Originally Posted by
DNK
Great thread, worth a bump. It's right along the lines of how I feel about LDing and life as well.
I've always been a bit confused over the meditation you're speaking of, though. Basically, it goes like this when I try it:
1. Sit down and relax
2. Start detaching myself from my thoughts and feelings
3. Detach for 3 seconds
4. See a thought or feeling in a new light and spend the next 30 minutes thinking about it.
I can't stop thinking for more than 5 seconds I've found. Or am I not supposed to stop thinking? I'm very confused as to how I'm supposed to look at thoughts without thinking or getting caught up in a thought, as the former seems logically impossible and the latter is extremely difficult since I'm basically experiencing something completely new at that moment. The better I detach, the more interesting my observations become, and I can't let them go.
Anyway, I love this approach. It gets right to the heart of lucidity, cutting down the barrier of sleep/awake, and connects that to the duality of mind, the constant struggle between being aware and having an objective, perceptive eye of your surrounding reality; and being lost in a thought or feeling, only thinking of and seeing the closed conceptual system and its components.
In dreams, it is the aware and objective mind that sees the dream for what it is and becomes conscious and lucid; it is the unaware mind that becomes lost in the conceptual walls of the dream world, itself an ever-shifting character of that world.
Quite fun. But with all these fun thoughts, it's hard to stop thinking...