Have you ever noticed a greater amount of LDs or awareness and memory of hypnagogic dreams when initiating the practice of Yoga in everyday life?
There are the Tibetan Dream Yogis which is information that I have yet to explore, does anyone have any experience or information about that?
The two times in my life that I have started my Yogic practice, one being more recent I had very vivid hypnagogic dreams.
One of the times someone pulled on my ankles telling me that he was my Guru now, actually pulling my body down enabling my Soul to slightly exit through the crown.
The second time was more recent. There were a whole group of people making a short grunting noise one person right after another taking turns kind of like a half a beat OM and I was next. But when it was my turn I had the sleep paralysis and could not make the sound and they just looked at me and smiled.
I figure there is a relationship because I rarely remember the hypnagogic dreams but always remember the REM dreams.
I just bought a yoga book today to try to help me with becoming lucid so what you wrote is encouraging. I’ll be sure to post in the forum if I have good results.
It’s a used paperback called Yoga for Today that I got at my local library for ten cents. Pretty old, but yoga is yoga and hey, it was only ten cents! This is the book
That is pretty awesome you only paid a dime for it. Congratulations on your find, looks like a good book too I hope you learn a lot. Don’t worry about the book being old, 36 years is nothing. Hatha Yoga Pradipika is about 500 years old and the Yoga Sutras date back to the beginning of the common era.
If you start to lucid dream that you are doing Yoga poses, please write and let us know. Doing a pose with a greater intensity in a dream can possibly have pretty dramatic affects on your actual practice.
During a Yoga lesson, a month ago or something like that, I had a strange feeling. I was standing on one feet, holding my hands above my head, and surely I had my eyse closed. And after a while the points I normally see when I close my eyse, were forming to a figure. I saw a body wich was in the same posture than me… And I felt such a strong wave coming up in me, and I fell back on the ground. I think I slept a fiew minutes. And it was amazing. The whole evening I felt like I was dreaming.
I don’t know if my experience is right in here, but I hope so…
So I really feel a strong connection between Yoga and LD. just my opinion…
That is interesting Clean. Yes, your experience is right here. I am not sure if there is such a thing as an experience that is not right in relation to dreams.
It sounds to me like you had a reverse of what I was asking about and that makes it even more interesting. So the pose that you were doing actually precipitated a dream state for a few. Kind of reminds me of some of Casteneda’s ideas. Although he was not doing Yoga, he has some ways of going into that state while awake.
Has this experience happened to you since this time?
I haven’t ever practised yoga or know too much about it, but I do meditate every so often as it can help me when I am drained of energy.
But I have had a few LD where I have meditated in a dream, I sort of was doing it plus I could see myself doing it and my aura round my body was bright.
I am not sure if this is a similiar experience or something completely different.
I don’t know anything about Yoga and dreams, but I practice Taiji’chuan, Ji Gung, and Ba Gua (and other various martial arts) and they seem to help alot.
Pretty old, but yoga is yoga and hey, it was only ten cents! 