![]() ![]() Practising lucid dreaming before we die could help to make the dying experience better as we work to release our fear of death and prepare to leave our life, family and friends behind. Lucid dreamers can employ the dream state to discover more about dying, by exploring fears and taboos about death, asking the dream what will happen when they die, learning to say goodbye and release past grievances, and seeking to discover how to comfort the people they’ll leave behind. – Aiha Zemp to her Zen meditation teacher. Other dreams are not so reassuring – nightmares or hellish visions can reflect a fear of death or the desperation to stay with loved ones. These dreams are often culture-specific and religion-specific: a Christian might dream of angels, for example, but more general dreams are also reported, such as those of being bodiless or floating in white light. When people are approaching death they tend to report dreams which seem to be preparing them to die. When we (or our body) know we are going to die soon, dreams reflect this knowledge and all the fears and assumptions that go along with it. The connection between lucid dreaming and death is nothing new: over a thousand years ago, Tibetan Buddhists developed an entire science around how to wake up in dreams to prepare for death, believing that if lucid dreaming was developed enough, people could remain conscious at the moment of death and maintain awareness right through the transitional processes beyond death and into the next life.īut what about people who are dying? Is it too late for them to benefit from lucid dreaming? What can lucid dreaming teach us about death? ![]() Can lucid dreaming help people who are dying? Or those who have been bereaved? ![]()
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