Dream Thinking

Posted on January 27, 2008
Filed Under Awareness, Meditation |

I have been considering my dreams lately - which have been deeply visual, and very profound in a way that has never occurred before. And that brought me onto thoughts of the dream-mind, or more precisely ‘dream-thinking’. There is a point of awareness between being awake and being asleep where the mind kicks into a different gear. There are a number of phenomenon which occur during this threshold consciousness.

During one of those states, at a certain point the conditioning within the day-to-day conscious mind subsides, and suddenly the mind finds itself in very a free flowing state. Here, thoughts are very clear, very linear and completely structured, yet free from any impediments which the conscious mind seems to put out. Maybe you have experienced this? It is almost like the mind is reading a narrative which is very detailed and complete.

There are states of consciousness which we experience - and can readily access - that seem to cause us to enter a higher-level of cognition. In my experience such moments are free from reason, logic and other notions believed to be essential - and instead are much more about intuition and synchronistic connections. It’s something we all have access to - pretty much all the time - yet it would appear that our conscious and largely conditioned minds tend to interfere with these natural abilities.

This is one of the reasons that meditation can be such a useful tool, it allows our minds to work at a different level; meditation needn’t be about just relaxation or personal insight. Using a theta frequency audio during meditation is also a great help in inducing these altered states.

In many ways these states of awareness are not commonly recognized as having much value. For some reason - perhaps because it is easily recognized by everyone - our common waking state is felt to be the only one of worth. This attitude creates a tendency to bury anything which cannot be backed up be logic, reason and science. Born from a lack of faith in our senses - we seem to prize outside information at a higher value, than what we can see and discover for ourselves. That is unfortunate in so many ways.

If you’ve never tried it - then give meditation a go, and if you fancy making it a bit more entertaining or need an excuse - then try out some of the many brainwave entrainment files which can be found on this site; nearly all of them will affect your meditative state in one way or another. You maybe surprised at what you discover.