Hello! This is Cynthia Sue Larson with RealityShifters.com
I'm here today to talk to you about
sleep learning with lucid dreaming.
If you've seen that movie, "Inception," that came out the other year,
then you might be aware of the concept in science fiction of
planting
an idea or a suggestion,
or obtaining information
through dreams in which the dreamer is awake.
It's a little bit complicated to get into that story plot, but
if you saw that movie and felt a little bit of apprehension about the
ethics involved,
then I'm right there with you,
because obviously
it's important when we're working
with
energy
and with acknowledging other people
to always allow for
free choice
with other individuals.
But getting back on the subject of lucid dreaming, there is some amazing
information that came out of Yale University recently in which
the researchers there found that people
benefit tremendously
from lucid dreaming in terms of learning activities
that they can then
succeed at
with a much greater
track record and
much more
confidence and success in every
measurable form
afterward.
That part is not terribly surprising for anybody that's ever
worked with hypnosis or
has had lucid dreams. The thing that I thought was especially interesting about this
study is that
that anybody who had a history of lucid dreaming
seems to be a faster learner in general
and in my personal life, I certainly have found that to be
helpful. The fact that
sometimes I wake up within dreams, which is what the lucid experience is
all about.
Lucidity
being basically the
awareness
that when you're in a dream
that that is a dream.
And then as soon as that
awareness
becomes manifest in a person,
it is easier to start playing with the
parameters.
I'd like to share with you an example of what I mean from my book, "Karen
Kimball and the Dream Weaver's Web."
This is a story in which
the title character, Karen Kimball
is...
I'll just read you
this passage, but she is just taking a nap...
she's falling asleep.
She's climbed into
a tree where she likes to be.
And it says, "Karen felt like she was both wide awake, and
yet also asleep at the same time.
Her body was nestled snugly
in the branches of the mulberry tree.
And even though her eyes were closed,
She could see clouds in the sky
and hear
a warm summer breeze
rustling the mulberry's leaves.
She felt the beating of her heart,
and noticed that the vibrations that had passed through every cell in her body left
her with a tingling sensation.
Her left hand
was still resting inside the tree,
rubbing the rounded place where the branch met the trunk.
'How amazing it is to feel the inside
of a book and a tree...
and how very peculiar,' Karen thought to herself.
She gently placed her right hand inside her book and once again
felt the varying density and texture of the cover, pages,
and bookmark."
So if you haven't yet had a lucid dream, then
you've got a lot to look forward to, because in those kind of dreams you can fly
and
be aware that you're in the dream, and just exploring.
You can just
float up above things and bump into the ceiling and
rise up and out.
And in this book, "Karen Kimball and the Dream Weaver's Web," Karen has a lot of fun with that,
and goes on to solve a mystery.
But what I'd like you to think about in
this month's
issue of RealityShifters and also with this video, is to think about how
good your life can get when you're aware of the fact that even when you're awake you might be
dreaming.
This is actually one of
tips that you can use to have a lucid dream
when you're asleep.
It's just get into the practice of recognizing,
"This might be a dream right now,"
and find some way
that you can identify
the fact that you're awake right now, and develop
a practice of being more mindful of every moment in your awareness and your life.
To me, this is one of the key aspects
to getting into a reality shifting mindset.
Where you get that fluidity and that
conversation and dialogue and
fun
exchange of energy and
the interchange of moving through realities
that I talk about so often with reality shifting.
So until next time,
keep asking, "How good can it get?"
This is Cynthia Sue Larson
with RealityShifters.