 Originally Posted by Forg
Please, keep posting your results here, I am very interested in the results and your experiences with this. Do you practise this before sleep, at day or after a WBTB? I've done something similar sometimes after a WBTB, I didn't experience the bliss, but the surfing between consciousness and unconsciousness has actually made me lucid sometimes, only now after this post I realize that is may be indeed a good way/technique for inducing lucid dreams. I'll try this surfing between these two mental states more soon after WBTB, I'll post my findings with it.
I promise to keep you updated! I have read several books on self-development in different topics and something that so often is brought up is meditation.
There are so many different benefits to practising it, one is that you reduce cortisol which reduce stress which in turn makes it easier for you to have dopamine released and this in turn makes it possible for you to have more activation in the frontal lobe (your prefrontal cortex) which is crucial to think clearly and in this case, probably very important for lucidity to occur. I recommend watching Friederike Fabritius seminar on neuro-science on Youtube or Shawn Achor's TEDtalk on Positive psychology. In short what they said was that we perform best when we are positive. You can read my notes on my collected data on the topic here:
I use this to live my daily life and nightly life with the best working brain as possible: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0...UVYX1E2ZHJjV1k
And all this emphasis on meditation have made me totally surrender to it, so I do 20 min of meditation in the morning to get a good start of the day and I meditate myself to sleep to get a good end of the day and start of the night. I have an alarm to wake me up 5 hours after sleep just to increase my chances slightly, but upon awakening I just turn it off and go to sleep shortly after. I live with the notion that happiness isn't a result, it's a state of mind.
Our modern society has just tricked us to believe that we would find it externally, when it's true origin is found within, internally.
 Originally Posted by Sensei
I love this
It makes me happy!
When doing lots of WBTBs in late morning I always have this idea OK stop next time and realize you lost consciousness. because a lot of time I will "WILD phase" into a dream with no lost moments, full transition, but I won't think "this is a dream" or anything because I get caught up in the moment so much. I then slow myself down and the next time it happens I usually catch myself about 5 seconds after a dream has started. It forms, I take off doing whatever the dream wants me to, but then my memory kicks in and I stop and slow down. I still remember the first time that this happened, I stopped in the middle of forming battle plans with a couple of people in my group and I was like... I just watched a dream form 2 seconds ago and was repeating "I'm dreaming" how did I forget that in 2 seconds?! lol.
I rarely fall asleep during meditation, but I usually have more trouble falling asleep rather than staying awake.
Haha! It makes me happy that you are happy. Yea it makes more sense to be aware of the fact that you have lost awareness than that it is a dream, because just like Cob said in Inception "we are never aware of the start of a dream", but to have the goal to be aware that we have lost awareness is actually a sign of high awareness because we then remember our other sleeping self's intentions.
And the "falling asleep" during meditation, doesn't have to be to literally fall asleep. It can just be to get lost in a thought, forget your anchor or in other words, lose awareness of the fact that you are meditating! And I promise you that you do that often, otherwise you are a master of meditation. So an example of what it could look like to lose awareness during meditation could be like this: "Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out, hmm ok this is going pretty well what if I could use this breathing during other situations in my life as well? Like when I, oh wait a minute I am meditating. BACK TO THE BREATH! breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out...." But my point was more like, IF you fall asleep and view it as a problem (because I did) this hovering on unconscious weirdness can be a meditation in itself, but you use the reality and breath as your anchor as in: "Breathe in, breathe out... Zzzzzzzzzzz Yoga matts are not supposed to feel like grass in the summer wait what the? Oh I feel asleep! Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out."
So if you fall asleep or not is just a part of the process, the real value is in the realization that you have lost awareness, the aha moment, the lucid realization.
If you don't fall asleep (as in the first example) you'll eventually WILD.
But if you do fall asleep (as in the last example) you'll eventually DILD.
I guess you already knew all this, but it doesn't hurt to get super specific for the other people interested. 
 Originally Posted by Baking Nomad
try and closing your eyes 2/3 of the way, and then slightly crossing them and looking slightly up
I will try that alteration, I have a vague memory of actually looking at the back of my eyelids the night that I did this meditation.
Sweet dreams!
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