Consciousness Work And Dreams.

[Frogfucius]

Since I've started meditating and becoming more conscious, I've noticed that my dreams appear more vivid and real. I'm also able to recall them later on more easily. The emotions and situations in the dreams feel more "real". When I'm awake, I'm amazed how I feel duped about the illusions created in my head in the dreams..like, how can I believe those illusions as reality? But then it gets me thinking that if I'm so easily duped in my dreams, is my so-called reality also duping me? What am I to trust?

Can anyone relate?

[AlwaysBeNice]

Yes, I love it, my dreams are becoming increasingly more vivid and conscious as well, I know some dreams can be a sort of middle ground between realms of pure consciousness/spirit (aka the afterlife or thought realms), and our lives , based on one confirming experience I had. 

Very exciting stuff, especially because of some interactions I've had with my deceased father. 

[Taavi]

I have been observing how my dreams are created by staying conscious in the moments when they start to form. Usually one would be completely unconscious already at that time. It is quite scary, once you realize that you keep dreaming in waking life. Your perceptions are not dreams, but the story in which you live is. Once I become lucid in my dream and start meditating in it, then shit hits the fan. I have very little to no memories of my story, only consciousness and often times terryfing emotions. 

All the stories that you keep living throughout your day, they are very little less arbitrary then the dreams you experience and you have pretty much the same control over them as you do over your dreams. You are right, your reality is basically a dream. Not reality itself, just your story which you experience as reality.

[Frogfucius]

46 minutes ago, Taavi said:

I have been observing how my dreams are created by staying conscious in the moments when they start to form. Usually one would be completely unconscious already at that time. It is quite scary, once you realize that you keep dreaming in waking life. Your perceptions are not dreams, but the story in which you live is. Once I become lucid in my dream and start meditating in it, then shit hits the fan. I have very little to no memories of my story, only consciousness and often times terryfing emotions. 

All the stories that you keep living throughout your day, they are very little less arbitrary then the dreams you experience and you have pretty much the same control over them as you do over your dreams. You are right, your reality is basically a dream. Not reality itself, just your story which you experience as reality.

Yeah, the fact that I'm not able to discern I'm actually dreaming in a dream is scary. It feels so real, just like my waking life. My senses worked, I thought it was real, but it was all an illusion. The stories and any dangers or pleasures were completely false.

Lucid dreams are amazing though. You become fully aware of your environment and are the master of anything that's thrown at you without fear. At least, that's what it felt like in the few times I remained lucid in a dream. I wonder if enlightenment is like a lucid dream, in a sense?

[Dodo]

I dream awesome dreams. Last night was supposed to be a nightmare, but im so damn enlightened in my dream that nothing phases me. Ofcourse i do run from the bad guys. I think my ability to escape is the reason i cant feel real fear for longer, like i used to when i was a child and couldnt move while the bad guys were after me. Bit i did feel intense fear last night for a while because they were after me, but then i felt 'im going to destroy these fools, i can run so fast and jump through obstacles. I had the feeling this is my territory and i knew how to get around and confuse the shit out of them.

All started because me and my girl were trying to stop one guy from stealing a white horse with his truck. He came back with help and well, my girl wasnt fast enough, she got caught and they ate her like zombies..

(i only saw they ate her like zombies,because later that night i dreamt that im explaining what happened to my mother, she wanted to check it out, and we went back. The guys that were chasing me were in a circle eating her... Sadly mom strayed too far too, before i could tell her to gtfo . 

Damn, is there a thread for sharing dreams? Maybe i should have a dream journal on here in the journal section.