Hello all,

I have an idea about achieving constant lucidity everynight just by using your breath and consciousness! I've been practicing this method for a bit now, but not long enough to see constant lucidity everynight. I am sharing this method now because I want others to join in and see if they can achieve said results. Allow me to introduce to you the idea of the Lucidity Breathing Method and how to do it:

You, are breathing every moment, but are you ever AWARE of your breathing? Are you at this moment aware that you're inhaling.......and now exhaling.........and inhaling again? Maybe you are now because I brought your awareness to it, but normally your breath is an UNCONSCIOUS process never driven by your conscious mind. After all, if you were the one to have conscious control over your breathing you would've probably died years ago. The idea is not to have conscious CONTROL over your breath, but to have conscious AWARENESS of your breath. Why you ask? Well, you're ALWAYS breathing.....even during sleep . And if we were to keep conscious awareness of our breathing through out the day, our brains can then carry this consciousness over into sleep and we'll become aware of our breath and then......LUCIDITY! You'll begin breathing in your dreams and eventually you'll associate breathing with consciousness and become instantly lucid.

How To Begin Breathing Consciously

Everyday Developed Awareness: Simply put, you may begin breathing consciously whenever and wherever you want. How to develop a constant awareness of your breath is up to you on how long you plan to keep your conscious awareness of your breathing. All you really have to do is remain aware of your breathing through out the day whenever you can.

- To help you keep awareness of your breath you can use a mantra. A mantra is basically a repetition of a word or words to help you and keep you focused.

As you inhale say: I'mmmmmmm (as long as the inhale takes until exhale)
As you exhale say: Dreammmmmmminnggggggg (as long as the exhale takes until the next inhale)

And repeat this over and over in your mind to help keep you focused on keep awareness on your breath.

Meditation Developed Awareness: I know some people don't like the idea of meditating or just can't find the time to, so that's why I included the Everyday Developed Awareness. This meditation can be very beneficial though if practiced regularly and everyday.

Basically all you have to do is sit in any comfortable posture you want; avoiding one that will make you fall asleep though. You can close your eyes and begin to take deep breaths in and out. Take a very deep inhale to fill up your lungs as much as you can and then a long exhale until you can't exhale any longer, do this about 20 times. Then calm down and breathe normally, keeping your awareness ONLY on your breathing. You may do this for a length of 5-10 minutes and increase the time everyday to 10-15 minutes and so on.
This will definetely help you develop a constant awareness of breath and focus as well.

Tibetan Dream Yoga Technique: This is a technique I decided to include with the overall Lucidity Breathing Method. It makes a whole lot of sense to me. You may not wish to include this into the method, that is your choice, but I very much like the idea and I think it'll help in achieving constant lucidity everynight.

Tibetan dream yoga practice comprises three parts:

- Daytime practice, designed to help us recognize the dreamlike nature of all existence and thereby prepare us to experience our dreams as vividly as we do our waking activities
- Morning wake-up practices that help us recall our dreams, and confirm our determination to recall more of them
- Nightime practice, which prepares the ground for lucid dreaming and spiritual

See the first line? I included this technique into the Lucidity Breathing Method so we can realize that waking life is a dream and this consciousness PLUS the breathing will both lead into a seamless transition into lucidity everynight because our minds will just begin to think as dreams as continuations of our waking reality! So...

Daytime Practice:

During the day, practice these four points:
- Contemplating the body as illusory and unreal
- Contemplating the mind and mental activities as similarly insubstantial
- Regarding the world and all phenomena and experience as dreamlike, insubstantial, impermanent, and unreal
- Recognizing the relativity and ungraspable quality such as time, space, knowledge, and awareness

Reminding ourselves of these four truths throughout our waking life helps to dissolve the barrier between the dream of real-life and the sleeping dream. As we become more adept at this practice, we begin to regard our nighttime dreams as continuations of our waking dream and we learn how to bring habitual awareness to both.


And that concludes my Lucidity Breathing Method for now. Please if anyone is interested in trying this out, please do and post your results. If you have any questions PM me or ask me here. And remember, your breath is a vehicle into the dream world! Don't leave your consciousness/awareness behind, take the wheel and start driving into lucidity!