DREAMER:  Female, 36, housewife, married with two children

LUCIDITY FACTOR

            Level 2

DREAM REPORT

“Between the hours of 6am and 9am, Sunday morning I was asleep, waking up out of that sleep on two separate occasions. I woke up first at 7:12am and the second at 8:34am.  I realized that I had dreamed on both occasions, but neglected to write down the details.  Instead I momentarily went through the details of what I had just dreamed and told myself to remember this once I had constructed a picture from the fragments.  Well, upon finally waking at a little after 10 am I realized that I was unable to remember what I had told myself to remember – I’m sorry, I should have known better and written the details down.  There are only three things that I remember telling myself to remember and that was “lots of people”, "moonlight" and “disappointed”.  (Yeah, I know that's nothing and again I'm really sorry for not recording as I was instructed to do...)

“Other than failing the experiment by neglecting the cardinal rule of writing down your dream upon waking, I was extremely excited that I had woken up suddenly, randomly and mysteriously on five separate occasions from the hours of 3am until shortly after å10am (not including my final wake up).  This is not something I normally ever do and I interpret it as some sort of miscommunication on my part to my Self.  Yes, I wanted to wake up, but in my dream world -- not just suddenly and randomly during the course of the night.  It felt a lot like all the times I went to bed thinking that I had better be awake by a certain time because I had somewhere to be and then I mysteriously woke up at the exact (or nearly exact) time.  Recently, I have not been able to enter a lucid dream state and my constant waking up Saturday night/Sunday morning at least tells me that I was able to communicate something to my subconscious and gives me hope to continue my attempts at lucid dreaming.”

DREAM STATE

“Other than failing the experiment by neglecting the cardinal rule of writing down your dream upon waking, I was extremely excited that I had woken up suddenly, randomly and mysteriously on five separate occasions from the hours of 3am until shortly after å10am (not including my final wake up).  This is not something I normally ever do and I interpret it as some sort of miscommunication on my part to my Self.  Yes, I wanted to wake up, but in my dream world -- not just suddenly and randomly during the course of the night.  It felt a lot like all the times I went to bed thinking that I had better be awake by a certain time because I had somewhere to be and then I mysteriously woke up at the exact (or nearly exact) time.  Recently, I have not been able to enter a lucid dream state and my constant waking up Saturday night/Sunday morning at least tells me that I was able to communicate something to my subconscious and gives me hope to continue my attempts at lucid dreaming.”

When removed from the bonds of polarity thinking – succeed/fail – this dreamer’s experience can be seen as a benchmark for the dreamer’s progress.  She is able to communicate her desire to subconscious mind, the part of mind generating the dream.  The desire to awake is the image she has visualized clearly for this is the desire her subconscious fulfills once, twice, …. Five times!  The step to awaken in the dream will require a development of mental discipline.  Awakening just enough to be aware and alert in the dream without disturbing its movement or interrupting it altogether requires powers of concentration, listening, reasoning, and intuition.  All of these culminate in the entrainment of the outer mind to the inner mind. 

This dreamer will benefit from acting upon her own advice.  Recording her dreams faithfully will provide the impetus for the mental discipline needed to go further in her dreamwork. 

DREAM CONTENT

The Dreamer states, “There are only three things that I remember telling myself to remember and that was 'lots of people', 'moonlight' and 'disappointed'.  As well, I believe that I dreamed several times throughout the night because although I cannot remember the details that I (foolishly) told myself to remember, I have no recollection of waking up during any of the five times and thinking that I hadn’t dreamed and there was nothing for me to remember.”

Dream recall will be strengthened as the Dreamer affirms her desire to remember her dreams and follows through with the thought into writing down whatever recall is brought back from the dreamstate.

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