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Dreaming Skills

How To Dream To The Target

About Time Shift

Incubating A Healthy, Creative Spirit

Psychic Dreaming Skills

Incubation Techniques: How To Dream To The Target

1. Choose Your Goal You can incubate a dream on any topic you choose, but you will have the greatest success with those goals in which you have some emotional investment. Pick a problem or question that concerns you, one which you would be willing to explore. Or, choose an interesting or intriguing goal, one that excites you and with which you can have some fun. 2. Immerse Yourself in the Goal Engage in activities relevant to the goal. Read books or notes on your chosen subject. Utilize photos, movies, or objects to form associations. Rehearse the situation in the waking state, using role-playing or discussion. Pray or meditate to the goal; fantasize about it. Visualize writing the dream in your journal. 3. Feather Your Nest Create an atmosphere that will most encourage the dream. Provide a peaceful place to sleep. Choose a time when you are not fatigued, in which you have not indulged in stimulants or heavy food. Have your notebook, pen and light available for recording the dream, or use a tape recorder. Do not give yourself a short length of tape or piece of scrap paper to record--this defeats your confidence in the dreaming process. Retire at a reasonable time if night sleeping, or awake yourself in the early morning hours to return to lighter sleep. You might also try day sleeping. 4. Narrow Your Focus Write down your request. Outline all aspects of the topic on paper. Get in touch with how you feel about the situation, especially all those reasons for not wanting to resolve or experience the goal. Give yourself permission to discover and explore. The point is to be specific about your goal, but open-ended about the results. Finally, write down the phrase that most clearly speaks to your deepest desires. Use the first person--after all, this is your dream! Date the dream and write "Dream I" if you wish, to indicate to your dreaming mind that you are ready to record. 5. Open Your Expectations Relax and put yourself in the mood or emotion of your goal. Concentrate on the energy and feeling of the topic. Repeat your goal phrase to yourself. You may, depending upon the topic, choose to adopt one of the following approaches: mantra, affirmation, prayer, or command. If your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the topic. Avoid thinking of alternatives. Think about the topic firmly, but don't force it. Then let yourself drift into sleep. 6. Sleep and Dream Trust your dream maker to respond to your request. 7. Recall Your Dream Try to awake before your usual time to rise: use a music alarm, a partner, or give yourself the suggestion prior to sleep. You might try drinking several glasses of water before sleeping. Don't move; remain prone and try to recall the images of the dream. Hold on to the feeling tones: these can sometimes conjure up the related dream visuals. When you have the first fragment, turn over in bed to another position--this may stimulate additional dream portions. Try still other positions until you have the fullest recall. Reexperience the dream several times, noting a key word from each segment to help reconstruct the whole dream. 8. Record Your Dream Record all dreams as soon as possible upon waking. Include the feelings associated with the dream. Title and date the dream, and use the present tense. If, while recording, you have any immediate associations with waking life, note them. If you have no dream recall, simply record the feelings upon waking, or the first thoughts that pop into mind. 9. Reinforce Your Dream Record each dream! The seemingly trivial can often contain a profound message. Treat all "failures" kindly; encourage yourself to try again. Sometimes the incubated dream will appear on a succeeding night. Share your dream with a partner or group. By yourself, you can try various methods of interpretation. But do something with the dream; actualize it! First published as Magallón, Linda Lane. "Dream Trek: Incubation Techniques: How To Dream To The Target," Dream Network Bulletin, 5/3 (1986), 15.

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About Time Shift

Time is loose in dream reality! It might be several days before you get a dream that responds to your incubation. Time shift can result in precognitive and retrocognitive dreams. When dreaming with partners, corresponding dreams can occur on different nights. Just as there can be a time delay in receiving mail, so your own mind receiver may not turn on and tune into the energy until you are prepared to receive it. So if you do not get a dream on a specified date, don't give up! First, wait for a delayed response. Then, try again. First published as Magallón, Linda Lane. "Dream Ahead '96: Dream Ahead Tips: About Time Shift ," NightFlyer, 1/3 (1996) Insert. Reprinted in Electric Dreams, 3/2 (1996).

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Incubating A Healthy, Creative Spirit

How we dream is highly dependent on what happens before we sleep. Yes, sometimes the symbols or scenes in our dreams reflect the objective content of our physical existence. But even more, daily life churns up feelings and emotions that are pictured in dream dramas. As a result of such waking state impact, we program, or incubate, dreams automatically. If we pay attention, we can become alert to those influences and judge whether they are good, bad or indifferent for us. Just what is triggering our thoughts, feelings and emotional reactions, our dream imagery? Can we, should we do anything about it? I have discovered that dreams do like the influx of positive energy. They tend to become more ordered, more coherent, and thus clearer to understand and interpret. Positive energy from the waking state stirs up the inner hero to deal successfully with in-dream conflict so that it doesn't spill over into waking life. Positive energy from the waking state nurtures hidden potential and allows it to fly free. Suddenly, the door is open to the extraordinary. You don't have extraordinary dreams? I certainly didn't, in the beginning. Night after night, my dream platter held the same fare. The idea that it could be different, that I might benefit from a change in the menu, didn't even occur to me. I was the victim of nightmare and then, the prisoner of the mundane. My dream psyche painted the best dream product she could, given the circumstances. Given the daily hash I fed her. Given the limited art tools I provided. Given how much I ignored her growing needs. Shouldn't we be satisfied with what we've got? Aren't dreams, all dreams, gifts of the psyche? Don't they all reflect us? Well, if that's true, let me suggest you analyze your dreams and their content. Then ask youself: just how healthy and balanced are they? How healthy can they be if I never flex my mind muscles? How healthy can they be, given that my dream psyche is fed on thin broth or toxic ingredients? No wonder she can only paint in traumatones and greyscapes! I remember life in the '50's. A jogger running through suburbia would have been a oddity in a world of calorie-laden and smoking strollers. Yet today we understand the benefits of a healthy exercise routine and of watching our diets for our waking lives. But what of our life under the covers? Why not just cling to old habits and fall asleep with worries, concerns and the emotions invoked by the evening news? Why not just dump day residue into our sleeping mind and let our dream psyche deal with it? Isn't that what sleep is supposed to do: repair waking wounds? Sure, it can and does. Yet, if we don't take responsibility for doing at least some of the clean-up work prior to sleep, the dream is all fear, anxiety and repair work. And guess who gets to *live* a life of fear, anxiety and repair work? Not us waking egos. Oh, no, we're too zoned out. However, if we waking egos do clean-up work plus add some rich nutrients before sleep, the results are truly amazing. Suddenly, the dream psyche is not just a servant who works for us. Now, she has time to play. Now, she has time to be creative and innovative. She has time to explore the unknown. She has the energy to experience the extraordinary. Finally, she has the opportunity to grow, to lift up beyond the survival level. To become a master artist. And wow, can she paint some fantastic dreams! Given the new circumstances. The goal of intentional incubation is not just to satisfy the needs of our waking egos. It's the liberation of our healthy, creative dreaming spirit. First published as Magallón, Linda Lane. "Incubating A Healthy, Creative Spirit," The Dream Tree News, 3/4 (Summer '99), 5-7.

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Tools for the Development Of Psychic Dreaming Skills

What does it take to develop basic psychic dreaming skills? For the study and application of psychic dreaming first consider all those excellent tools of dreamwork: recall, journaling, incubation and interpretative techniques. In addition, lucid and out-of-body dreaming can expand your repertoire as a dream explorer. Interpretation Initially, you may not consider your dreams to be telepathic, clairvoyant or precognitive because they show little evidence of literal correspondence with daily life. But even a superficial perusal of dreams shows that the dream speaks a language which is largely associative and metaphoric. By learning to decode your own personal symbology, you can realize those "hidden" messages concerning the past, the future or a distant location. Understanding your own symbology is quite important for a number a reasons. It helps you decide which of the dreams are to be taken at face value and which are not. It helps you differentiate between what is your own problem or complex and those troubled events and characteristics that are gleaned from an outside source. I am in total agreement that every dream is primarily personal, meaning that first, the message is of importance to you, the individual. Having said that, it's also possible that what can be of importance of you is how you relate to another part of the universe and how that "significant other" relates to you. Recall Of course, if you can't recall the clues to unlock the message of the dream, it will remain an unsolved mystery. The revealing elements of psychic dreams are often in the details, not in generalizations. Memory practice helps fill in the total picture of your dream underground. Journaling Journaling is crucial to produce a recorded copy of dreams which are titled and dated for reference purposes. If indexed, they can provide easy access so that you may track correspondences with precognitive and telepathic information you learn later or with any specialized dream content, like lucid and OOB dreams. New psychic dreams can be induced simply by reading old ones in your journal. Incubation Incubation goes beyond programming dreams for oneself; it includes incubation about another place or a future event. Afterwards, interpretation becomes that much easier, since the you have a head-start on knowing the subject matter. You can highlight or asterisk incubated dreams in your journal index so that you may refer back to them when the anticipated event occurs. Lucid and Out-of-Body Dreaming Once aware in the dream, you can recall a previous intent to request psychic information from dream characters or the dream in total. Given permission from your dreaming partners, you can obtain information by traveling to visit them. Psychic events don't have to be spontaneous. They can be encouraged by hearing of or reading about those people who have similar dreams. They can be incubated and induced, then analyzed and compared with waking life. Nevertheless, spontaneous psychic dreams do happen continually. The psychic is a natural part of the process of dreaming. First published as Magallón, Linda Lane. "Tools for the Development of Psychic Dreaming Skills," The Dream Tree News, 3/2 (Spring '99), 2-4.