yeah, thanks, Bodie, and I just want to invite the person whoever had their first lucid dream, if you feel called, to come on camera and share during our Q A at the end. We would love to hear from you, no pressure, but we would love to hear if so, and anyone else also that is unsure about having had a lucid dream. We also invite you to ask in the Q, a, and then we can maybe suss out whether or not it was a lucid dream that you had. So that's great. Thank you. So our focus, our topic for today, is on Dream incubation. So what is Dream incubation? Dream incubation involves focusing your mind on a specific topic, intention or question, with the intent that that will then arise within the dream space, and you'll be able to work with it in the lucid dream. So I'm just curious how many here have ever worked with Dream incubation, either with lucid dreams or non lucid dreams. If you have, just raise your hand. Okay, great. A few of you. Nice. Thank you. So we're going to talk about five different facets to dream incubation, and then give some examples about different themes you might explore when incubating dreams. Give some tips. And then Chelsea is going to guide a practice on Dream incubation, which involves a guided visualization and imagination aspect of it. So the first facet to dream incubation is creating a really clear intention. If you haven't seen our first session that we did in January of this year, we focus on intention and how to build a really strong intention. So that's the first layer with Dream incubation, is creating an intention that really speaks to you, that feels connected with your heart, and that is something that you have a strong pull towards or draw towards, creating or accomplishing in the dream space. The second facet to dream incubation is belief. So this involves both believing in your intention and also believing in your capacity to become lucid so that you can work with that intention in the dream space. So an important aspect of belief is to make sure that whatever your intention is is something that feels attainable to you. Sometimes we might have a really profound or really expansive idea that we want to incubate a dream about, but depending on where we are in our practice that may or may not be accessible to us yet. So we want to make sure that whatever our intention is is something that feels in alignment with where we are in our practice and where we really deeply believe that we actually can attain that intention. The third aspect to dream incubation is imagination. So this aspect is really about seeing, feeling, visualizing. Are experiencing whatever we are wanting to incubate the dream about prior to actually having the dream in the lucid space. So when we work with our imagination in this way, it's it's sort of like CO creating with our subconscious. So using our conscious mind to co create with our subconscious mind and planting these seeds in our subconscious mind so that they can incubate and hopefully sprout when we have a lucid dream. So the imagination part is, is really valuable, and that's going to be a big focus in Chelsea's practice. She has a beautiful practice that guides you through this imagination process, step by step. So it's like an active imagination process. An important thing with it is it's we're not necessarily creating the whole dream from the awakened state, we're just planting seeds for how it will be created. So there's again the conscious, active part of it, and then there's more of the receptive part of it, which can come when you're in the lucid space. The fourth facet to dream incubation is relaxation. Once you've created the intention and believed in it and imagined it coming to fruition, then you want to relax and let it go and really just allow yourself to surrender drop into the sleep state and the dream state each night. And the fifth facet to dream incubation is to stay open minded and patient. So with Dream incubation, there's a right timing for any dream to come to fruition. You know, sometimes when I incubate a dream, I will have a lucid dream that night, and sometimes when I incubate a dream, it will take months to have a lucid dream about that topic. And also, you might find that there are layers dream layers to whatever dream you're incubating. So with some dreams that I have incubated, it actually takes multiple lucid dreams to really complete whatever that intention was. So it's really helpful to be spacious with time and to allow yourself to have as much time as needed for your subconscious to bring this dream forth so that you can work with it. Now, with that being said, sometimes you might incubate a dream and it's not coming and it's not coming and it's not coming, which might mean that you need to change the intention or change some specifics around how that might come to fruition. So you want to be mindful in tracking your own process with the incubation as well, and having skillful means with yourself about what is the appropriate intention and what is the length of time that might be that might make sense for you to reach that intention within so if it's been like years or many, many months, and you've been working with an intention and it's not coming, maybe it's time to look at that and shift it a bit. Great. So I'm going to give some examples for themes that you could incubate dreams about. And while I'm doing this, I also want to invite you, if you have ideas or themes that are arising that dreams could be incubated about, to also drop those in the chat, so that we have even a wider array of options. I Yes. So some themes, you could incubate a dream about, first, a problem that you're working on. Albert Einstein is a great example of this. He worked on the theory of relativity in his dream space. So any problem that you have in your life that you're having trouble solving, you could incubate a dream about that to find a solution. You could incubate a dream about an experience that you'd like to have, maybe you want to go skydiving, or maybe you want to do a backflip off a high dive board, some experience that perhaps is not accessible to in waking life, you could incubate dream about that somewhere you feel stuck in life is another good option, a question that you have, one of the ways that I really like to work with asking questions in the dream space. Is to look up at the sky, maybe it's the daytime sky, maybe it's the night sky, and to look up and to say the question to the sky, and then to just wait and listen for an answer. Or sometimes you can also ask a question directly to a dream character who might be supportive to giving you a response that would help you, you can incubate a dream about meeting with a teacher or a guide. I love this, this theme, because it's it's a way of actually having more one to one time with teachers or guides who either are not very available for that in waking life, or maybe just aren't accessible to you in some way. You can incubate a dream about meeting with someone who has died, a friend or a family member, an animal. You can practice a skill. Could be playing an instrument or reciting a speech or working on something that you've always wanted to learn how to do, like climbing a rock wall. You can incubate dreams about healing on the physical, emotional, mental or spiritual levels,