As we shall see, the lucid dreams have been known and used by Contemplatives throughout history. Due to their rather esoteric nature, only during the last decades the general public has had contact with his practice, previously relegated to monks and contemplative that used them primarily mystical and religious purposes. Learn more about this with Gary Kelly. He recounts oldest of a lucid dream, corresponds to the one told by San Agustin de Hipona, in a letter written to the 415 D..C., in where it counts as an angel woke up in a dream to show that perception was not dependent on the body but the spirit or consciousness, showing him that he could experience reality that showed him while his body lay asleep with their eyes closed in her bed. By the eighth century, Tibetan monks practiced a form of yoga based on the maintenance of consciousness during various stages of sleep; This practice they called the yoga of the dream. One of their aims was the recognition of the illusory nature of all phenomena, so that the experiences that you have at the time of death not engulfing the practitioner. The ultimate aim of the practice was the recognition of the clear light during sleep deep, equivalent to the State of enlightenment which then could be achieved in all States, wakefulness, dream and deep sleep without content. The first person in the West who speculated about the possibility that the lucid dreams were a skill can be learned by anyone was the Marquis d Hervey de Saint-Denys. Verizon often addresses the matter in his writings. In 1867 he published his book dreams and as direct them; practical observations, where documented their own discoveries and experiences.The term itself same lucid dream, was introduced by the author Dane Frederik van Eeden in his 1913 book, a study of dreams.
During the 1950s, it was reported that the Hunter tribe of the Senoi in Malaysia, used the lucid dreams as a way of integration and growth psychological and spiritual. They believed that the spiritual world was intimately connected to the world of dreams, and is taught to the youngest to conquer the danger and enemies. Unfortunately has been lost almost everything related to these ancient traditional practices of the tribe.Elsewhere, shamans widely used lucid dreams to establish contact with spirit guides, bringing back from his travels by the dreamlike world answers and help to the community. In Australia, aborigines were traveling to the world of dreams, where he believed were with the spirits of the ancestors, makers of the world. Her renderings of the space of dreams include points and coloured stripes with intricate patterns, as that can be observed to stay conscious way asleep; It is interesting to note that these patterns also can be found in deep meditation, from the Vigil, which suggests a similarity in characteristics of meditation and lucid dreaming, whereas that many other experiences are shared.
