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729456 No.380

I've always wanted to lucid dream/do dream yoga. So, a thread dedicated to that. :)

Source: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Dream_yoga

Dream Yoga or Milam[1] (Standard Tibetan: rmi-lam or nyilam; Sanskrit: स्वप्नदर्शन, svapnadarśana)[2] — the Yoga of the Dream State — is a suite of advanced tantric sadhana of the entwined Mantrayana lineages of Dzogchen (Nyingmapa, Ngagpa, Mahasiddha, Kagyu and Bönpo). Dream Yoga are tantric processes and techniques within the trance Bardos of Dream and Sleep (Tibetan: mi-lam bardo) and are advanced practices similar to Yoga Nidra. Aspects of Dream Yoga sadhana are subsumed within the practice suite of the Six Yogas of Naropa. In the tradition of the tantra, Dream Yoga method is usually passed on by a qualified teacher to his/her students after necessary initiation. Various Tibetan lamas are unanimous that it is more of a passing of an enlightened experience rather than any textual information.[citation needed]

In a footnote on 'Zhitro' (Tibetan: zhi khro) Namdak & Dixey, et al. (2002: p. 124) identify that the 'dream body' and the 'bardo body' is the 'vision body' (Tibetan: yid lus):

In the bardo one has…the yilu (yid lus), the vision body (yid, consciousness; lus, body). It is the same as the body of dreams, the mind body."[3]

Dream Yoga traditions, transmissions and lineages

Shugchang, et al. (2000: p. 17) frames the importance of dreams and dream yoga in relation to maya and gyulu of the buddhist tradition originating from Buddha Shakyamuni:

Buddha Shakyamuni often told his disciples to regard all phenomena as dreams. He used many examples, like an echo, a city in the clouds or a rainbow to illustrate the illusory nature of the phenomenal world. Dreams represent just one type of illusion. The whole universe arises and dissolves like a mirage. Everything about us, even the most enlightened qualities, are also dreamlike phenomena. There's nothing that is not encompassed within the dream of illusory being; so in going to sleep, you're just passing from one dream state to another.[4]

Padmasambhava (c. 8th century) received the transmission he codified as The Yoga of the Dream State from the mindstream of the mysterious siddha-yogi Lawapa (c. 10th century).[5]

Kagyu lineage

In the Kagyu 'Lineage of the Four Commissioners' (Tibetan: Ka-bab-shi-gyu-pa), the lineage stream of Dream Yoga is identified as originating from the Dharmakaya Buddha Vajradhara. The Dharmakaya, synonymous with Vajradhara Buddha, is the source of all the manifestations of enlightenment. From Caryapa, Tilopa (988 - 1069 CE) of the Dzogchen Kham lineage, "received the oral instructions on Dream yoga according to the method of the Mahamaya-tantra."[6][7] From Nagarjuna (c. 150 - 250 CE), Tilopa received the radiant light (Sanskrit: prabhasvara) and Illusory Body (Sanskrit: maya deha) teachings. The Illusory Body, Clear Light and Dream Yoga sadhana are entwined. Düsum Khyenpa, the First Karmapa, realised the 'absolute siddhi' of bodhi (Sanskrit: बोधि) at the age of 50 whilst engaged in Dream Yoga sadhana.[8]

Nyingma lineage

The Nyingma lineage holds that there are 'Seven transmissions' (Tibetan: bka' babs bdun[9]), or 'sacred streams of blessing and empowerment' (Tibetan: dam pa'i byin rlabs) that may iterate the mindstream of a tantrika. Transmission is a communion of mindstreams though at the substratum there is a mindstream 'singularity' or 'oneness' (Wylie: gcig). Though the fortuitous emergence of these seven modalities or channels of transmission may occur in the waking state if the time, space, circumstance and karmic connection is opportune; they may similarly be initiated in a lucid, dream yoga state. One transmission type particularly emphasized in relation to Dream Yoga, symbolism and iconography, and trance states, is that of 'pure vision' (Tibetan: dag snang[10]) and the perception of Sambhogakaya thoughtforms and yidam simulacrum.

The Nyingma tradition views itself as the fruit of three streams of transmission, one of which is the 'pure vision' which includes Dream Yoga and trance visions within its auspice:

the 'remote' canonical lineage, transmitted by an uninterrupted line of humans;

the 'close' lineage of hidden spiritual treasures; and

the 'profound' lineage of pure vision.[11]

Exegesis

Shugchang, et al. (2000: p. 16) whilst explaining Zhitro discuss the primary importance of lucid dreaming to the practice of Dream Yoga and pinpoint its four stages:

729456 No.381

In order to make the time we spend dreaming more meaningful, we must first recognize that we are dreaming. That is the initial exercise. The next step is called transforming the dream; the third is known as multiplying. The fourth practice is to unify the dream with the clear light. Recognizing, transforming, multiplying and unifying the dream with the luminosity of the true nature; these four outline the essential applications of dream yoga.[12]

Tibetan Dream Yoga is described by Evans-Wentz in his book Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines (London: Oxford University Press, 1935) as one of the six subtypes of yoga elaborated by the Tibetan guru Marpa and passed down by his disciple Milarepa. The author describes six stages of dream yoga. In the first stage, the dreamer is told to become lucid in the dream. In the second stage, the dreamer is instructed to overcome all fear of the contents of the dream so there is the realization that nothing in the dream can cause harm. For instance, the lucid dreamer should put out fire with his hands and realize fire cannot burn him in the dream. Next the dreamer should contemplate how all phenomena both in the dream and in waking life are similar because they change, and that life is illusory in both states because of this constant change. Both the objects in the dream and objects in the world in the Buddhist worldview are therefore empty and have no substantial nature. This is the stage of contemplating the dream as maya, and equating this sense of maya with everyday experience in the external world. Next, The dreamer should realize that he or she has control of the dream by changing big objects into small ones, heavy objects into light ones, and many objects into one object.

After gaining control over objects and their transformations, in the fifth stage, the dreamer should realize that the dreamer's dream body is as insubstantial as the other objects in the dream. The dreamer should realize that he or she is not the dream body. The dreamer who has gained complete control over dream objects could, for instance, alter the body's shape or make the dream body disappear altogether. Finally, in the sixth stage, the images of deities (Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or Dakinis) should be visualized in the lucid dream state. These figures are frequently seen in Tibetan religious art (thangkas) and used in meditation. They are said to be linked to or resonate with the clear light of the Void. They can therefore serve as symbolic doorways to this mystical state of being (the Void or clear light). The dreamer is instructed to concentrate on these symbolic images without distraction or thinking about other things so that the revelatory side of these symbols will become manifest.

Yuthok et al. (1997: p. 229) states that:

…if we do sadhanas regularly and faithfully we will begin to dream about doing them. In the same way, if we practise illusory body we will begin to dream about it, too. There is a great correspondence between dream yoga and illusory body. The more we think of illusory body, the more dreams we will have. We will see them as dreams, rather than mistaking them for real life. We can do many things in dreams which we are unable to do while awake.[13]

Yuthok et al. (1997: p. 230) states that:


729456 No.382

People who have practised dream yoga have been able to visit teachers they missed and travel to lands they never managed to get to in the waking state. The dream state is a very pure state of mind.[13]

According to contemporary Dzogchen teachers Namkhai Norbu, Lopön Tenzin Namdak and Tenzin Wangyal, the perceived reality and the phenomenal world are considered to be ultimately "unreal" — an "illusion" (refer Mahamaya): a dream, a phantasmagoria, a thoughtform. All appearances and phenomena are a dream or thoughtform, inter- and intra- reflecting and refracting jewels and mirrors of possibility and potentiality, "arising in relationships" or "dependent co-arising". It is held by these lineages and due to the realisations of the sadhana, that the dream of life and regular nightly dreams are not dissimilar, and that in their quintessential nature are non-dual. The non-essential difference between the general dreaming state and the general waking experience is that the latter is generally more concrete and linked with attachments, saṅkhāra and skandha; whereas, standard non-lucid dreaming is ephemeral and transient, and generally culturally reinforced as baseless and empty. In Dream Yoga, living may become the dream, and the dream may become the living. Progressing the sadhana may be metaphorically likened to living the scientific hypothesis of a resolved superposition. The resolved superposition being a mindstream conflation of Dharmakaya with Shunyata and Indra's net. The entwined Mantrayana lineages of Nyingmapa, Bonpo, Ngagpa and Mahasiddha are saturated with trance and dream transmissions of teachings, doctrine, etcetera that transcend constructs of time, place and space, these are often called "whispered traditions" and terma. Refer Lucid living.

Also according to this teaching, there is a correspondence between the states of sleep and dream and our experiences when we die. After experiences of intermediate state of bardo an individual comes out of it, a new karmic illusion is created and another existence begins. Taking stock of store consciousness is the spontaneous perpetuant and fuel of the transmigration process.

The primary aim and foundation of dream practice is to realize during a dream that one is dreaming. Once lucidity has been established the applications are limitless. One can then dream with lucidity and do all sorts of things, such as: practice sadhana; receive initiations, empowerments and transmissions; go to different places, planes and lokas, communicate with yidam; dialogue with sentient beings, creatures and people such as guru; fly; shapeshift, etc. It is also possible to do different yogic practices while dreaming (usually such yogic practices one does in waking state though the product and fruit of sadhana is greatly accelerated due to the learning, play and practice context). In this way the yogi can have a very strong experience and with this comes understanding of the dream-like nature of daily life. This is very relevant to diminishing attachments, because they are based on strong beliefs that life's perceptions and objects are real and, as a consequence, important. Dream yoga mastery not only assists in the complete realisation of shunyata, but also in the lila of Mahamaya. When one realises and embodies the Shunyata Doctrine of Buddha Shakyamuni and Nagarjuna amongst others forded by Dream Yoga and other advanced sadhana, complete realisation is imminent and elementary.[citation needed]

Namkhai Norbu gives advice, that the realization that the life is only a big dream can help us finally liberate ourselves from the chains of emotions, attachments, and ego and then we have the possibility of ultimately becoming enlightened.[14]


729456 No.383

Had some random dream about dogs last night, and a creepy dream where kids were vomiting up black blood.


729456 No.384

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"In order to make the time we spend dreaming more meaningful, we must first recognize that we are dreaming. That is the initial exercise. The next step is called transforming the dream; the third is known as multiplying. The fourth practice is to unify the dream with the clear light. Recognizing, transforming, multiplying and unifying the dream with the luminosity of the true nature; these four outline the essential applications of dream yoga.[12]"

Source: Shugchang, Padma (editor); Sherab, Khenchen Palden & Dongyal, Khenpo Tse Wang (2000). A Modern Commentary on Karma Lingpa's Zhi-Khro: teachings on the peaceful and wrathful deities. Padma Gochen Ling. Source: [9] (accessed: December 27, 2007)

A Modern Commentary on Karma Lingpa's Zhi-Khro: teachings on the peaceful and wrathful deities is attached in PDF form.


20e8e9 No.386

I'll read through more of this tomorrow, but I read the first snippet of being more aware within your dreams, and starting off with that seems to be a good start in building a foundation for great things that can come later in time. Thank you for sharing.


729456 No.387

Dreamed about my boys last night, not much more stuck than that impression. I did wake up a couple times last night, like to roll over or whatever not very awake at all, but instead of reminding myself to lucid dream, I reminded myself to do pratyahara which put me right back into a deep dreamless sleep. Or else I simply didn't remember the dreams I did have.

Interesting either way, as I've noticed before that the days activities will influence my sleeping mind. Things like playing a certain video game all night and then going to bed, I'd dream of playing that game. Or the dreaded dreaming of being at work dream, then you have to wake up and go do it all over again but awake this time!

So then if I make meditation and yoga such a big part of my daily activities and thoughts, will that spill over to my sleeping state as well? Can I use that third of my life to actually be productive in mind training rather than just sleeping that much of my life away?


729456 No.390

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>>384

From the attached PDF, edited by me:

1. Prepare for bed mindfully, keeping a pure motivation.

2. Abandoning carelessness, try to fall asleep in a state of relaxed alertness.

How do we practice mindfulness in the dream itself? This is explained in the fourth line:

RECOGNIZING YOUR DREAMS,

PRACTICE TRANSFORMING ILLUSION INTO LUMINOSITY

In order to make the time we spend dreaming more meaningful, we must:

1st: recognize that we are dreaming. That is the initial exercise.

2nd: The next step is called transforming the dream;

3rd: The third is known as multiplying.

4th: The fourth practice is to unify the dream with the clear light.

Recognizing, transforming, multiplying and unifying the dream with the luminosity of the true nature; these four outline the essential applications of dream yoga.

You can do these practices at any time, but normally you will begin before going to sleep at night.

Start by aligning your motivation with the bodhicitta and the awareness of natural purity.

Feel a deep love and compassion for all sentient beings, including yourself. Really open your heart to everyone.

Think deeply about the many good reasons to generate compassion for everyone.

Then work on applying it in the present moment by changing your attitude.

In this disposition, begin the dream yoga practice.

Relax your mind, let go of all conceptions except those associated with bodhicitta, and after a while you even let go of these until you have reached the sphere of the true nature, the infinite state.

Relax your mind as long as you can in the openness of the true nature, free of any mental fabrication or disturbance by mundane thoughts.

Eliminate any trace of hope or fear, abandon analysis, discrimination, let go of any emotions such as anger, jealousy or attachment.

Just release everything, let it go in all directions and dissolve; simply remain in the pristine awareness of the present moment.

Secondly, think, "Tonight, I'm definitely going to recognize the dream as a dream." Develop a strong determination and encourage yourself to recognize any dreams you have this evening.

What we are at present is a type of dream. Our sense of self is like a dream.

There's not really any way to make a fundamental distinction between this whole vision before us now and what we will dream tonight.

We are in a waking dream and tonight we will experience a sleeping dream.

In this way, everything is a dream.

Think about this deeply, because it's really true!

Perceptions in the waking state are a reflection of your mind and mental events.

This is also true of perceptions in dreams.

So what is the difference between the waking state and the dream state?

Consider the possibility that there is no basic difference.

We're already in the dream state.

At night, your dream self is lying in a dream bed under dream blankets in a dream house.

All of these visions are dreams, the buddhas are dream beings, conceptions induce dreamlike states, day dreams, night dreams, they are all dreams.

Contemplate this point deeply, because it is very important.


729456 No.391

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>>390

With this understanding, lie down to sleep. It is suggested that you lie on your right side with your right hand underneath your right cheek. Keep your left leg on top of the right leg, with your left arm placed along the left side of your body. This is the same posture which was assumed by Buddha Shakyamuni as he prepared to enter mahaparinirvana. It is known as the lion posture.

First you must generate compassion and love for all dream-like beings.

Then combine this with an awareness of the essential purity of all things.

The third step is to make a very strong resolution to recognize that you are dreaming. In fact, affirm your intention to realize that everything, including yourself, is a dream and that what happens during sleep is but another dream. Intensify your determination toward this end and then concentrate. Various techniques may be used to support concentration, such as visualizing the bodies of the buddhas, seed syllables or ritual objects.

One of the primary methods used to stabilize concentration during the transition from waking to sleeping is to visualize a red lotus in the speech center.

Imagine a very fat, red lotus with four petals which is in the process of blooming.

The petals have not yet opened, but are not completely closed either.

In the center of them is a bright light.

Concentrating on the light is sufficient.

If you can manage another visualization, picture a small white triangle at your third eye, inside of which sits a tiny Vajrasattva.

As you lie there, focus on these forms.

Let them become smaller and smaller, subtler and subtler, relax and let yourself go deeper and deeper.

Then, the instant you think of it, Vajrasattva sends out a great white light from your third eye which covers your body.

He then takes a seat in front of you.

Go to sleep concentrating on that.

Unless you've entered the alaya, sooner or later you will begin to dream.

If you're able to fall asleep without disturbing your concentration, you will easily be able to recognize that you are dreaming. Usually, when you recognize that you're dreaming, you also wake up.

Learn to maintain this recognition while continuing to sleep and dream.


729456 No.392

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Transforming the dream

After you recognize the dream as a dream, and can maintain that awareness without waking, continue to observe the dream.

This prepares you for the second step in dream yoga, which is to transform the contents of the dream.

Now you're going to play around and have some fun.

Here is where you can practice gymnastics.

If you wish, you can free fall from thirty-seven thousand feet, touch the earth and not hurt a thing before quickly jumping back to your starting point again!

In the reality of the dream you can transform anything, including yourself.

If you want to be a lion, you'll immediately experience yourself as a lion and know how that feels.

You can also be transformed into a mountain, a tree, the earth, water, a man or woman, a child, or any of the beings in the six realms.

You're not bound by physical circumstances.

You can be free and independent and do whatever you like.

There are no barriers here.

You can be anything.

Go beyond the limits of your hopes or fears.

For instance, we tend to distance ourselves from what we don't like; but in the dream, we can creatively restructure phenomena, beings and events to penetrate our fixed assumptions and remove our preconceptions,

revealing the deeper truth beyond the boundaries and limitations of dualistic systems and traditions.

This is an exercise in openness and freedom and is known as transforming.


729456 No.393

Multiplying

The third aspect of dream yoga is called multiplying.

Here, you're opening more opportunities and expanding qualities.

In the transforming practice, you change things, but stick to a single manifestation.

This time you try to multiply aspects of the dream, such as your self, millions of times.

You might take a hundred forms, or become ten different things at once.

You could be various gods, a few buddhas, a naga, three bodhisattvas, a dozen human beings, many types of animals and a grove of trees, all at the same time.

You can multiply yourself in millions of forms.

Increase the variety and open yourself to the way that you embody the whole cosmic system.

Understand that this is all you.

The inconceivable vastness of our nature is what is revealed by this practice.

If you accomplish this, you can tour the pure lands and visit all five of the dhyani buddhas at once, making offerings, receiving teachings and returning from all five directions simultaneously.

While you are meditating in the pure land of Ratnasambhava, listening to teachings, making offerings, multiplying yourself and the offerings by thousands, you are also doing the same in the western pure land of Buddha Amitabha, as well as in the north in the presence of Amoghasiddhi and in the center, where Buddha Vairocana turns the wheel of the dharma in his pure land.

You can visit them one by one or be with them all and receive their teachings simultaneously.

In the dream bardo, mind is faster than the space shuttle or even the speed of light.

You can be anywhere in a moment.

There are many different pure lands where sentient beings can go and receive teachings, realize various benefits, and return.

This is really true.


729456 No.397

Unify

The fourth step is to unify the dream with the clear light, the luminosity aspect of the true nature.

That is the most important of these exercises.

Learn to maintain this understanding throughout the dream state.

Whether you simply recognize the dream or go on to multiply and transform it, it is essential to maintain this unified awareness.

Clear light or primordial luminosity has many different aspects, but the most important is the complete absence of clinging and freedom from attachment.

The best way to do dream yoga is to not cling to the dream, not be attached to recognizing the dream, not hold onto the results of multiplying or transforming, and in general, to not cling to any of these practices.

If you don't cling, dreams themselves take on a radiant, transformed quality, becoming almost transparent to the clear light. In this way, dreams become an emanation of the five wisdoms.

This is called unifying the dream with the clear light or merging the dream with the luminosity of the true nature.

DON'T SLEEP LIKE AN ANIMAL


729456 No.404

In the fifth line, Guru Padmasambhava is again encouraging us to develop a pure intention, to become proficient in sustaining mindfulness and relaxed alertness in the bardo of dreams.

We are admonished to take up the practice that mingles dreams and the waking state, to unify the night's perceptions with the day's perceptions.

Through the exercises of recognizing, multiplying, transforming and unifying the dream with the clear light, we learn to be free of all grasping and clinging to unreal phenomena.

Form is a dream, feeling is a dream, touch, sound and taste are dreams; the mental state is also dreamlike.

Samsara and nirvana are dreams, and enlightenment is a great dream.

Therefore Guru Padmasambhava urges us to mingle the dream and waking realities.

In truth, they are already mingled.

There is ultimately no difference between them.

As the Buddha instructed Subhuti in the Prajnaparamita teachings, "See all phenomena as dreams."

It's not just that the Buddha said this so we have to believe it.

We can refer to our own experience.

All these external activities are no different from dreams.

They are so very much the same that no absolute distinction can be made between them, even when you consider it logically.

For example, tonight we are in West Palm Beach.

I'm talking and you're listening, but before this, where were you?

Where are the parents we had when we were young?

Where is the old school?

What kinds of friends did you have?

What did you talk about?

What did you do?

All of these are just memories now.

We can't bring any of that right here except through remembering it.

Last night's dream is just like those memories because we cannot produce it here in a tangible way.

Think about memories, which are conventionally held to be real, because they correspond with our past experiences in the waking state, and dreams, which are usually considered to be unreal.

Investigate closely and I don't think you'll find any difference between dreams and memories except in your imagination.


729456 No.405

When we carefully observe phenomena, they are all dream-like, but very often we don't look that close; we gloss over the surface and cling to dualistic tendencies, reinforcing old habit patterns.

In truth, even this moment is changing, moving, evanescent.

There is nothing solid or permanent about any of this.

What is past, can never come back to the present.

Everything is moving, nothing stays the same, just like in our dreams.

For that reason Buddha compared the nature of all phenomena to a mirage, a magician's illusion, a bubble in a stream, a flash of lightning, etc.

This evanescence does not merely apply to things that happened long ago, but even to this morning's activities which exist only in memories.

It's all gone now.

That was just another dream sequence that we went through to get to this dream.

This is the reality of the big dream.


729456 No.406

Tried to do more dream yoga last night. I made sure to set my intentions before falling asleep. I didn't really remember any dreams, but I did remember to remind myself when I woke up to roll over. Somehow it still felt like I made progress. Trying to do dream checks throughout the day.


729456 No.408

Had another night of intention to do dream yoga, as well as waking up and thinking about it. Had a couple erotic dreams, but I don't think I had any control over them. I don't feel or at least remember having any lucid dreaming moments, but I still feel like this is somehow making progress.


729456 No.412

Reminded myself to do dream yoga before bed. Thought of it when I woke up in the night. First night where I feel I had zero progress.

I don't even really remember my dreams last night. Hmmm, hopefully tonight goes better.


729456 No.414

Well, no lucid dreaming yet, but I did do dream checks throughout the night when I woke up to roll over or whatever. Yesterday I started doing a repetition with the breath, every in-breath I would ask myself, "Is this a dream?" and on every out breath "Am I dreaming?".


729456 No.421

No lucid dreaming this weekend. Still having trouble recalling dreams, I want to start a dream journal (bedside).


729456 No.423

No lucid dreaming last night, but I did have a vivid dream and I was able to remember it when I woke up. Of course now I can't remember it. *sigh*


729456 No.424

Reminded myself to do dream yoga last night. Remembered it when I woke up in the night. No lucid dreams to report.


729456 No.426

No lucid dreaming last night, but I did do my intentions and I did think of it when I woke up.

I also noticed that a couple times waking up in the night I'm not remembering my dreams because I'm simply not dreaming. It is more like a bodiless internal dialogue, similar to meditating with my eyes closed. Still kinda cool and encouraging, as sleeping meditation is pretty much the goal for me anyway.


729456 No.427

No lucid dreaming last night. I was super tired and passed out before I could do my affirmations. When I woke up though, I did remind myself. Had another period of "audio thought" style "dream" before waking again this morning.


729456 No.429

No lucid dreams to report, still on the same level. But I did remember my dream last night/this morning. I was making shish-kabobs for the BBQ lol.


729456 No.431

No lucid dreaming to report yet. I was dreaming of painting when I woke up this morning. I don't remember waking up in the night and I got to bed nice and early. Felt like I slept well.


729456 No.433

No lucid dreaming, my dreams were not really coherent last night, or at least what I remembered waking up. More like imagery and less like a movie.


729456 No.435

Sleep was terrible last night, rolled over a bunch and could never really get comfortable. Had dreams, but I don't really remember them.

No lucid dreaming to report.


729456 No.437

No lucid dreaming to report. Had dreams, can't really remember them, I think I'm slipping in regards to lucid dreaming/dream yoga.


729456 No.438

No lucid dreaming last night, but more "audio commentary" style internal-dialogue dreams without much visually going on. Interesting.


729456 No.440

No lucid dreaming last night, although I did have a "visual" dream.


729456 No.443

No dream yoga to report. Dreams were visual though, and I seemed to have slept…ok. Got to bed at a good hour, but somehow ended up turning sideways in the night.


729456 No.448

No lucid dreaming to report, although my dreams last night were a little disturbing. Didn't really try to hold on to or remember them.


729456 No.450

No dream yoga to report. I woke up about 30 mins before the alarm this morning, so I tried to intentionally "walk" myself back to sleep while remaining lucid. No luck, but I don't feel like it was a wasted effort, and I think this is worth practicing.


729456 No.455

Had a dream that I was dying last night, and reaching out/feeling for loved ones as I went. Freaky, made me wake up crying.


729456 No.459

No real dreams last night, some audio stuff, nothing lucid. I did do some meditation when I woke up in the night, that was actually pretty cool.


729456 No.460

No lucid dreaming to report. Sleep last night was pretty bad, I don't recall any dreaming at all.


729456 No.463

No lucid dreaming to report, I had a long nap yesterday, so I didn't get to a very deep sleep at night.

The night before thought I had a dream that I met Guy Fieri, lol!


729456 No.465

Bad sleep last night, the closest I had to a dream was a half-sleep internal dialogue. Nothing visual remembered. Nothing lucid.

I'm doing dream checks throughout the day, but I'm wondering if I need to dig deeper and try to take this further. I think I'll re-read all I've posted above.

Intention: lucid dreaming for the purpose of dream yoga, or dream meditation.


729456 No.468

No lucid dreaming to report, sadly.


729456 No.471

No lucid dreaming to report.


729456 No.472

No dream yoga to report. I felt like I slept pretty solidly through the night last night.


729456 No.474

No dreaming yoga to report. Got barely any sleep last night.


819895 No.476

No dream yoga to report.


729456 No.478

No dream yoga to report, although I tried this morning.


729456 No.480

No dreaming yoga to report. Got to bed late last night, don't really remember any dreams.


729456 No.482

No dream yoga to report. I don't remember my dreams, or I'm not sleeping deep enough to dream? I dunno.


729456 No.485

No dream yoga to report.


729456 No.487

No dream yoga to report.


729456 No.488

No dream yoga to report.


729456 No.492

No dream yoga to report, but I did actually have dreams last night. I slept pretty lightly and never felt like I got into a deep sleep.


729456 No.493

No dream yoga but I actually did have dreams last night! Like, three of them! :)


729456 No.494

No dream yoga to report.


729456 No.497

No dream yoga last night, but I was actually dreaming again. Colder nights and big fuzzy blankets seem to let me sleep better?


729456 No.498

No dream yoga to report, although I did dream again last night.


729456 No.500

No dream yoga to report.


729456 No.503

No dream yoga to report. Not really remembering my dreams lately. Still doing dream checks and reminders.



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