Thread: Oneirin's Dream Yoga Temple

Basic Skills Lesson #1
V1 & 2; L 2&3: Working on holding 4 sounds for above 4 seconds at this point; 5 is very difficult to grasp onto. Beginning a bit of version 2 as well. I'm currently able to hold up to 5 sensations within my body at the same time for moderate periods of time (6 is difficult atm). I noticed my awareness began to work this out by connecting points internally, like a constellation of sorts. One way I could try explain it is that I perceived all of this within my minds eye, and understood it was an internal map of sensation within my body.

This post will cover the practices around last night's LD chain: the most vivid, focused, and lengthy lucid dream I've had. This LD chain spanned 5 lucid dreams (I will record them in my DJ). I am continuing with sense meditation during the day, as well as mindfulness of breathing. Before bed I am focusing on reciting a mantra: "I am awake in Dreams, My body wakes after dreams".
I woke in the middle of the night and began to focus all of my attention on the intent of becoming lucid in entering the next dream as well as recalling the previous dream.
I am lucid from the beginning, yet do a RC anyway. I decide not to fly or influence the dream too much; I remember a Dream Views Podcast discussing simply immersing yourself in the dream in order to practice stability. I begin anchoring into my pure awareness and senses and simply walk around for the beginning of many of the 5 lucids, exploring the environment. Practicing the sense meditation the past week and a half, I am beginning to see how critical it is to increase clarity of awareness, not only to initiate LDs, but simply to stabilize & increase vividness. I feel that the more mindfulness based meditations I've done for years help me with ignoring distracting thoughts however; I feel less impulsive than I was when I was a teenager.
Another technique I began using to chain the LDs was meditating through the voids (I huge barrier I had in years past yet didn't understand how to get thorugh). When the dream was beginning to feel as though it was going into void, instead of spinning, I would sit, close my eyes and begin to meditate, focusing on the mantra: "I am dreaming". This would lead to another awakening and another LD (not a very ambiguous FA but more of a continuation).
I know this post was pretty lengthy, but I had to share : ) All tips, comments, advice, etc are greatly welcomed!

Originally Posted by Oneirin

Basic Skills Lesson #1
V1 & 2; L 2&3: Working on holding 4 sounds for above 4 seconds at this point; 5 is very difficult to grasp onto. Beginning a bit of version 2 as well. I'm currently able to hold up to 5 sensations within my body at the same time for moderate periods of time (6 is difficult atm). I noticed my awareness began to work this out by connecting points internally, like a constellation of sorts. One way I could try explain it is that I perceived all of this within my minds eye, and understood it was an internal map of sensation within my body.

You are on to something here. Re-explore this idea a few times. Good job. also, 5 sounds is very challenging for anyone (doing great)

I got through post #9, but am off to Brazillian JiuJitsu class. I will try to read the rest very soon.