There was nothing on lucid dreaming when I started. I was not even aware of it, as it was in the late '50’s
I reasoned this way, Life is often too demanding for most people to learn to do the right thing. So, can they practice in dreams?
I decided my best chance at learning the answer would be to try to do the simplest thing in a dream. I would tell my mother, in the dream, simply that I was dreaming.
The third night, I found myself in our kitchen, My mother was at the sink doing dishes, but I was not lucid. Simple awareness is not lucidity.
I was about to leave when she turned around and said, What do you want, Jay? Then I remembered, then I understood. I spread my arms and said, all this is a dream.
That started my many years of exploring the dream state while dreaming.
I would experiement, for example, if I were playing, as a sword fight, I would see what it was like to be the winner, then turn it around to see what it was like to lose.
Once I wanted to see how fast I could wake myself up from a lucid dream, I put a lot of effort into it and woke up so fast I got a headache, never did that again.
I would rate my awareness, by how well I could reason, and plan my actions.
I left off lucid dreaming when I learned that it was linguistically based to start my studies of the principles of reasoning itself.
Along the way, I did learn communication was involved. I got to the point where I could see things to come, if I wanted to. I reasoned that we live by our own ability. That it was our own ability that needed to improve. There is life in the Universe, much more advanced that we can imagine, however, we have a job to do, and whatever they are, they are not going to do it for us–because they cannot think for us, live for us, or do for us–these are wholly counterproductive expectations.
We are tested in the lucid dream state for cognitive and associative functions. Recurring dreams have something to do with this.
My life has been saved twice, from what people call visions. I would be dead over thirty years ago if I were wholly left to my own stupidity.
As one is responsible for their will in the waking state, so too in the lucid dreamstate, Lucidity is a function of productive will in either state. It cannot be stressed enough, [size=150]lucidity itself is a function of productive will in either state.[/size] The function of the human mind is to produce human will that maintains and promotes its life. This is true in any state of mind.
If we do not have standards for language itself, it is not possible to have psychological standards of man, because the human mind is linguistically functional or dysfunctional. So, you see, you can call me delusional, but in so doing you would have to deny the factual.
As there is a great deal of rubbish as to what constitutes rationality, which is a joke because they don’t know the principles, nor can they maintain them in the waking state, there is more than enough rubbish about lucid dreaming. We are evolving, but no animal evolves over night. However, there are points in evolution where survival becomes questionable.
How can anything think that psychology should be aimed at the fringes of obvious irrationality, but not at the core itself?
Every environmental acquisition system of a living organism is responsible for crafting specific products that maintain and promote the life of that organism. The human mind is not different. Its product is human will, and its tool is language. Logical and analogical.
There is a book for man, it is a series of psychological tests. The Judeo-Christian Scripture. As it is read, how one responds to the words produces testable results. I do a couple demo’s in the vid, I Am Principles of Self Realization. When it was indicated I should read it, I tossed it across the room as rubbish. First responses are not always correct.
Man has been looking for first contact situations, never dreaming that the slower was not the one who arrives first, but that the loudest was the one with the better hearing.