I am thinking or reading something about earthquakes.
A  female  friend  calls  me  to a  window  [in an unfamiliar
house]  and  excitedly tells  that  "the sun has a blue flake
on it!"
     I  look out the window.  A white sun is about  30° above
the northern horizon.  I  notice  that  it  has  a bluish tint to
it,  but  think that's probably due  to  a retinal after-image.
I  think, "If  I am dreaming, then that is the Light,  not the
sun!"  In order to test this,  I try to enter into a meditative
state.  But then  I  decide that  I'm  not  dreaming,  though
the sun has increased in size.

       As  a  result  of  such  dreams,   I  soon  decided  that
whenever I became lucid in a dream, I would pray for the
Light  and  seek to enter  a meditative state.  I  have since
found  that  failure to  do so usually results  in premature
awakening  or  in   being   eventually   distracted   by   the
dream environment to the extent of being re-absorbed in
the normal dream consciousness.  Thus  the act of prayer
and  meditation has allowed me to focus my attention on
what  I truly desire to encounter without being distracted
by  the  unlimited  possibilities  which  may  arise  in  the
lucid   dream.   Prayer   and  meditation  have  seemed  to
consolidate  what  can  be  a  fleeting  experience.  More
important,  the attitude of  receptivity engendered by this
practice has invited —in  the  case  of  many dreams—an
immediate presentation of the Light.
    Recently I was astounded to discover that this practice
of  seeking  the  Light  through  the lucid dream has been
described   in  ancient  Tibetan  manuscripts   and  can  be
read in translation in Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines
by  Evans-Wentz.  In  the  chapter  entitled  "The  Yoga of
the Dream State,"  the  adept  is  admonished  to  become
aware  of  the illusory nature  of  the dream images while
in  the  dream!  There  are  various  physical  and  mental
exercises  given  to  enable  the adept  to achieve lucidity.
One  of  the goals of this process  is  to carry the waking
consciousness  into  the  dream  and  vice  versa  without
a   break   in  consciousness.  The   primary   purpose  for
establishing this continuity  of consciousness is to allow

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