Thread: Mindfulness cultivating Lucid Dreams

Yes, meditation helps and compliments lucid dreaming.

You should read "Control your Dreams" by Jane Gackenbach and Jane Bosveld. I just finished reading it and as a beginning meditator was pleasantly surprised to discover the book talked much about the connections and similarities between lucid dreaming and meditation.

I won't go on too much because the book really says a lot, but apparently many buddhist monks are quite adept at lucid dreaming and consider it an important step in attaining enlightenment.

Awesome, thanks for the response and recomendation!

Originally Posted by ChaseBlackwell44

With the help of Mindfulness In Plain English, I've recently undertaken Vipassana meditation. My question is for longtime meditators and is quite simple, does the practice of mindfulness, through meditation, increase or supplement your ability to Lucid Dream?

It would seem to me to be so, but then again, I just started. But it appears that if used correctly it could be, by far and away, the best lucid dream induction technique that exists. Not to mention is effects on life in general...

Thoughts?

It will work provided the person's mind has the capacity to be mindfull and aware of the current environment he or she is in which in reality I find quite impossible to do. Being aware 24/7? I tried it..it caused sensory overload instead.....

IMJ

Originally Posted by imj

Being aware 24/7? I tried it..it caused sensory overload instead.....

there is a difference between 'being aware' and 'paying attention'. The latter is active and ultimately impossible permanently, as you discovered. The former is essentially passive.
Alan Watts likened it to the difference between focused and peripheral vision. You can't stare for long without feeling the strain, but you can take in stuff all day and be aware of it with peripheral vision.

I'm currently attempting the mindfulness approach to inducing lucid dreaming.

Oh, that means I am mindfull of reality checks and the possibility that I may be dreaming..makes sense... I use the idea/awareness of which checks to use to have lucid dreams but not really actually doing them.

IMJ

I don't know that it helped me have more lucid dreams, but it definitely helped me in attaining more clearness in my dreams and helped my control as well.