Dreaming While Awake
Lucid Dreaming: The Power of Being Awake and Aware in Your Dreams (1985)
Andrew Holecek • Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep
If mindfulness is about becoming more aware of subtle daytime waking experiences, lucidity is a mindfulness of night.
Rubin Naiman • Healing Night: The Science and Spirit of Sleeping, Dreaming, and Awakening
- Awakening Principle Wake up, right here, right now! Be aware and remember that everyone is a dreamer and everything that is happening around you is nothing more than a dream, only the dream no longer has any control over you.
Joanna Dobson • Transurfing in 78 Days — A Practical Course in Creating Your Own Reality
What is it specifically that has the power to entice consciousness back into the gravitational field of the dream state? We should not ask, “How do I stay awake?” Instead we should ask, “How is it that I’m unenlightening myself? How is it specifically that I’m putting myself back in illusion?”
Adyashanti • The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
In other words, if lucid dreams bring waking consciousness into the dream realm, then psychedelic experiences appear to bring dreaming consciousness into the waking world.