Dream Yoga (Part 3)

All of us dream whether we remember dreaming or not. We dream as infants and continue dreaming until we die. Every night we enter an unknown world. We may seem to be our ordinary selves or someone completely different. We meet people whom we know or don't know, who are living or dead. We fly, encounter non-human beings, have blissful experiences, laugh, weep, and are terrified, exalted, or transformed. Yet we generally pay these extraordinary experiences little attention. Many Westerners who approach the teachings do so with ideas about dream based in psychological theory; subsequently, when they become more interested in using dream in their spiritual life, they usually focus on the content and meaning of dreams. Rarely is the nature of dreaming itself investigated. When it is, the investigation leads to the mysterious processes that underlie the whole of our existence, not only our dreaming life.

The first step in dream practice is quite simple: one must recognize the great potential that dream holds for the spiritual journey. Normally the dream is thought to be 'unreal', as opposed to 'real' waking life. But there is nothing more real than dream. This statement only makes sense once it is understood that normal waking life is as unreal as dream, and in exactly the same way. Then it can be understood that dream yoga applies to all experience, to the dreams of the day as well as the dreams of the night.

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  1. RamonaSeptember 10, 2022 at 2:39 PM

    II would like to learn to request a sleeping dream experience while in my waking state. If everything is possible in our unconscious dream state - it would be amazing to be able to direct the content of ones dream.!The goal would be to set oneself up for learning/experience at the deepest unrestricted level.sleeping dream eg. Direct oneself to dream about communicating with loved ones who have passed - especially when this directive seems impossible due to mind restraints in the waking life.

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