Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Lucid Dreaming: A Comprehensive Guide to Promote Creativity, Overcome Sleep Disturbances & Enhance Health and Wellness © 2017 by Clare R. Johnson, PhD.
What does it mean to become “lucid” inside a dream? Lucid dreaming begins when we know that we are dreaming while we are dreaming. Yet lucidity itself goes much deeper than this simple definition.
Dreams communicate in symbolic language. Ever since Sigmund Freud, MD, demonstrated in his seminal 1899 work, The Interpretation of Dreams, that dreams are psychologically significant events with inherent meaning, the idea of dreams carrying messages has grown in the West. If a dream does have something important to tell us about our life, our relationships, or our health, it will very likely be repeated even if someone wakes us up in the middle of it, or if we forget it upon waking, or if we become become lucid and decide not to stay with it. Dream messages repeating themselves can be clearly seen with recurrent nightmares, or a series of bad dreams that turn around the same theme. If the lucid dreamer decides to fly away from a dream monster or wake herself up, she’s effectively making a date to meet that same dream situation again another night. Our dreaming mind won’t stop trying to bring emotional conflicts to our attention until we’ve faced them.
If we become lucid in a dream, we can intensify or deepen the message of the dream if we wish to by consciously interacting with our dream imagery, asking the dream a question such as “What do you represent?” or “Do you have a message for me?” or simply remaining present to the developing imagery and sensations.
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