proy wrote:Mr Green wrote:I learnt how to do lucid dreaming when I was a BK, I'll tell you more if you want to hear it
Tell me more.
PART ONE
OK, the first time it happened was completely a surprise to me. I had had my usual Amrit Vela head rolling session, made myself a rather strong cup of coffee at 4.45 am, and went upstairs for a lie down. I drank the coffee and lay down, keeping in mind I couldn't fall asleep properly as I had to study the Murli before reading it to the class.
So, after a few minutes I woke and stood up to get ready for class, when I noticed things were not quite right around me. In particular, a part of the window sill was moving and drawing my attention intently. This strangeness pulled my attention until I felt almost sucked into it, then with a jolt I awoke and I was still lying on the bed. This was my first experience of lucid dreaming and it really freaked me out. A mixture of excitement and amazement.
The next day, I decided to try again and I drew on stuff I had read many years ago by, funnily enough, considering the recent post on Carlos Castenada. Anyone who has read his stuff will know he describes lucid dreaming technique in some detail. I used 2 of his ideas;
1) that before going to sleep you should instruct yourself that you are going to become conscious in your dreams
2), once conscious in your dream you should focus on something deliberately to strenghten your experience, e.g. look at your hands (obviously these are dream hands!)
So, I had my strong coffee, lied down and told myself I would be conscious and then I drifted into sleep ... and it worked. The next thing I know I am awake on my bed, and I get up and remember to look at my hands. It was really hard to do but I managed to see them, and the whole experience became more lucid and real. What I found was that because this is obviously not natural, your mind tries to trick you back into normal sleep by pulling your attention or focus, normally by something weird that catches your awareness and takes your into unconscious or subconscious sleep. For me it was normally something moving that shouldn't be ... like the top of a door flapping ... and your awareness literally gets sucked into it and you lose self-awareness ... hence the deliberate focus of you awareness on your hands or anything.
In my second experience, I attempted to fly. It was easy ... I just told myself that I would now float off the floor ... and I could do it. It felt just like it does when you fly in dreams, that I was restricted by nothing!!! I floated upwards (still in my tiny box room) and became horizontal parrallel to the celing and floated on top of the wardrobe ... at this point I was pulled by something, lost awareness again, and woke up with a jolt still on my bed!!!!!!
Have to go now but there is much more!!! I even talked to the Seniors about it who gave me some ideas ... Part 2 soon
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