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Hi, I am Paul from Malaysia.

  1. My main interest is spiritual development.
  2. I recently picked up an interest in lucid dreaming.
  3. Interested to learn how to have more frequent lucid dreams and eventually to use it in spiritual development.

Glad to have found this community! :smile:

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Hi there,
I’m living in Virginia USA at the moment and have been meditating for a number of years. Also practise yoga. I’ve been using a dream journal for the past year, and find it so illuminating and revealing, looking and recording my dreams.
I came to NC after having read AH’s books and others on Dreams and Dream Yoga. Looking to experience and learn new things and meet fellow dreamers.
Looking forward to meeting you all.
Chris

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Hello,

I’ve been a vivid dreamer for as long as I can remember and only in the last couple of years began looking at lucid dreaming and dream yoga as practices. I’m a practicing Buddhist and have spent many years meditating and practicing yoga. It feels like the perfect time to connect with other dreamers and use all of this wonderful support to deepen my understanding and bring more lucidity into all areas of my life! I look forward to meeting all of you.

Christine

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Welcome to NC!

I think you will really like Andrews work. I have learned so much about Buddhism from him since joining.

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Hi everyone!
I’ve been interested in lucid dreaming since I was a teenager although I’ve been in and out of practicing consistently for a period of almost 20 years now. I’ve been into meditation for roughly the same duration as well, and into asana yoga for quite a while too.
I’m interested in getting back into lucid dreaming and using it a tool for spiritual development at this point. I’m looking to surpass my previous skill level in regard to attaining/maintaining lucidity and set some new goals for personal/spiritual development! Thanks for the support.

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Carl : Fitness Coach based in Toulouse, France : I have been Lucid dreaming for many years (orginally hedonisticly). Now I am more often performing meditation whilst in a Lucid dream.

Curious to exchange with others who have also taken this journey and to understand the relationship with Nidra Yoga.

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Domt know too much about Yoga Nidra, but when I first started meditating one of the tips I was given was try to get the mind to to the state where it is not fully awake but also not fully asleep, that sacred inbetween state:

" Yoga nidra is linked to meditation in Shaiva and Buddhist tantras, while some medieval hatha yoga texts use “yoganidra” as a synonym for the deep meditative state of samadhi. "

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Thanks for the link nighthawk.

I am a traditional yoga instructor, but dont know too much about nidra (sleep) yoga, so I will reach out to my teacher teachers in India for thier view.

The frustration I have is that in my meditation community nobody (including the gurus) has experienced lucid dreaming, so I cant relate to them on the concept of meditation during the lucid state.

Thats why I have turned to this forum.

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I think this was a major reason why Andrew created this site, because people who pactice these noturnal practices are difficult to find!

I would reccomend you create a topic in the general discussion forum, regarding the specifics of what you are after or have questions about.

I have had Lucid dreams, but not been able to meditate in my dreams yet, even though its been on my bucket list for over a year.

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Okay i will do that when the time seems right.

I had my first lucid dream for a couple of months this morning.

It was interesting in that I went into the lucid state whilst settling to sleep in a dream. I am not sure if that deserves its own category, as it was a wild from a dream. When in the lucid state I thought the awake state was the dream scene, so when I came out of it, I continued the dream before waking again in bed later.

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It really isn’t easy and I haven’t done it for a while also. Human instict is to just have fun in this new reality, so why not just fly about a bit.

When you have decided to meditate, rather than muck about, you then need to find a quiet space to meditate and the scene may not be ready for that.

In many cases, just as I was settling to meditate I woke up :slight_smile:

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If it held importance to you, there is a dream sharing category in the forums.

I too had a lucid dream last week, it had been about 2 months or more since the last one. Was nice to break the dey spell.

I think about 9 months ago, I had a dream where there was a room full of monks chanting. I wanted to meditate in the room they were in, but they were too loud, so I decided to meditate in a different room, but before I could, I got distracted by something lol :upside_down_face:

Hopefully its just a matter of time before having another dream like that.

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I have found that I need to be ld quite frequently to then have it come to mind to meditate. Otherwise the novelty of the state is too much of a distraction. Its almost as I need to be blasé about it all.

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Hi Annie,

Nice that someone else has used there full name as their username. I didn’t think to do otherwise until I saw other people’s id’s.

How has the forum been for you over the past couple of years?

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Hi, I’m Kitty Gibbons. I have been practicing mindfulness meditation since 2010. And I’ve been reading about and trying lucid dreaming for at least eight years. So I’m very interested in this organization, because I find your methods excellent. I’m very excited to join this group

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I was the same, did 2-3 years of reading books from the library with no success, then joijed here and followed Andrews instructions religiously and it produced a lucid dream in under 100 days, then a little over a dozen in the following year.

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Hello from Northern California. The inner journey has been a lifelong passion, fueled by five decades of life’s passages, distant travels, studies in yoga, imagery, art and healing and feel very much a beginner in my search for transformation.

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Very cool to hear Andrew helped you with this. My experience is similar. He helped me have over a dozen in under 2 years. Still need a lot of work and practice, still very new.

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Hi, I am Michael; German, migrated to Switzerland, then Australia, now back in Switzerland. As, you, Andrew, said, there so many paths … yet when you came across Tibetan Buddhism, you knew, that would be your path. Likewise there so many teachers, yet when I came across you, you spoke to me right away: with your knowledge, your humbleness, your caring and not the least with your humour. Thank you. And with the Night Club … and practising how to die: what a revelation! I sensed in 2024 I would experience another milestone, now I know. I feel blessed, thank you so much.

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Welcome to the club. Cool synchronicity with what you were aying above, today I was wondering if I was a Buddhist in a past life.

Cool plane :slightly_smiling_face:

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