I'm wondering if any of you read Carlos Castaneda's works. Dreams are gateways to reach higher realms that actually have a collective existence we all can experience. Anyways, I've been getting lucid recently now with the help of meditation and recall observation practices I do throughout the day. Here's some interesting text from one of the works of Carlos on his adventures on meeting one shaman named Don Juan:

For us to perceive those other realms, not only do we have to covet them but we need to have sufficient energy to seize them. Their existence is constant and independent of our awareness, but their inaccessibility is entirely a consequence of our energetic conditioning. In other words, simply and solely because of that conditioning, we are compelled to assume that the world of daily life is the one and only possible world.

Believing that our energetic conditioning is correctable, sorcerers of ancient times developed a set of practices designed to recondition our energetic capabilities to perceive. They called this set of practices the art of dreaming. It's the gateway to infinity.

dreaming we can perceive other worlds, which we can certainly describe, but we can't describe what makes us perceive them. Yet we can feel how dreaming opens up those other realms. Dreaming seems to be a sensation--a process in our bodies, an awareness in our minds.

Dreaming instruction is divided into two parts. One is about dreaming procedures, the other about the purely abstract explanations of these procedures: an interplay between enticing one's intellectual curiosity with the abstract principles of dreaming and guiding one to seek an outlet in its practices.
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The human psyche is infinitely more complex than our mundane or academic reasoning has led us to believe. - The art of dreaming

Thoughts anyone?

I'm just starting my journey and have a question. When anyone has "visions", beit while on a journey or just in general, are you actually visualizing them or just kind of believe that it's happening? When I begin a journey bi don't really"see" anything as I would with sight. I'm just wondering if I should be actually seeing things out if I and doing it right or what.