Surfing The Dream Layers
with Richard Rudd
I’d like to just share a little with you about how the brain works, and the structure of the frequencies of our brain. Our brain operates across multiple frequencies simultaneously. They all have Greeknames.
Gamma Brain Waves
Let’s start with Gamma. Gamma waves are brain waves of heightened awareness that open up to the potential for us to have breakthroughs and epiphanies – real insights into things that we don’t normally see, leaps in awareness. And that’s a state of intense awakeness.
Beta Brain Waves
Down from that a little bit, in terms of speed of brain wave cycles, is the Beta consciousness. Beta consciousness, for most people, is normal waking consciousness, where the left brain is engaged. We have the ability to problem-solve, to have discussions and dialogues and communication, and that’s where we spend 80% of our lives – in beta.
Alpha Brain Waves
Just beneath that is what’s known as Alpha. Alpha is when we maybe kick back and turn on the TV, or we have a cup of tea and we just let go a little bit of the worrying of the day. And we drop into a deeper state of relaxed reflection, we become aware of more things around us. We move a bit more internally in alpha, it’s light meditation or a relaxed kind of state. It’s also the edge of our dreams. When we’re waking up in the morning, we’re just on the edge of our dreams, and we’re maybe just remembering some of our dreams, and they’re coming and going – that’s the alpha. Then we come up into beta.
Theta Brain Waves
A little bit deeper than alpha are Theta brain waves, and theta brain waves occur if you learn meditation and you go into deep meditation, or you have a massage or something and you start to go deep. You could be in a profound creative process where your right brain is engaged and you kind of lose track of time. You might be working with your hands at a craft that you’re a master of. You may be a musician and you get lost in the creative process, in a sense. You’re not lost, but completely surrendered. That’s theta consciousness. It’s also the main place where dreams come from. Dreams happen in alpha but also theta.
Delta Waves
Below that is Delta, and delta is the dreamless sleep. It’s really important that our body picks up some delta waves in the night. It’s a bit like the computer – you switch off your computer, and it completely reboots. You have to drop down. Your awareness, your consciousness, has to drop down into the deep delta, even for a short burst, even for a few seconds, in order to have that feeling of reset. When you wake up in the morning, you’ve been in the dreamless delta realm, and you feel reset. If you don’t get that in a night, then you wake up a little bit tired, you wake up feeling like you haven’t had the best sleep. So, delta is really important.
Those are the main brain wave frequencies. There are other ones at the extreme ends, which are interesting, but that’s really what we need to know.
Consciously Choosing Where We Surf
The key insight I want to share with you is that these brain waves are not linear, in the sense that we move from one to the other. They are actually happening all the time, so they interpenetrate each other. It’s just where our awareness spend its time. If you spend your time in deep meditation, you spend a lot more time in theta. If you’re spending your time creating something, you spend time in alpha, and if you’re problem-solving in the day or you’re going to your job, you’re mostly in beta.
So, it’s about where we spend our time. If we are unaware of the deeper truths and dimensions behind outer events, it’s because we’re not spending enough time in these deeper levels. Because when we drop into them, and we have to do that by pausing, we drop into a pause, we actually go down into that dreaming realm. And this is why the indigenous people – the Australian Aborigines, for instance – call this life the Dreamtime. So, there’s no difference in any of the layers other than just the frequency of our brain waves. So, if we’re able to drop into a slower rhythm, a deeper rhythm, and our heart rate slows down, and we reset this biorhythm, and we deepen our breath, and we align our endocrine system, then we find that we come into the deeper dreamscape in which we live. And it’s just as real, if not more real, as the one we’re used to at beta.
What I’m trying to say is that we can access these states all the time, and our awareness can track them and move through them. When we do move into those deeper states, then our heart starts to soften as well, and our mind begins to open, and lucidity becomes possible, and we feel relaxed. That’s the key. We feel relaxed, life flows. So, I wanted to give you a little flavour of this. If you come and explore the Dream Arc Programme, you’ll learn all about these things. It’s all about the consciousness of Gaia and all the animals that populate Gaia, and how they live inside us as different states of awareness.
Guided Surfing Exercise
This next section you can read, or listen to Richard as he guides you through the process.
So, just put your hand on your belly for a moment. Close your eyes. Think of the trillions of bacteria that live in your gut. This is an intelligence network that’s far more aware and wise than the network in your brain. There’s more DNA in this area of your body than the whole rest of your body. When we’re in our head, in our brain, there’s often this kind of manic, addictive thinking. It’s like we’ve put a tyrant in charge of the inner government, and so there’s no wisdom, because wisdom is different from knowledge. Knowledge is of the brain, wisdom is of the biome. Wisdom is from the belly. It’s not about just thinking.
Let’s drop into the wisdom of the body and just feel yourself relaxing into some of these slower brain wave frequencies. If we really slow down like this and we start listening to our body, we can increase the chance that we’ll catch some of those magical waves. And like those delta waves, they’re moving through us even in the day, so we can access dreamless sleep even while we’re awake, even for moments. And if we do, those delta waves are like the Holy Grail. If we can capture one of those – just one, for a split second – it’s like we’ve had an entire frequency bath, the whole of our being just resets. If we can train ourselves to do that in the day, then we don’t have to have all this pressure on having a good sleep. It means that we’ve already captured it, we’ve laid it down inside us.
Think of Gaia. Think of an elephant washing herself. Somewhere in the world right now, an elephant is washing itself in a river. Somewhere a lizard is lying, lazing in the sun. Somewhere an albatross is wheeling over the skies above the ocean. Somewhere there’s a fish, adrift in the ocean currents. Feel the order and the organisation of Gaia, and let her operate inside you. Feel her pulse. Let her conduct your inner orchestra. Feel the pulse of the oceans.
Now I just want to invite you to open your eyes. Open your eyes but maintain the state. It’s not like when we wake up from deep sleep, and we’re all tired and bleary. We can actually open our eyes in deep meditation, and we can close them again, and the deep state is still there, and we can open them again. Do you see how to do this? We can maintain a state of unbroken awareness throughout our day. And even as we deepen that, we can take it into our night and our dreams, and our eyes can stay open, energetically. Our inner eye, or our third eye, can stay open.
The ants don’t close their eyes, neither do the birds or the bees. Some of them do, but mostly, most creatures on Gaia sleep with their eyes open because they’re moving in and out of these delta frequencies and these theta frequencies. They can meditate and rest and reset their systems, even while they’re active.
Life Is MagicalÂ
It’s the same with us – we just have to train ourselves. And this is what the Dream Arc Programme helps us do, bring us into harmony with Gaia and all her creatures, open up our imagination, our intuition, and bring us into a greater timing and synchronicity so that we are aware that life is magical. Because we don’t get that feeling unless we’re accessing some of these deeper brain wave cycles. Then we realise, like the Aborigines, that all life is a dream, and that we can be awake in that dream. That’s when magic is possible. That’s when the gamma waves create the breakthroughs, the theta waves give us visions, the alpha waves allow us to relax. And we can be at home in all these different realms and dimensions.
