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Imagining as a dream entered deliberately: before sleep one enters a controlled waking dream, as dominant in it as in a dream, always the actor and never the audience, but keeping control of its direction; what is enacted there must later be re-enacted physically.

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John Keats, Ode to a Nightingale | Was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is the music; do I wake or sleep?
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controlled waking dream
try preceding your sleep with a complete controlled waking dream, entering into it as you do in dream
A dream is nothing more than uncontrolled four-dimensional thinking
Let me again lay the foundation of prayer, which is nothing more than a controlled waking dream
the only thing which occupies the mind during the waking dream is THE WAKING DREAM

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A dream is nothing more than uncontrolled four-dimensional thinking, or the rearrangement of both past and future sensory impressions.
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Let me again lay the foundation of prayer, which is nothing more than a controlled waking dream
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the only thing which occupies the mind during the waking dream is THE WAKING DREAM
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We learn this control through the waking dream, where our attention can be maintained without effort
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the waking way of looking into the deep is through man’s imagination
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assume it to the point where it’s reflected in your mind, where you can see reflected on the screen of the mind confirmation of your assumption. You see people seeing you as they would see you were it true, and then fall asleep. That’s all that you do.
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But within the framework of the dictate of policy of the country—I wouldn’t violate it—I still exercised God’s freedom.
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I cannot find any better way to describe this technique than to call it a “controlled waking dream.”
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Prayer is a controlled waking dream.
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“Was it a vision or a waking dream? Fled is the music; do I wake or sleep?”
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when you awake from your controlled waking dream, you feel as though you had returned from a great distance
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