I have finally made some progress in my quest to achieve lucidity throughout the entire night’s sleep.
By practicing Tibetan Dream Yoga and my modified auto-suggestion technique, I was lucid in half of all of my dreams last night. It’s the most ecstatic feeling to just automatically know you’re dreaming when the dream begins and being free to do whatever you want with the entirety of your dreams duration.
For those of you who don’t know what tibetan dream yoga is, it’s the art of visualizing the world around you as being a dream throughout your entire waking life. Sure it sounds easy, but try and do it for 10 minutes straight and you’ll find you have forgotten that’s what you were trying to visualize. That’s where they key word practice fits in. Tibetan dream yoga is a technique that takes practice to perfect. I am only a few days into it now, but I find that roughly every 5 to 10 minutes I remember to keep practicing it. My goal is to get to the point where 24/7 I am practicing dream yoga, without any effort.
Any one else have any comments they’d like to make on tibetan dream yoga?
I find it to be one of, if not the, greatest techniques I’ve ever practiced. Along with amazing results and more vivid dreams, I find it gives a great deal of perspective to life. Definitely plan on continuing my practice.
Sounds interesting enough, but something confuses me.
Wouldn’t visualizing the world as being a dream actually make us lose connection to sense of reality?
Just a thought…
Buddhist practices in general, including dream yoga, can make one increasingly attentive to the “suchness” of every sensuous moment. Telling yourself “This is a dream” brings your attention here to Now and out of the scattered roaming-about that is typical of people’s mind-habits. Test it and see if things don’t “stand out” at you more than in your normal “sense of reality.”
Just as knowing a dream is your experience makes you more “lucid” and more attentive to what’s happening within the dream, so knowing your interaction with the waking world is also your experience tends to increase attentiveness (lucidity) within “daytime reality.”
the highest goal of any branch of yoga is enlightenment.
defined many ways but the most important to us is freedom from suffering. the flip side of freedom from suffering means that one is always happy without condition. it is the default state and ultimately pure and not corruptible.
Today I tried this method. And it’s not as easy as it sounds.
Focus easily slips away, but I remembered every 20-30 minutes to keep practicing it.
So, are there any tips and tricks how to make it a little easier?
there is more to dream yoga than just reminding yourself that you are dreaming during the day.
and ofcourse you won’t succeed at this the first day, you have to practice everyday to get better at it.
I have started doing dream-yoga exercises, there are more, if you really are interested i suggest you get the book ‘tibetan yogi’s of dream and sleep’. In there it has all the exercises explained
Is it the book by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche? I’ve bought it some days ago.
The exercices are very hard in my opinion. Now, there are some interesting tips that could be applied by all the lucid dreamers, even those who don’t know dreams yogas.
It’s explained that what you can do in a LD is enhancing your mind flexibility cause it’s a very good thing. There are eleven exercices to do, and it’s about transforming things.
Size: make things bigger or more little. Change your own height.
Quantity: when you see something, multiply them or in the other hand, when there are many things, make them just one.
Quality: changing emotion. Fear to love, etc.
Speed: it’s about time speed. Increase time speed or slow it.
-Accomplishment: when you really want to accomplish something in your heart and you can’t IRL, do it in a LD. For instance, climbing the Everest.
Transforming: change shape.
(I’m not able to translate this ) Transform into a divine being then multiply yourself for the welfare of other beings. A curious buddhist notion.
Travel: you have to do the whole travel, not to teleport there.
Sight: you want to see beautiful or incredible things? See them.
Meeting: meet a master of the past, a guide, a SG, then ask them a teaching.
Experiment: experiment anything you haven’t done, for instance breathing under water or transforming into rain.
Now, there are some interesting tips that could be applied by all the lucid dreamers, even those who don’t know dreams yogas.
) Transform into a divine being then multiply yourself for the welfare of other beings. A curious buddhist notion. 