Welcome to your lucid dream meditation.
I'm excited to take this journey with you.
I recommend listening to this at the end of your day of doing.
Once you're in bed and ready to build a bridge of conscious awareness between this waking reality and the boundless world of sleep and dream,
We can often move through our days unthinking and unnoticing.
We may find ourselves saying things automatically that we don't necessarily mean,
Behave in ways we are told to or unspokenly expected to,
Or arrive at home after a long day without remembering much about how we got there.
The same can be true of dreams.
We spend about a third of our lives sleeping,
Traversing worlds that we may or may not remember at all on waking,
Rarely realizing that we are in our own constructed reality,
Limited only by the borders of our imaginations.
We move through dream worlds that may be frightening,
Fantastical,
Or mundane.
The internal logic of the dream can be so strong that we do not question things that on waking seem obviously out of place or bizarre,
Much the way that there are things in our waking life we may become accustomed to and no longer question.
When we learn to wake up in our dreams to habitually question the solidity of what we see,
We can begin to play,
To conjure up our own creative realities.
When we understand dream as otherworldly adventure,
As a multi-sensory interactive story we tell ourselves,
When we explore what else is possible,
We're practicing the tools and toys needed to question and wake up in our daytime lives as well.
As Tibetan dream yoga teaches,
Wake up in dream to wake up in life.
Now I'll invite you to do whatever you need to do to really settle in.
Take a last sip of water,
Close the curtains,
Adjust pillows and blankets as needed,
Find a comfortable position and rest into stillness.
Now take a very slow full breath in,
Filling the chest and belly all the way down at the bowl of the pelvis.
Hold at the top,
Feel your ribs expanding 360 degrees,
Especially being sure to fill into the back of the body.
When you're ready,
Release the breath with a sigh.
Allow the breath to soften and move naturally.
Breath and heart rate slowing as you become calm and still.
Feel the solidity,
The trustworthiness of the bed,
The floor and the earth below that,
Pressing back firm against your body.
Know that you are safely held here,
That this is where you will come home to when you wake.
Take a few moments to tell yourself the story of your day.
You may say this out loud or speak it to yourself in your mind.
Begin the retelling of each memory with,
Today I dreamed.
I'll leave you a few moments of silence.
What did you dream today?
When you are finished recounting the story of your day,
Imagine each of these thought constructs of memory floating off along a river.
Let them go,
Leaving you present and aware of what it is to be right here,
Now.
In your bed,
Ready to enter into your lucid dream.
Think for a moment about what calls you to lucid dreaming.
Do you want to observe your unfolding dreamscape and remember it?
Do you have a specific desire like wanting to meet up with a faraway loved one in your dream?
Do you just want to play with constructing your own reality and seeing what is possible?
Be as specific as you can with your desire.
Name what it is you want to experience for yourself and really feel that longing.
Be that longing.
Think to yourself,
I will wake up in my dream.
I will wake up in my dream.
Really mean it.
Feel the knowing that you will wake up in your dream.
I will wake up in my dream.
Your singular intention now is to focus completely on this knowing.
Keep repeating it to yourself as you drift off to sleep.
I will wake up in my dream.
Anytime you notice your thoughts drifting away,
Come back to the mantra.
Your anchor phrase,
I will wake up in my dream.
I will wake up in my dream.
Let the words be a raft that ferry you from this reality into your dream.
I will wake up in my dream.
I will wake up in my dream.
I will wake up in my dream.
I will wake up in my dream.
I will wake up in my dream.
Wake up.
