“The Relationship Between Energy and Form in Dreams and the Expansion of Consciousness”

 By Dr. Nigel Hamilton – London, United Kingdom

“Energy and matter are interchangeable (Einstein). Yet the energy (field) and matter (form) that appear as pictures/ landscapes in our dreams seem determined by something more primary, our consciousness… 

Indeed, lucid dream experiences can lead to what the Tibetan Dream Yogis call “the dreamless state” a transcendental experience in which there are no images, no sense of time or space, only “clear light” or awareness. In such experiences, emotions take on a subtle, transpersonal character such as a profound sense of serenity, peace and harmony.Just as we can experience a changing sense of time and space in a single dream – and over the course of an extended cycle of dreams covering several years – so we can also experience a shift in our emotions in a single dream or over the course of time. As we become free of our psychological blocks, fear, scripts and our assumptions about who or what we are, the spaces and the images in the dream open up, time dilates and the dreamscapes become more colourful and more beautiful.

Some lucid dreamers have related experiences of timelessness and a sense of the omnipresent. Some have described the changing dream space as a change into another reality, a higher spatial dimension of deeper feeling, knowing, and being. In such instances, the dreamer’s emotional tenor, heart longing and consciousness appear aligned with the source of consciousness in a transcendent state. As a result, the dreamer re-enters waking reality with a fuller, more expanded sense of self and their relationship to the universe. Often, the dreamer’s waking world also becomes more clearly reflective of their heart longing…” – Dr. Niguel Hamilton

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“Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to help the physical, mental or emotional pains of another and themselves. Compassion is often regarded as having sensitivity, an emotional aspect to suffering…“Compassion involves “feeling for another” and is a precursor to empathy, the “feeling as another”… compassion is the desire to alleviate another’s [or your own] suffering…” – Wikipedia

“In lucid meditation, we are already awake, yet we try to connect with the power of the dream realm. Translated into waking life, this ability, cultivated during meditation, develops the power of our subtle senses. This capacity affirms our essential unity with all of life. It cultivates compassion, awareness, and a sense of our being in the flow of things.” – Excerpted from the book Living in the SuperMind—From Personal Mind to Spiritual Mind by Dr. Maurie Pressman and provided by the publisher: https://manyhands.com/eyes-on-books/opening-to-the-supermind-through-lucid-dreaming-and-lucid-meditation/

When you wake up in a dream in this sense you empathize with the perspectives of other self-aspects rather than simply accept the consensus reality of the dream at face value. In some important respects, this is more powerful than lucid dreaming because it amplifies the six core qualities.  It is compassionate, in that it strives to empathize with the perspectives of other sentient beings appearing in your dream.” – From the text DREAM YOGA – Joseph Dillard – http://www.dreamyoga.com/challengeslucid-dreaming/  

“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside somebody else’s skin… Dreaming can be a school for this kind of compassion… “The shock of realizing I am in a black man’s body makes me conscious I am dreaming. Now lucid, I stay with the dream… I am fascinated by discovering what it feels like to have your genitals outside your body… Now I’m walking down the street, in this black man’s body… I smell delicious food aromas wafting from a restaurant… Two white men at the door tell…“Sure you can come in, boy. You can eat watermelon.” … I feel boiling anger rising inside me… I pull out of the dream.”  I asked Norma how she felt about this dream adventure inside a black man’s body. “I felt exhilarated,” she told me without hesitation. “I felt sad about the racism that black man had to contend with, yet grateful that I could share a part of his life.”  “If only all of us could have this experience of being inside other people’s skins, we could get rid of a lot of our prejudices and social problems.” – Belifnet – Posted by Robert Moss – http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/dreamgates/2012/05/compassionate-dreaming-living-inside-somebody-elses-skin.html

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