Thread: Breath Induced Ld?

When I first went to sleep last night, I slept on my back and had pretty vivid dreams but didn't become lucid. After I woke up, I then went back to sleep on my left side. A bit into my next dream it was pretty easy for me to do a reality check and gain lucidity.
I read somewhere that in practicing dream yoga one step is to see which nostril is easier to breathe through by closing one and taking a few breaths. I found that it's easier for me to breathe through my right nostril -- I guess sleeping on my left side helped me to breathe better or to align my polarity or something

I practice yoga and meditation, but I haven't read very much about a relation between breathing and lucid dreaming. Is there some way to put these things together and be more consistent with LD-ing and using a pre-bed routine?

Ok, I found the answer to my own question in case anybody was interested. According to the Bon tradition, men should sleep on their right side. To have balance between the energy channels on either side of the body (which supposedly increases awareness during a dream), you hold the left nostril shut and exhale out the right nostril (to release afflictive emotions), and inhale through the left. Do this before sleeping. Women do the opposite.
Being aware of my breath during an LD keeps me focused - this hasn't really been mentioned in the tutorials but it might help some people out.

Nice to hear men are supposed to sleep on their right side, because I always do so naturally.

But I don't think it has anything to do with the nostril through which you breathe more easily.
The body has many natural rythms, also inside the nose, every 3 to 4 hours the ease of breathing through your nostrils shifts (unless you have some sort of anatomical asymmetry).
So if you breathe more easily through your left nostril now, in about 3 or 4 hours you will most likely breathe more easily through your right nostril.

You can observe this phenomenon most clearly when you have a cold.

can you really control which nostril you can breathe in and out with?

Hi, I posted about something like this a long time ago:

http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=28415

Hey thanks! That's a good post.