Llewellyn's Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming by Clare R. Johnson

Author:Clare R. Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: llewellyn's complete books, llewellyns complete book of lucid dreaming, complete book of lucid dreaming, lucid dreaming, astral projection, what is lucid dreaming, astral travel, llewellyn's complete book series
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2017-08-15T14:35:24+00:00

From Lucid Imaging to Lucid Dreaming

All of the options available in Lucid Imaging are also available to the lucid dreamer while the nightmare is actually happening.

In fact, doing the Lucid Imaging Nightmare Solution is great practice for lucid dreaming, as it helps us to rehearse possible actions and reactions that we can then put into practice in the dream state. If we practise power gestures—such as the protective shield where we push our arms outwards, upwards, and sideways to increase the protective light surrounding our dream body—we give these visualisations an extra kick, as we link them to the body. Of course, we may also earn ourselves an extra kick from our bed partner if we enthusiastically create a shield while lying in bed next to them, so it might be best to practise this mentally or standing up.

A lucid dreamer can “rewind the script” in the same way as in Lucid Imaging, and change his mind about how he wants to resolve his nightmare. A forty-year-old man shared this lucid dream with psychotherapist Scott Sparrow:

I am in a cabin alone, and the door opens. Three figures enter and stand abreast just inside the doorway: Dracula, Werewolf and Frankenstein. I am alarmed, but the strangeness of the event convinces me that I must be dreaming. Realizing that they are only a dream, and that I can make them go away, I say, “You are only a dream. Go away!” They disappear immediately.

Alone again, I think to myself, “Maybe I should have surrounded myself with light instead.” So I call out to them to return. The door opens again, and they come back in. I say to myself, “I surround myself with light.” Instantly, a pinkish white glow envelops me. As for the figures, I can barely see them through the bright haze. Then I think, “Maybe I should invite them into the light.” So I say, “Please come into the light.” As they walk forward, the light fills me, and I experience an overwhelming sense of ecstatic love. Following the dream, I remained in a blissful state for several days.179

Becoming lucid in a dream and asking nightmare figures what they want from you, or if they have a message for you, can be revealing. A dream question can also be called out to the dream sky or to any dream object—it doesn’t have to be a person or animal. Paul Tholey was a pioneer of lucid dream research. He reports the following dream of a young woman who had recurring nightmares and was fearful in her waking life. When she next became lucid in a nightmare, she remembered Tholey’s suggestion to ask threatening dream figures what they want of her, and bravely waited for these figures to show up so that she could do just that:

A giant of a man with a cold blue face and glowing eyes comes towards me. I summon all my courage and my fear and demand as nastily as I can: “What are you doing

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