Lucid Realization Meditation

**~~MasterMind~~** · 01-09-2016 12:55 PM

Originally Posted by itsok

I was just wondering, does it matter if u lets say focusing your breathing in waking life, and u start doing your things(working, reading,eating, playin vido games) and u forgot to concentrate on your breath. And when u realize u forgot it ,and this realization something like when you meditate ?(of course u are not in a realaxed trance when u do this in waking life,only when u meditate)
The activitie would be the dreamwhat diistracted u.
i wont stop meditating but u can do this tech more, lengthened the practise of realization.Or is it only a memory test?

I do use my breathing as an anchor for presence and relaxing when I am out and about. Although the lucid realization should rather be viewed as the moment you realize that you haven't been focused, but ideally you should always strive towards staying in consciousness and not have to experience the lucid realization because you are always lucid. So instead of viewing it as a memory test view it as a conscious striving lifestyle.

When you see objective results and your life change the presence and consciousness brings to your mood and life in general, you are going to want to exist in that state more often.

We are always falling back to our default mood of thoughts and emotions, so make sure that it's a state of mind that you enjoy. Just like an usually angry person easily can get angry, an usually present person easily can get present.

I know this because I used to be very anxious and used to overthink the small things, now when I am usually more present I am more like a laughing buddha and smile to the small things, very easily in a happy mood.

And when you are happy and not distracted by thoughts and emotions, there can finally be awareness.

Peace!

**Spyguy** · 01-20-2016 03:41 PM

Have to admit that I didn't put much effort into this lately, so today will be a fresh start! I get quite a lot of sleep nowadays, so I mainly experiment by waking myself up after 5 or 6 hours of sleep (using an alarm clock) and then meditating. I usually fall asleep while meditating, but I've often found in hindsight that I was already seeing things in the meditative state before I lost conciousness. So the results are definitely there! I've had some semi-lucid dreams after falling asleep meditating, one of which left me feeling really great for the entire day.

In this dream, I was in a mall, running away from a group of people chasing me with knifes and baseball bats. I had just gotten rid of them when I realised 'Hey wait, this is my own dream, so there is nothing they can do to me, they're just a part of me. But they want to scare me for some reason, so I'd better go talk to them.' So I turned around, saw them in the distance, then walked up to them to have a little chat and grab a drink elsewhere in the mall. Before we got to speak, they smiled and fistbumped me before vanishing in thin air. That's when I woke up, feeling completely refreshed and ready for the day. It was awesome!

This is in line with what meditation generally feels like for me: it empties my mind from all the chatter and it feels like all the pieces of the puzzle internally fall together.

I also love what you wrote on being-process oriented, I can't agree more! To use sports as an example: if you are only comparing yourself to what others are doing, you'll be feeling bad all the time. Except for 1 person in 7 billion, there will always be someone 'better'. If you, on the other hand, just focus on getting better each and every time, you'll see a lot of development and keep feeling good about what you do while getting stronger/faster/... every week. Eventually you'll come to realise that, while you were only defeating yourself each time, you've also gotten better than a big part of your competition.

Please do keep posting your progress, it makes for an interesting read!

**~~MasterMind~~** · 01-20-2016 04:17 PM

It takes both will power and discipline to cultivate both will power and discipline...

Nice! Imagine that feeling right after waking up refreshed, that state of mind was something I wanted to learn to exist in on a constant or regular basis. It's what got me into meditaition!

And yes, process-orientation also freed me, because when you just observe and no longer judge the process, all that is left is the enjoyment of the process.

I am glad to see that my walls of text and limitless ehum expression brings you joy. xD But don't your worry, I'll never stop expressing, that just sounds depressing.

Sweet dream and sweet life!

**Ommo** · 02-04-2016 12:07 PM

I have now been meditating for a 30-45 minutes on bed every night and morning when going to sleep and waking up. Dreams have become much more vivid and the shiny blissful state is a regular guest, but there's not been any more lucid dreams than usually. Very interesting still and I love watching my own sleepiness and hypnagogics while meditating.

I have been doing several reality tests for over a year now, but only once have my dream turned to lucid because of that (it was reading a text in a dream). The most usual method of realization is that walk in a dream, the walking gets slow, I watch down to my feet and then instantly realize this is a dream. After that when I raise my gaze back up, everything has turned into hyperreal. This must have something to do with walking meditation. I do it regularly, not daily but weekly, and naturally I will also do a lot of walking meditation on those long vipassana-retreats.

**~~MasterMind~~** · 02-08-2016 09:14 AM

Glad to see that so many more are starting to realize the infinite creational power in nothing.
Remember that everything you now see once came to existence from a point of nothing.

Here are some motivating facts that can help you stay on track with meditation.

I managed to get my depressed neighbor to start meditating, just 1 min a day. Now she can't stop asking when our next meditation session is going to be, and now she does around 8 min a day! And the change in her behavior has been amazing to witness. She even helped my over-active mind to calm down, if you give, you shall also receive. I told her "Ok today you could do this exercise, that is good because.." and she was like "No, no today I would just like to sit and just do nothing."

And then it hit me.

That's what it ALWAYS has been about, it's just that my mind is so addicted to analyzing, so even if it's not harmful it's still a distraction.

And since most people are so busy constantly doing something, doing nothing ironically enough require instructions such as:
Let go of your thoughts, relax, don't judge yourself, just observe what you feel, until you can just be.

And this "lucid realization" has made a huge impact on my lucid dreaming practice. No more need to think about what kind of technique or method one should be doing. Basically doing nothing and then go to sleep and experience awareness. As close to a natural as one can get! This is even reflected in other areas of life such as establishing a work-ethic or even just being an attractive man. Most men are so busy always trying to get something or do something to make people accept them, but if you just allow yourself to be and give a carefree, positive or even sexual energy you barely have to do anything except going out and meeting people.

Leonardo Da Vinci once said, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication".

So sit and do the simple act of doing nothing 20 min a day, and you'll soon discover your infinite potential in doing EVERYTHING!

Peace!

**BadAssLongCoat** · 02-24-2016 09:30 AM

Posting for easy location in future.

Looks like you're on to something, and may explain why I kept seeing HI last night while meditating in bed. Mind you, I was using mantras like: "I will remember my dreams" and "I will remember who I am when I dream". Only real problem I had with sleeping after was that I kept getting microwakes and seemed to be floating in a void with no physical form, it was super disorienting but peaceful even though the only thoughts I could consciously muster were "I realy should try and RC now, I am sure I am dreaming". I think it was beyond that though, who knows.