Dream Theory: A Programmed Mind at Rest

“We teach others how to treat us,” I told a group of students last weekend, when we shifted into the communication skills portion of our weekend together. In the Psychic Realm I’ve created in my Legacy novels (and in the fringe science I base my psychic world building on) our minds teach our dreams how to transport us while we sleep. Our “every day” programs our resting realities.

I’ve promised for a while  now to post regularly about what I’ve learned writing Secret Legacy and what I’ve created in both it and it’s sister book, Dark Legacy. We’re grooving toward an exciting May/June launch/re-launch season for both projects, so let’s get busy talking about the spooky and not-so-spooky stuff that enthralls me about the mind’s power to create.

Yes, our dreams are for encoding memories and filtering out the chatter and rebooting for a new conscious day. But sometimes the unconscious noise is too important to move on from, no matter how determined we are to lock it away. And it’s these the seeds from which our strongest, most recurring dreams evolve.

As we stay unaware when we’re awake, our dreams tend to crank up the dial on dealing with whatever need/goal/fear is being repressed. They actually take on the challenge of getting us back on the track of facing the inevitable truth, that the energy we most avoid is the reality we most need to confront. So we do. Over and over. In dream cycles that keep the emotions of whatever’s challenging us in the forefront of our minds, even if we turn away from the details themselves.

Does this mean we’re subconsciously programming the very dreams we need, in order to confront our demons?

Some believe so.

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No, not THAT somebody, but it is a cool album. You should check it out ;o)

In Secret Legacy, the programming is more intentional. Managed dreaming is the technique government scientists are using to experiment with waking mind and behavior control. And, as we’ve discussed before, our brains are wired to forget dream specifics, most often only holding onto the emotions that drive us toward behavior. If someone were to meddle with our lives and realities through our sleeping journeys, we’d most likely never know.

Unless, as Sarah Temple and her psychic twin have discovered, we learn to consciously use our dream work for our own purposes.To plug into our unconscious desires and fears and the secret things we’ve hidden away all our lives that are so easily accessible when our mental barriers drop and we confront the core of what we’ve been created to be. In her and Maddie Temple’s worlds, they either own their psychic gifts and take back the control of where there minds can go, or they lose everything. Their freedom. Their futures. Their legacy, and the little girl they only realize is part of who they should be when it’s almost too late to claim her, and the dangerous things being done to all their minds.

In short, just like us, they either fight to become a lucid participant in the work their dreams are doing, or they stay victims of the fallout from the whirling realities that sleep can conjure. For us, this could result in anxiety and a sense of apprehension that we can’t quite get a grip on, until we grow uncomfortable enough to do something about whatever’s feeding our dreams. For the Temple twins and the little girl they’re trying to save from being turned into a psychic weapon, not facing their destiny and the work they need to do to achieve it means death, destruction and mayhem for all man kind. Cool!

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When you think about it that way, we’re getting off pretty easy, right? So what’s all the fuss about dreams and the fear of remembering them that blocks us from evolving beyond the emotional upset that frequently results? Heh. I get it. This isn’t easy stuff to deal with for normal folks who, unlike me, haven’t had a give and take relationship with their fantasies since they were little. This is fuzzy stuff, and there are reasons we don’t want to look too closely at the things we dream of.

But if we can teach ourselves to see past the emotions and embrace the sometimes scary images and symbols we dream about, if we can reach into our minds just a little more, then a little more, we can touch a deeper part of our consciousness. We can see the things from before, and learn to understand the things that can be, and trust that our minds are working hard to connect both extremes of us, even when we can’t.

No one, not even fringe scientists can tell us just how much sleeping and waking behavior we can actually program. The key to embracing whatever is possible with lucid dreaming is to reach for what we don’t yet understand, instead of turning our thoughts away. Accept what might very well be impossible. Take that leap of faith, just like my Legacy heroine’s do, so that your life has even more of a chance to be what it was always meant to be.

What a thrilling dream that would be.

Here’s hoping you enjoy reading them, as much as I enjoy writing on this fringe, Psychic Realm stuff that makes you think and shiver and wonder if, must maybe, some of this could really be happening around you ever day… Bwahahahahaha ;o)

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