Thread: Age and Lucidity

Originally Posted by lenscaper

I have come to the realization that the dream state is just as real as the waking state......and the waking state is just as illusory as the dream state.

I exist now in that unbroken continuity.

You say "unbroken", but you still experience non-continuous transition between dream and awake, don't you? Or do these states flow smoothly into one another?

Originally Posted by Voldmer

You say "unbroken", but you still experience non-continuous transition between dream and awake, don't you? Or do these states flow smoothly into one another?

I am the same person in both states these days. I have been practicing sleep yoga ....I fall asleep kind of bathed in a clear light. Dreams come and I enter them calmly, observing and taking part where it feels right. I always wake up smiling.

It is as if I have added hours to my life every night...although time and space are irrelavent.

I have realized that the goal is to achieve lucidity in the waking dream. The sleeping dream is just a means to that end.

As I approach the four year anniversary of that first accidental lucid dream that changed my life......I find myself to be a bit introspective of the journey. It seems as though I was shown this path back in early February of 2019 and since then I have followed it onto other even more powerful paths. Throughout this journey lucid dreaming has been the engine that has driven a transformation.

I no longer practice any LD techniques. I have drifted away from the Dream Yoga and Sleep Yoga protocols as well, as I find myself simply living in that unbroken continuity. All that said, I live a fully functional existence working a 50 hour week where I am in continual contact with folks across the country and I'm actually much better at it now. Through it all I know for certain that I am living in an illusory state. One might call that a dream state but I have, it seems, gone beyond the dream.

Beyond the dream there are amazing vistas of "reality". Don't be afraid to peek around those corners when you find them.