One similar aspect between meditation and lucidity

Hi friends !

Just a thought i had today while i was meditating, and for some time i have not been so much active in DV so...

When one is meditating one is more or less distracted by random thoughts but, after a while, some "aha" moment happens and one remembers that one was daydreaming and lost in the story and in conceptual analysis or discursiveness or judging something, usually about the past or the future. Then one has already arrived at presence and just has to keep the presence of mind on the meditation object (or no particular object) and rest again, until the mind goes after another object and gets distracted and entangled again, and again. The whole thing is very much like forgetting and remembering, until not forgetting happens by itself, quite effortlessly, and one can let extraneous thoughts come and go without solidifying into reactivity

The same thing happens with lucidity, isn´t it ? One first remembers " i am dreaming now " and then one has to sustain this recognition, unless one loses lucidity. One will also probably forget one is dreaming, but after a while remember again, forgetting and remembering again and again, increasing one's ability to remain lucid. But, the problem is, unfortunately the recognition of a dream comes with more training than the recognition of a daydream

However, the skills of mindfulness seems to be very much the same needed for lucid dreaming, specially the training of present memory and the balance of attention so that one can remain centered on a object or on a recognition or insight (ie, the recognition that one is dreaming)

I've started thinking to myself over the last year or so that there definitely does seem to be a connection. Or, at the very least, they seem very similar, and there have been occasions when the feeling of suddenly catching myself in the middle of a daydream that I've accidentally gotten too swept away in has been not unlike that of becoming lucid in an LD.

I'm striving toward a long-term goal of becoming more consistently aware of myself during daydreams and any other distracting thoughts during waking life in the hope of becoming lucid in dreams more often, as well as to eliminate the troublesome “auto-pilot” state that I slip into and end up unknowingly doing random things that serve me about as well as the autocorrect feature on phones everyone's always complaining about. ;)