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lucid dreaming
this is something which I do often, not intentionally but my whole life i've lucid dreamed quite frequently. I don't know what to do while i'm in my dream that would help me on my path. Any suggestions? maybe just meditate? then again the dream will proly feel like a really long time longer than I would normally meditate.
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Meditate on the Dream like nature of all phenomena
Have you always been able to dream lucidly? I'm intrigued.
BB
Yea, have my whole life. Didn't know what they were called for quite some time. Didn't know it was rare to be able to do it naturally until quite recently.
Go to the brothel down the street and practice not going inside.
TheJourney, do you find that you can easily remember your dreams as well or not?
You're asleep and realize you're dreaming.
I don't like lucid dreaming. Once I realize I'm asleep, I usually try to wake myself up so I can do something else. Of course, that usually ends in sleep paralysis.
The question is, "The Mind." Or the "Ego." Or something else?
Also, lately, I have been dreaming about the same environments over and over again.
I am uncomfortable seeing things written openly about people who may have had "issues". Since this is a Buddhist forum, I think we should show more respect.
where as normal dreaming is unconscious mind with awareness.
in a lucid dream you're totally awake.
imagine having a lucid dream in this waking reality? haha isn't that awakening?
to think a dream is different than this waking reality is a mistake. we confused the map for the ground. grasping at symbols.
i have only nice things to say about the journey. great guy.
having done this practice and having also done lucid dreaming i would add a note of caution: at least until you are stable with the understanding (this is, after all, a significant insight) and both understand the last paragraph and can restate it in your own words _practice_ _this_ _in_ _retreat_ and possibly with a guide/teacher! if done in the middle of "normal" life and society it can easily spin off into unbalanced states so be careful.
with this sort of thing it is important that sila (ethical sensitivity) be well established enough that consideration for others is mostly just habit. things can get a bit turbulent when the insight first becomes apparent and ethics will help to channel and inform that into beneficial kammic momentum while avoiding problems. sila will also serve as a good reference in the event that the turbulence and change in value systems becomes confusing - remember kindness.
with that caution in mind i would say that this is one of the more powerful ways to develop a real direct experience of impermanence (aka, "emptiness") and the realization that in the grand scheme of things "life/reality" is no more important than a dream, a phantom, a bubble floating in a stream ..
peace and happy unimportance of it all!
thanks.