“The Art of Dreaming” by Carlos Castaneda has a passage in which two of the characters discuss a technique for achieving “total perception” (meaning extremely enhanced stability I assume) in a lucid dream. I’m too lazy to type out their conversation but here is the gist…
Basically, it is said that if you fall asleep in a particular position (say on your right side with your knees slightly bent for example) and then, in your lucid dream, “fall asleep” IN that dream, IN the exact same position you fell asleep in in real life (to continue with the example, on your right side with your knees bent), you would “wake up” again, either within that same dream or a slightly different one but with greatly enhanced realism, stability, etc.
I’m not yet able to have lucid dreams regularly, so my question to those who do LD fairly often is: Does this sound at all likely to be true to you? Would you consider trying it as an experiment?
Moved from Quest For Lucidity to Lucid Adventures as it is something you would try when you are lucid to prolong/enhance the LD.
the highest “gate of dreaming” is to go into your physical body, and then stand beside it, the physical body, learning to use your dream body while awake
i’ve done a few times, it gives intense vibrations of energy, dunno if i’m stepping out of it into second physical or not.
the goal is to sense that
: 1. i am dreaming and have a body to move
2. I am asleep, and have a body there.
-0- : therefore, I currently have two bodies
and to bring your dreaming body back to the physical one, NOT a dream one.
i don’t get it
do you mean, go to sleep, then go to sleep in the dream in the same position?
and then you wake up in a third dream looking at yourself?
I’ve also read that sleeping on your right side, can stimulate a pressure point below your armpit, which usually alters the nasal cycle, but which can also increase the chances of LDing, as it affects your brain. Not sure myself, but I have read that.
I have read that sleeping with the left side of your head down (either lying with the left side of your body down, or on your stomach with your head pointed to the right) can increase your chances of becoming lucid… i think it said something about the left side of your brain… it seems silly to me. but it seems that every time i wake from an LD i’m laying on the left side of my body… weird.
