Experiment With The Dream

Since the first thing you’ll likely do is call up some combination of imagination and memory (of what it’s like to dream), the how-to is very much up to you– whatever works. You’ll find you are able to deliberately see things as a dream.

Of course it won’t literally be exactly like a dream. But it will feel dream-like. It’s easy — just go with it, whatever it’s like.

Obviously you will want to do this at more simple and safe times when you’re not doing complicated things like driving in traffic or operating heavy machinery, like the antihistamine warning labels put it.

Doing this many many times throughout the day, rather than sustaining and extending it during the day, is best.

But if you do get interested in a few of those times, you can explore and experiment with the framing here.

For instance, you can explore certain things in you, thoughts happening in you, your body, objects near and far.

You can expand the frame to the idea that you are awake and dreaming, but everything is the dream equally, near and far, in your dream body and outside your dream body.

Like a movie, but in many dimensions.

Have fun! Explore!

TIPS:

The way to do this is to follow your own experience, there is no right or wrong. But these tips of things to do might add to what you are doing:

1. See what it’s like to include your thoughts and feelings as part of the dream!

2. Ever been in a train station or a bus station and thought your vehicle was moving– but it was the other one next to you? What if instead of what seems like your body moving through space, you were actually still and everything else was moving and changing? The objects to the side of you are moving past you, the ground rolling under you. Everything that is happening is just changing, moving, shifting, and you are still the whole time.

3. Hands are particularly powerful here– simply look at these dream hands. Whose hands are these?

4. Once in a while check for straining. A little effort (imagination) may be necessary to get it going, but try to relax into the simplicity of this and trust that whatever way it is for you is fine. Don’t try hard to make anything happen!

5. Of course, as with all Living Meditations, no need to persevere through anything that doesn’t seem appropriate at any time.