Somehow, as we fall asleep, we take a leap into the void. Darkness envelops us and we dissolve into it.
Every night we dream, it is up to the dreamer to remember it, but the dream images appear every time we rest our eyelids. In the process of falling asleep, relaxation alienates us from our usual personalities. We disconnect from our body to some extent, or at least our focus*. As I have described in other posts, dreams can be organized into types; personal experience, what you are experiencing within your physical body, as well as the degree of emotional intensity I believe, are factors that determine one psychic nature of the dream or another. Depending on the type, one tends to remember it more or less, with more or less detail and completely or fractionally.
At this point, we should focus our attention on the focus* itself.
What is this focus?
In my opinion, it is the observer, the consciousness that also survives the death of the body. However, in order not to complicate the text with mystical discourses, let us agree that this focus is what we would call… That which you perceive, feel, and experience when you are awake and in full consciousness, in your daily life. We understand here then, the conscious mind, as well as the subconscious. We will agree that in sleep we do not present ourselves as we are. The personality varies, even the physical appearance and the physical laws can be different. The intensity with which we live the experience does too, as well as how engaged or involved we are with the narrative. The whole experience depends on the intensity of the focus we have, personally, I think this works the same way when we are awake.
The more intensity, the more you remember. Strong emotions can help anchor the memories that occur in the dream world. It is precisely this intensity that turns an ordinary dream into a lucid dream. The word lucid refers to the ability to think clearly, reason, and be aware of one’s surroundings. When the focus, our consciousness realizes that it is in fact in a dream, the intensity of the dream redoubles. It is not uncommon for the sensation of time to stop for a few seconds, for the earth to tremble, or our sight to suddenly improve. Nor is it unusual for us to be able to control what happens in the dream.
The moment the mind becomes aware that it is dreaming the experience changes. We find ourselves in a world in which we actually have much more power than in our everyday world. Our sensations, despite the fact that we are dreaming, become sharper, we are inside our “dream body” and the laws that contain it. Because the truth is that, although the moment of realizing that you are dreaming is vital, and marks a before and after in the dream, there are laws that cannot be broken, even if you are dreaming lucidly.
Moreover, lucidity is easy to lose, even in the dream itself. It is possible to achieve lucidity and then lose it in the same narrative. It all depends on how congruent you are with yourself and how much you do not try to break the hidden laws of the dream world.
This is why it can be seen as a scale of degrees of awareness, in other words, the focus is the main differentiating agent when it comes to recreating an experience. Keeping the focus in an optimal state before going to bed at night is the best bet to obtain quality dreams and that our mind has space to deepen the state.
Lucid dreams are great opportunities to explore this dream world consciously and with direction.
It is worth mentioning the irony that in dreams one can also “wake up” to a state of consciousness more congruent with the whole Universe.
