Developing Dream Flexibility Through Dream Yoga
Did you ever realize that you were dreaming while you were in a dream? If so, then you've encountered a conscious dream (lucid dreaming).
Lucid dreaming is the ability to be aware that you are dreaming and to take advantage of the dream.
It's like having a superpower that can open the gateway to limitless possibilities.
Developing Flexibility in Dreaming
The first step in developing flexibility in a dream, as in waking, is to recognize the potential for doing so. Once you recognize this potential, the mind incorporates it into its potential.
It makes you capable of experiencing things that you couldn't even conceptualize before. Once lucidity is attained, the teachings propose a variety of actions to be taken within dreams.
The mind is like a laptop or computer that is a lot of fun to explore. The attention goes to something, and it's like clicking on an icon; suddenly, a train of thought and images appear.
Sometimes we have two windows open, as when we are talking to someone and also thinking about something else. In a dream, we can divide into different, simultaneously existing dream bodies.
Exploring New Possibilities in Dreams
The teachings offer us novel ideas, potentials, and the necessary means to achieve them. Now, it is our responsibility to actualize them both in our dreams and daily reality.
For example, the teachings speak about the concept of multiplying objects within a lucid dream. Suppose we are viewing three flowers in a lucid dream. Because we are aware of being in a dream and the flexibility of a dream, if we wish, we can make a hundred flowers, a thousand flowers, or even a rain of flowers. But before anything else, we must acknowledge the potential.
Research on dreams in the West has found that people can improve skills by practicing them in dreams. By utilizing our dreams, we can reduce the negative aspects and amplify the positive ones. Learn more about the miraculous benefits of lucid dreaming.
It changes our habitual ways of being in the world. It is not necessary to limit this to just acquiring skills that are beneficial for our everyday existence. But can also be applied at the most profound levels of the spiritual life.
Eleven categories of experience are identified in The Mother Tantra, where the mind is commonly confined by appearances. All these categories must be acknowledged, questioned, and altered. The principle behind each category remains the same. It is recommended to contemplate on each category to initiate the potential for transformation in one's mind.
Becoming Free from Limits
Lucid dreaming allows us to become free from the limits we place on ourselves in our waking lives. We can shrink down to the size of an insect or grow to the size of a mountain in our dreams.
We can take a big problem and make it small or take a small, beautiful flower and make it as large as the sun.
In just a few seconds of a dream, many things can be accomplished because you are entirely in your mind. Decelerate an experience to the extent that each instant becomes an entire universe. Traverse a hundred destinations within a single minute. The sole limitations in a reverie are those confined within your own imagination.
The Importance of Recognizing Change
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Conclusion:
As Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche once said, "The spiritual path is not a linear process, but a process of unfolding our inherent potential."