Dream yoga

[Blue_Tiger]

I am wondering, does anyone do any form of dream yoga?

[iandude]

oh you just gave the the greatest of ideas.

[philthemn]

I dont do it, but I thougth you might want a link to a yoga nidra practise. Yoga nidra is very similiar to dream yoga, i think.
Anyway, here’s the link:
dummies.com/WileyCDA/Dummies … d-481.html

Cya
Phil

[Blue_Tiger]

Philthemn thanks.
I am currently trying Tibetan dream yoga were you visualize an “A” and fall asleep with it. I had succese with it but it is hard to keep the “A” during certain times. Maybe I can use this technique with Tibetan dream yoga. I will figure out something and see how it works out. Perhaps I will post my experiances here. Maybe others can try dream yoga too. This can become interesting

[Presence_of_Light]

@Blue Tiger

Philthemn thanks.
I am currently trying Tibetan dream yoga were you visualize an “A” and fall asleep with it. I had succese with it but it is hard to keep the “A” during certain times. Maybe I can use this technique with Tibetan dream yoga. I will figure out something and see how it works out. Perhaps I will post my experiances here. Maybe others can try dream yoga too. This can become interesting

whoa, is there any reason for it being an A?

[Blue_Tiger]

It has simbolism to it in traditional Tibetan Buddhism, but I use it as a way to simply focuse my attention so that my attention “goes over” into my dreams. It works, I just need to solidify my concentration, and quicker body relaxation to fall asleep. Yoga Nidra might help me here.

[Xetrov]

swamij.com/yoga-nidra.htm

much more elaborate stuff on yoga nidra

[philthemn]

I have been on that site aswell, in fact there are quite a few, but all of them seem to have the exact same method, adn no one is better than the other.

I think all the yoga and WILDing methods are completely useless on me as I have mild insomnia, meaning that if I dont try to sleep, I won’t.

[Blue_Tiger]

Is this insomnia due to reasons that you can’t cure by yourself?

[Presence_of_Light]

well i tried some of this dream yoga last night, and i also had 4 melatonin tablets in me (300 mcg each i believe) …

now… the melatonin didn’t really work much, and i won’t use it again for at least a week, i don’t want to screw up my hormones, BUT… interesting enough, my first LD, which happened in REM #1 (i assume) … i almost forgot, somehow miraculously i remembered it while writing in my DD

at any rate, it involved entering people’s brains, it was really cool and abstract… I tried to WILD, and I don’t know how I fell asleep, but it gave me a semi lucidity eventually… it was deceptive though, I thought that when I did the AP into someone’s brain, that that was real, and that when I came back, I was awake, so it was an LD within an ND.

but man, lucidity was up threefold today… as far as I can tell, and may have had an SD. I don’t know if it was the melatonin, the dream yoga, the effects of me starting back up on keeping track of my dream diary… or me getting into the vacation groove… but… it was a pretty good night.

one thing that was particularly helpful was the instructions to rehearse the dreams in your mind before you go back to sleep, i was gonna follow the instructions to get up and get in meditation pose too, but i was too damned tired, about to fall back asleep, I didn’t want to move at all, but I didn’t go over my dream memories, and I think that really helped me.

I deliberately said "Okay, remember… " etc etc… and yes I forgot one, or maybe more, but I remembered it eventually.

[Blue_Tiger]

one thing that was particularly helpful was the instructions to rehearse the dreams in your mind before you go back to sleep, i was gonna follow the instructions to get up and get in meditation pose too

Were in perticular does it say this?

[Presence_of_Light]

@Blue Tiger

one thing that was particularly helpful was the instructions to rehearse the dreams in your mind before you go back to sleep, i was gonna follow the instructions to get up and get in meditation pose too

Were in perticular does it say this?

i think i have a different site.
plotinus.com/zhine_tibetan_d … _part2.htm

Wake-up Practice

The moments immediately after waking are the most fertile for recalling dreams. The following practices are designed to support and strengthen your recall. They will also facilitate a mindful transition between the sleeping and waking dream states. Upon waking in the morning, practice:

• The lion’s out-breath - breathing out with the sound “ah”

• The lion-like posture for awakening and purifying - sitting up in bed with raised head and gazing and emphasizing the exhalation, repeating the “ah” out breath three times

• Raising the energy - standing up, reaching the fingertips to the sky, and repeating the lion’s out-breath

• Entering into mindful reflection on the transition between the states of sleeping, dreaming, and waking reality - coming into the present moment, recording dreams. Thus, you will enter the day recognizing that all things are like a dream, illusion, fantasy, mirage, and so forth.

…

• Wake yourself up during the night to reaffirm your resolve to awaken within the dream and grasp the fact that you are dreaming

• Sit up in meditation posture while sleeping to maintain continuous awareness while inducing and incubating lucid dreaming

i think i sort of read between the lines to implicity go over the dreams you just had several times in your head before going back to sleep, it’s kind of common sense, but i don’t usually do it… it’s sort of implied to do so if you read the whole page though.

[Blue_Tiger]

That is the site were I got my Tibetan dream yoga pactice too. I now have a whole diferent set of problems. When I do the relaxation techniques on the Yoga Nidra site, and when I sattle into the relaxed state after the relaxation techniques, I am having problems focusing on anything so that the atention will get into my dreams
Hopefuly this will pass if I continue to prectice and get used to the state.
This relaxed state does help with remembering dreams, so I can’t complain.
I just need concentration while in this state.

[Presence_of_Light]

i’ve had that problem for longer than a year…

you mean you’re so relaxed that you keep losing consciousness and any focus you have kind of falls apart?

[Blue_Tiger]

I believe that I keep conciousness but I get distracted by thoughts and is very hard to stop from being distracted.
Maybe that is loosing conciousness but I am still aware of the thoughts but am getting stuck in them.
I just don’t know.

[Blue_Tiger]

Dream yoga works!
I didn’t have a lucid dream yet, but my dreams are very clear and strong to remember. I am steps closer to an LD