Thread: Age and Lucidity

Consider the following:

Dreams

Death (and NDE…Near Death Experiences)

DMT…the psychedelic drug Dimethyltryptamine…which some claim we can all synthesize.

NHS/Imperial College London research claims similarities between NDE and a DMT trip.

If true, where is the DMT available in hospitals and theatres of war?

Such trips are usually profound, and some say life-changing. Many people who trip get déjà vu (a feeling of being there before) and have difficulty expressing experience.

Lucid dreaming…the ability to “wake up’ within dreams. It exists (I’ve done it a few times)

Some people are natural LD’ers. They may be awash with the hormone melatonin, (derived from the amino acid tryptophan) which regulates sleep patterns.

Most of us need to work at lucid dreaming. (keeping dream-journals, spotting common dream themes, conditioning the brain to be more aware during sleep.) It’s quite hard to do.

Most dreams are quickly forgotten unless recorded immediately.

Buddhists maintain one’s persona evaporates during death and only a degree of awareness remains. If we do re-incarnate, they say it’s only awareness that does. Consider a new born baby. Is that not just awareness at first?

Buddhists maintain the opportunity exists to avoid reincarnation, by conditioning oneself to recognise a source of radiance when it occurs. As in dreaming, it can easily be missed unless one’s awareness is finely honed.

Why would one avoid reincarnation? Because it may be endlessly reoccurring and with the likelihood of unpleasant existences because it may be so random?

Common factors?

Cycles…Dream themes, reoccurring experiences on DMT trips, maybe reincarnation.

Deja Vu…(done this before) experienced on DMT trips and by some people who ‘remember’ previous lives.

Awareness…facilitates lucid dreaming and after-death experience (according to Buddhists.)

All great stuff in that post, LukeSid. Two months ago most of what you said would have been of just passing interest to me but now that I am firmly planted on the LD/Dream Yoga path, all of your above comments really resonate.

Regarding awareness......this is where my life seems to be changing the most, even at this somewhat advanced age. I always considered myself to be more aware of the world around me than most, due to a few various disciplines in my life, but now that I am basically dismantling my perceived realities on a daily basis I am more aware of detail than ever both awake and a'dream. I find myself becoming the lucid observer almost every night now.....fully aware of the dream state and yet just letting it flow around me as I reach out and grab little pieces of it to take back with me across the threshold.

Originally Posted by LukeSid

recognise a source of radiance when it occurs.

I like that a lot. I'm going to put it into my mantra tonight.