Thread: Emmily's Workbook

I have started reading this book titled The Untethered Soul by Micheal A. Singer. I just started reading this book yesterday, and am already over halfway through! It is about your own mind and experiences, and keeps you engaged within the book and takes you on a real journey. I am learning so much about my thoughts and existence on this planet that I feel like a new me. Eventually, I needed to get some sleep, (I was falling asleep while reading :p) and I had a very interesting dream. Usually, my dreams are cluttered with everyday things and people I see. But in this dream, it was like something had awoken within me. The dream started fuzzy and I probably would never had remembered it before. My boyfriend and I were in what seemed to be a home I hadn't been in, small enough to be an apartment. All of a sudden, a bird appeared. My boyfriend was rather afraid of the bird. I was taken at first, but I perched the bird on my finger and slowly brought it to the window. It didn't look frightened or defensive at all. When I got to the window, the bird pecked my finger and flew off immediately. Birds have always seemed interesting to me. They have always been big in my life. In terms of the dream, it feels like the bird was representing my soul/consciousness. The bird was comfortable in the house and on my finger, but it wants to explore, and wanted me to come explore with it. It does not want me to worry any longer. In my dream, I did not get angry with the bird for pecking me. It is time for my soul to explore. This dream will always stay with me, and although I was not lucid, it could possibly be used as a tool to enter the dream world with complete consciousness. I cannot wait until I sleep again

Welcome to the DILD workbooks Emmily

I like your outlook! I have no doubt that if you keep up your practices and your explorer attitude that you will grow in so many ways. I honestly feel like I have learned some important things on my path to lucid dreaming. Some of those epiphanies are tied to the practices that assist us in lucid dreaming and some of the epiphanies are tied to the lucid dreams themselves. Let us know if you have any questions and feel free to use this space to also track your progress.

Hello Emmily! You may find some useful tips in my "Dream Recall Tips" here: FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips

Dreaming and lucid dreaming sure are awesome, I totally agree with you there. And fogelbise nailed it when he said that many LD practices enhance waking life as well (like mindfulness, which is something I'm working on).