During this GLOBAL LUCID DREAMING EXPERIMENT tracking the moon’s effect on dreams, we are receiving dreams from around the world.  As participants send in their dreams on the appointed days, we will endeavor to post some of them, along with interpretations in the Universal Language of Mind, so we may have glimpses into the content of our dreams.

POSTED February 5, 2008

 A female lucid dreamer who is studying dream interpretation at SOM reports the following dream during the Full Moon, January 22^nd.  Her dream brings to light a deeper understanding of what it means to be lucid in your dreams.  

In this dream I knew that I was dreaming, although throughout the dream I questioned whether I was asleep or not.  

This indicates a busy awake, Conscious Mind.  The indecisiveness pulls energy from the dream whereas a still mind – one free of content or opinion and held steady by the will – will rest the light of its attention upon the dream action.  This mental action allows the light to reflect back into Conscious Mind giving the dreamer lucidity and total recall without interrupting the dream message.

I was on the top floor of a loft (much like the loft I used to live in) and it was very large and open and looked as if it was a huge endless storehouse for junk.  I was by the windows in the loft in a bedroom/changing area with a mirror.  There were mirrors in this space.  

The place in the dream tells the dreamer the “what” in the dream’s message.  This dream is about old ways of thinking that hold no value for the dreamer.  She has been trying to see past this and would benefit from seeing self as cause. 

I was with my friend Nick (someone who gives up on his desires and creations before they really happen so that he does not feel let down).  I was also with some other friends who I do not remember.  

“Nick” represents a subconscious aspect of the dreamer that she identifies as the part of her that does not finish what she starts.  The other “friends” are aspects related to the dreamer’s tendency to avoid emotional experience.

We were getting ready for our first day of school. We were going to high school, yet knew that we were too old for high school.

This establishes the message of the dream to be about the dreamer’s quitting before a life lesson is learned.  She is admitting she could have learned lessons and did not.

I was wearing a nice dress suit and I felt that I looked dumb because I was too dressed up for high school.  So I rummaged through lots of clothes in attempt to find something I liked.  All of the dream clothes were clothes that I actually own.  I asked what time school started and they said "9:30am".  I continued to search until it was past 9:30.  The girls left and Nick stayed with me.  I settled on an outfit (an old dumpy skirt that I often wear when there is nothing else).  

In the Universal Language of Mind, clothes symbolize how the dreamer is expressing self.  This dreamer values how she comes across to others and tends to lower her standards according to her environment.  This shifting of how she expresses herself consciously is directly related to the old learning left undone.

As we were leaving, I noticed that there was a ghost of some sort in the space with us.  I was not very scared though. I knew that I was really awake in my sleep and that I could handle anything in the dream.

So then appeared a baby.  I was showing Nick that I was really wake in the dream by absolutely torturing the baby.  I beat it up terribly with no remorse.  I then continued to do the same with another baby laying in a baby car seat.
At this time, my alarm went off for work.  

Although the tendency to quit haunts the dreamer, she denies this, relying upon her ego, her conscious identity, to push her through.  When it does, the new ideas developing in her inner, Subconscious Mind suffer. 

This dream relates two significant messages to the dreamer.  First, it reveals the cause of a mental pattern of quitting.  A progressive response to this dream is described below. Second, the dreamer needs to redefine what she believes a lucid dream to be.  She opens her record with “In this dream I knew that I was dreaming, although throughout the dream I questioned whether I was asleep or not” indicating she is aware of dream recall.  This level of alertness is necessary to recall any dream. 

To be lucid in the dream means you are consciously aware that you are in the dreamstate.  The dreamer wants us to believe that she is lucid in the dream, reporting “I was showing Nick that I was really wake in the dream by absolutely torturing the baby”.  This indicates that the dreamer is a sadist who tortures babies in her waking life or that this is a message from her Subconscious Mind concerning the sadistic effect oher attitudes of quitting have upon her new ideas.  The dreamer may want to reflect upon these.  If she deems herself a kind human being, not a sadist, she will want to update her understanding of lucid dreaming, then form a response to her dream.  A progressive response might be to make a list of seven goals she has been abandoning because she fears they will not turn out the way she wants.  Then, starting with number one, set about completing each of these – one per day.