The Tarot images are great for visualization. You don’t have to create the scenery from scratch: the surroundings, the key images, the symbols are already there. Lucid Dreaming & Visualization I’ve started my experiment with the Ace of Coins. In the Rider-Waite deck and most of its clones, it features a hedge maze in the background. Whenever I look at the card, I can’t help wondering what is inside the maze and where would it lead. Since my imagination was …
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The Layout of Dream: Tarot and Lucid Dreaming – Part 1
The Tarot deck is probably one of the most ancient and most modern tools for working with subconscious mind. Its imagery conceals numerous layers of meaning, appealing to both our subconscious and imagination. The applications of Tarot are numerous. Beside the usual card reading, Tarot are used for meditation, self-analysis, creativity, personal growth, decision making and even for dream interpretation. Tarot and dreams have much in common. They both use images and symbols to convey their messages employing our subconscious …
Dream Cartography
The cartography of dreams is another technique of dream recall. Its origin lies in practices of the ancient shamans, who used to make maps of their dreams and other worlds they visited in their visions. The technique was also explored in the works by Carlos Castaneda and is successfully used by modern dream explores for better dream recall and navigation in the dream world. The difference between dream cartography and keeping a dream journal is that cartography is focused on …
Virtual Reality: Lucid Dreaming & Video Games
I can’t say I’m a hardcore gamer, but I like good games with an interesting story and unique atmosphere. So yes, I do spend weekends shooting monsters or solving puzzles. When I look out of the window, wondering where the day has gone, I begin to suspect there is much more in common between games and dreams than meets the eye. I’ve spent the entire day at home, in front of my computer, and yet it feels like I was …
Dream Control: Mastering Dream Skills
There is a wide range of skills we can learn as dreamers. Some of them are useful for dream exploration and facilitate our interaction with the world of dreams. Some of them are just fun. None of them is a part of our usual experience (without paranormal abilities, anyway). Although anything is possible in dreams, dream control is not so easy to achieve. It needs a lot of effort and concentration. However, it can be mastered just like any other …
How to Lucid Dream: Prolonging Lucidity and Dream Characters
“OK, we may be dreaming, I guess.” “What do you mean ‘may be’? We are FLYING!” “Right…” It was a year ago, the longest and most exciting lucid dream I’ve ever had that switched the focus of my dream research from mere exploration of my Dreamland to its “local population” – the dream characters. Dream Characters and Dreamers I often see on forums that people treat dream characters as”not real” or mere subjects for experiments. Some dreamers don’t pay attention …
“The Seedlings of Realities”: Lucid Dreaming and Creativity
Dreams are a great source of ideas and inspiration. They let us live through emotions and experiences we may never have otherwise as well as engage in an art we’ve never tried before. We can be painters, singers, dances, poets, composers without ever having held a brush in our hands or knowing anything about music. And this experience is as real as any waking experience. Numerous works of art we still admire were inspired by dreams, such as works of …
5 Lucid Dreaming Tips from The Matrix; “Follow the White Rabbit”
Movie and fiction can be a good source of dreaming techniques even if lucid dreaming is not the subject. The Matrix is a great movie in this respect: the virtual reality of the Matrix is very much like the dream reality and, awakening being the central theme, we can pick up some useful tips. Tip 1 Wake up, Neo To become lucid in a dream you have to at least suspect that you may be dreaming. Unfortunately, our mind is not trained to …
Lucid Dreaming for Beginners ~ Part 2 (Video)
Once you have watched Lucid Dreaming Part 1 and gone through all the steps, done all the preparation, you are ready for the next level. A quick recap: Have you kept a Dream Diary? Have you written down enough keywords? Have you identified you Dream Signs? If the answer is yes to all these question continue watching the video below. If the answer is ‘no’ to any of these questions, we highly recommend you first complete these first critical steps …
How to Lucid Dream
There are many techniques and methods that you can use for inducing lucid dreams, but there is an underlying process behind most, if not all of them. I have broken this underlying process down into six basic steps to serve as a foundation for your lucid dream training. Once you absorb these steps and start following them, it is only a matter of time before you have your first lucid dream. Statistically, the time it takes for someone to have …
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