Originally Posted by Dravd
Dannon Oneironaut, thank you so much for your detailed response!
I can see what you're driving at, and now, when I think of it myself, it all makes perfect sense!
The thing is, I'm still to enter Lucid Dreams and, hopefully, have a precognition. As I pointed out earlier, I've had a couple of lucid dreams. However, I didn't have them for a while, which is sad .
Right now, I've yet to attain Lucidity. You can't be fully lucid in your waking life until are lucid in your dreams.
You don't have to be lucid for this technique. Lucidity is fun, but not necessary to work with dreams. Lucidity is necessary for using the mind to observe the mind. But saying that you can't be lucid in your waking life until you are lucid in your dreams is a false assumption. In fact, most often it works the other way. Doing reality checks during the day helps to do them in dreams. Meditating increases lucid dreams. Both go hand in hand. If YOU are lucid, you will be lucid, whether or not you are sleeping or awake.
In my opinion, people on this forum are too obsessed with getting lucid that it works against them. They are hankering for it and it takes the fun and motivation out of it for the subconscious mind. Dreams are greawt if you can just remember them! Lucidity is great also, but there is still so much to be done working with dreams even if they are not lucid dreams.
No I don't have any online diaries because I don't really like being on computers other than to talk with people or watch cool videos.
The most surprising precognitive dream is the one that isn't remembered until the even that it fortells happens and then the memory of the dream explodes into consciousness! One time I went on an artwalk to all the local art galleries and looked inside a pottery kiln and saw the jet of blue propane flame inside that immediately made me remember the dream from the night before in which I saw pyramid jet of blue flame. Some people call these 'coincidences' in an attempt to explain them in a way that makes sense to their rational worldview in which precognition doesn't exist. But that is just a conceptual word to explain an event that doesn't need any explanation. Sure, the human mind might be the one creating the connection where no connection exists inherently, but regardless of where the connection comes from it still exists if you see it. That argument is also a just-so story used to explain a phenomena in a way that conforms to one's worldview, that humans see patterns where no patterns exist. It is an assumption to say that no pattern exists where we might see one. Just because a human thinks that a cloud looks like a human face doesn't mean that the cloud does NOT look like a human face.
That is a tangent. Anyway my point is not to worry if you think that you are the one making these connections rather than your dream being authentically precognitive. It is a technique, not a philosophical statement about reality. In this technique we use that human tendency to see patterns and connections to our advantage. Now, there is something else you can do with this same technique, but it does require lucidity and success in precognitive dreaming. That is the art of magic, or making things happen. Once your dreamtime and your waking life are in harmony, as evidenced by success in precognition, you can lucid dream something you WANT to happen and then the next day expect it to happen. This is magic.
But of course, it is the same as a successful precognitive dream of a desired outcome. I guess the differentiation is between if the dream event is willed lucidly in which case the outcome in waking life can be considered to be created using the magical technique, or if the dream is not lucid and the event just shows up in the dream without the dreamer's will, then one would say the dream foretold the future if the event happens in the future.
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