It is noticed by researchers that lucid dreaming is most often triggered by nightmares. A lot of people had their first lucid experience in a nightmare, when threatened or facing an uncomfortable situation. The thought of circumstances being too horrible to be real often induces a lucidity, at least for a brief period enough to make a dream more pleasant. Nightmare is a sign of disorder, telling us that something is wrong even if we are unaware of it. Stress …
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The Layout of Dream: Tarot and Lucid Dreaming – Part 2
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 …
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 …
Lucid Dreaming Techniques: of Cats and Catnaps
How often do we have to get up early for work or school? The annoying alarms jerk us out of sleep in the most ungentle way. Instead of a morning meditation we go straight for our morning routine and forget our dreams even before we have fully woke up. You are lucky if you are a morning person; but for a night owl like me it’s a disaster. There was a period in my life when I had to wake …
Lucid Dreaming and Dream Analysis
Since ancient times, people sought guidance in dreams. Not only were dreams a way to foretell the future but also a source of inspiration and spiritual revelation. Buddhist teachers see dreams as a means of exploring your inner self, a source of practices and teachings, a place where your guardians would appear to help you to solve the problems that block your way to self-discovery and self-improvement Dream analysis helps you to build the bridge that connects you with your …
Lucid Dreaming Techniques: Visualization
Visualization is a very useful exercise that helps you to achieve mind discipline and better control of the imaginary surroundings, which will result in better awareness and control over your dreams. To make it easier, the process can be divided into the following step: Step 1: Silence Find a quite place. You can use some music for meditation but it can be distractive. A quiet environment works best for visualization. Sit comfortably or lie down. Close your eyes and clear …
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