Pause now to ask yourself the following question: 'Am I dreaming or awake, right now?' Be serious, really try to answer the question to the best of your ability and be ready to justify your answer. Stephen LaBerge More Quotes by Stephen LaBerge More Quotes From Stephen LaBerge If you must sleep through a third of your life, Stephen LaBerge should dream sleep Dreams look real, but they're in your mind, so you realize that the physical world is also a construction, which shows that the mind can affect reality in more ways than you can imagine. Stephen LaBerge real mind dream Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery. Stephen LaBerge self-confidence creative dream Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience yet they are often overlooked as a vehicle for exploring reality. In the dream state our bodies are at rest, yet we see and hear, move about and are even able to learn. When we make good use of the dream state it is almost as if our lives were doubled: instead of a hundred years we live to be two hundred -- Tibetan Buddhist Tarthang Tulku from Stephen LaBerge buddhist dream moving Dreams, remembered or not, can color our mood for a good part of the day. Stephen LaBerge mood color dream Our brain simulates reality. So, our everyday experiences are a form of dreaming, which is to say, they are mental models, simulations, not the things they appear to be. Stephen LaBerge dream brain reality We don't teach our children how to dream. Stephen LaBerge teach dream children There is only one essential difference between consciousness and dreaming, and that is sensory input. Your experience is a dream, so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortext is repressed during dreaming. Lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input. Stephen LaBerge essentials differences dream Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time. Stephen LaBerge anxiety real dream The consciousness of lucid dreaming is a cultural evolution. It's something that we are talking about and learning about, not biological evolution. Stephen LaBerge evolution dream talking If the experience of reality matters, than nothing is going to be better than dreaming. Because dreams feel real to everybody while they are happening. Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams. Stephen LaBerge vivid-imagination real dream Control yourself, not your dreams. Stephen LaBerge your-dreams dream Dream research is a wonderful field. All you do is sleep for a living. Stephen LaBerge research dream sleep Dreams and waking life are both the same kinds of things. The difference is that dreaming is perceiving free of external constraints, whereas perceiving otherwise is dreaming true. Meaning what you dream about actually happens. Stephen LaBerge waking-life differences dream If you dream you do something, it's as if you actually are doing it from your brain's point of view. Stephen LaBerge views dream brain It is certainly important to be looking for cures to medical disorders, but it is equally important to conduct research on human health and well-being. Stephen LaBerge medical important research In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input. Stephen LaBerge differences perception dream In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening. Stephen LaBerge eye dream sleep From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world. Stephen LaBerge childhood understanding interesting We dream every night, all the time. Stephen LaBerge every-night dream night
