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...(more)“In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.” Abram L. Urban

“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.” Anais Nin

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart… . Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” Carl Jung

“This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.” Carl Jung

“But why are people interested in learning to be conscious in their dreams? According to my own experience, and the testimony of thousands of other lucid dreamers, lucid dreams can be extraordinarily vivid, intense, pleasurable, and exhilarating. People frequently consider their lucid dreams as among the most wonderful experiences of their lives.

If this were all there were to it, lucid dreams would be delightful, but ultimately trivial entertainment. However, as many have already discovered, you can use lucid dreaming to improve the quality of your waking life. Thousands of people have written to me at Stanford telling how they are using the knowledge and experience they have acquired in lucid dreams to help them get more out of living.” Stephen Laberge

“Pause now to ask yourself the following question: “Am I dreaming or awake, right now?” Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer.” Stephen Laberge

“I suggested that dreams are simulations of the world created by our perceptual systems. The introduction to waking perception that you just read will help you understand this theory.

Consider, first of all, how sleep modifies the process of perception. During REM sleep, as you learned in chapter 2, sensory input from the outside world and body movement are both suppressed, while the entire brain is highly active. The activity of the brain raises certain schemas above their perceptual thresholds. These schemas enter consciousness, causing the dreamer to see, feel, hear, and experience things not present in the external environment.

Ordinarily, if you were to see something that wasn't really there, contradictory sensory input would rapidly correct your mistaken impression. Why doesn't the same thing happen during dreaming? The answer is because there is little or no sensory input available to the brain for correcting such mistakes.” Stephen Laberge

“If you are having a dream and you think it's real, it can get very scary. Say you are dreaming you are tightrope walking across Niagara Falls. If you fall off, you plunge to your death. So you are walking very slowly, very carefully. Then suppose you start lucid dreaming, and you realise it's all a dream. What do you do? Become more cautious and careful? Noo, you start jumping up and down on the tightrope, you do flips, you bounce around, you have a ball - precisely because you know isn't real. When you realise it's a dream you can afford to play.

The same thing happens when you realise that ordinary life is a dream, just a movie, just a play. You don't become more cautious, more timid, more reserved. You start jumping up and down and doing flips, precisely because it's all a dream, it's all pure Emptiness. You don't feel less, you feel more - because you can afford to. You are no longer afraid of dying, and therefore you are not afraid of living. You become radical and wild, intense and vivid, shocking and silly. You let it all come pouring through, because it's all your dream.

Life then assumes its true intensity, its vivid luminosity, its radical effervescence.” Ken Wilber

“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” Carl Jung

“Learn the true topography; the monstrous and wonderful archetypes are not inside you, not inside your consciousness; you are inside them, trapped and howling to get out.” R. A. Lafferty

“Dreaming is the vehicle that brings dreamers to this world,” the emissary said, “and everything sorcerers know about dreaming was taught to them by us. Our world is connected to yours by a door called dreams. We know how to go through that door, but men don't. They have to learn it.” Carlos Castaneda

“Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou.” Chang Tao-ling

“The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Albert Einstein

“Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one.” Albert Einstein

“Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say “I'm going to do such and such” - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.” George Leonard

“Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.” Carlos Castaneda

“A shaman is a healer of relationships, between mind and body, between people and circumstances, between humans and Nature, and between matter and spirit.” Serge Kahili King

“…find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.” Don Miguel

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Jenny I just wanted to say how much I enjoy this group and reading of your experiences and queries in regard to dreams. For me, this is the "richest" pod on Gaia and I haven't even been anywhere close to half way through the discussions and posts. Thanks to all who contribute and to Ian for growing this group! (2 months ago)

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sandy said Jul 2, 1:31 AM:

I had such a lovely dream last night -
although just an everyday kind of dream -
my dear friend Jenny -from here in Gaia -and whom
I have met with -was in it!!
We were just “hanging out” together but it was very real and special :)

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Jenny said Jul 2, 1:55 AM:

Hey Sandy, I'm right behind you. I also saw you at Tai's last special healing time when I sent reiki and meditated.

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sandy said Jul 2, 2:00 AM:

Oh Jenny -isn't that so lovely :)
I am so glad you have seen me too -and yes, I was tuned into
Tai's healing time.
It is a very special bond we share~

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Jenny said Jul 2, 3:30 AM:

G'night Sandy, see you in our dreams.

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Ian Gardner said Jul 3, 4:45 PM:

No doubt a dream expressing your close friendship!
NB. There is, most likely, a past life association between the two of you… … but these are quite usual given the way this whole thing works.

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sandy said Jul 4, 12:48 AM:

Yes, Ian.
Jenny and I met some months ago when I was visiting
my family nearby -it was very special that she drove up to meet me!
We had of course, met here in Gaia -but definetly feel much closer
having met each other in person -as you do.

There well may be a connection between us from a past life
and we do have a lot of similarities in our lives, with our families.

I shall look forward to the next meeting Jenny!!

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Jenny said Jul 4, 1:36 AM:

when I read Ian's comment I got goosebumps all through me then when I read Sandy's I got even more. I feel that her family moved within driving distance of me just so I could meet her.

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Marky Mark said Jul 4, 6:52 AM:

Ian is right in that this is more common than people realize. In the dream state we not only connect on a regular basis with people we know in our waking reality, but we also connect with other people on a regular basis that we may not know in waking reality.

These other people may be on the other side of the planet and may live in cultures that we mayor may not have heard of. Some of our dream friends do not even live in the physical world at this time. They may be friends from past or future lives.

- Mark -

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Jenny said Jul 5, 1:05 AM:

I once dreamed about meeting a man who was teaching me to do healing. I dreamed I went to an island where I flew up the mountainside beside a lagoon. Halfway up I went into a wooden house with windows with shutters all around it. It was creamy yellow. There was a woman in a single bed in a darkened room. I sat beside her and the teacher was sitting in a chair over by the wall. he said “Give her a healing”. I did a shaman journey and flew out the window and brought back a sea eagle and put it on the rails on the head of the bed then gave her reiki. It felt really powerful. She opened her eyes. The man smiled and said “you have passed your test”. In the dream the next day we went down to the lagoon and met a lady and another man with white hair and very brown skin.

Some time later in physical life I found a book by Serge Kahili King and read it and felt there was a connection and that the teacher was him. About 9 months later in physical life I saw an ad for a workshop in Sydney Australia with Serge but it was to be in 2 days time so I rang anyway and the woman who answered said that they had been filled months before but she had just had a cancellation so I got to go.

When I saw Serge I realised he was the man in the dream. Serges wife was there and she was also in the dream and he showed us a photo of a friend and co-worker. It was the man with the white hair in my dream. Serge also talked about being “awake in the dream”. Conscious dreaming.

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Ian Gardner said Jul 10, 12:11 AM:

Good one Jenny, it just goes to show how these things happen.
Please tell us whether you feel you have prepared yourself for this dreaming ability to manifest [and I put this question to all who read this]. I ask this because it is more than likely that a very large percentage of Dream Garden members would love to have such dreams but want them without putting in any effort.

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sandy said Jul 10, 10:25 PM:

Loved hearing your awesome, incredible “dream come true” Jenny.
That was very special indeed, and so is the fact that you acted upon
it and it was able to manifest it into reality :)

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