Thread: Dream Yoga interfering with RC's?

Make it your own. Do whatever you're comfortable with.

I love dream yoga, too. I think the reality checks fit in well with dream yoga. I don't really do reality checks where I ask if I'm dreaming, then test. Instead, I just increase my awareness, reminding myself this could be a dream, and thinking what I would do if it were. I change my attitude, perception, and point of view to look at things as if it were a dream.

I do like to look at my hands and count my fingers as a kind of RC. This is less about testing if it is a dream, and more to stabilize myself and bring my attention to my body. It helps me focus on my awareness when awake, and stabilize the dream when asleep. Think of it like a little mini-meditation.

The waking world is more stable than the dream world. It does work differently. Dreams and reality are not the same thing, and you should always be able to tell the difference. When you treat reality like a dream, and a dream like reality, it is not to blur the line between the two. It is to strengthen the continuity of your own identity between the two. Your relationship to the two is what you should be focusing on. Your awareness and experience should be the same whether awake or asleep, even though the two states are noticeably different.

Thanks for the very indepth answer. I guess I'm just afraid of throwing away the hard work I have been doing with RCs the last months. So I'm glad to hear that I can still use it to some extent.

So you are actually saying that I don't need the question "Am I dreaming" to go lucid - I will be able to tell that I'm in a dream by being aware and still be able to act as "usual" when I'm lucid.

I actually had a LD in which I woke up in a bedroom and noticed that the wallpaper wasn't right and wham! I was lucid. Is this how it works? (guess so )

How long do you think it will take to go into effect (raising awareness in dreams) I know its an impossible answer, but does it take longer than getting RC's to work? Do you rate dream yoga as being more difficult than your average DILD-technique?

(OMG once again a lot of questions - and maybe I'm just talking with myself already thinking that I know the answers - but I'm very uncertain of this Dream Yoga thing - allthough very attracted by it)