3 Tips to learn to self-control

Dreaming as you do, you move toward becoming more aware that you are dreaming as this is actually happening.  You may underestimate how this activity enables you to train your mind. No doubt you wonder what dream control exists and what kinds are desirable.

Consider you can evolve to regulate not only your response to dream content, but also the themes of your dreams.  People can learn to work through problems in dreams.  You may ask yourself what really is possible? Reflect on three tips to learn self-control;

1) Value your scary dreams.  As you learn to face the source of your fear in dreams, you gain a measure of self-control and confidence that carries over to how you function while awake.  You begin to realize you exert control over what you think and feel in life.

2) Recognize controlling others is not the answer.  Although you may employ magic in dreamworlds and even transform creatures with thoughts or spells, wishing for people to disappear in real life is not an effective solution.  Conjuring is not the way to solve your problems. Changing your attitude and perception of conditions is more useful.

3) Rethink your assumptions.  How you handle obstacles, conflicts and discomfort in waking life comes back to your assumptions about what is and is not possible.  Whether you choose to become a more experienced dreamer and what level of awareness you reach in waking life each influence what you are willing to create and tackle in dreams.

3 signs you may be lucid

People will talk about astral dreaming and lucid dreaming and sometimes wonder if a difference exists.  You can be asleep yet, still conscious and even conscious while dreaming.  These are sample phases of awareness.  

Lucid dreamers tune out from the physical world, that is, they choose not to be in conscious sensory contact with it.  They act as if they know what they are doing when they do it.  You can learn to awaken your senses and experience new kinds of contact with dream worlds. One view is that astral and lucid dreaming differ based on what part of your mind is in control.  Subconscious mind levels work differently.

If you believe that human consciousness only permits you to focus attention on one or a few things at once, then you begin to realize you are less conscious than you could be and it takes energy to focus and raise awareness.  Consider your own experience.  Reflect on these four signs you may be lucid;

1) You recall lessons you have learned in waking life during your dreams. Non-lucid dreamers experience state-specific amnesia.  That is, while asleep, they only remember fragments of waking reality, if any at all.  They do not sense a bridge or move beyond it.

2) You sense you are radically shifting or transforming experience. Completely lucid dreams have a profound and lasting impact on the dreamer's thoughts and perception.  You move from feeling contained within the dream world to where you transcend it, realize you create it, and expand.  You no longer totally identify with dream roles.

3) Insight you acquire during dreams is accessible when you awaken.  Inventors, scientists, business people and others have been inspired during sleep with ideas they write and apply while awake.   It enables you to access deeper answers within you.

Adjust your sense of what is possible

Dreams offer you clues about how to develop and apply psychic abilities in waking life. They reveal where you construct boundaries and limits and they compel you to explore why.  The why always comes before the how.  Your sense of what is possible evolves with you.

Some people believe dreams are fascinating paths into the psychic world. What you dream and how you interpret dreams reveals more than you will initially realize.  You not only gain insight into your conscious self, but you can also connect and interact with other worlds. 

Many people do not permit psychic abilities to develop beyond the dreaming stage.  You may have found yourself awaken in the morning to disregard images, thoughts and gut feelings as unimportant.  Maybe they are. Maybe they are not.  Only you can judge your progress. 

The time may arise when you discern psychic abilities during sleeping dreams.  You may experience feelings of deja vu.   You may have vivid dreams you recall long after awakening. You may derive startling meanings from symbols that stand out.  You may question the meaning of feeling grounded.  It is just adjusting your sense of what is possible.

How often have you had a wakening experience where you could swear you must be dreaming? Yet, pinching yourself reveals you are aligning new awareness.  You may use senses to discern things part of you refuses to believe are real.  It is a process to evolve.  Astral dreaming is a journey. It can help you solve conflicts, reframe challenges, and learn to trust abilities you forgot you had. You gain insight into your own self-fulfilling prophecies.

3 things you can learn from astral dreaming

In waking life and during sleep, each person discerns what is meaningful and why.  Whether or not you realize, your physical body has a shadow-like astral body.  The real (astral) you travels vast distances astrally, while you sleep.  Since everyone does not recall dreams or even feel the need, you may wonder the point of astral dreaming.  You may be surprised about what astral experiences do for you, even at this moment:

1) Raises your awareness.   If you believe astral is a supersensible substance pervading all space, then you may also come to believe it forms the substance of a second body (astral body) attached to each person by an invisible, ethereal cord. It is always with you, and can leave the human body at will, consciously or unconsciously, and it survives the physical body after death.  As you discern that astral body separates and reunites with your physical body, you begin to recognize feelings of expansion, growth and renewal.

2) Teaches you about energy vibration. Everything you perceive while awake or asleep is energy that vibrates.  Through experience, you evolve to discern different frequencies and register the nature of matter.  The astral body discerns energy differently than your physical body because the astral body is not restricted by doubt and conditioned thought.  You learn about energy distortion and how conscious perception creates that. 

3) Prepares you for transitions.  It is believed that you explore dimensions and experiences on astral planes which prepare you for work you will undertake when you leave the physical world.  You might view this as a way to help you accept and adjust to transitions in your energy state.  If you were not preparing for energy transition, the change would shock you and it would require a period of recovery.  As your soul evolves in consciousness while your physical body lives, you become aware of spirit realms and you strengthen conscious memory.  This applies to dream recall and also other event recall.

What if you could explore future life dream recall?

If you believe a supersensible substance pervades all space and forms the substance of a second body (astral body) belonging to each individual, then you may be willing to believe you could explore future life dream recall. People will speculate that clues to oncoming lives must exist in fragments within dreams you have.  How would you proceed?

Uncharted pools of consciousness contain details of present and future consciousness.  Your level of awareness now permits you to reflect on choices you have made, but what if you have future insight already?  Would you choose to bring it to surface?What if you had ability to live out different futures and decde among preferred outcomes, then, rewind?

To choose among options in front of you in different areas of your life, to then explore a prospective choice on one level, and to deviate to another, could theoretically launch you into a different probability.  You may wonder if you might not get lost among realities and lose your way back to where you started.  And what if you changed your mind about a probable reality after the choice was made? You do not need a time capsule.

All of this reminds you why the conscious mind uses great restraint toward knowing future lives or possible experiences. Many people would choose not to know about the exact circumstances and timing of their eventual death before it happens.  Why?  Human beings develop a concern about what could be unpleasant or worriesome. Fear turns into very real mental blocks that inhibits awareness of dimensions of future lives.  

You may be aware past life regression therapy is a tool that benefits people in healing processes and quests for deeper self-understanding.  Whether or not reincarnation is scientifically-proven beyond any doubt, belief systems are such that this practice serves to empower some people to more effectively tackle perceived present struggles. 

Now, that said, your present is a perspective of future from the framework of your past.  Similarly, your present is your past from the perspective of a future.  Anyone who believes in past life regression,  is exploring future life dream recall already.  From the position of the past, the present is the future.  Human beings build bridges to interconnect past and future and travel between them more often than consciously realized.  What you are prepared to admit and remember, is something else.

"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." -Edgar Cayce