How to remain attentive— the art of lucid dreaming and far beyond
Vic Shayne
author
13 Pillars of Enlightenment: How to realize your true nature and end suffering
When the attention is great enough then there is lucidity, allowing this world to disappear and give way to some other reality, including the dream world.
Lucid dreaming
Back in the early 1990s I read a ground-breaking book entitled Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming written by Stanford University psychologist and researcher Stephen LaBerge. The premise of his message was that it’s possible to be aware that we are having a dream and that we can purposefully participate within that dream. The term for this, coined more than a hundred years ago by one of Sigmund Freud’s hypnosis colleagues, Dutch psychopathologist Fredrik van Eeden, is lucid dreaming.
I read LaBerge’s book with great interest and decided to see if I could be lucid in my own dreams. Although his case studies were interesting, I neither believed nor disbelieved what he had written. I stayed neutral because I didn’t know one way or another whether what he was describing was possible unless it happened to me. To my surprise, I discovered that the more I placed my attention on the possibility of lucid dreaming the more lucid my dreams became until I…
