Thread: Lucid Realization Meditation

I hope you all had a great Christmas! Here is my gift to you! A way that I have started with now which both "pumps" or "chargers" awareness and at the same time focuses and relaxes the mind.

I started this thread by explaining how we could notice when we had fell asleep unconsciously and then open our eyes and realize that we had been dreaming. This was very interesting and relevant for lucid dreamers because we could practise the feeling of realizing that something wasn't real but also that we could DREAM during the day and this had the added bonus of adding more presence, well-being and awareness to life etc. And according to the objective result that quickly followed, also increase our amount of lucid dreams.

Howver, now I have found a way to do this with eyes CLOSED through the WHOLE PROCESS! Which means what exactly?

Well:

1. I can dream during the day
2. I can practise becoming aware of my dreams and what the difference between awake and dreaming with eyes closed feels like.
3. It's an amazing WILD method!
4. I can do it in my bed!
5. This is the very act of sleeping consciously!

And much more! Ok let's explain what I have changed.

I just read a book called "Meditation for lucid dreaming" by Jamie Alexander and in the book he described a way of meditaitng that was to just have your attention on the dark canvas behind your eyelids. Not visualize but actually look with your eyes into the darkness. But what happened for me was that I fell asleep and I started having a dream of me driving a car or the strange thoughts or less vivid day dreams that I have described before that I now believe happens when I become aware of my unconscious mind, but for simplicity let's call it dreaming. But then I wake up and look at the back of my eyelids again and realize that I had "lost my focus" and when I look back at my eyelids again I see that it have changed, small things have happened like for example I see a small flash of light fireworks or small lines moving. Not much of a change but the deeper I go the more things happen.

The goal of the meditation method described in his book was to reach a point where you actually see shapes and colors in a state of hypnagogia and where you can play around with the creations of your mind like clay and eventually enter it with an effortless dream transition. He calls it getting pulled into the dream, and I have experienced this with DEILD before, for me it's usually a feeling of having more "vivid thoughts" and that suddenly I am just there.

So get excited! Because I am going to start exploring this simple way of relaxing with lucid realizations with CLOSED EYES further and see what more that I can discover.

We look forward to our Christmas presents, but we often forget that our biggest gift is the present.

Until next time!