Clear light dream - Yoga - Tenzin Wangyal

Beyond Dreaming
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Hello!

I just finished a book written by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. In the book it is written how one can perform sleep yoga. I find this particular section of the book extra intresting and I am eager to experience the white-blue clear light, which Wangyal writes about.

At one time I managed a WILD. I did this by thinking of some music which I like and when I begun to hear it in my mind, I was in the hypnogigic state and could easily enter a dream. I find that when I focus on a piece of music is is much easier for me to drift into sleep without loosing my awareness.

Now for my question:
Wangyal states that one perform sleep yoga by focusing on the following tigle: yellow, green, red, blue and finally (when one enters fully enters the sleep) the clear white-blue light. The later is awareness being aware of itself and thus there are no awareness of duality. If I have understood this correctly the blue tigle should be what one focus on while slipping into the hypnogogic state, so my question is: Do you think it is possible to replace the practise of focusing on the yellow, green and red tigle with focusing on a piece of music (imaginary music), until the hypnogogic state i realized and then switch to practesing the sleep yoga accordingly to the traditional ways begining with the blue tigle?

I ask because I have problems with keeping my awareness focused on colored tigles. Sounds is so much easier for me, or so it seems at least.

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I’ve also read this book but it’s been a long time
various traditions have their views on the chakras and how we can use them, for what purpose etc.

if you want to use music I say by all means! explore and discover what works for you

my approach is to stick to some of the basic traditional methods but as well try various others. it’s not easy, I fight hard over it, but it’s balanced and safe over time to get somewhere

let us know how the tigles work for you

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what is a tigle?

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from the book: tigle has multiple meanings depending on context. Althought usually translated as drop or seminal point, in the context of dream and sleep yogas the tigles refers to a luminous sphere of light representing a quality of consciousness and used as a focus in meditation practice.

…different parts of the chakras/petals i guess