{"id":25725,"date":"2016-03-24T00:08:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T04:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=25725"},"modified":"2016-04-26T22:50:06","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T02:50:06","slug":"lucid-dreaming-synchronicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themysticalunderground.com\/?p=25725","title":{"rendered":"Lucid Dreaming & Synchronicity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently noticed a post on a closed FB synchronicity page that linked lucid dreaming with synchronicity. That caught my attention because I was just about to put together material for a workshop class that relates to lucid dreaming. It’s called Dream and Sleep Yoga, and is about meditation methods and body movements to help achieve the lucid dream state directly from conscious conscious awareness. In other words, programming a lucid dream and moving right into it after falling asleep.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So here was someone – Jo – connecting lucid dreaming with synchronicity. That’s something I had to think about.<\/p>\n

Here’s what she wrote: “Lucid dreaming, where consciousness becomes self aware, is likened to synchronicity in ‘waking state’, in that awareness is connected to our higher selves\/higher purpose for a flicker of a moment. Just like Lucid dreaming, our consciousness flickers in and out of existence, in both waking\/sleep state, due to the dominant nature of ego. To dream is not necessarily to lose the ‘ego’, to lucid dream is.”<\/p>\n

I liked the sentiment, but didn’t agree with everything she said.<\/p>\n

For most lucid dreamers, connecting with the inner self or true self is an ideal and a work-in-progress, rather than a given. In other words, in lucid dreaming – especially for beginning lucid dreamers who move beyond that ‘flicker of lucidity’ –\u00a0 the ego is alive and well. Once they can maintain control of the lucid state, they might think they own the entire dream scenario, as if it were private real estate, and can manipulate other dream characters at will.<\/p>\n

In other words, at first it seems the dream is a total creation of the conscious mind. Some lucid dreamers fly around and play god, but eventually they discover to their astonishment that some dream characters seem to have conscious awareness and act contrary to the intent of the lucid dreamer. These lucid dreamers discover that they don’t control the entire dream scenario, that there’s a larger dream underlying reality. At that point, the lucid dreamer connects to the true self, which swims in those deeper waters of the unconscious, and surfaces from time to time as we experience synchronicity.<\/p>\n

Jo also wrote: “By practicing living in the present, we engage the same technique as we do when we lucid dream. Consciousness becomes self aware, we quiet the mind of the ego, which is firmly placed in past and future.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Good advice. Lucid dreaming takes place in the forever present. Now.<\/p>\n

I recommend Robert Waggoner’s book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, and also for an even more esoteric approach: The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep, by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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