It occurred to me today while in light meditation what dream signs are trying to accomplish and what might be a better perspective from which to view our attempts at gaining lucidity naturally.
A dream sign is an object or event that your conscious mind should perceive as odd or just out of place while in a dream. And in recognizing this anomaly, you gain lucidity. But I have realized that what we should be doing is coming at gaining lucidity from a slightly different angle, not to imply that dream signs aren't important.
We are looking for these odd objects or events that conflict with our waking life experience and hoping to transfer that WL understanding to the dream state. I think what we should be doing is creating greater 'control of thought' in our daily life so these anomalies, such as jump cuts and strangely juxtaposed objects, stand out as out of place as a natural response to our heightened, more precise thought process and awareness. I believe that this is why practices such as meditation and mindfulness and awareness training build a natural lucid dreaming mindset.
If we stop uncontrollably reminiscing about the past and falling unawares into ruminations about the future, mindless daydreaming in other words, we will quite naturally translate that new mental control into the dream state and recognize those anomalies without having to resort to crossing our fingers and hoping to recognize a dream sign.
It doesn't mean you don't think about the past or plan into the future. You just do it with control, with your directed mind. It's the wandering mind that is our enemy, if you want to call it such. If your mind flits about haphazardly, going from daydream to daydream, in waking life, how can you expect it to notice when it flits about in your dreams and call it odd? It's through the focused attention of meditation and other practices that we can gain true control of our dream life as well as our waking.
This is what being in the 'Now' is all about: control of our mind in every state that we find ourselves.
Just a few thoughts I wanted to share. Good dreaming.
A dream sign is an object or event that your conscious mind should perceive as odd or just out of place while in a dream. And in recognizing this anomaly, you gain lucidity. But I have realized that what we should be doing is coming at gaining lucidity from a slightly different angle, not to imply that dream signs aren't important.
We are looking for these odd objects or events that conflict with our waking life experience and hoping to transfer that WL understanding to the dream state. I think what we should be doing is creating greater 'control of thought' in our daily life so these anomalies, such as jump cuts and strangely juxtaposed objects, stand out as out of place as a natural response to our heightened, more precise thought process and awareness. I believe that this is why practices such as meditation and mindfulness and awareness training build a natural lucid dreaming mindset.
If we stop uncontrollably reminiscing about the past and falling unawares into ruminations about the future, mindless daydreaming in other words, we will quite naturally translate that new mental control into the dream state and recognize those anomalies without having to resort to crossing our fingers and hoping to recognize a dream sign.
It doesn't mean you don't think about the past or plan into the future. You just do it with control, with your directed mind. It's the wandering mind that is our enemy, if you want to call it such. If your mind flits about haphazardly, going from daydream to daydream, in waking life, how can you expect it to notice when it flits about in your dreams and call it odd? It's through the focused attention of meditation and other practices that we can gain true control of our dream life as well as our waking.
This is what being in the 'Now' is all about: control of our mind in every state that we find ourselves.
Just a few thoughts I wanted to share. Good dreaming.
via Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views - Attaining Lucidity http://ift.tt/1SkFA1C
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