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your dreams and ask yourself questions about them. The use of dream symbols for self-analysis
is not the purpose of this book, but many different techniques are available for working with
dream journals. 5
There are many different methodologies for interpret-ing dreams. Lucid dreaming is a state of
awareness, not a theory, and as such it can be applied equally to many different kinds of
dreamwork. No matter which kind of analysis you might perform on the contents of your dream
journals, you will find that lucid dreaming skills can increase your understanding of the way in
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which your mind creates symbols. This in turn can empower your effort toward integration of
the different parts of your person-ality (see chapter 11). Furthermore, reading over your journal
will help you become familiar with what is dreamlike about your dreams so you can recognize
them while they are still happening and become lucid.
Dreamsigns: Doors to Lucidity
I was standing on the pavement outside my London home. The sun was rising and the waters of
the Bay were spar-kling in the morning light. I could see the tall trees at the corner of the road
and the top of the old grey tower beyond the Forty Steps. In the magic of the early sunshine the
scene was beautiful enough even then.
Now the pavement was not of the ordinary type, but consisted of small, bluish-grey rectangular
stones, with their long sides at right-angles to the white curb. I was about to enter the house
when, on glancing casually at these stones, my attention became riveted by a passing strange
phenomenon, so extraordinary that I could not believe my eyes they had seemingly all
changed their position in the night, and the long sides were now par-allel to the curb!
Then the solution flashed upon me: though this glorious summer morning seemed as real as
real could be, I was dreaming! With the realization of this fact, the quality of the dream
changed in a manner very difficult to convey to one who has not had this experience. Instantly,
the vividness of life increased a hundred-fold. Never had sea and sky and trees shone with such
glamourous beauty; even the commonplace houses seemed alive and mysti-cally beautiful.
Never had I felt so absolutely well, so clear-brained, so inexpressibly free ! The sensation
was exquisite beyond words; but it lasted only a few minutes and I awoke. 6
Thanks to a strange little detail the apparently changed position of the cobblestones a single
out-of-place feature in an otherwise convincingly realistic scene, this dreamer was able to
realize that he was dreaming. I have named such characteristically dreamlike features dream-
signs. Almost every dream has dreamsigns, and it is likely that we all have our own personal
ones.
Once you know how to look for them, dreamsigns can be like neon lights, flashing a message in
the darkness: This is a dream! This is a dream! You can use your journal as a rich source of
information on how your own dreams signal their dreamlike nature. Then you can learn to
recognize your most frequent or characteristic dream-signs the specific ways your dream
world tends to differ from your waking world.
When people realize they are dreaming, it is often because they reflect on unusual or bizarre
occurrences in their dreams. By training yourself to recognize dream-signs, you will enhance
your ability to use this natural method of becoming lucid.
People don t become lucid more often in the presence of dreamsigns because of a normal
tendency to ration-alize and confabulate they make up stories to explain what is going on, or
they think, There must be some explanation. Indeed, there must be, but too rarely does such a
half-awake dreamer realize what it actually is. If, on the other hand, the dreamsign occurs in the
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dream of someone who has learned to recognize it, the result is a lucid dream.
In a dangerous part of San Francisco, for some reason I start crawling on the sidewalk. I start
to reflect: This is strange; why can t I walk? Can other people walk upright here? Is it just me
who has to crawl? I see a man in a suit walking under a streetlight. Now my curiosity is
re-placed by fear. I think, crawling around like this may be interesting but it is not safe. Then I
think, I never do this I always walk around San Francisco upright! This only happens in
dreams. Finally, it dawns on me: I must be dreaming! (S. G., Berkeley, California)
I once awoke from a dream in which my contact lens, having dropped out of my eye, was
multiplying like some sort of super-protozoan, and I resolved that in future dreams like this I
would notice the mutant lens as a dreamsign. And indeed, I have become lucid in at least a
dozen dreams by recognizing this particular oddity. Each of us has his or her own individual
dreamsigns, though some are familiar to most of us, like the case of going to work in your
pajamas. The illustrative inventory of dreamsigns below can help you look for your personal
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