@_Barry The banjo playerās story was so fantastic
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@Bianca_Aga Good Morningā¦ Thanks for your reply - yes - I am in the Eastern Time Zone for Canada - in Ontario - I got to visit England once and saw just a little bit of Scotland - the old ruins of a castle - cant remember where - long time ago - I have some Scottish heritageā¦ along with most of the countries in Europe. I will work on more mindfulness with my dream journal to hopefully generate more ahas - Seeking deeper feeling of connection to the emotional cadence of my dreams - sometimes the symbols confound my thinking mind, so I try to just feel itā¦ Drawing the subconscious imagery has long been fascinating me - welcoming and blessing the guys who show up. I am so excited to find you all and am looking forward to learning more about dreaming - healing from insomnia and now starting to remember my dreams - have had a few lucid dreams many years ago but just getting back into it these last couple of years. getting a little bit better with the board - still a little bit tech adverseā¦ blessingsā¦ Peaceful Happiness, Judith
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yes, @JudithJ if you need anything please let me know.
I love lettuce meaning ālet us seeā 
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Thank you @BlessingsDeers
I have started reading āA Course in Miraclesā
Big WOW!!!
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Itās an amazing piece of a miracle this book.
Enjoy.
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You are in the right place. Andrew helped me profoundly with this.
The biggest deterrent is losing motivation over time. If you are persistent and continue with an unquenchable curiosity, I think you will be rewarded enormously.
The Sleep doctor videos are very helpful for tips on how to fight insomnia. Highly reccomend the meditation group and videos as well.
Are you doing this with a group of people and a teacher or by yourself?
Amen
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January 10 @5am, was a New moon, I like to say 72 hours before or after these event will stimulate dreams. Something to pay attention to while you journal in the future. Lunar eclipse March 25.
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Hi @NightHawk999 ā¦ Sorry it took me so long to find your post to me - I guess I am still a little bit confounded with the message boards.
I have had a real turn around with my insomnia - thanks so much for asking. so many layers of healing to be able to sleep - I am getting better at remembering my dreams too but I am finding myself resistant to writing them down for some reason. If I try to write in the middle of the night it chases my sleepy awayā¦ In the mornings when I wake up I need to write them down but do not seem to have the motivation. Years ago when I was writing down dreams a lot I started to remember so many of them I was feeling swamped and overwhelmed by it all and that may have something to do with it.
I am doing the Course in Miracles on my own - I am working on lesson 39 todayā¦ "My Holiness is my Salvation. " WOW!!! I have not finished reading the text yet and am presently reading chapter 14 - Starting āThe Holy Meeting Placeā
The whole Course in Miracles book has just been SOOOOOO fantastic! Feeling my connection to the Holy Spirit all of these years and now to finally have it explainedā¦ Growing up Christian and I knew intuitively and could feel the power in my faith but was confounded and confused with what I was learning in Churchā¦ Went in search of a way to figure it out and started to identify as a Zen Christian after studying meditation, tai-chi and qi gong. I have bought a Kindle so that I could read the Course better and I am really loving that device a lot - Also downloaded a free bible - but the Course in Miracles is a constant source of awe and wonder for me. itās like Ooooohhhhhh - that is what that means - So many AAAAHHHHHHAAAAAA!!! I am just so happiness with this teaching!!! Praying my way through it.
Perhaps you could tell me a little bit about your experience with the Course ???
Peaceful Happinessā¦Judith
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This is really big news, congratulations!
Donāt write them down in the middle of the night if it messes with your sleep. Try to reply them as you fall asleep and hopefully you can remember them in the morning. Red light flashlight or pen is another option if you have an important one that needs writing down.
Building the habit of writing them down in the morning takes practice, and can be like pulling teeth at first, Try just writing down a single sentence bullet point for each dream or dreamlet. This should take you less than 5 min. Keep the journal and pen right by the side of your bed, or by your alarm clock so its ready to go.
The bullet point sentences will help with this too, then you can dive into the details for the dreams you feel were most important,
Agreed.
It was very impactful when I read it and did a book club on it a few years ago. Would love to hear some of your favorite passages. It definitely deepened my faith and spirituality. Was helpful to have people to bounce ideas against, and a knowledgeable teacher. Some of the stuff went way over my head when reading it alone. I would not doubt that there are youtube videos on each chapter, or facebbok groups for deeper discussions.
Not sure what your dreams were like this week. But within 48 hours of the lunar eclipse, i dreamed of my dead grandma. Have only had 2 other dreams of her in the past, and the first was a lucid dream.
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@NightHawk999 Thank you for your thoughtful response!
Bullet points is a great idea for the dream journal - I donāt remember my dreams all the time - If I donāt write them down they slip away - some nights more dreams but cannot remember many the last couple of days regardless of the Lunar Eclipse.
Hope you enjoyed your dream with your Angle Grandmaā¦
The Course - I have been highlighting lots of stuff but this one made me cryā¦
āI love only what God loves with me, and because of this I treasure you beyond the value that you set on yourself, even unto the worth that God has placed upon you. I love all that He created, and all my faith and my belief I offer unto it. My faith in you is as strong as all the love I give my Father. My trust in you is without limit, and without the fear that you will hear me not. I thank the Father for your loveliness, and for the many gifts that you will let me offer to the Kingdom in honor of its wholeness that is of God.ā
The explanations about the ego were so wonderful - Finally was able to identify this aspect more clearly and not believing it is - feeling calmer.
There is a lot of the writing that I donāt understand but I am OK with just reading it over and over and praying for clarity and just letting it go. I would like to read it a second time, just taking my time and really enjoying the read. I did find a facebook group about the Course but it was full of a lot of anger and all sorts of stuff that was not the course and I left it.
Peaceful Happiness, Judith
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Wonderful. Happy for youā¦ sleep is so important for the whole system and for memory - if people only knew that their memory issues many times are caused by their unhealthy night routines affecting their sleepā¦ My father also has insomnia issues and the last time I shared a Mudra with him, he started sleeping better. Of course his evening routine is sometimes not supporting but he doesnāt want to change it. And I guess itās okā¦ itās his life 
Agree 100% If you have insomnia, itās really best that you do not write your dreams in the middle of the night until you are truly healed from it. I learned with Charlie Morley that the only cases in which you should not train lucid dreaming are: people who are depressed, people who suffer from anxiety, and people who have insomnia.
It has happened often that I wake up and keep the strongest impression of the dream, going back to sleep with it, and this helps me remember it when I fully wake up.
One thing that truly gave me a strong motivation to write my dreams down was to realize that most of them are precognitive (premonitions) and guidance for the day.
I have found out that practicing intuition during the day, helps a lot in remembering the dreams, because itās another part of the intuition. So finding you motivation to write them is really what will make you write them I also learned with Charlie Morley that you can communicate with your inner dream directorā¦ and thank him for creating such incredible inner movies that help you on your journey. You can do this, with eyes closed, connecting with this part of you and ask/activate what your heart wishes to receive. From my experience, the strongest power we have comes from the heart 
itās the heart that opens all the doorsā¦ dreams included. You can also write a letter to this part of you and talk with you and ask for what you want 
And when you have an important dream to write down in the middle of the night, hereās what I do to help me going back to sleep - hopefully it might help you too:
Ā» This is a must, because the blue spectrum light of normal electric light activates us to wake up.
What I do is wearing my blue light blockage glasses, turn the light on, write the dream, and go back to sleep.
Ā» Mudras also help me a lot to going back to sleep in a peace, lightful, relaxing way. I have recently written an article here at NCC about my experience with one of them: Mudras - Medicine Hands
Ā» Conscious breathing is the infallible way of going back to sleep no matter what is going on inside mentally, because when we focus in our breathing and are present there, the mind just has no chanceā¦ I have learned that breathing 10 minutes a day consciously is self-healing doing it in between liminal spaces and waking up from dreams is a highway to managing effectively going back to sleep.
In the beginning of my conscious and self-directed lucid dream adventure, what I would do was getting up, put my blue light blocking glasses on, and prepare a warm drink that somehow calms me deeply: camomile tea in boiling coconut and rice drink - I would wait for it to be in the right temperature to drink it (not too hot) and this would help to contain the excitement of dreaming super lucid (having a lucid plan under my bed with what I wanted to dream about).
this feels SO specialā¦
yes, the book is so intense that I usually connect with the heart and read it randomly to find the answers/understandings I need I do this with any book, but with this oneā¦ is extra magical 
this book is full of deep clarity that is so comforting for anyone with an open mind and heartā¦
yesā¦ I also have that impression and this strengthens the spirit, taking away some ego resistances. my experience with is that when the ego also understands than itās much easier to accept the gold and light of the spiritual teachings
this is SO beautifulā¦ thank you for sharing your depth and beauty with us hereā¦
Infinite Love and Blessings Beloved.
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@BlessingsDeers gave such great advice on finding inspiration for writing the dreams down. The more you do it the more you will start to see synchronicities and precognitive dreams and beyond.
If physically writting them first thing in the morning is too tedious, then buy a voice recorder, or use your phone and speak them into it. Then you can transcribe the audio into a journal, or type it up later that day when you have more time or are feeling more motivated.
This whole passage is so beautiful, and this line especially hit home for me. (I also had a dream that involved a prayer to God last night that is a very cool synchronicity with this!)
This is such a huge part of the spiritual path.
You are doing it the right way. If you have any questions on any of the passages, feel free to write them here, and I will be happy to try to help clarify (I think other members will help as well).
Glad you listened to your intuition and heart. Finding healthy Sanghas is so important, the toxic ones will drain you or lead you astry from the path, or both.
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Your entire post is full of amazing advice! You are so right about the breathing and how important that is, especially to prep and cleanse the mind before a meditation or prayer, or before bed.
It was, but the message was cryptic.
AMEN
AMEN
Really amazing and beautiful to see how many lives this book have touched and inspired.
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these often are the bestā¦ they unfold though time and when you get itā¦ the feeling is AMAZING!..
yesā¦ I can help clarify, even though, in this bookās case, the process @JudithJ was describing is so beautifulā¦ the mind might not understand immediately but the heart can!.. itās truly beautifulā¦
and itās also beautiful that we here are available to receive any inspirational writings that Judith might wanna shareā¦ 
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She was talking about removing the exterior and interior wall plaster from her old home.
Time to renovate and do some spring cleaning??
Me as well, and I am always excited for cryptic spiritual text to try and decipher.
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@BlessingsDeers ā¦ @NightHawk999
Thank you so much for your beautiful responses. I will be writing more soon, but I got the Norovirus and have not been feeling well. Really knocked me off my feet for the last few daysā¦ But I have very clear experience now that the Holy Spirit is so ready and able to help with unpleasant symptoms of the stomach fluā¦ I also had a lucid dream - first one in decades - it was very short and also because of the extra sleep and the disturbed sleeping cycle the flu has causedā¦ Crawling across a bridge that was very narrow - choosing not to look down - just focusing on the movements to move forward and I got to the other side and I was so happy - I crawled onto a platform and there was a rock cliff - standing against it I had a deep felt connection with the forest at night and there were flashing lights. That is when I realized I was dreaming and I was really happy and everything was so beautiful and pulsing and alive - I love waking in the forest at night when I am awake. Peaceful Happiness, Judith
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Sorry to hear this hope you get better soon. I will be out of town, leaving midweek, should be back on here the last week or 2 of April.
This is a miracle! And definitely dwarfs the bad news of the virus by far! Talk about a silver lining of getting sick! Very happy to hear this. It was when I was learning about ACIM and doing meditation that I had my second LD of my adult life, the first came after I started doing yoga.
The extra down time will be great to build the habit of writing down your dreams, another gift in disguise. Charlie M says write down the important stuff, and you can always bullet point or disregard the fluff.
Great Mind thinks alike. This is one of my favorite past times as well.
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I hear this from many people.
I had a cold a few weeks ago and did a bio magnetism session that helped A LOT, plus some prayers from a ādeerā friend 
this is awesome
this seams to be SO auspiciousā¦ congrats!
wow! amazingā¦
fast recovery beloved.
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Blessings and greeting to all of youā¦ I am still deep diving in ACIMā¦
I am at lesson 64: Let me not forget my functionā¦ My only function is to forgive because I am the Light of the World and my forgiveness brings Peaceful Happiness to Godās Son. And I am Godās Sonā¦
Playing this out in how it relates to my life - forgiveness means nothing is ever a problemā¦ Nuts - I lost all my Obstaclesā¦ Just like the Bodhisattvas in the Heart Sutraā¦ (not a problemā¦ 
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Perhaps Nirvana and Salvation is the same thingā¦
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The Alchemy of Forgiveness is pretty miraculous.
Lead to Gold.
Yes I think you are on to something with those both ways to access the Kingdom of God.
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