Thread: Third eye chakra

The third eye represents insight, clarity, and awareness. Most people don't have lucid dreams because they aren't very present in their own lives. So much of the day goes by on autopilot.

One way I've heard to increase lucidity is to meditate on it by putting your awareness there, and visualizing a light or flame.

Of course, you don't need to do that specific meditation to increase lucidity (though it would help). Just about any meditation would do the trick.

Originally Posted by skendry

How is the third eye associated with lucid dreaming. How would you use it?

In the Tibetan Dream Yoga tradition they visualize the third eye as bright white light and vibrate it with the "AH" sound. It helps to know that the third eye is just half of the chakra and the other half is at the base of the skull where it meets the neck and the actual chakra is in the center of your head near the back of your sinuses above your throat. That is where I vibrate. But then I project it out my forehead right between my eyebrows (and a wee bit above). I just play around with energy having it come up my spine and the back of my head to my crown and down the front to my third eye. But the vibrating (actually chanting a long deep "AH" sound so that it actually vibrates that part of your head) while visualizing white light helps tremendously. "AH" has the effect of expanding energy and creating space. So it creates an inner space that is very expansive.

Then, in the Dream Yoga tradition, they vibrate the throat chakra whith either "AH" or "OM" and visualize it red. ANd then the Heart "Hum" (rhymes with room) a bright blue.

But you return to the third eye and you fall asleep with your awareness there and try to remember it as you are sleeping, similar to how you might remember that you have to wake up very early in the morning but you don't have an alarm clock.

Woah, I didn't realize how saying the sounds (AH or OM) make different parts of you vibrate. That's really cool. I've been looking up a little bit about meditating to help me, this helps tremendously. I didn't know the significance of actually saying the sounds (I thought they were there to just help you focus, so I would say them in my head). Thanks for the advice.

Oh, and nice sig Dannon

Originally Posted by ReachingForTheDream

Woah, I didn't realize how saying the sounds (AH or OM) make different parts of you vibrate. That's really cool.

Well, you need to experiment. It depends on how you resonate the sound that makes it vibrate in different places. You can make "AH" sound and vibrate your belly, but that is not what we want to be doing here. And it works real good if you take a deep breath and tone the sound nice and long and slow and loud. That way your breathing slows as well. Good luck!

interesting....

i was given the "AUM" mantra in a vision ... from a holy person.

so for me... he breathed it down into my pineal gland and then from there to the base of my perineum and then it went up my front back to my pineal.
it made one sound going up the spinal circuit and another going down.
they coexist, these two sounds, and the AUM is always going on, around this loop but that is not an exact description. it is always-present and yet also moving.

So there is this vibration that is produced.
I can hear it but only internally, and it produces a real vibration in me even if i don't say anything because that's not how i learned it. i can always tune into it if i want to hear it.

in fact what i learned was the kind that can't be said. only experienced.
nada yoga or perhaps shabda?

anyway... i love your description....i will try yours.
i downloaded several "aums" on itunes just to get an idea of what others sounded like!

many thanks,
beachgirl