The problem with lucid dreaming

[Robert Urbanek]

In lucid dreaming, you are aware you are dreaming and may be able to control the dream’s content and what happens to you in the dream. I have a problem with the idea of reshaping your dream.

I believe dreams are messages from the spiritual realm that, through metaphors, instruct you on changes you may need to make in your life. In exceptional cases, the dreams may speak to shamans or prophets about events that are happening or will happen in the physical world.

If you try to reshape the dream to get a better result, you are essentially ignoring the advice from the heavens; you want things to go your way. It would be like an actor telling Shakespeare, “Dude, this Romeo and Juliet is a real downer. Let me rewrite the story so it has a happy ending.”

Ignore the dream message at your peril; lucid dreaming can be Lucifer dreaming.

 

[oliverwedgwood]

Hi Robert,
Yes - I agree that dreams are guidance and healing from our higher self and guides to help us on our chosen path here on Earth, and yes, once we become lucid, then we are changing that healing and guidance.

However, I believe there is a place for lucid dreaming to converse directly with our subconscious mind, which so often 'spoils' the healing and guidance that we receive from spirit.

For example, seeing a wall in a dream (often symbolising a wall that we've built around our heart to protect ourselves from feelings) and becoming lucid means that we can bash that wall down - communicating with our subconscious, that it's okay to lower our emotional defences. This can be very powerful, and is of course used in hypnosis to do the same thing.

Lucid dreaming enables us to get a deeper understanding of our shadow parts. But there is also amazing opportunity to converse with spirit too - for example our guides and actually ask them questions.

So a balance is probably the best approach in my opinion!

Great topic - thanks for raising it!

 

[Robert Urbanek]

Hi Robert,
Yes - I agree that dreams are guidance and healing from our higher self and guides to help us on our chosen path here on Earth, and yes, once we become lucid, then we are changing that healing and guidance.

However, I believe there is a place for lucid dreaming to converse directly with our subconscious mind, which so often 'spoils' the healing and guidance that we receive from spirit.

For example, seeing a wall in a dream (often symbolising a wall that we've built around our heart to protect ourselves from feelings) and becoming lucid means that we can bash that wall down - communicating with our subconscious, that it's okay to lower our emotional defences. This can be very powerful, and is of course used in hypnosis to do the same thing.

Lucid dreaming enables us to get a deeper understanding of our shadow parts. But there is also amazing opportunity to converse with spirit too - for example our guides and actually ask them questions.

So a balance is probably the best approach in my opinion!

Great topic - thanks for raising it!

Thank you for your feedback and welcome to the site.

 

[Michael McMahon]

I believe dreams are messages from the spiritual realm that, through metaphors, instruct you on changes you may need to make in your life. In exceptional cases, the dreams may speak to shamans or prophets about events that are happening or will happen in the physical world.

I'd a non-lucid dream in which I was at my aunt's countryside holiday home but I re-interpreted it as a space ship. This is similar to how an acting studio with partial rooms can appear like a full house if the camera is never pointed towards the management area. As soon as my relatives entered I locked the door and sensed the room was in lift-off. I looked out at the night sky from the window where the stars were shooting away until everywhere was pitch dark. After a minute I sensed a horizontal impetus and worried that we were going to crash. Soon we crash landed in a jungle and got captured by armed bandits. I thought to myself that we were "off the map" in the jungle as if it were an allusion to outer space also being off the map. This might have been an encrypted message from the spiritual realm that you don't need to be an astronaut to appreciate natural wonders. The crash landing might have been a shamanic instruction to submissively accept your faith when nothing could save the space ship. When it comes to our sense of reality in a house maybe our eyes never look behind us at our brain where we can only ever observe half of a room.


"Friends was a traditional studio-based sitcom, set in Manhattan but filmed across the country in LA."
https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/where-is-friends-filmed

The back of our eyelids can resemble a space ship tent during sleep(!):