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Dreaming Life
I practice lucid dreaming. It’s a skill that anyone can learn. Everyone dreams. Not everyone remembers their dreams. REM sleep is as important as every other level of sleep. It’s as important as waking reality. Lucid Dreaming is an old Tibetan Monk practice.
I am reading the dream yoga book, by Andrew Holecek. It’s not a easy, straight forward read. It has many levels of understanding it. After realizing you can be lucid in a dream the next trick is essentially realizing waking life is also a dream…
There lots of ways to sort that, but let’s say for a moment, Carl Jung’s Active Imagination is a waking version of lucid dreaming, and his ‘spirit guide’ Philemon is a dream character brought into the waking state- in the same way Napoleon Hill’s ‘invisible counselors’ seemed to become more real than imagined at some point… Waking reality may be as interactive as a dream! :)
Did you have an invisible friend in childhood? Have you known someone who has? Ever watch your own kid entertaining that interaction? Notice something. In that play, you never hear the kid, the person, stop the activity and start over from scratch, re-scripting the event. That is a real time activity, with a call and response pattern that is intuitively insightful. It can be more real than…
