{"id":222,"date":"2010-08-09T20:18:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/?p=222"},"modified":"2010-08-09T20:18:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:18:31","slug":"lucid-dreaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/lucid-dreaming","title":{"rendered":"Lucid Dreaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I put Dorje to bed I usually say &#8220;sweet dreams&#8221;. A while ago, Dorje told me he didn&#8217;t have sweet dreams &#8211; instead they were scary, monsters and the like. He &#8220;always&#8221; had scary dreams. I told him he could let go, not resist, not try to fight them, or be scared of them.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t think this was good advice!<\/p>\n<p>We got into talking about how some people can control their dreams &#8211; skipping over awareness of one&#8217;s dreams! Dorje liked this idea more.<\/p>\n<p>This evening I asked Dorje whether he still had nightmares. &#8220;No&#8221;, he said. &#8220;Now I control my dreams &#8211; I always win&#8221;. Dorje was highly convincing, but then he&#8217;s equally convincing as an orc telling me he&#8217;s about to chop my head off with his sword.<\/p>\n<p>Still, according to him he&#8217;s mastered his nightmares. For those interested in following (or not) Dorje to mastery, the Tibetan centre in Cape Town is hosting a <a href='http:\/\/www.kagyu.org.za\/cape-town\/charlie-morley\/'>workshop on lucid dreaming<\/a> at the beginning of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I put Dorje to bed I usually say &#8220;sweet dreams&#8221;. A while ago, Dorje told me he didn&#8217;t have sweet dreams &#8211; instead they were scary, monsters and the like. He &#8220;always&#8221; had scary dreams. I told him he could let go, not resist, not try to fight them, or be scared of them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegilfillan.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}