Lucid Dreaming

A lot has been said about lucid dreaming. Many people cultivate lucid dreaming and claim that great benefits can be gained from it. I have tried doing it a few times but I just never got the hang of it. What I mean is that it just happens when it happens. I don't really consciously set out to do it. I figure when my subconscious needs me to come in and do things in my dreams it would just happen.

Many people put stock in dreams especially ones that happen early in the morning before they wake up. They say it is an omen or portent of something about to happen or is happening somewhere else. The fact of the matter is that it does not really happen all that often so it is difficult to draw conslusions. Maybe we should just let them happen when they happen and not think too much about it. Omens and portents are not really my cup of tea. I would prefer my dreams to be something that I would want to happen someday, something that I want and desire so much that I think about it all the time.

There are many books on lucid dreaming and I have read a number of them. I certainly think that more research should be conducted on this very fascinating facet of life. Dreams mean a lot to a lot of people and I am sure that however they view dreams and dreaming, there is a great deal of truth in how they see it. It is not really so easy to simplify dreams and the people who dream them.

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Why do we dash other people's dreams?

Walter Mitty lived in the dream world and it was real to him but it bothered a lot of people. We all know somebody like that, who always had something more to say about his life and what he has done and when we find out about the embellishment we begin to think a little differently about him. The Baron von Munchausen lived a life of adventure and a syndrome was named after him, the Munchausen syndrome where the patient fakes a disorder or illness in order to be the center of attention. Are all of these things distortions of dreams?

A child with a vivid imagination is admonished by his mother to "keep both feet on the ground", as if his imagination or dreaming is somehow unhealthy or undesirable. When a little girl acts and thinks like a princess and others think that she has airs and triy to bring her down to earth. Is this adverse reaction to dreaming or having a daream-life a natural reaction to keep people from rising above them? Is dreaming bad? Should it happen only when one is asleep? Can not one person have waking dreams where the external reality is merged with imagination and perhaps making life a little more interesting, enjoyable and livable?

Perhaps there is a natural fear of the mind and what it is capable of. The ancient Indian philosophers have called the expressed universe as the Dream of Brahma where all created beings are merely figments of the imagination of the Divine Dreamer. His dream has the magical quality of becoming real in the expressed universe. Do we perhaps share in that divine pastime and let our minds run wild and free in that indulgence we know as Dreaming? Could that be so bad that people who are firmly rooted on the ground and the hard reality that they live in, desire to dash and bash one's hopes and dreams in? This can be observed time and again. Jesus Christ was brutally killed and crucified for dreaming that he was the son of God.

The great Muslim mystic Imadedin Nasimi suffered the same fate at the hands of Muslim Fundamentalists who could not share his dream of divinity. The same fate befell Bahaullah, the mystic of the Baha'i faith. Dreams can be deadly.

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