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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
Interesting project you've got here - but I think that you should be very careful not to let any kind of "mission" get in the way of your meditation. You are trying to silence your mind - thats called "transcendental meditation". You have to try and achieve "nothing" - and you can only do this by not having a goal other than silencing your mind. |
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Last edited by TJuulsgaard; 07-16-2010 at 10:46 PM.
Very well written and very nice to read, thanks That's pretty much the plan. In most of my LDs, I noticed that I just became aware of dreaming, so, meditating seemed to be the logical step to having more LDs and to also silence the mind to reek it's benefits. I was also thinking about increasing awareness during my waking life by searching around for a certain object. For example, I'll search for a tomato during my day and just keep track of how many I found, so, that I can improve my awareness and memory at the same time, but, it is quite difficult to keep my mind on that since I'm looking at the same environment at work or at home I have felt my mind silenced when I meditated Day 0 and 1 and it was pretty interesting, but, what I find is that if I'm not in the mood to meditate or thinking about something that I'm worried about during the day, then I have a very difficult time silencing my mind, even after writing my concern on a piece of paper. Day 0 and 1, I experienced no problem with silencing my mind within a minute of starting meditation. Day 2 on the other hand, I had a very difficult time and was only able to silence for a couple of seconds every once in a while hmm, you do make a good point about meditating while laying down because it means that if I am to sleep while meditating, I increase my chance of lucidity due to sleeping with a more focused and aware mind, maybe I'll give that a try whenever I try to WILD or if I don't feel like sitting in the lotus position. I am also indeed interested in what the benefits of meditation could be, such as the growth of the energy body, etc.... which is another reason I'm doing it, but, my main goal in all this is to obtain lucidity as a side-effect of meditation. Curious, what do you mean by "proper" meditation? I know there are different types, but, personally thought that this would be the best in my situation? One more thing to add, I was reading an article talking about meditation in a scientific magazine and they were talking about brain waves, gamma in particular. It was stated that gamma waves were rare in general, as in you only have some really small activity and mostly in dreams, but, those who meditated had gamma activity a lot during the day which I found interesting, but, they didn't seem to know the reason for that |
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
you should start balancing your chakras, its really easy to learn and makes your meditation sessions 100 times better |
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Law abiding citizen by day, breaking the laws of reality by night.
"How can you be aware that you're dreaming, if you're never aware that you're awake?"
"proper" meditation - by that I meant that the small meditation-like breaks you get in your everyday life, when focussing on something shouldn't replace your longer "proper" meditations with eyes closed and everything. I don't mean that some kind of meditation is better than others, but for me Transcendental meditation works best for now anyway ; ) |
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Last edited by TJuulsgaard; 07-17-2010 at 10:15 AM.
At one point, I tried that but to be honest, I'll much rather not play with my chakras and all. At least with the meditation I'm doing, I don't need to worry about that, just silence my mind but I do appreciate the idea, thanks |
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Last edited by BigFan; 07-17-2010 at 11:23 PM.
# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
Yes I usually recommend Thomas Campbell just about everytime I get the opportunity ; ) I would recommend getting the book if you are willing to see life in general from a different viewpoint - sounds like it... It is quite an eyeopener on many levels. |
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Sounds interesting, I might give it a read sometime soon |
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Last edited by BigFan; 07-18-2010 at 11:28 PM.
# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
I'll start off with a short reply on your dream-recall - time is of the essence, you know... I also want to say thank you for taking your time - to read and react properly to my postings. |
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Of course, time is very precious. Thank you for posting in my thread, very interesting posts, wouldn't mind if you wanted to post more and comment on my progress whenever possible |
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
I have a question. |
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It does sound like meditation and probably is. There is no one way to meditate, the only reason I sit up and meditate is because I feel like I'm accomplishing more and it helps me to focus unless when I try to meditate lying down. I think meditation energies the body which might explain why at one point, I wouldn't be able to fall asleep easily after doing it |
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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i dunno if the meditation itself energizes the body. I think the meditation/stopping your normal way of thoughts/ just lets you feel your energy. I mean otherwise the body is preoccupied with thoughts and signals from all senses. I am aware of my energy and only the thought of it makes me feel the flow in the body. So when im in bed before sleep and close my eyes i slow down the breathing and trying to relax all the muscles starting from the feet and to the head. Then the feeling of my energy is just a bit more acute. Then i stop the normal way of the thoughts with concentrating on a colorful spot in my inner vision. If that is not enough i repeat a couple of times "no more thoughts" and then it stops. But sometimes is difficult to hold the state when too many problems on the head When the regular thought stops its just color which can change into a face or smth else. Its nice when i concentrate on a part of that vision it explodes into something else usually places like cities. But sometimes i have long sequence of changing faces human and not human alike. Once i had a sequence of old dreams, that was nice It was like digging in a forgotten hard disk. |
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Well, I meant that it makes it harder to get to sleep because you feel just full of energy. I try to avoid focusing on anything because that isn't transcendal(sp?) meditation although I might start to focus on LDs during it. I haven't had much experience in seeing faces, cities, etc.... it's only the last 2-3 days or so that I've been getting deeper(longer times) and there is much more to learn and experience. |
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# of LDs so far: DILD-1, WILD-0, Awareness-5
Max Dreams recalled in one night: 3
Goals: Learn to fly [] - Find out more about myself [] - Explore the sea [] - Pray in an LD []
Read my DJ: Whirlwind of Dreams
Read my current research: CAT Research
Read my meditation experiences: Meditation Experiences
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