Thread: Lucid Realization Meditation

Thanks for sharing the video, it was amazing. Also bumping this so others can see this thread. I think you're onto something important for me, the practice you're using to get lucid. Becoming aware of losing awareness. I always have these too, like when i'm in the bus meditating i'll lose awareness and start daydreaming about really random things and catch myself losing awareness. Btw just from watching that video i've decided to quit smoking lol, fuck that shit.

Lucid dreaming and dreams in general is something really important to me and i want to be able to lucid dream every day but i just don't have the motivation to be aware all the time/do reality checks and write in my dream journal. Sometimes i get a motivation boost from reading success stories but that usually just lasts one day. The main reason why i think i have no motivation for it is time. I feel like with school and work i got no time to focus on lucid dreaming and i don't know how to make a balance.

Originally Posted by dankbuddha

Thanks for sharing the video, it was amazing. Also bumping this so others can see this thread. I think you're onto something important for me, the practice you're using to get lucid. Becoming aware of losing awareness. I always have these too, like when i'm in the bus meditating i'll lose awareness and start daydreaming about really random things and catch myself losing awareness. Btw just from watching that video i've decided to quit smoking lol, fuck that shit.

Lucid dreaming and dreams in general is something really important to me and i want to be able to lucid dream every day but i just don't have the motivation to be aware all the time/do reality checks and write in my dream journal. Sometimes i get a motivation boost from reading success stories but that usually just lasts one day. The main reason why i think i have no motivation for it is time. I feel like with school and work i got no time to focus on lucid dreaming and i don't know how to make a balance.

Glad you liked it dankbuddha!

Yea I used to dabble alot in my practise as well. Reality checks was awkward and time consuming, dream journaling drained will power and was also time consuming, method based approaches was ego based, and result based and was frustrating. In my dream journal description you can read how I incorporate this into my practise anyway but without making it feel like a chore.

When I realized that awareness of the now didn't only erased the malfunctions of the mind but also enhanced the functions of the mind, I was hooked!

It helped me in all areas of life not just lucid dreaming, so it made me understand that I had only been focusing on the symptoms and not looked at the root cause of the problem.
Awareness and true presence is something that you have as a kid, and because of that everything is funny and you learn super quickly, because you have no ego preventing you from taking risks.
But then we become "responsible" adults and we have gender roles, personalities, expectations and well hormones and lots of things affecting our state of consciousness.

We form an ego and we believe that THAT thing is us. And instead of looking at things as they ARE, we look at interpretations and analyse the meaning of everything with our ego as a lense...

Catching yourself losing awareness is really important because when you have lost the awareness you are no longer operating from your true self, you are basically just a leaf in the wind controled by societal influences, expectations from your peer group, your genes desires, your biololgy's desire, your limbic system of the brain's desire for instant gratification and an INFINITE amount of other things.

When you meditate and become totally free from your cluster of self-image, you feel complete freedom.

In this state your mind is free and you basically had your own therapy session, no need to repress things, just let it go.

And now your brain doesn't need to work throuh all this in your sleep, so your dreams will not be chaotic, necessary unaware experiences, you'll just notice the randomness.

Also the parts of the brain that activates during lucid dreams are naturally more active after meditating.

And by the way can you guess the one activity that has been shown to help people with their addictions most effectively?

It's meditation The problem with the term "meditation" is that most people associate that with something spiritual and if their ego's aren't open for that then they will most likely not take the time to try it. However, meditation is simply a practise in concentration and focus, and this has a positive impact on your brain, AND success in life. Since most people are unaware and unfocused they quickly notice the change when they are. The scary thing is that focus and awareness is our default state, but our society promotes unconsciousness, simply because most people don't want to think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__JnlfIkjx0

Peace!