“Chapter 5: What Dreams Are Made Of (page 63)
Awareness of dreaming is the essence of lucid dreaming. Any dream in which you recognize that you are dreaming is a lucid dream. But you need not necessarily have control over the dream.”
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“Chapter 5: What Dreams Are Made Of (page 65)
There is a second way of losing a lucid dream. You can, while lucid, believe that you have woken up and are no longer dreaming at all. This is often called a 'false awakening.' You are in effect still lucid, but you just don't think you're dreaming.”
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“Chapter 5: What Dreams Are Made Of (page 66)
Lucid dreaming can provide much joy and even serve as an aid for your waking life — such as preparing for athletic or business events — or even in your spiritual life. But lucid dreams are not meaningful for the limited purpose of interpretation. While you will certainly record your lucid dreams in your journal, you will not include them in your analysis of dream patterns. But you must first recognize your lucid dreams and false awakenings so that you do not include them in your analysis. Fortunately, they are easy to recognize. Keep your eyes open for them and have fun when you do realize you're dreaming. The more you work with your dreams in general, the more likely you are to have lucid dreams.”
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“Chapter 5: What Dreams Are Made Of (page 72)
Note: If you find yourself trying to figure out whether or not your dream is a "big dream," then it's not. These dreams are forces you can feel during the dream and upon awakening. You'll know it when you have one.”
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“Chapter 5: What Dreams Are Made Of (page 73)
Try recording your dreams in the third-person if you need help distinguishing your whole self from your limited dream self.”
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“Chapter 6: The Dream Report (page 75)
Studying your dreams requires more than recording them and thinking about them in isolation each morning. You must return to them days, weeks, or even years later and think about your dreams in relation to one another. It is through this periodic review of dreams that you will find the patterns in them. It is these patterns that are the meaningful parts of most of your dreams. It is these patterns that reveal the unseen patterns of your waking life. Once revealed, you will then work to change your unhelpful patterns.”
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“Chapter 6: The Dream Report (page 76)
As you review your dreams, think about our six questions: who, what, where, when, why, and how? Who appears in your dreams? What appears in your dreams? What objects, feelings, and actions? Where do your dreams take place? When do these dreams take place? Night time? Winter? In your childhood? In the distant future? For why, consider the motivations of the characters and their goals. How are things done in your dreams? Are they done the same way as in waking life? Or is there something strange about it?
Don't just think about the answers to these; organize them, write them down, be systematic.”
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“Chapter 6: The Dream Report (page 77)
After reviewing all your dreams for the previous two weeks, count up all of the marks for each item and write down the number.”
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“Chapter 7: Finding your Dream Pattern (page 98)
When you first read the phrase "dream patterns" you may have thought of recurring dreams. Recurring dreams certain represent a dream pattern, but they are a special category of them. Usually dream patterns are the repetition of particular clusters of dream images or themes. Recurring dreams, however, are dreams that occur over and over the same way, perhaps even identically.”
Source: Dream Patterns: Revealing the Hidden Patterns of Our Waking Lives
“Chapter 8: Breaking and Making your Patterns (page 105)
Often, simply acknowledging an undesirable pattern in your waking life isn't enough. You may have to work to replace that pattern. As you do so, you will find confirmation of your efforts in your dreams. As you replace the waking-life patterns, the dream patterns will dissolve.”
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