Hi Rainbow,
That's a great question you're asking. Here's my take.
We can think of sleeping and wakefulness as different states of consciousness. While we are awake we can reach different levels of awareness. When we remember dreams we have been aware of them. Basicly, the question you are asking is about two different types of consciousness: state consciousness and consicousness as awareness.
If we assume that "intention and mindfulness" require awareness, then it is still possible to act with intention and mindfulness while dreaming.
However, we do not always dream while sleeping. We shift between dream states and non-dream states thruout the night. When we dream we are conscious, we have experiences and awareness. So we are left with a different question, Does Reiki continue to flow in non-dream sleep?
I don't know an answer to this question, but I do know that Reiki sometimes continues to flow a while after my intention or sometimes jump-starts without it.
Concluding, if we regard awareness as a requirement for "intention and mindfulness" and if it is possible to have awareness both when awake and while dreaming, then it is possible to keep intention and mindfulness in dreams. Whether this is the case for non-dream sleep I dare not say.
Finally, we percieve dreams as very real, but realize when we are awake that they are not. We have not actually been engaged in bizarre dreaming activities. The problem then is, what if Reiki feels real in a dream. Is it real? Do we feel the aftereffects of Reiki when we wake up?
Perhaps some of the lucid dreamers out there in the forum could help us out by experimenting?
Ivoryraven
