Thread: Attaining Lucidity

The answer seems so obvious to me. I've only just stumbled onto the amazing experience of lucid dreaming. but I see all of these steps that require months and years of practice and embedding things into the subconscious. Many ehteogenic cultures to this day, simply do things like practice scientific forms of meditation in order to better understand themselves, and their role within the universe and reality. They achieve lucidity through natural and WILD methods. They use this also as a way to simply explore themselves and their spirituality. It seems that simple to me. To lucid dream easily you simply must be lucid. I can directly relate my spiritual awakening less then a week ago to my Lucid dream experience. I have become wayyy more aware of my surroundings, behavior of others within the constraints of society. And mainly, think differently about what reality really is. In a nutshell I consciously realize A complete change within my personality and outlook upon the universe. You have things like reality checks that are something you do in real life that eventually get embedded in your subconscious, and dreaming in a sense is hard to catch sometimes. Like what I'm saying is, realizing that your in a lucid dream is the same as you realizing your in a dream rite now. So it's the same concept. The more aware you are now, the more aware you will be in other states of consciousness. I'm not saying it may not still take years to perfect, but I never used a reality check to realize I was in a dream, i just realized because, I literally consciously stopped myself within a dream. I was fighting a guy in a red suite and his double, and I had two long boards and I thought it was completely normal. I then just literally just gained consciousness and said wait, I'm in a dream!

Also note, you think lucid dreaming is your chance to manipulate reality, but just as there many false realities in real life, lucid dreaming may have many more doors to explore. I think Lucid dreaming is something that is meant to be practiced from the beginning of life, but due to the mechanical impediments within our modern society, thinking outside the box is gone for most people. Dreams are uncontrollable randomness that, eventually get old to most people. They get so used to dreaming just like they do with
other things that become habit, they usually don't even remember them. Our existence in most basic form. The most basic answer we can answer about ourselves is that we are conscious. So then why would we spend 20%- 50-% of our lives unconscious. Life is a constant opportunity to travel the labyrinth that is our mind. When you Lucid Dream, your still getting a good nights rest. Your getting REM and deep REM. your consciousness doesn't need rest. your body does. And dreaming is natural, so to me it is obvious, dreaming is a natural way to explore our own subconscious and spirituality. A chance for our mind to create without the Ego that gives us the illusion that we are in a set in stone reality when we are awake. I guess my conclusion is, Lucid Dreaming is only as Lucid as you are. Attaining Lucidity isn't something you do in dreams it's something your entire consciousness achieves. As soon as your alive, you are a part of a giant flow. When you move you don't act alone, you are moving within the giant fluid structure that is our universe. constantly moving together, fluidly. So therefore when your dreaming it isn't like your a different person your consciousness is just fluctuating. Your consciousness doesn't change. somewhere in the back of your mind you know your dreaming, you have the choice of realizing your consciousness doesn't change, your physical states do. And you can realize lucidity awake and asleep and unlock the door that is knowing ones self.

An interesting article I remember reading after posting this can be found at Evolver . net go to tags and look or lucid dreams, then click on the Tibetan master article. ( I can't post links on here yet)