“Mindfulness, Compassion & Lucid Dreaming w/ Paul Gilbert & Charlie Morley”…“What is the connection between Mindfulness, Compassion and Lucid Dreaming? What is the point of cultivating compassion during waking and dreaming states? Learn more with Prof Paul Gilbert and Lucid Dreaming and Shadow Work teacher Charlie Morley.” – Youtube – Awake Academy – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms0dFFxDdTo
“Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to help the physical, mental or emotional pains of another and themselves. Compassion is often regarded as having sensitivity, an emotional aspect to suffering…“Compassion involves “feeling for another” and is a precursor to empathy, the “feeling as another”… compassion is the desire to alleviate another’s [or your own] suffering…” – Wikipedia
“In lucid meditation, we are already awake, yet we try to connect with the power of the dream realm. Translated into waking life, this ability, cultivated during meditation, develops the power of our subtle senses. This capacity affirms our essential unity with all of life. It cultivates compassion, awareness, and a sense of our being in the flow of things.” – Excerpted from the book Living in the SuperMind—From Personal Mind to Spiritual Mind by Dr. Maurie Pressman and provided by the publisher: https://manyhands.com/eyes-on-books/opening-to-the-supermind-through-lucid-dreaming-and-lucid-meditation/
When you wake up in a dream in this sense you empathize with the perspectives of other self-aspects rather than simply accept the consensus reality of the dream at face value. In some important respects, this is more powerful than lucid dreaming because it amplifies the six core qualities. It is compassionate, in that it strives to empathize with the perspectives of other sentient beings appearing in your dream.” – From the text DREAM YOGA – Joseph Dillard – http://www.dreamyoga.com/challengeslucid-dreaming/
“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside somebody else’s skin… Dreaming can be a school for this kind of compassion… “The shock of realizing I am in a black man’s body makes me conscious I am dreaming. Now lucid, I stay with the dream… I am fascinated by discovering what it feels like to have your genitals outside your body… Now I’m walking down the street, in this black man’s body… I smell delicious food aromas wafting from a restaurant… Two white men at the door tell…“Sure you can come in, boy. You can eat watermelon.” … I feel boiling anger rising inside me… I pull out of the dream.” I asked Norma how she felt about this dream adventure inside a black man’s body. “I felt exhilarated,” she told me without hesitation. “I felt sad about the racism that black man had to contend with, yet grateful that I could share a part of his life.” “If only all of us could have this experience of being inside other people’s skins, we could get rid of a lot of our prejudices and social problems.” – Belifnet – Posted by Robert Moss – http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/dreamgates/2012/05/compassionate-dreaming-living-inside-somebody-elses-skin.html