Building castles in the air

Usage examples of dreaming.

For the past four hundred years or so, dreams and dreaming have had a very bad reputation among Western intellectuals.

The association of this phenomenon with dreaming in human beings is so clear that it is now generally accepted that all mammals and marsupials dream.

In this spirit, here is a partial list of some of the universal threads of meaning and significance that seem to be woven into the process of dreaming itself.

Like the list of universal elements present in the structure of dreams and dreaming in the previous chapter, this list is also partial.

God and reconciled utterly and completely in the One when the dreaming demiurge awakens.

When we recognize in the midst of the dream that we are dreaming, one of the awarenesses that surfaces in consciousness is that all we behold is a mirror in which our own interior being is reflected in metaphoric form.

The subjective experience of lucid dreaming is so symbolically resonant with ancient Asian religious conceptions of how God creates the universe that the cultivation of lucid dreaming has been a religious and meditative discipline since before Patanjali first wrote down the oral poems of instruction in yoga meditation around 800 B.

It is this part of the total psychic being which experiences dreams while alive, and this part which goes right on dreaming after death.

I would attempt to incubate lucid dreaming with the focus of attention that I would fly.

Since I know that I am dreaming, I know that no physical harm or pain will come to me no matter what I do.

I recover my lucidity and remind myself that I am dreaming and will come to no harm.

In the Hindu-Buddhist and Taoist traditions, lucid dreaming has been cultivated for religious reasons for more than twenty-five hundred years.

I have read which have enriched both waking and dreaming life the most have also been drawn from these distinctly complementary categories.

A selection of the Catholic Book Club, this examination of dreams and dreaming from the point of view of Catholic Church history and current dogma is very interesting.

A fascinating overview of visualization treating dreams and dreaming along with healing techniques, meditation, etc.