I've been having lucid dreams more frequently due to meditating before I go to bed.  It got me thinking this afternoon.  Since we have the power to control what's going on in a lucid dream once we are aware that we're actually dreaming, do they lose their significance?  Do they no longer reveal things from our subconsciousness?

Absolutely not!

The fact that we are increasingly in control of the contents of our lucid dreams probably makes them of more rather than of less significance.

Combined with the reality that such dreams give us access to deeper layers of our unconscious mind than the usual nightly variety where many believe that our Higher Self resides, being conscious to a degree while still dreaming (which is the definition of a lucid dream) allows us to practice or rehearse an event before we attempt it in our waking life, in a safe place where if we do get things wrong the first time nobody ever gets hurt.

Our lucid dreams then become a type of experimental laboratory where we can learn much more about how our thoughts are manifested at the physical level, but with all the safeguards firmly in place. Some might say that it is a way in which we get a glimpse of how thoughts are almost instantly transformed into our reality as happens in the Spirit world, while we are still alive on Earth.

So a dream being a lucid one hardly reduces its importance or significance to us. They can potentially reveal things from our subconscious that would not be normally reachable in any other way, but while we are still using this physical body as a temporary vehicle for our soul.

Does lucidity make a dream to be of less significance?

Quite the opposite I believe is true!  

eye_of_tiger (me on my soapbox)

i hadn't really thought about it from that angle, and i'm not sure why.  i usually don't think about using them as a laboratory.  i'm not sure if i want access to everything in my subconsciousness. hahaha  some of the stuff is interesting to know.  although i think some of the info is stuff that we may not want to admit to even to ourselves.  which would be applicable to the dream i had last night.


*side note*i like the soapbox smiley...although i always picture people to be standing on a actually soap box trying not to crush it*

There is very little possibility that you would ever be able to access the total contents of your subconscious mind (which are constantly changing anyway) over a thousand lifetimes, so please do not lose any further sleep worrying about this.

Normally only the information which is most useful for us to know in order to function more effectively in our current lifetime is accessed.

But lucid dreaming does help to allow us to access content which is not normally available to us, and offers us a deeper understanding of ourselves, as well as opening a window on our reason (s) and purpose (s) for being alive on Earth at this time.

EoT



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