Confirming the Dream

[kokopelle]

I had an interesting dream this morning. I dreamed that I was taking pictures at a fair/gathering. I had my camera and a camera bag. At some point I realized that my camera bag was missing. Inside the bag was my wallet and an external flash. Losing the wallet really bothered me. The officer I found told me that I had to file a report on-line. After searching all over I found the now empty camera bag. I then realized that I had somewhere put down my camera and it was now missing. I asked my family (who I was apparently traveling with) if I had brought the camera back to the car. They told me I had now. Now I was really bummed out. It occurred to me that I may be dreaming, and if I was, I would not really be missing my wallet and the expensive camera when I woke up. How could I tell if I was dreaming? I found I could drift through the air after a good solid jump. This was confirmation I was dreaming. I showed one of my brothers how to fly/drift. All was better.

Has anyone else also had a "this is a bad situation so I hope I am dreaming" type dream?

Comments

[chimerae.livejournal.com]

I don't know what your traditions use to label this, but it sounds like the transition to dream mastery.

The next step is when you realize in the dream that you are dreaming and make small change, just to see what happens.

Next, you grow into doing that in diffent dream venues and out of the consequences of the changes you make begin to learn the nature of the different dreamscapes you touch and to begin to sort them and their associtated meaning in your conscious mind.

Next, you evolve specialized skills for effectively negotiation the various dreamscapes.

Then . . .

Anyway, it usually has to come from an unpleasant situation becasue of the way difficulties induce exploration and learning. In his book, Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman talks about the need for things to be just scary enough but not too scary.