Thank you, Valis1. Great response. We seem to follow a similar path, though i no longer deal with Vedic philosophy. Yogic principles were the first thing I encountered on my path when i was 15: Paramahansa Yogananda: Autobiography of a Yogi. I was lead to it, believe it or not, in a high school class called Mysticism. I love the 60s for that if nothing else.
More to the point, l like the idea that you are using a variety of visualization practices in other areas. I have no doubt, though no direct proof, that they are effective enhancers of the LD experience. Rightly or wrongly, I think they enhance your ability to acquire stronger focus on the Otherworld. The stronger your focus, the more readily you transfer your conscious attention away from the physical and the more completely you become absorbed.
I was thinking that natural lucid dreamers may have a far more active imagination, are far more readily involved in imaginative activity during their waking hours (formally or otherwise) and naturally transition into the dream with their minds still in the mode of reality making, for lack of a better term. This should make them more naturally aware. Though not an exact correlative, I believe imaginal practices act as dream incubators, just not the specific version that you would apply before bed.
I may be completely off base, but I've been in an exploratory mood lately, and I've been using this forum as a white board, so to speak. Unlike personal white boards where responses are internal, I have the chance of getting overt responses here to move me along, which occasionally helps to revise my premise.
Continued success
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