Dreaming

 Carlos Castenada‘s seminal work, “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.” This wonderful book opened my mind to a new view of the universe.

 Carlos Castaneda,The art of dreaming. ... keep a dream diary 

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Jungian school of dream analysis, read Carl Jung  Man and his symbols, whose chief principle is that every person who appears in your dream is actually an aspect of your own self and the dream actions and scenarios reflect how you are acting in your life at the present time.

For example, I may dream of a sexy woman flirting with me and this would reflect some element of my feminine energy and own behaviour in the day or days which lead up to the dream.

 waking naturally without an alarm, exploring the lucid state, recapitulating the different dreams of a night and analysing them thoroughly.

...ready to hear what their unconscious has puzzlingly communicated to them and how most compassionately to break it to them.

Dreaming  has four stages, which reflects the four stages of REM most people experience in a healthy nights sleep. So on waking you may recall four distinct dreams, sometimes they blend into each other, but usually there are four separate dream episodes.

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Shamanism sang its sacred song to me by way of  Peru experience:  Ayahuasca rituals.

Ayahuascan Shamans use ayahuasca for healing purposes. 

A visionary state is produced but the real learning comes afterwards, through dreams. where the spirit of Ayahuasca teaches the Shaman how to heal a particular illness. 

The healing is transmitted through a song the spirit teaches the healer in a dream. These songs are called icaro and the more icaro a shaman knows the more powerful a healer the Shaman.

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