How to lucid dream

Travel with Your Dream Body:
Lucid Dreaming in the Sorcerer’s Tradition
Lucid dreaming offers an extraordinary experience. When you dream consciously, you gain control over events—or at least the awareness that you have the power to influence the situation. Imagine a time when you can instruct yourself to dream about anything: soaring like a bird or reuniting with a departed loved one.
In my book, The Sorcerer's Dream, I unveil unique steps for lucid dreaming, knowledge passed down by the sorcerer Vidar during my initiation into the sorcerer's world. This article will give you a glimpse into the first steps of how to lucid dream in the sorcerer’s tradition.


Why pursue lucid dreaming?
Shamans believe that mastering lucid dreaming is a fundamental goal for humans. It allows you to become both the dreamer and the dream, transforming into a living dream weaver who experiences your own dreams.
Learning to dream consciously begins with attentiveness—being aware of your surroundings and actions in daily life. By recording your dreams without omitting details, you gain clarity about what transpired, enhancing your overall awareness. When you become conscious in your dreams, you'll notice their development.
The techniques described below help you build energy to develop a dream body, allowing you to travel beyond known reality to the boundless second reality of dreaming and creativity. Ultimately, this journey leads you to totality, where you realize you're creating your own reality.

Ordinary Dreams and Dreams of the Spirit
Before delving into traveling to the second reality and totality, it's crucial to distinguish between ordinary dreams and dreams of the spirit.
On the path to totality, mastering your dreams involves halting ordinary dreams, which are replaced by dreams of the spirit. Ordinary dreams must cease because they consume energy without offering value. As you learn to control your dreaming, ordinary dreams gradually diminish, giving way to the art of mastering lucid dreaming.
Stopping ordinary dreaming requires fixating on dream images—watching them intently—to transform them into dreams of the spirit. Unpleasant dreams vanish when you see through them, changing into images of beauty. Fixating on these images leaves only beauty, dispelling fear of certain situations. This is essential because traveling to the second reality demands releasing your fears.
To illustrate traveling to the second reality: The Totality consists of the first and second realities. Imagine a circle with a line down the middle—one half represents the first reality, the other the second. A dot in the middle signifies the totality of the Self. Your dreaming creates the first reality while revolving around your totality.
When you start dreaming, you become conscious of your dream body. The totality creates a dream body to travel from this reality. With your dream body and intention—the energy used to create—you'll travel from the first into the second reality, reaching the totality of the self. You'll discover that you are the creator of the two realities.

Finding the Dream Stone
The following exercise is your first step in developing a dream body:
Select a stone and study it in detail. Know every line, dent, and outline. Visualize the stone between your inner eye—the space between your eyebrows. Familiarize yourself with every spot, dent, and marking from every angle. Practice until you can envision it clearly, aiming to find the stone in your dream within ten days. If unsuccessful, start again until you succeed.
Before sleeping, examine the stone closely, place it nearby, close your eyes, and visualize it at your inner eye. It's crucial to be conscious of the moment before you fall asleep. Visualize the stone at this moment, and you'll experience dream flashes you can fixate or stop to begin mastering your dreams.
Simply having the intention to be conscious will help you halt dreaming before sleep. Attempt it.
Aim to awaken consciously each morning, visualizing the stone with your inner eye. Pick it up, moving it from arm’s length to your nose, as if the stone is approaching. Remind yourself that you will find the stone.

The Bridge Between Reality and Dreaming
Prioritize attentiveness. Habitually observe your surroundings in detail and perform routine tasks consciously, imagining you are dreaming. Even simple acts usually done automatically should be done with awareness.
Before sleeping, rewind the day's images from evening to morning. You’ll notice these exercises influencing your dreams, as you start having a retrospective view of daytime images in dreams. Soon, even in dreams, you’ll thoroughly observe every detail of your surroundings.
Your dream body must be at full capacity to travel to the boundless second reality of dreaming and creation. Develop your dream body by consciously bringing experiences, objects, or movements from dreams into reality and vice versa.
For example, if you find a shell in your dream, solidify your dream body by finding a similar shell and placing it in a special spot in your home where you collect dream items. This practice builds a bridge between reality and dreams.
Be impeccable in both everyday reality and dreaming. This trains your attention, which must be perfect. Through attention, you build on your intent, enabling travel into the boundless unknown.

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Review The Sorcerer's Dream
"Dreamshield has an engaging narrative style and tells stories that are engrossing. There is a lack of literature on female sorcerers and this book makes an admirable effort to fill this lacuna. When, at the end, she attains “totality,” the reader will share her exaltation." ~ Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. Alan Watts Profess of Psychology, Saybrook University.

About the Sorcerer's Dream
The Sorcerer's Dream, A true story of initiation into the sorcerer’s tradition by Elizabeth August, Dreamshield (former penname Alysa Braceau). The author gives us a glimpse into the very real world of lucid dreaming and astral projection. Her direct experiences with a modern day mystic, Running Deer, takes the work of Castaneda one step further. In The Sorcerer's Dream, she reveals unique steps to mastering lucid dreaming and traveling to the unknown.


Bio
Alysa Braceau, Dreamshield lives in the Netherlands (Europe). She studied social legal studies and a (freelance) journalist and publisher. Besides that she has a healing practice and gives workshops about the Art of Dreaming.

Website: www.dreamshield.nl

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