Lucid dreaming is the practice of realizing (within the dream) that one is dreaming. This allows for double-living, so to speak: another reason to exist, another thing to keep you bright and zestful.

But no one says it better than The Tibetan Book of the Dead:

As the intermediate state of dreams arises,
I must renounce the corpse-like {mentality}, {the} insensitive sleep of delusion.
I must cultivate inner radiance,
Through the recognition, emanation, and transformation of dreams.
I must not sleep like a beast!
But cherish the experiential cultivation which mingles sleep with actual realization.

Techniques for the absolute beginner dreamer:

Practice intention: say out loud (make Shoppenhauer proud!): “Tonight I will lucid dream.” Language creates reality. The Will metamorphosizes the world.

Check reality: Assert your presence in waking life. Ask yourself right now, “am I dreaming?” Reach out and attempt to change matter. Or, count your fingers every hour of the day; when you do this by muscle memory within a dream, upon checking your hands, you'll find them distorted, as claws, or infinitely fingered. You’ll realize then that you are dreaming.

Dream journal: Write down anything! Even if it's a simple
- Dec 14: Nothing
- Dec 15: Nothing
- Dec 16: Something!

And most importantly is constancy, constancy, constancy.

So don’t waste any more valuable time… hit the hay and dream away!

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