Question hour – 26
2014/11/06

* A question that I’d like to be answered is the art of dreaming. The Toltecs believed that by means of dreaming you can get in a state of total awareness. By acting a certain way while dreaming, one can cause psychosomatic changes in one’s being.

Castaneda mentioned some gates of dreaming in one of his books. The first four important gates of dreaming are:

1st gate of dreaming is stabilization of the dreaming body. Happens when one perceives one’s hands in a dream. It is solved when one is able to shift the focus from the hands to another dream object and return it to the hands, all repeated a few times. Crossed when one is able to induce a state of darkness and a feeling of increased weight while falling asleep.

2nd gate of dreaming is utilizing the dreaming body which happens when one’s dream objects start changing into something else. Happens when one is able to fall asleep without losing consciousness to go in a realm of inorganic beings.

3rd gate of dreaming is traveling which is known as an out of body experience.

4th gate of Dreaming is sharing which is being able to share the intended dream reality of other people. One has to have gathered enough strength into the dreaming body through the previous gates in order to travel to other people’s dreams.

Could you please elaborate on this topic with your experience at the different realms we may encounter during our sleep from which we can take advantage of. Could you also discuss the negative side of dreaming that is when we are unprotected and can be harmed during the our sleep.
Is it also true that it’s better not to have crystals in your bedroom, as these might block you try to return back into your body after a travel, which can harm the emotional body?