The Lucid Dreaming Pack Quotes

“To counter our intense cultural conditioning, we must possess a sense of curious engagement to venture into the unconscious. Even though it's a part of us, it exists as terra incognita or, perhaps more appropriately, psyche incognita—we simply have drawn a sketchy map of the psyche and marked a large segment in frightful red letters, “Mind Unknown.” We will never develop a truer conceptualization of the subconscious and unconscious if we only dance around it or consider it from the safe distance of the waking world.”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“No sailor controls the sea. Only a foolish sailor would say such a thing. Similarly, no lucid dreamer controls the dream. Like a sailor on the sea, we lucid dreamers direct our perceptual awareness within the larger state of dreaming.”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“Like all dreamers, if we purposely ignore a dream message, it likely returns in another dream or some other form.”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“they project love, compassion, and care onto unfriendly dream figures, like the menacing black dog here, the love and concern transforms the image or introduces a new, positive dynamic”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“in a lucid dream we have the ability to choose and some dreamers do, indeed, choose to escape into an adventure. For example, a lucid dreamer may decide to ignore an angry dream figure and fly away instead, thereby avoiding the issue represented by the figure. More experienced lucid dreamers, however, would stop and engage the dream figure to find out more about the situation, as I did in this lucid dream”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“To be in the psychological space of the unconscious requires considerable affirmation of self in spite of numerous cultural conflicts.”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“Does our interest in calling the dream sacred simply reflect our inability to understand it? By discouraging conscious interaction with the dream, we limit our ability to improve our understanding of it.”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“We will never develop a truer conceptualization of the subconscious and unconscious if we only dance around it or consider it from the safe distance of the waking world.”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“The awareness needed for meditation, at least some forms of it, seems analogous to what lucid dreamers seek to develop. Meditators, especially beginners, have to learn a sense of balance when they turn inward; otherwise, they can fall asleep while meditating or become caught up and engaged with entrancing thoughts. Likewise, beginning lucid dreamers often hold focused awareness for only a short period of time. It takes practice and patience and poise to hold awareness consciously while being confronted with new thoughts or images—the products of the mind.”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“experienced lucid dreamers note that if they predetermine or expect what to feel or how to feel, they can alter the sensory experience in line with their expectations. In other words, “As you believe, so shall it be” is a powerful truth when lucid.”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“To maintain the lucid dream state, you must modulate your emotions.”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self

“You are what you let yourself become,” said the inner advisor. That answer satisfied me completely: The living of life was an allowing of self.”
― Robert Waggoner, The Lucid Dreaming Pack: Gateway to the Inner Self