Old dude from Thailand

I'm an older dude who is retired and currently lives in Thailand with my Thai wife and son.

I started formal practice of Lucid Dreaming a week ago using the MILD technique. This looks to be where I need to be at the moment. I just signed up for this forum.

First - I'm pretty old. And with age comes memory decline. But some of that decline can be offset via "Use It Or Lose It" so beginning to make Lucid Dreaming and ultimately Dream Yoga part of my life, just like meditation, will help as I'm forced to remember.

Second - I'm been a practicing Buddhist meditator for over 40 years. So my quest into lucid dreaming is ultimately a quest to utilize LD into a practice of Dream Yoga.

Third - I've had spontaneous LD all of my life, just not too frequently - perhaps a half a dozen or so a year - and I've never had LD goals nor a framework with which to approach Lucid Dreaming. So I've dealt with lucid dream as well as sleep paralysis before. I'm familiar with this dreamscape but I'm never before tried to manipulate it and use it for self-development.


Which brings me to my first week of LD practice. The wall that I've run into right off the bat is Dream Recall. However, I've found the sub-forum which addresses issues with dream recall and dream signs. For the first couple of days I could remember my dreams and journal them, but the last three day are like my subconsciousness 'knows' I'm trying to hack it and is now hiding my dreams to thwart my efforts. But out of the last seven days I've only come up completely empty once. I can usually catch my very last dream in snippets and then roll back chronologically to pick up detail. I'm my journal I write down key dream impression with single words or short phrase as well as specific dream signs before attempting to flesh out all of the details of the dream.

Anyway, at the moment dream recall seem to be the area that needs focus.

As far as technique? I'm using MILD, an alarm set to do at least 10 reality checks per day plus if I'm in a unique environment I also will do reality checks.
I'm journaling using RedNoteBook for Linux and have made a spreadsheet to record dream signs as they occur and also those I remember from the past.

So? "Onward Ho!" :giraffe:

Welcome to the world of active pursuit of lucid dreaming! It sounds as if you are off to a good start. :) This website already contains so much knowledge about lucid dreaming (and ordinary dreaming, and related phenomena) that you are sure to be able to find answers to most questions you may have. There are other members here who would characterize themselves as "older" (although I myself, being in my mid-50's certainly wouldn't. :))

Yes, to echo what Voldmer wrote, it sounds like you've gotten a great start, and you're certainly in the right place! The key to success in dream and LD practice is *consistency*. Like any discipline, it takes time to build skill and knowledge. Make sure to balance theory with practice: read books, but really work on *doing* the exercises, and doing them regularly. Since you already have spontaneous LDs, I'm sure your "on purpose" LDs will start to grow relatively quickly!

Welcome. Where can I learn more about dream yoga?

Welcome to the forum!! Don't forget to read and Follow the rules. :)
I'm Lang!! :welcome:

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Originally Posted by DivineHand640

Welcome. Where can I learn more about dream yoga?

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Please check the resources in my Bibliography post:

https://www.dreamviews.com/general-l...liography.html

Two great resources there: "The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep:, and "Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep".

In a nutshell, it is a practice that develops lucidity in the dream state in order to gain insights into awareness and is considered itself as a complete path towards enlightenment.

The practices can be done by anybody, and focus on recognizing the dream-like nature of the waking state, (and as Lenscaper would undoubtedly note, the waking-like nature of the dream state!).

ok thanks