The Lucid Heart
“I sleep but my heart is awake.” This is the principle of lucid dreaming; access to the lucid heart.
Lucid dreaming may be great fun, but its credibility lies in the fact that it can be proven scientifically. Modern dream researches have figured out how to perform brain imaging of dreamers. They’ve discovered the exact areas of the brain that are active while dreamers are lucid. How exactly do the researchers know a dreamer’s gone lucid? The make a deal with the dreamers that they move their arms or clench their fists when they realize they’re dreaming.
More to Dreams
While these discoveries are helping researchers understand more of what’s going on in dreams, this research is in its infancy. In fact, the most accepted methods of dream psychoanalysis are little more than a hundred years old. There is no doubt we’re living in an age where we’ve discovered more about dreams than any previous generation. However, there’s more to dreams than the subconscious and brain power. When our emotions get stirred by a dream, we wake up with more than just a memory. Emotions, and premonitions are proof that dreams affect more than just your dreaming mind.
Back in the days before technology and psychology were invented, the ancients were very aware of how heartfelt dreams could be. In fact, one of the wisest men to ever live, Solomon, made an astute observation. He said “I sleep but my heart is awake.” He understood what many modern people of today have either forgotten or have never known.
Dreams move the heart.
I recently ran across these words that Solomon wrote so many centuries ago and it got me thinking. What if lucid dreaming is controlled by more than just our wills and brains? What if the intentions of our heart have just as much to do with being in control of our dreams than our brains do? I mean, we’re not robots here. If intentional thought could cause a dreamer to lucid dream, why couldn’t intentions of the heart?’
I found the concept of the lucid heart fascinating. This could actually be a place where calling and destiny dreams come from. Our heart is receiving so many messages from our dreams, especially when we’re dreaming and suddenly can’t remember what we’ve dreamed. What if our heart, our true person deep inside, can not only receive dream messages, but communicate those messages we’ve received over a lifetime (unremembered dreams are messages that are tucked inside the heart) and cause us to act upon them in our waking life.
Having a lucid dream can be quite an experience, but living out what our heart is communicating to us through a dream while we’re awake, is the next level of lucidity. Our lucid hearts are much like a rudder directing us through the watercourse of life if we let it.
EB
