How To Develop The Power To
Dream
Go
to
sleep keeping the mind as
clear and uncluttered as is possible. Yoga breathing
exercises
(pranayama) or meditation techniques can help achieve this. It is
desirable to
completely relax mind and body to create the
receptive mood required
for dreams to appear as realities, or as true explanations of past or
future
events.
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For
example you may dream you
are talking with a dead relative, and that relative endeavours to
extract a
promise from you, warning you of a coming distressing
event unless
you follow their advice. If you were able to grasp the inner workings
of
your higher or spiritual self, which has manifest it’s self
in the hidden meanings of this dream, you could perhaps avert a
forthcoming event or
avoid the negative consequences of taking the wrong course or path. The
voice of the relatives is only that higher self, taking a more physical
form to more
easily approach, and be understood by the mind that lives on the
earthly plane.
Use the A to Z
guide on this site for explanation
of events in your dreams
Exaggerated
Dreams
Nightmares
The
will
is suspended during sleep,
so the dream mind is much more likely to exaggerate events than the
waking
mind. This is why
Images so often appear
in dreams that are distorted or hideous, portraying darkness and
violence –
nightmares; or they are highly exciting and emotional filling
the dreamer with feelings of either fear and horror or great excitement
Opposing
Dreams
The hidden intentions of these dreams are not
always negative, but often are meant to help us make changes to our
lives in
some way. Nightmares are also often seen to be our unconscious mind
trying to
deal with fears, or warning us of events to come
The
constant mental dwelling upon the
same thing can distort your subjectivity, thus throwing your dreams in
exactly
opposite channels to the actual waking reality and often the
dreamer feels
a sense of being awake or lucid in dreams like these. On
awaking after such a contrary dream often the
dreamer experiences no feelings of recuperation of either mind or body,
it
seems that Sleep is not restful while the dreamer is held by material
ideas in
the subjective state.
Learn
about
techniques for going to sleep, directing
and remembering your dreams when you wake in the ‘Lucid
Dreaming’ e-book
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