Charlie Morley - Lucid Dreaming, Embracing Nightmares
Charlie Morley is a Lucid Dreaming teacher and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism specializing in the use of both Western scientific and Tibetan Buddhist dream practices with the aims of bringing mindful awareness into all stages of dream, sleep and waking life. He is the co-creator of a new holistic approach to conscious sleeping and lucid dreaming called "Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep". This new approach includes practices which aim to help us sleep better, dream more lucidly and wake up with more awareness, clarity and joy!
DREAMS OF AWAKENING - QUOTES
"The Nobel physicist Brian Josephson says, "It's not clear in physics why we can't see the future".... the closest to a scientific explanation we have for prophetic dreams is that they may be caused by our consciousness engaging in a non-local communication through the vast quantum inter-connectivity of reality in which time, and thus past and future, are relative. Nobody knows for sure, but then nobody knows for sure what dark energy is either, and that makes up 70 per cent of the known universe...."
'Dreams of Awakening' by Charlie Morley, page 194
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"How Can We Encourage Prophetic Dreams?
"It has been said that 'premonitions are our birth right. Our capacity for them is part of our original equipment, something that comes factory installed.' So, if precognitive dreams are natural, why don't most of us have them regularly?
"The reason may be because most of us aren't in tune with our own nature or our own dreams, so we aren't tuned into the wavelength on which they are broadcast. Some people believe that our natural capacity for precognitive dreaming has deteriorated due to our use of modern communications technology, which has led to our telepathic muscles atrophying from lack of use, but I believe the truth is more straightforward: our sixth sense has withered not only from lack of use but also from lack of attention. Most people are simply not interested in it.
"Once we inhabit the awareness of our subtle energies and sixth-sense capacity through mind-training practices, however, or even simply open ourselves up to the possibility that they exist, we become less disconnected from them and less limited. So, we can help remedy our precognitive dreaming limitations by practising energy work such as chakra-based meditation, tai chi or chi gong, as well as keeping a dream diary in order to pay attention to our dreaming mind. These practices will help boost the power of our extra-sensory awareness and help deepen the connection to our subtle energies and to our dreaming mind.
"The unconscious is far more likely to offer a precognitive dream to someone who is already in tune with their dream life than to someone with no dream recall or interest in their dreams. However, the most direct way to open up to our potential for precognitive dreaming is to become lucid. Due to the refined level of consciousness we enter into through the lucid dream state, we become more attuned to the innate capacity of our sixth sense, which is often pushed aside in the waking state by the other, more dominant, five senses."
'Dreams of Awakening' by Charlie Morley, page 194
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Charlie Morley is a Lucid Dreaming teacher and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism specializing in the use of both Western scientific and Tibetan Buddhist dream practices with the aims of bringing mindful awareness into all stages of dream, sleep and waking life. He is the co-creator of a new holistic approach to conscious sleeping and lucid dreaming called "Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep". This new approach includes practices which aim to help us sleep better, dream more lucidly and wake up with more awareness, clarity and joy!
DREAMS OF AWAKENING - QUOTES
"The Nobel physicist Brian Josephson says, "It's not clear in physics why we can't see the future".... the closest to a scientific explanation we have for prophetic dreams is that they may be caused by our consciousness engaging in a non-local communication through the vast quantum inter-connectivity of reality in which time, and thus past and future, are relative. Nobody knows for sure, but then nobody knows for sure what dark energy is either, and that makes up 70 per cent of the known universe...."
'Dreams of Awakening' by Charlie Morley, page 194
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"How Can We Encourage Prophetic Dreams?
"It has been said that 'premonitions are our birth right. Our capacity for them is part of our original equipment, something that comes factory installed.' So, if precognitive dreams are natural, why don't most of us have them regularly?
"The reason may be because most of us aren't in tune with our own nature or our own dreams, so we aren't tuned into the wavelength on which they are broadcast. Some people believe that our natural capacity for precognitive dreaming has deteriorated due to our use of modern communications technology, which has led to our telepathic muscles atrophying from lack of use, but I believe the truth is more straightforward: our sixth sense has withered not only from lack of use but also from lack of attention. Most people are simply not interested in it.
"Once we inhabit the awareness of our subtle energies and sixth-sense capacity through mind-training practices, however, or even simply open ourselves up to the possibility that they exist, we become less disconnected from them and less limited. So, we can help remedy our precognitive dreaming limitations by practising energy work such as chakra-based meditation, tai chi or chi gong, as well as keeping a dream diary in order to pay attention to our dreaming mind. These practices will help boost the power of our extra-sensory awareness and help deepen the connection to our subtle energies and to our dreaming mind.
"The unconscious is far more likely to offer a precognitive dream to someone who is already in tune with their dream life than to someone with no dream recall or interest in their dreams. However, the most direct way to open up to our potential for precognitive dreaming is to become lucid. Due to the refined level of consciousness we enter into through the lucid dream state, we become more attuned to the innate capacity of our sixth sense, which is often pushed aside in the waking state by the other, more dominant, five senses."
'Dreams of Awakening' by Charlie Morley, page 194
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