Hi everyone,

I would like to use this thread to share my lucid dreams (recent ones and old ones).

Please feel free to comment. If I don't respond, please don't take offense, as it may mean I have no time to respond or I have forgotten to do so. (or maybe my email notification is not working, or I have no internet access or something). Thank you.

My intention of starting this thread is because I want it to be for the benefit of all. Perhaps someone reading this could learn something to their wholesome benefit.

I originally posted this in another forum (not a dream forum) (this is a recent lucid dream):


Had quite a number of lucid dreams lately...(I had one the night before last night....making it 2 lucid dreams in a row in 2 nights)

This is the latest (briefly):

I was with my brother (he's younger than me).....we were in a large building....perhaps a shopping centre or hotel....

Then suddenly I realized that this was a dream....

So I told my brother," This is a dream."

To convince him, I tried flying. I ended up levitating instead.

He had no response.

(I also tried to stabilize my dream by saying "Dream....dream"......Initially I said "Awake.....awake...." but I decided to stop because I could end up waking myself into the waking world).

Then I decided I wanted to go look for Guan Yin to pay my respects.

Then I went to ask some dream characters if they know where Guan Yin is. I asked a number of dream characters. They said they don't know.

Then finally one of them drew a map (which wasn't detailed). It had just 2 points (on some kind of brochure type of paper). 1 point showing my current location, the other point showing where I must go. There's nothing on the map to indicate which is the north direction. One point was north of the other. So I decided to head somewhat north.

So I went into that direction, checked out a number of rooms. But I couldn't find Guan Yin. I had the idea of using a TV to assist me in my search. But I didn't notice any TV either.

Then I went back to this guy and tried to transform him. I wasn't sure what would be a compassionate way to do this (that is, I didn't want to transform him into a terrible object). I think I tried transforming the person (who was sitting down) into a wrathful deity first. But that didn't work. And after that I also felt I shouldn't try to do this. I may not be able to handle seeing the wrathful deity should I actually succeed.

Then I tried transforming the person into a dog (because I wanted to hug a dog). I think I failed. Instead of transforming the guy into a dog, he disappeared instead I think. Anyway, I am not too clear about this part because somehow I knew I was going to wake up from the dream soon. And indeed, I woke up around this time.


Before I continue, I would like to share this for the benefit of everyone. Let it be a guide on how one is to regard dreams.


http://www.kagyu.org/kagyulineage/lineage/kag06.php

Extract:

"Having explained the many significances of Dakpo Rinpoche's dream, Milarepa noted all the auspicious predictions in it for his future.

"However," he said, "although it is very auspicious, and a good omen for the future, you must again learn not to become attached to the dream, or to develop expectations from the dream. Nothing can be so positive that it could not turn negative if we hope or expect."

In the same way, Milarepa advised Dakpo Rinpoche not to take any negative dreams seriously either. All negative or painful dreams are illusions, not real. If we can see them as they are, and avoid becoming attached to their negative meanings, they become positive things for us and enrich us for further development on the spiritual path. "So," Milarepa advised Gampopa, "you must learn to see the negative dreams as illusion and not to take them seriously, nor should you become attached to the meanings of positive dreams; that is the practice of the yogi."

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Note: Milarepa is one of the greatest Tibetan Tantric Buddhist Masters ever. He is one of the greatest Dream Yogi.