lucidly. You can wake up refreshed from your intense adventures at night and feel less limited in your human waking life because you know at night you can fly wherever you want instead of having to deal with physical laws of gravity, time, distance and such.

Sigmund Freud called dreams “the royal road to the unconscious.” It is a path to the deepest parts of yourself, and spiritual experiences can be had. In the West, lucid dreaming is considered recreational, while Buddhist, Taoists and Hindus believe that lucid dreaming serves spiritual purposes. Aborigines believe that dreaming is happening all the time and that even in waking life we are immersed in Dreamtime. They believe it is important to be lucid both during daily life and during dreams. This is a person who is self-realized, in Aboriginal beliefs.

It is not as hard as some people might think it is to develop the ability to have lucid dreams. It mostly just takes a methodical training of the consciousness to be observant of anything out of the ordinary or things that can trigger a lucid dream. You can program yourself during your waking hours to look for “dreamsigns.” By practicing the act of waking up in a dream during your waking life, this will transfer into your dreaming consciousness, and you will trigger yourself to “wake up” in the dream.

The official name for a person who is able to dream lucidly is the word “oneironaut,” which means “explorer of the dream world.” Oneiros was the Greek god of dreams, and this is the root for this word. Early dream adventurers were called oneironauts. There were also ancient followers who worked diligently to achieve the ability to recall and experience dreams. They would petition the Greek god Oneiros when answers in life were needed through dreams.

Lucid dreaming is your gift to yourself. You can achieve this spiritual power with a bit of focus, determination and persistence. In this course you will learn how to develop the ability to dream lucidly, use these dreams for spiritual growth and self inquiry, and teach others to do the same.

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