01-07-2008, 12:00 AM
Just btw, this is not an exhaustive rendering of the teachings of Candidates about dreaming. It's just one tool in the shed, so to speak.
Some people, particuarly those who have a certain schedule for a prolonged period of time, find that they don't need an alarm clock to wake themselves up on time to get to work.
They may habitually go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day.
Some people can adjust their internal clock with a little practice, and find that they can purposefully awaken themselves an hour earlier if they need to be at work early.
They find that they can "set themselves" with an act of will, and get up early if their schedule requires it.
To begin dreaming, a Candidate begins by trying to wake himself up at a prechosen hour, usually after four to six hours of sleep.
After some initial failures, most people can purposefully wake themselves up at say, four in the morning, and be within a few minutes of the clock.
That is the first gate of dreaming for a Candidate.
When a man has successfully made himself wake up within five or ten minutes of the preselected time, he has a small victory.
He has consciously commanded his dreaming self with his waking self. We say he's established a bridge of communication between waking and dreaming.
The next thing to do is to get out of bed and move around just a little. Most people find that having a light snack at this point is helpful.
Then you go back to bed for what's know as "the second sleep" or "the sorcerer's sleep".
Unanimously, people find their dreams to be more vivid and memorable. The sleep is lighter, the dreams are more vivid.
It is exponentially easier to find one's hands while asleep under these conditions. The candidates share the feature of "finding one's hands" with Nagualists.
No doubt, the writings of Castaneda have played a very influential role in our processes.
At any rate, a Candidate "sets himself" to dream using the same internal process he used to set himself to wake.
It's a very good well grounded technique that takes smaller steps at a time, than the techniques Carlos gave.
We also counsel people to cloak their dreaming in secrecy, but that's a different post.
Some people, particuarly those who have a certain schedule for a prolonged period of time, find that they don't need an alarm clock to wake themselves up on time to get to work.
They may habitually go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day.
Some people can adjust their internal clock with a little practice, and find that they can purposefully awaken themselves an hour earlier if they need to be at work early.
They find that they can "set themselves" with an act of will, and get up early if their schedule requires it.
To begin dreaming, a Candidate begins by trying to wake himself up at a prechosen hour, usually after four to six hours of sleep.
After some initial failures, most people can purposefully wake themselves up at say, four in the morning, and be within a few minutes of the clock.
That is the first gate of dreaming for a Candidate.
When a man has successfully made himself wake up within five or ten minutes of the preselected time, he has a small victory.
He has consciously commanded his dreaming self with his waking self. We say he's established a bridge of communication between waking and dreaming.
The next thing to do is to get out of bed and move around just a little. Most people find that having a light snack at this point is helpful.
Then you go back to bed for what's know as "the second sleep" or "the sorcerer's sleep".
Unanimously, people find their dreams to be more vivid and memorable. The sleep is lighter, the dreams are more vivid.
It is exponentially easier to find one's hands while asleep under these conditions. The candidates share the feature of "finding one's hands" with Nagualists.
No doubt, the writings of Castaneda have played a very influential role in our processes.
At any rate, a Candidate "sets himself" to dream using the same internal process he used to set himself to wake.
It's a very good well grounded technique that takes smaller steps at a time, than the techniques Carlos gave.
We also counsel people to cloak their dreaming in secrecy, but that's a different post.