(Took my regular supplements after four hours sleep, WBTB. I meant to set an alarm, but I left my phone in another room. I woke up 5 minutes before 4:00 am, my intended waking time)
Flying into New York City (Lucid)
I aw with a group of people. It is a dream support group. We are anticipating a big event. We leave the inside space we have been meeting and venture out to begin the thing we have all been participating.
We walk out into a big field with scattered trees. We are exploring and walking around like it is a new planet we just landed on. There are small lights gently flying around close to the ground. Bigger than fireflies and constantly lit. They may be fairies.
I look down and see two tiny hands, my hands! (I'm LUCID!!!)
After exploring a bit more I lift off the ground and clumsily navigate the trees over the filed.
After getting more control I see lights of a big city in the distance and decide to take off toward the lights.
It is New York City. There are no land marks, but I know as if every detail is familiar. I am slowly hovering very close to the street navigating through a neighborhood. The detail is so intense I start to cry at the beauty. I am struck because I know I am dreaming, or whatever this is. (It is not clear how long I am lucid) I think to myself, I need to remember each detail so I can see if I can find this place in waking life.
At the Restaurant
I am headed into a restaurant. There is a parking lot outside and there is a group/gang out front. I decide to go talk with them, against the advice of those with me. (I don't remember the outcome, but it was positive. This would be an interesting place/people to revisit in the future)
I am in the restaurant and trying to get something to eat. I am completely naked. I am not concerned about my nudity, but the fact I have no money because I have no pockets. The restaurant owner has an extended one way conversation with me about how to order or some such details. I smile and seem to be communicating by my attitude.
I am now outside the restaurant, at a table, possibly in a boat. There is a guy who is the center of attention. He is very active and moving all about. At one point he leaves our space and proceeds to run at an amazing speed and with dexterity to miss all the patrons in and out of the restaurant. There is someone, a friend, he works with looking for him inside. The owner has told his friend he is here. The guy is moving so fast his friend con not catch up or even really see where he is.
I return toward where the dream group first met. I had left the group to explore on my own, but they have been meeting and organizing their thoughts about the events of the evening. I am on a driveway outside a house and one of the participants hands me a report he has been working on abut the evening. Several people have similar ones. It is many pages thick and stapled in the corner. I begin to look at it and it contains something like a comic strip, as well as text. I ask what it means, and the person who wrote the report says he found this strip and it is very similar to his experience, so he included it in his report. I see the lights/fairies flying gently around the bushes by the driveway.
Taking Cindy to the Dream Site
I am telling Cindy about how amazing my lucid dream was. We go to explore to see if we can find the place it happened in waking life. We find the field and I am joyous. We walk through it and it is all familiar. We then get to a hinge mount of plowed earth. We look over it and see that there is a big drop of loose dirt. Cindy has on high heels but we make our way down the slope anyway.
Brewing Up Dream Sludge
Someone is cooking up a brew of some sort. It is brown and thick in the pan/pot. . It is for lucid dreaming.
Notes: When I came close to waking I was ecstatic. I reviewed as many of the events as I could. Each time I closed my eyes I was immediately into another dream segment. They all seemed related. I am committed to improving my dreaming, and everything else in my life, by more consistent meditation.
("Samatha or śamatha is one of two qualities of mind which is developed in Buddhist meditation, the other being vipassana. Samatha is the quality of tranquility of the mind, or mind-calmness. Tranquility of the mind is achieved by practicing single-pointed meditation."
Dreaming Yourself Awake
Lucid Dreaming and Tibetan Dream Yoga for Insight and Transformation
By: Brian Hodel (editor), B. Alan Wallace. Wallace recommends starting samatha for 24 minutes a day (a ghatika) for beginners. I am committed to practice daily while in NY 24 minutes a day.)
One of the ideas is to improve my mindfulness in waking and dreaming states. Reality checks are a common recommendation for increasing the likelihood of lucid dreams. I am on day 12 or 24 consecutive sets of daily meditation. I morphed a reality check, am I dreaming, into a meditation mantra and tried it yesterday for the first time. "I am" "I" on the in breath and "am" on the out. I am going to continue this for a good while.
What does the dream want? For me to keep meditating, use my new mantra "I am" and keep up my dream and waking journals. Even down to the practice of pulling pics and things that are relevant into the journals/blogs.
Reality check: I am increasingly getting the idea that dreamscapes are "real" and "reality" is largely a dream. Not a fantasy, but a series of images and perceptions that are largely manufactured by our minds.
Bumper Sticker: A Calm Mind is a Clear Lens
Dreams to Action: Keep up and increase the quality of my meditation. Do many mindful moments during the day, like reality checks. Try the "I am" montra for a while.
Montra
Montra is the short version of the Pahli word "Mahantra" meaning protection, its origin from the Kurdish word "Pala" meaning to take refuge under. This name dates back to the pre-Zoroastrian times in ancient Iran. This word belongs to the Avestan language from the old Indo-Iranian language group, which was used to write the Gathas in Kurdish Gwet, meaning "spoken" or "the spoken words".
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