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lucid dreaming
Jan. 18th, 2002 08:16 amJust came across a link in a comment on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
essence's journal to an institute devoted to the study of lucid dreaming (http://www.lucidity.com), and also enjoyed reading their FAQ here. I've not personally devoted much energy to studying my own dreams (I seldom remember them anyway), but I have had one or two lucid dreams which I found quite exhilarating. Many of the dreams I do remember are flying dreams too, which is a lot of fun.
Last night, I had two bad dreams involving car accidents, but I have no doubt that's because I had a small accident last night in the parking lot of the supermarket (nothing major, just a slow, uncontrollable slide down a small slope that saw me glance off the side of a guardrail and scrape up the front passenger-side fender a bit). One of the dreams made me feel a bit sick to my stomach, because I had borrowed a friend's Porsche (of course) and totally wrecked (you guessed it) the front passenger-side fender in a crash. The feeling I had in the dream in the pit of my stomach as I returned the car to him felt as real as if I were awake.
At this part of the FAQ, it explores 'purposes' for lucid dreaming, and later provides resources on how to explore lucid dreaming further. I don't doubt that working with dreams could be a valuable psychotherapeutic tool for some people in certain circumstances. I tend not to see much division between the dream state and the awake state in general terms, though. True, one state is more highly constrained by certain physical laws (and also provides a means to interact directly with others), but both states are essentially constructs of the mind. There's certainly a fundamental awareness in which one can reside that exists beyond the realm of either the sleeping or wakeful states.
essence's journal to an institute devoted to the study of lucid dreaming (http://www.lucidity.com), and also enjoyed reading their FAQ here. I've not personally devoted much energy to studying my own dreams (I seldom remember them anyway), but I have had one or two lucid dreams which I found quite exhilarating. Many of the dreams I do remember are flying dreams too, which is a lot of fun.Last night, I had two bad dreams involving car accidents, but I have no doubt that's because I had a small accident last night in the parking lot of the supermarket (nothing major, just a slow, uncontrollable slide down a small slope that saw me glance off the side of a guardrail and scrape up the front passenger-side fender a bit). One of the dreams made me feel a bit sick to my stomach, because I had borrowed a friend's Porsche (of course) and totally wrecked (you guessed it) the front passenger-side fender in a crash. The feeling I had in the dream in the pit of my stomach as I returned the car to him felt as real as if I were awake.
At this part of the FAQ, it explores 'purposes' for lucid dreaming, and later provides resources on how to explore lucid dreaming further. I don't doubt that working with dreams could be a valuable psychotherapeutic tool for some people in certain circumstances. I tend not to see much division between the dream state and the awake state in general terms, though. True, one state is more highly constrained by certain physical laws (and also provides a means to interact directly with others), but both states are essentially constructs of the mind. There's certainly a fundamental awareness in which one can reside that exists beyond the realm of either the sleeping or wakeful states.
