meditation induced lucid dream.

[somniumrex]

theory: sit up straight with your back straight but supported by something. kind of a sitting but leaning position. meditate: breath in and out, focus on where the breath comes into and leaves your nostrils. count each out breath up to ten starting over when you reach ten or lose count. let all other thoughts float by, do not interact with them and do not forcefully try to block them out, just let them drift by. when your mind wanders return it to your breath and counting. do this for a while and you should feel the effects of sleep coming on. at first drifting mental states. not new thoughts forming but mini dreams akin to hypnogogic imagery. you should then keep focus on the breath and keep counting. feelings of sleep paralysis should start, tingling, muscle twitches, odd distortion feelings, buzzing, etc. keep counting and breathing and you should enter a dream and be fully lucid. the end. for more info see below. critiques? personal experience? any feed back is welcome i'm going to try this tonight and see what happens. i came up with the theory for two reasons: 1. i have seen buddhist monks/nuns fall asleep while meditating (and yes it is hilarious once we were meditating and the time keeper fell asleep!. 2. people teaching and practicing out of body experiences do practices similar to this and since obe is a dream state, the practice should work for this too. other methods are similar but usually done in bed, this would be done in a chair or against a wall and should keep the mind more solid and alert. it seems if you keep your mind on your breath and the counting it will stay alert but docile enough to allow the body to sleep. sitting upright will contribute to this mindset as lying down means deep sleep to the body and brain. like when you fall asleep on a train or car you sleep much lighter. there's so much talk of using meditation to reach different realms and what not and i've always thought "some of these people could just be meditating until they are asleep and dreaming." and i've now decided; why not do the same thing?