How can we have more spiritual lucid dreams and wake up feeling deeply peaceful and refreshed?
In lucid dreams, we are aware that we are dreaming, and with this awareness, we can guide and shape the dream, or go with the flow of events. We may find ourselves flying over magnificent vistas, breathing underwater, transforming into an eagle, hugging a much missed deceased friend, or simply soaking up the astonishingly real imagery and sensations of being conscious in a dream world.
When we engage lucidly with our dreams, we illuminate them from within. One of the wonderful things about lucid dreaming is that we can guide the dream into a soulful, spiritual experience as soon as we realise that we are dreaming.
One of my favourite chapters in Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming explores the use of meditation and mantras in lucid dreaming, and how this can lead to incredible experiences of bliss and oneness in the lucid dream state.
In this article that I wrote for Merlian News, I explore how we can gently steer a lucid dream into a beautiful, memorable spiritual experience, and I share some spiritual lucid dreams, including a powerful one that a friend of mine had, of a field of enormous sitting Buddhas that she at first thought were statues… until one opened his eyes and looked right at her!
What kinds of spiritual experiences have you had in your lucid dreams? I’d love to hear them.
Hi Clare…When I was in college, I had one of the most intense dreams of my life. I was taking a photography course and had been spending a lot of time at a light table, looking at slides and film negatives (pre-digital age). In my dream, I was doing the same thing – looking at row after row of marked slides, They were all labeled by an event…Family Picnic, Summer Vacation, Sandy’s Dog, etc. The images were dull and out of focus for the most part, until I got to the very last slide. It showed a glorious burst of color and light. It was labeled “Death”.
I still believe that the dream was a message about things seen and unseen.
Great dream, Inga, what a wonderful glimpse of the light and joy of death. Thanks for sharing.
I dreamt that my grandmother was coming down the steps to help me in a chair that I was sitting in. In my reality I was sitting in the chair calling her name but my mouth was closed. I don’t know what this means my granny passed away three years ago. I lucid dream everytime I lay on my back.
I lucid dream a lot!
Sometimes these can be terrifying but sometimes it’s interesting to know I can do it, I can snap myself back into reality.
I think for me I find it most terrifying when I’m in bed, in my dream I’m in the exact same position. I can’t move barely but I can speak.
My most recent tonight actually was that I was lay in my bed (sleeping🤷🏻♀️) and something tugged my bed sheets. I tried to turn to tell them to go away but I couldn’t.
Most times when I lucid dream as well, this happens I tend to go to switch my lamp on which is next to my bed but I never can…
Hi Kerry, this sounds like sleep paralysis. In The Art of Transforming Nightmares there are many practices on how to transcend fear in these lucid states and move consciously into a wonderful lucid dream.