What's Behind Our Dreams?

Have you ever wondered who is directing your dreams? What intelligence is behind the nightly panaroma of drama and storyline? You can find this out for yourself in a process called lucid dreaming. You can learn to be awake during your dream state, to have control over what happens in the dream – even to conduct experiments in your dreams.

This has all kinds of interesting possibilities. You can choose to meet celebrities or dead relatives in your dreams. You can travel the world or visit other planets and dimensions. You can meet friends in your dreams, and compare notes the next day. Anything is possible. A great deal of research has been committed toward discovering the endless possibilities of lucid dreaming – including doing healing work in that state. You can learn more at http://www.ld4all.com/, http://www.lucidity.com/, and http://www.dreaminglucid.com/, among others.

More importantly though, you can use lucid dreaming to achieve enlightenment. The Tibetan dream yogis who specialize in lucid dream training call this enlightened state the “clear light of seeing”. This is the state from which all manifestations arise. It’s where everything is before it becomes anything.

Spiritual guru, Adyashanti, tells us to listen to the silence behind everything. This also pertains to the concept of looking behind our dreams to experience the loving intelligence operative there.

In our waking life, we’re preoccupied with our interactions with people, events, and things. Tibetan yogis consider this awake state to be a dream, and scientific studies show that our brains don’t know the difference between the “waking” state and the “dream” state. These yogis would say that we need to wake up from both in order to experience life as it really is.

In the lucid dream, after mastering our ability to interact with dream people, events, and things, we can transcend all of them. We can allow all manifestations – including our own body, ego, and mind – to dissolve into the clear light of seeing. In that light, there is no identity to uphold, nothing to interact with, nothing to fear or fix. There is only that peaceful light and a sense of being one with it.

Isn’t it wonderful that we can use that third of our lives spent sleeping actually experiencing enlightenment?

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Unfettered World

why would you not explore this unfettered world?
nightly, I write my ticket
deciding where to go
whom to see

travelling through the many worlds
calling to me others and shouting
“Wake up! Do not lose this chance to be free!”
why forsake the magic carpet?
why deny yourself the honest dream?

to fly, to dive the depths and know the highest peak
to walk through walls and conjure objects, people
do not slumber, do not fail

it is a brave soul who wanders the night’s terrain
who dares to break the bonds of physics

and if you venture forth
and when you’ve won your battle with fear
and when you’ve learned to make the dream
why then break the dream
arrive at the clear light of seeing

be a drop of the infinite
so when death comes
it will be no stranger
for you’ve danced in her doorway before

Bonita Summers, Copyright 2010

A Poem about Lucid Dreaming

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