Effect On Dreams? - Karma And Stress

Hey, i've been back at school today and yesterday and i tell you what, these have had to be the worst few days of this year, lets just say i recorded myself singing a year ago and sent it to a friend, sort of an audition for a band, they put it on there phone and spread it round school, i had a crap year because of people taking the piss, things died down though, but now this guy i hate called sam has brought it up again and spreading it and i'm getting really stressed out over it and to be honest its really having an effect on my dream recall, i haven't remembered a single dream even if i can control my stress, my dream recall has gone to shreds, its asthough karma is out to get me, i've never been a believer in karma until now, but the thing was, i thought that if you do something bad, bad stuff happens (sort of quoting "my name is earl") but this matter is unresolving and it made me think, if karma really is real and everything could it have a big impact on whether i have lucid dreams or not?

I don't think you understand what karma is... it is "what goes around comes around." If you are a bad person, bad things will happen to you. Unless you have done really bad stuff lately, this isn't "karma." Stress definitely has an effect on dream recall, read my dream recall tutorial, I mention it.

Hey friend, don't let your mind trap you into complete negativity. Because you will manifest that into your life. Yeah embarrassing things happen, they happen to all of us.. But they are all in the past. The sooner you accept this memory and forgive yourself for being yourself the better off you'll be. If you put your energy into whatever you did, your demo for a band, and people made fun of you for it, well... it is what it is. It was something that came from you and you should respect it even if no one else did. I mean people did hear you.. didn't they, you eventually wanted people to hear you sing right? You accomplished your goal by having people listen and the idiots making fun of you helped you do it.. Perhaps someone listening among a snickering crowd liked it or respected it. You can retreat from the situation a winner, because you accomplished something. The goons tormenting you accomplished nothing except to help you, they were pawns in your game. You'd be surprised how a different perspective can ease your mind and put yourself back at center.. Allowing yourself eaiser Dream recall and Lucidity.

Be Easy Friend..

From: The Tibetan yogas of Dream and Sleep

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Karma means action. Karmic traces are the results of actions, which remain in the mental consciousness and influence our future. We can partially understand karmic traces if we think of them as what in the West are called tendencies in the unconscious. They are inclinations, patterns of internal and external behavior, ingrained reactions, habitual conceptualizations. They dictate our emotional reactions to situations and our intellectual understandings as well as our characteristic emotional habits and intellectual rigidities. They create and condition every response we normally have to every element of our experience.[/b]

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According to the book, Karma has a huge impact on dreams... but I don't think its affecting you in the way you are thinking. A big part of the book I just quoted is about how we react to karma. Most people react, to use the author's words, with "grasping or aversion" meaning that when some karmic traces come your way, if they are favorable you grasp them and if they are not you avoid them. If you can let these karmic traces go (even the good ones) they won't obscure your reality and you will be more aware of your being.

Have you even been so involved in a dream that, even though it was utterly ridiculous, you didn't see the dream for what it was (if you had seen the dream for what it was, you would have become lucid). Well, the idea is that you get so involved in karma that you fail to see life for what it is.

I've gotten off track, sorry--got excited about talking about karma. I get the same thing all the time. I had a reserch paper due this Monday, until the weekend I had been all proud because I had been making steady progress with my dream recall but once I realised how screwed I was with regard to that paper... My recall was shot. Still, I think a little patience should straighten things out for the both of us.

As far as sam goes, forget him. If he is so concerned about his own image that he needs to try to mess yours up to feel good about it, then he's a looser. I'm not sure how old you and your classmates are, but if people are actually buying into his crap... they won't for long. People will grow up and see him for the looser he is.

I don't believe in spiritual karma at all, but I will say that I do think the "treat other how you want to be treated" is a good thing to live by. It kinda sounds like you are feeling guilty for things you might have done in the past. You shouldn't ponder the past but think of the future.
Once you get out of high school in 2-3 years you won't have to see anyone you don't like ever again, if you so choose to do that. It's strange to say this but while in school, keep a selfish attitude. I am not saying take everything and give nothing, but snatch up all opportunities and start laying the foundation for your future. You got to think for yourself and not much anyone else.
So right now just try to laugh it off or give no reaction, because thats what most of the dicks are looking for. They want to make you angry or get some negative reaction from you. Don't give them what they want and they won't come to you for it.
If you are feeling guilty for things you have done, just make it a point to be nice and considerate. I mean there is not a whole lot of bad that could come out of that.