I have not yet integrated basic skills lesson 1 into my meditation/bedtime routine, however, after reading over the posts in the thread for basic skills lesson 1, I decided to try something. In a past meditation retreat, we were instructed to concentrate on taking in as much of the information that was in our sense sphere as possible. This included sights, sounds, and the feel of things. So, I figured I would give it a shot to listen to as many sounds as I could while walking around the workplace.
What I did was
- Shift into a state where I vew all around me as if it were a dream
- Then I paid attention to the sounds of my footsteps.
- Then I added in listening to the various sounds around me, and attempted to maintain awareness of all of this.
I then went home for the weekend. That night, I had two non-lucid dreams that seemed longer than usual and I remembered almost all of each dream in detail.
At the workplace, there is a shared bathroom that has a rather noisy vent that turn on when the light is on in the bathroom. Usually, the signs of the bathroom being occupied are the sounds of the vent on, and water running.
Went I went to use that bathroom, I could hear the vent, and I thought I could also hear water running. Later on in the day, I went back to the bathroom, and the vent was on again and I also thought I heard water running, however, this time, the door was ajar so I decided to try to go in anyway. The bathroom was empty, however, I discovered that what I thought was the sound of water running was actually the sound of the vent running, only this time, I was hearing an aspect of the sound of the vent that I had not perceived before.
I think it was interesting that even with what seems like a minimal effort at this exercise that I perceived a sound differently than any way that I had perceived that same sound prior to this. It seems like a subtle difference, yet that same sound was different. I can only imagine that what I perceived was in part because I had some practice at actually listening to the sounds around me.
I am not entirely sure how this would translate to becoming lucid in a dream, however, it seems to make sense to me that paying close attention to what sounds are around me, if that were to come into a/any dream(s) of mine, may be enough to help me become lucid.
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