Thread: Lucid Dreaming Technique That is Less Demanding?

Meditation.

You always got your breath, you always got the now to be aware of and thereby always have a way of practising awareness itself.

like what they said:
auto suggestion and meditations reaaly help

Originally Posted by MasterMind

Meditation.

You always got your breath, you always got the now to be aware of and thereby always have a way of practising awareness itself.

i like this idea. i've been meditating and buddhist for over a decade, i meditate and practice mindfulness all day every day, but the only time i have lucid dreams, or even remember my dreams is when i'm trying some technique and dream journaling.

is there something i'm missing?

Originally Posted by StephL

That's the thing - the basics aren't difficult to do, but they do take time and are prone to be procrastinated on. Even five sentence recommendations, see your thread next door, if taken seriously they all are "work", if simple or not.
I'm lucky, I get lucids from time to time without doing anything or being more aware in general. That then motivates me to get in some work again, periodically.

ah, you're one of the lucky ones!!!! for me if i slack off i can go YEARS without a lucid dream and months without remembering more than a fragment of a regular dream.

Originally Posted by sleepyzac

i like this idea. i've been meditating and buddhist for over a decade, i meditate and practice mindfulness all day every day, but the only time i have lucid dreams, or even remember my dreams is when i'm trying some technique and dream journaling.

is there something i'm missing?

My values and ideas fluctuates from time to time and change. I have had periods of super focus on the basics of lucid dreaming.
Reality checks, WBTB:s, dream journaling, you name it.

So my unconscious mind is probably already conditioned for being aware of dreams and remembering them.

Every post I make is just a rationalisation of my own views, which probably every post of the technique forum is, and therefore the forum name dreamviews is very spot on. So be critical while reading. Only rely on personal experience, but if you don't got personal experience, try out ideas and structure them to you own liking.
From my years of pratctise I have concluded that what you do isn't as important as how you do it (the mindset).

If you do stuff in order to get some result, you are not in control and are probably going to be frustrated when you fail, you can either use western cognitive behavior therapy and refame your experience. For example you do reality checks and don't get a lucid dream, then you say "Hmm what can I learn from this?" this is the western way of non-difference. Or you can go to extremes, as I like to do, and go with the eastern way of hinduism and buddhism and just let go completely.

Hiduism say: You are only entitled to the actions not the fruits of the action. In other words enjoy doing something more than the result, because that is how your mind and reality works.

Buddhism say: Let go of attachments.

I have chosen a combination of my favorite philosophies.

Western: Listen to instructions from successful people and follow it. (Read my DJ to see what I listen to.)

Hinduism: Enjoy the doing not the result. I enjoy being present during the day for the enjoyment itself, and I don't spend my day hoping to get lucid in the night, I enjoy being "lucid" "aware" in the day, for the awareness itself not as a means to lucidity.
That way paradoxically I get more lucid because by really loving awareness itself, I probably practise it more than if I just did it for the result itself. Intrinsic motivation VS. Instrumental motivation.

Buddhism: Let go of attachments, your thoughts and even your self (the ego). So I spend 20 minutes every day in a state of nothingness.

The rational reason to this appeared to me when I realized that trying (different techniques) always led me to become discouraged.
But then I gave up lucid dreaming all together and those nights I somehow had spontanious lucid dreams.

Now I am in some sort of balanced relationship between trying and non-trying like yin and yang.

There is no right or wrong way. But since this thread was about doing less, I thought that doing NOTHING would be appealing. Hehe.