Well, here's what I got to share today:
For lesson #1 and V1 it's like I managed to broaden my hearing range or something, I'm starting to catch noises from far off, though most times I can't really make out what they are.
With V2 I have become able to focus on several things at once without loosing focus, feet, knees, ankles, thigh, fingers, wrists, neck, nose, buttocks, and other stuff.
Also tried to do V1 and V2 simultaneously, I can't last more than 30-40 seconds before I loose focus on one of them though.
Also Lesson #2 good stuff, here's my experiences so far:
I sat on my balcony looking at the vehicles and people pass by like instructed in Level 1, and later when I went to my backyard it was pretty windy so I also tried to practice with the moving bushes and leaves.
I jumped to level 2 and tried for a while with a pen, started focusing on it and then trying to relax the eyes, after a few tries and few successes (that didn't last long) I tried to feel what was I doing exactly to achieve the loss of focus. When suddenly after trying one more time I felt like this "OH!, I just have to do this", except you know, I can't really put into words what "this" is. It's like I learnt to control something I never knew I had, and I can now relax them just as I can relax my shoulders or whatever. And after a while of trying some more it was as easy as flicking on and off a switch, focused, non focused. And I managed to stay off focus for what I think must have been at least 5 minutes, after that my eyes just started getting tired so I went back to other meditation.
Oh also, I started noticing some orb-like thingies floating around after a while of doing that.
I tried to introduce this diffuse vision with the meditations of lesson #1 (and on my walking meditation), so eyes open, being aware of vision range without focusing, while listening to sounds or focusing on body sensations. I'm not yet able to last very long while simultaneously doing these without forgetting something, about 20-30 seconds I guess. But I guess good nonetheless, just have to keep practicing.
Also, it's quite clear how awesome this could be for dreaming, every second of our lives our mind is always filtering out stuff we deem unimportant, learning to "see" them without necessarily focusing on them, a.k.a being aware of them, is definitely something that will help on LDs.
Oh, also tried Level 3, though I find myself forgetting about some object after a while.
Hmm, alright, I think that's all I wanted to say~
edit: LDed tonight and had the chance to test some of this stuff in a dream.
With diffuse vision and V2 I was able to stabilize the dream quite easily and was able to have a very vivid dream and quite more lengthy than my average ones.
I also think diffuse vision is also helping me to not lose lucidity, a problem I tend to have in LDs is that I lose lucidity once I do what I wanted to do in the LD and then it all goes to randomness as a normal dream. Well, probably just awareness in general helps me stay lucid.
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