Bridging

[germanikus]

Hi Bruce,
There is one question I always wanted to ask an experienced dreamer, and it is about gaining control in dreaming...
There is a technique in Toltec tradition called "Bridging" - basically it works in a way that you set your mind on the problem (let say you need a right plant for healing), you go into the dreaming, and you find particular plant in your dream. Because you are driven by the Spirit, that plant is undoubtely what you need, so you try to find it in a real life too.
That is how you build a metaphysical "bridge" between the worlds. In the same manner, the more you do it, your bridges become stronger, and of course, it is easier for you to cross from one side to another. Therefore, you gain more control in the both dreaming and awaken state.
Now it becomes very interesting: Bridging is possible to be done in the opposite way as well, by meditating on the object and trying ti find it in a dream. If the object is mineral or plant, shamans say it can reveal you inconcievable things and accelerate your progress.

Did you have any experience on that?

Thanks,
Germanikus

[Robert Bruce]

G'day,

What you speak of is true. If you can remember your dreams and voice your request clearly to your higher aspects, you will be shown solutions in your dreams. This is also a part of the manifestation process...the law of attraction, and of all magical systems. If you create something strongly enough with your intentions, this something begins to form in the astral and in your dreams. Eventually, depending on how much energy is put into this, this something will physically manifest.

The other part of what you say is a fairly well known, but little understood, way of meditating on and contemplating objects like flowers, to gain better understanding of life.

Robert