問：怎樣才能做到夢中識夢？
清涼月老師：這個就通過是精進實證，是能夠輕鬆地做到的；另一個方法，就是分析夢。平時只要是醒來的時候，先回憶一下你昨天做夢的情況，然後馬上知道這是夢，每天睡覺之前也能夠提起前一天做夢的境界，然後分析這境界是夢。經常這樣分析，這是其中比較容易做得到的。
然後，再去達到第二步。就是白天走路的時候在大街上逛街，你說“啊，這是夢”。這個白天本身也就是夢的，只不過這種夢比鬼道的那種夢又高了一個層次，但它還是夢，鬼道的夢無非就是平時那種生活不見陽光，然後就成了鬼道。為什麼？因為鬼道的人和我們生活在一個同樣的思維狀態——意的相續狀態。他們唯一不同的，是我們平時的人有一定的專注，他能夠用這種專注打破那個邏輯性，他能夠轉化那個邏輯，而鬼道的人卻不能。這是他們唯一的區別。
鬼道的人不具備這樣的專注性，他不可能打破那種意的相續狀態，自主決定這個思維的轉換，這是他們的區別。因為有這種共同的思維基礎，所以鬼道的人的生活環境和我們現在的人的生活環境基本是一致的。就像以前有一個典故，就是一個人到了鬼道，他看到嶽飛還在組織軍隊和金國人打仗一樣，鬼道還在招兵買馬在打仗的，那就和生前的境界是一樣的。我們平時人你現在生活的境界，那麼鬼道照樣在這種境界。就像你夢到過去死去的人一樣，死去的人你會發現他們生活的境界，永遠是在他死前所處的那個境界，不可能是在之後的，因為他就生活在記憶中，當你和他相應，你見到他，你就會發現他還生活在過去的環境。
（輯錄自微信公眾號《打坐實證》2023年6月15日發佈的文章）
Question: How can one recognize they are dreaming while within a dream?
Answer by Master Qingliang Yue: Achieving lucidity in dreams can be straightforward with diligent empirical practice. Another effective approach is dream analysis. Upon waking, immediately recall and acknowledge your dreams from the night as dreams. Similarly, before sleeping, reflect on and analyze your dreams from the previous day, recognizing them as dreams. Regular analysis is a simple yet effective method for fostering dream awareness.
Additionally, one can practice a form of daytime awareness. While engaging in daily activities, such as walking or shopping, remind yourself, “This is a dream.” Daytime existence, too, is a dream, just on a higher plane than the ghost realm, but a dream nonetheless. The ghost realm essentially mirrors our ordinary life, absent of sunlight. The key distinction between us and the beings of the ghost realm lies in our capacity to disrupt the flow of consciousness with concentrated focus and the transformation of thoughts—abilities they do not possess.
This lack of focus and inability to shift their state of consciousness is what differentiates the inhabitants of the ghost realm from us. Despite this, the environments we and they inhabit are fundamentally similar, rooted in shared states of mind. Anecdotes suggest that the ghost realm mirrors our world so closely that historical figures like Yue Fei continue their earthly endeavors, illustrating how both realms are reflections of the same reality. This concept extends to dreaming of deceased individuals, whose lives in dreams remain as they were before death, encapsulated in memory. Engaging with them in dreams, you will find that they still exist in a perpetual past.
(Adapted from the WeChat public account “Meditation” on June 15, 2023)