By Nancy Blue
Dreaming was thought by Native Americans, and is still thought by those groups and tribes who are connected with nature, to be a source for conquering fear, or gaining courage, insight, love and success. Every morning Native American families would sit around a circle or breakfast table and share their dreams.
If children had scary dreams, elders would advise them to recall the dreams before going to sleep that night, and stand up to them.
the scary people or situations in their dreams. This was easy to do, as the elders pointed out, "It's only a dream"so you can't be harmed.
It worked well, and the children learned courage in their dreams. Even better, they found that it carried over into their waking lives. The elders also taught children how to have lucid dreams, one of the most powerful and under-touted tools for personal and spiritual growth. Lucid dreams are those in which you control what happens. Unlike normal dreaming, you achieve the skill to know you are dreaming-while you are dreaming; whereas, in normal dreaming, the instant you gain awareness of the dream, you wake up.
It is not that difficult to learn lucid dreaming. Start by telling yourself just before you go to sleep, "Tonight I will dream about ----." And, you get to fill in the blank. Then say, "Tonight I will do as I please in my dreams, because I will be aware that it's only a dream." That is, normal human limitations won't apply. You can decide before going to sleep that you want to fly, meet the President, or have the husband or wife of your dreams. You may even stage the wedding or honeymoon (whether the person is real or imagined).
Anything you'd like to do, love to do, be thrilled and ecstatic about doing, you can do in a lucid dream.
Once you become lucid while asleep, you will remember what you planned to do in the dream. At that point, your chosen dream will begin. If you wanted to meet (or....) George Clooney or Nicole Kidman, you would. If you wanted to give a speech flawlessly to a crowd of hundreds, you would. Sounds fun, right? But its benefits go far beyond merely enjoying your dreams-as if that weren't enough. Once you do something in your dreams, you know that you are competent, that you can do it in your waking life too.
How can that be? Isn't that oversimplifying? No, it is not, because things you do in a dream are orchestrated by you alone-there is no one else doing the dreaming for you. The intellect, feelings, skills and personality all belong to you. If you did something while dreaming that seemed impossible before, that means you had the ability all along, but it never entered your consciousness.
When you wake up, write down what you did in the dream.This advice is often given, and it's good advice. Otherwise you may forget that you can be poised around the most appealing single man or women you know, or that you can give a speech and enjoy it. Or make it to the next level in your athletic endeavors.
By the way, some people find that they can have lucid dreams more easily during a nap than at night. So...how about that nap?
If children had scary dreams, elders would advise them to recall the dreams before going to sleep that night, and stand up to them.
the scary people or situations in their dreams. This was easy to do, as the elders pointed out, "It's only a dream"so you can't be harmed.
It worked well, and the children learned courage in their dreams. Even better, they found that it carried over into their waking lives. The elders also taught children how to have lucid dreams, one of the most powerful and under-touted tools for personal and spiritual growth. Lucid dreams are those in which you control what happens. Unlike normal dreaming, you achieve the skill to know you are dreaming-while you are dreaming; whereas, in normal dreaming, the instant you gain awareness of the dream, you wake up.
It is not that difficult to learn lucid dreaming. Start by telling yourself just before you go to sleep, "Tonight I will dream about ----." And, you get to fill in the blank. Then say, "Tonight I will do as I please in my dreams, because I will be aware that it's only a dream." That is, normal human limitations won't apply. You can decide before going to sleep that you want to fly, meet the President, or have the husband or wife of your dreams. You may even stage the wedding or honeymoon (whether the person is real or imagined).
Anything you'd like to do, love to do, be thrilled and ecstatic about doing, you can do in a lucid dream.
- First, you must write, say, or think-clearly and specifically-about what you want to happen in your dream, just before you fall asleep.
- Next you affirm, "Tonight I will have a lucid dream." And as you say it, you must believe what you say.
Once you become lucid while asleep, you will remember what you planned to do in the dream. At that point, your chosen dream will begin. If you wanted to meet (or....) George Clooney or Nicole Kidman, you would. If you wanted to give a speech flawlessly to a crowd of hundreds, you would. Sounds fun, right? But its benefits go far beyond merely enjoying your dreams-as if that weren't enough. Once you do something in your dreams, you know that you are competent, that you can do it in your waking life too.
How can that be? Isn't that oversimplifying? No, it is not, because things you do in a dream are orchestrated by you alone-there is no one else doing the dreaming for you. The intellect, feelings, skills and personality all belong to you. If you did something while dreaming that seemed impossible before, that means you had the ability all along, but it never entered your consciousness.
When you wake up, write down what you did in the dream.This advice is often given, and it's good advice. Otherwise you may forget that you can be poised around the most appealing single man or women you know, or that you can give a speech and enjoy it. Or make it to the next level in your athletic endeavors.
By the way, some people find that they can have lucid dreams more easily during a nap than at night. So...how about that nap?
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