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Hello everyone,
I've heard that meditation increases the occurrences of LD, however, I'm not too sure. Has anyone here heard about this or can confirm it? If it does, can someone link me to a youtube video that explains how to meditate? I already saw one before, but, it seemed too simple to perform.
Thanks in advance :)
i think a big part of learning to lucid dream is understanding the mind/brain, because i think lucid dreaming is apart of a daisy chain of hypnosis, meditation.
i imagine it would because meditaion involves controling our different areas of consciousness.
so im sure they are linked but im not entirely sure how, if one did im sure it would help a lot.
this is a start, if you havnt seen it already
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwroGbH1laY
Meditation does help lucid dreams. It basically helps you slow your brain waves into the deep alpha and theta brain patterns, and even some people can go into delta while remaining awake. Theta and delta are normally brain waves of sleep. You learn to be consious at states you would normally be asleep. I have been meditating for several years and can sometimes be asleep and yet awake at the same time, not in a lucid dream either, unfortunately. But it does also help lucid dreams as well. I've had probably around 30 or so, not sure in several years of trying, not a lot.
One thing about meditation, you can't try to hard or you will never get out of the beta brainwave state. I find the binuaral beats CDs work well and put me into an altered state of mind. I like the BMV Theta brainwaves CD the best. I've had a WILD once so far with this, seen bright white lights while listening to it, lucid slept, and reached sleep paralysis.
Yep, it does help. Your thoughts/actions throughout the day affect what you dream at night. So if all you're thinking about today is lucid dreaming, that greatly increases the chances you'll lucid dream. I don't have any proffesional technique or anything like what you may find online, but I simply focus my mind strictly on lucidity until I go to bed.
It's kind of hard to do that ALL DAY, so I usually do it from the moment I wake up until about 2 or 3pm, then take a nap.
Even just practicing meditation regularly will help, as both meditation and lucid dreaming hinge on the same basic concept: controlling your own mind. Meditation is actually very simple, its the complicated techniques and practices you should be wary of.
It helps with WILDs for sure. It's easier to not get deconcentrated by hypnagogic images. I had a friend that was a Raja Yoga practicioner for more then 10 years. He don't use any techniques to induce LDs but he had few almost everynight. The only thing he had to do is to go to sleep at an early hour (around 23 pm).
There is a whole Dream Yoga used by some Tibetan monks. Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche wrote a book about it. Dream Yoga involves visualizations and its aim is to achive a state of conscious state of mind without dreams, while asleep. From this point, a practicioner is trying to liberate, so called enlightment. It's interesting that they believe that our dreams aren't different from our day-time reality.
Thanks for the replies everyone. Just wanted to confirm what I thought :)
I agree with Ajnaeye, meditation should definitely increase your chances of WILDing significantly. I dont know too much about it, but I do know that part of some form of meditating involves the practice of clearing your mind of all thoughts and maintaining it. This would definitely come in handy in WILDs because a loud mind keeps you awake or leads you to follow abstract thoughts as you get drowsier most of the time causing one to fall asleep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajnaeye
If you can master meditation, then you can master WILDs. If you can master WILDs, then you can master LDs.