I can say now that we’re on to the second lesson, that TWR heavily emphasizes the “three precious pills” (he also calls these “the three doors”) of stillness (of the body), silence (of speach), and spaciousness (of mind/heart). This is an interesting update from his book, where he does mention them in the “simple practices” section, but now he’s integrated them into the main dream yoga practice as the basis of creating lucid presence and awareness.
Lovely!
I shared a video about this in another thread here, recently. LOVED it
this sounds VERY interesting
Tonight I had a very stable lucid dream, for quite some time, and noticed several patterns for it to happen - because at the moment, I’m allowing them to happen spontaneously:
Tomorrow I go on a journey, and I realize now (based on previous experiences) that there is a high probability to dream lucid the day before or on the night itself.
Yesterday, before sleep, I visualized my day from the perspective of it being a dream (I hadn’t done this for a while now, and it usually creates lucid dreaming).
Sometimes, I drink a glass of water after waking up to register a dream and/or go to the toilet, and then go back to dream. The last two lucid dreams I had were after doing this.
The last two nights I smoked the room with sage.
I keep practicing Lu Jong almost everyday and day lucidity by chanting the mantra “Om Ami Dey Wa Hri”, singing and nature.
After waking up one time, I go back to sleep saying to myself “I am a Dream Light Warrioress, I keep Conscious and Lucid in my dreams”.
This week I have also realized that I have a dream catcher I weaved for my dream practice (not thinking about lucid dreams at that time), and it was from that moment on that I started dreaming super lucid.
Another interesting factor is that this lucid dream was a continuation of my last lucid dream this has happened before, but not the LD right after, and not after such a short period of time. I had noticed this with months of distance. At the moment I am also just allowing the lucid dream to unfold itself and witness the magic
Tonight I had one of the most amazing Lucid Dreams ever!..
I was with a man (that I don’t see for some time - we are only friends, for four years now), when the sexual energy emerged I became lucid and said “If I’m lucid, let’s do something”: stood in front of him and hugged him with my wings - several times, I was standing up, creating consciously the movement of my wings to go and touch him. The last two times I REALLY felt the contact with his bodies! It was awesome! then there was sexual energy again, and I came back
What happened before:
» I traveled back home on that day;
» I read a fascinating book about lucid dreaming before going to bed;
» I fell asleep connecting with two powerful memories: 1. dear friends, family and hugging them (one of them was this man I dreamt with); 2. one of the best moments of my summer - meditating at the beach;
» I did the Kubera Mudra after waking up one time, together with the affirmation “I am a Dream Light Warrioress, I keep Conscious and Lucid in my dreams”.
Lucidity is slowly starting to make a return. I’ve had a handful of lucid dreams in the last couple weeks, including one just last night, which was really quite an awesome short LD, because it was finally a manifestation of my practice: just walking, alone, outside, on a quiet road with cabins on both sides of the road in a wooded setting (very much like my daily walks), it was bright and super vivid, and the thought came to me, “this is a dream!” and indeed it was! I looked around in amazement at the detail, up at the cloudy blue sky, and had a small bit of success actually implementing my primary dream goals.
I’ve been really working on the intensity of the day-time practice in the last couple of days. TWR mentioned in the course in an answer to me that it takes “quite an intensity and repetition” for the foundational practices to manifest in dreams, so I’ve be ramping up that part, and glad to see a small inkling of progress!
Thank you for the reminder, I still need to order this, will pull the trigger this week.
Thank you my friend for this gem
Awesome news that the LDs are being rekindled. Appreciate the reminder and advice from Master TWR! Cool semi-Synch: I cracked open his book again after about a 5 week hiatus. Will post the meaningful quote in the other thread.
LOVE it!
I wonder if there is a name for this phenomena?
Have heard of it happening in non-lucid dreams as well. One of my firends told me the most memorable dreams he had, were the 2 back to back dreams over 2 consecutive nights. Both were non lucid.
I dont think I have ever had this happen in any type of dream
awesome!
I read it in 11 days!!! this is so rare to happen!
let’s give it a name… just for fun…
“dream album”
we can only discover it by, every now and then, going back to read registered dreams this because, in my case, it started happening with around 6 months of difference
I found this a really fantastic video. Normally I’m not a huge fan of DL because he can be very abrasive at times, but he’s almost always spot-on with his recommendations about practice I find. Realistic, and also hopeful, and really truthful about lucid dreaming and dream practice in general. The title is still a bit clickbait-y but the content is top-notch IMO:
Reflects where I am on my LD path.
That approach is genius!
It’s basically taking the subtle activities of the mind as the focus of curious interest. Shamata on the mind without effort.
this SO aligned with my current LD practice at the same time, something new and fresh is happening…
I haven’t been experiencing what I learned to be a Lucid Dream, but very interesting things are occurring in my dream realms.
some examples:
In one very realistic and vivid dream, I was doing an intense physical exercise (doing the handstand several times with just the impulse of my legs - the arms were fixed to the floor). When I woke, felt in my body exactly as if I had had the physical experience of what I was doing in the dream! (Later that day, did it in the awake state and it was a LOT of FUN - meaning that like many other dreams, they are a source of inspiration for the life here in this plane)
Another very powerful and interesting dream was an emotional healing. I spoke directly from the heart and in the next days, I noticed in awe that It cleared deeply that emotional issue,
another one where the dream connected me to a friend:
I also have the impression that I am doing a LOT of Astral Projection lately in my dreams, because of the vividness and quality in them. (and because I keep the daily practice in the awake state).
What I do keep practicing is when going to bed recalling the day as it being a dream, and was wondering if my dreams in the night are becoming as “real” as the “reality” we live in during the day.
Helpful, thanks for sharing!
Amen
Amen
Thank you for this, actually had a pretty cool sych with it and an insight thought I had earlier before viewing it.
Thought was tied to Yoga Nidra too, think it might warrant its own thread
I’ve been really tired lately. As in, really, really tired. I decided last night just to rest. No effort even to recall dreams (other than the final waking). My mind of course out of habit did review the dreams of a few wakings but I didn’t spend long on them and didn’t record (but still remembered some parts in the late morning). At around 7 hours after bedtime I felt fully awake and pondered getting up, but decided to work more on relaxation and “deepening” (sort of self-hypnosis) and some audio imagination (quiet, relaxing, babbling brook, the sound of running water is soooooo relaxing).
I did manage to get back to sleep, had a couple of short dreams even, and one of them was lucid! I think incorporating much more mental rest during the day is important.
yes, I practice more of this lately also… it feels so GREAT to wake up and just relax… sometimes I combine it with a tantra exercise and thinking of the day before as a dream. it also helps me going back to sleep with the belly up.
Last night I went to bed and I heard myself saying “tonight you are going to dream lucid”. I smiled, it was not induction nor affirmation. It was a deep knowing. I guess I smiled because even though this happens more and more frequently, the mystery is always there. I did not know really for sure if I was going to dream lucid.
I did dream lucid and It was also a short one, with other dreams before and after. The LD was so interesting… I became lucid and I felt I was a radiant bubble - all colors around were vivid and really colorful. From out that bubble of energy, my two hands came out, and I could look into them for a long time, and truly recognized my physical hands. There was no distortion at all, and I realized that after nearly two years of doing reality checks with my hand (because I enjoy doing so) I really know my hands.Felt a huge blessing to know my own hands, also in a LD.
yes. I agree.
A thought came to me today: “if you want to achieve your goals, let them go…”
Or stated another way, “you get what you want by not wanting it.” Spend sufficient time around Buddhist-inspired teachings and you start to talk and think like that haha. But the thing is, now, it makes sense!