Your dreaming is gaining access to this plane of existence. This plane is no less ‘real’ than your ‘waking life,’ just different. It is based
on your own individual consciousness, and its dispositions, that you have your ‘waking life’ and its various aspects, and ‘dreams’ while you
‘sleep,’ and all of its various aspects. ‘Lucid Dreaming’ is the way your consciousness interprets going into this realm with awareness, while
you conceptualize yourself to be ‘sleeping.’ If this realm of existence appeals to you, lucid dreaming is not the end goal per se. Techniques that
conclusively confirm to you that you are dreaming have the primary purpose of allowing you to take in what exactly it MEANS to be dreaming, in a world
entirely created by and under the control of your consciousness. You cannot possibly shift to having this be your primary realm of existence unless
you understand what it MEANS, and the implications in terms of what is possible.
So first you need to be able to absolutely distinguish between being ‘awake’ and ‘dreaming,’ learn to recognize that you are dreaming, and
explore the possibilities. Now you can begin a process of merging the two realities. This is done by intelligent activity and design within your dream
world. The basic idea is to set up situations in your dreams that fit within the context of your circumstances in your waking life, and set them up to
go how you would like them to go. So you replicate systems that exist in your waking life, utilize them in your dreams, and have things work out in
their context as you would like them to. Basically, you act out situations similar to what you would like to have happen in your waking life in your
dreams. In terms of people, you can either interact with people who are of the basic ‘essence’ of people you would like to do whatever with, or
you can do this with specific people you know. Engaging in these activities will make an imprint into your subconscious from one perspective, or even
other people’s subconscious from another perspective, because whenever you interact with another person in your dreams it makes an impact on their
subconscious.
Now in your waking life, you put yourself in situations that could allow what happened in your dreams to actually happen, or at least something
similar or that could progress into it. One principle of lucid dream control is that you can control what happens by believing it will happen, and
putting yourself into an unknown situation, or walking to a place that you cannot see, with the belief that what whatever you want to happen will
happen. If you believe, or perhaps more accurately KNOW, that it will happen, and you go into an unknown/unseen area, it will happen. So you want to
cultivate certain beliefs through your waking life and your dreams, repeatedly pound them into your head, and cultivate a sense of not-knowing, that
with every movement of the eyes or the body something completely unexpected could happen. The other idea is, as referenced earlier, to create feedback
loops between your dreams and waking life, so that you fabricate scenarios in your dreams, and then play them out in your waking life. More and more
over time distinctions between ‘dreaming’ and ‘being awake’ will blur, and you will find yourself moving more and more towards living in the
realm of dreams.
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