Thread: Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA

Well if it's good enough for the dream yogis...

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Well if it's good enough for the dream yogis...

True, we sometimes think that LDing is some new trend when really we seem to just be re-discovering things that have already been known for thousands of years and all the techniques we have written up are just pieces of meditations and philosophies that have already been around forever.

How far do these things stretch back I wonder, did the first cavemen lucid dream?

What if it was easy and natural and everybody did it to improve their hunting strategies / skills. Better to dream about hunting that tiger before you actually do it, you only get one shot in real life....

I've been reading lots of things tonight about SSILD, it sounds very much like meditation and the creator himself even says it's "mental conditioning" which sounds on par with the basic goal of meditation which is to simply change the brain for the better through a specific practice.

With all the success stories I'm quite excited to try this and it follows almost exactly all the things we've been talking about in this thread.

Changing your mental state to one which lucid dreams seems to be the key strategy in the more successful techniques, rather than learning new habits.

Originally Posted by Memm

How far do these things stretch back I wonder, did the first cavemen lucid dream?

I often wonder this myself; either the anthropological discussion on dreams is scarce, or I haven't found the lot of it yet. I would imagine the mind's eye of the caveman is something not easily accessed... But it speaks to the question: is dream recall completely unnecessary, or have we just lot our ability to recall over time due to a social neglect?

The Mindfulness in Plain English excerpts are yet another great distinction I have gotten from this thread! I have slacked for the last few months on my meditation practice and it has had a drastic effect on my dream recall. Whenever I am stuck in a rut it usually takes roughly just a week of daily meditations to notice at least a slight increase in recall, and then I think it's back, slack on the meditation, and the recall fades. You'd think I would catch on...
This thread's info (and enthusiasm) is a big motivator. Thanks!