Dreams have long been known to have significance, bearing messages from remote places or times, symbolizing different emotions, and even being a kind of spiritual exploration. Analyzing dreams has had a great impact on some of the world's great leaders and subsequent historical events.
These visions of our sleeping mind sometimes only reflect the events of the day, or a film or book which we were enjoying in the evening. However, many times, they represent our subconscious mind tapping into the mental power hidden in our brains, emerging in the inner peace of sleep when the clamor of our conscious mind has been temporarily stilled.
Being so closely linked to the psychic power of the human mind makes dreams an important facet of thought for those who wish to explore the fascinating powers of their own psyche.
Often, what is going on in our dreams becomes a kind of visualization, and sometimes may shade over into remote viewing and astral travel. The rigid constraints of the daytime, conscious mind are lifted, and the more mysterious functions of the brain are allowed the same freedom as during intense meditation or trance.
The mind can wander where it wishes to, and is highly receptive both to input from the surrounding world and to inner prompting such as desires, wishes, and fears.
Realizing that dreams represent an uncontrolled tapping of our innate mental power leads to another realization as well - that if we learn how to control our dreams, we can use that power to our advantage or spiritual enrichment even while we are asleep.
Because our conscious mind is almost completely submerged, positive visualization and remote viewing carried on while in a dream-state are exceptionally powerful and effective. If you wish to improve the quality of your positive visualization, then gaining greater control over your dreaming is an excellent step to take.
You can make preparations even before sleep which will increase your chances of controlling your dreams. First of all, you should ensure that you are going to sleep before you completely exhausted. Although this might sound counter-intuitive, complete exhaustion may submerge your mind so far in sleep that any control becomes impossible.
Secondly, you should try to create a positive mood in your mind to encourage positive use of your dream energy. And thirdly, you may wish to meditate on the matter you would like your dream to focus on, and fall asleep directly from your meditative state.
You can also gain greater control over your dreams with a variety of different exercises. Remembering dreams after you awaken seems to increase the probability of 'controlled dreaming' in the future; methods for remembering dreams include remaining perfectly still for several minutes after awakening, so that your brain does not use up its energy with motion, and writing down any dreams you do remember.
Awakening partway through your sleep, and carrying out self-hypnosis for the deliberate purpose of entering a state of controlled, or "lucid" dreaming when you doze off again, is among the most effective methods of developing your skill at controlling your dreams.
Once you are lucid dreaming, a slight amount of conscious awareness must be present for you to control your dream. If your conscious awareness becomes too conscious, you will awaken, so it is important not to attempt to rationalize, but to act only on an intuitive level.
Since the whole purpose of controlled dreaming is to use the potential of your mental powers without the constraints of the waking mind, it also makes logical sense to proceed by higher instinct rather than mechanical reasoning.
Again, the main purpose is to direct your dreams towards a visualization of the things you wish to see, obtain, or learn more about. Your dreaming mind will then give you the insights that it senses to be most valuable to you, either allowing remote viewing to increase your spiritual understanding, or energizing your creativity and intuitive insight for reaching a desired goal, as the case may be.
With a little patience and some careful application of meditative techniques, you can also learn to use the potential of your dreams to the fullest.
About the Author
Hilary Stewardson has been a student of meditation, manifestation, self-hypnosis, lucid dreaming and remote viewing techniques for decades. For more information on these subjects visit her website:http://www.Mind-Visualization.com
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