Excerpts from a study initially published in the International Journal Of Dream Research – modified by addition of pictures – Schredl, M. (2014). Abstracts of the 31th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams June 4 – June 8, 2014 Berkeley, California, USA, 7. https://doi.org/10.11588/ijodr.2014.0.15743
“The Relationship Between Energy and Form in Dreams and the Expansion of Consciousness”
By Dr. Nigel Hamilton – London, United Kingdom
“Energy and matter are interchangeable (Einstein). Yet the energy (field) and matter (form) that appear as pictures/ landscapes in our dreams seem determined by something more primary, our consciousness…
Indeed, lucid dream experiences can lead to what the Tibetan Dream Yogis call “the dreamless state” a 
transcendental experience in which there are no images, no sense of time or space, only “clear light” or awareness. In such experiences, emotions take on a subtle, transpersonal character such as a profound sense of serenity, peace and harmony.
Just as we can experience a changing sense of time and space in a single dream – and over the course of an extended cycle of dreams covering several years – so we can also experience a shift in our emotions in a single dream or over the course of time. As we become free of our psychological blocks, fear, scripts and our assumptions about who or what we are, the spaces and the images in the dream open up, time dilates and the dreamscapes become more colourful and more beautiful.
Some lucid dreamers have related experiences of timelessness and a sense of the omnipresent. Some have described the changing dream space as a change into another reality, a higher spatial dimension of deeper feeling, knowing, and being. In such instances, the dreamer’s emotional tenor, heart longing and consciousness appear aligned with the source of consciousness in a transcendent state. As a result, the dreamer re-enters waking reality with a fuller, more expanded sense of self and their relationship to the universe. Often, the dreamer’s waking world also becomes more clearly reflective of their heart longing…” – Dr. Niguel Hamilton
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