Meditation Techniques and experiences?

[Lumpia2]

First off I am new here so I hope you will pardon any deviance from TOU or the general flow of the forum. I see a lot of you use meditation techniques as an aid to your dreaming. What techniques do you use? I was trained in Vispassana Meditation (dhamma.org) and have some relevant experiences from my time there. The training is 10 days, no talking, no eye contact and limited physical stimulation among other things. meditation is performed 15 hours a day with three hours of walking and eating and another 6 hours of sleeping. Its a three part meditation that I dont feel qualified to teach but generally can be said to be 5 minutes of naturally breathing through the nose and feeling the breath on your upper lip, 1 hour or more of feeling the sensation in your body and 15 minutes or more of goodwill toward whatever comes to mind. I had an interesting experience while I stayed there. I was flying with very little control over a black and purple desert landscape. There were caged beasts on either side of my flight path.. in large stonehenge like structures. They were thrashing about angrily. Ahead was a mountain which I soon was flying over... looking down in the bleak landscape of black and purple I saw a lush green valley far far below me. I wanted more than anything to stop. But I couldnt. I had no control over my path. Soon I was over another mountain range and I was gaining control over my flight. Another lush green valley appeared below me and I was able to land. A bear was chasing me at this point. As I managed to gain control of my direction I lost my powers of flight. I at last eluded the bear by jumping 15 feet to a ledge in a cliff. I followed the path there and came to a stone structure built into the side of a mountain. There I met my wife for the first time. I dunno how I knew it.. rather, I know it, even now.. but that woman was my wife. Now the interesting part is that several years later I experienced the first half of that dream in real waking life. The journey begins on Highway 89a from Sedona to Cottonwood in Arizona. I was building a house training under my uncle there. I didnt drive at the time so I was a passenger in his truck driving home after work. That feeling, that landscape and the direction were all exactly the same as the vision, save caged beasts and the color. It was all beige instead of purple and black. It has been several years past that now.. a good 8 or 10 years since I went to Vispassana... hard to remember exact years. But the second half still hasn't come to pass, though I have spent another four months in AZ since the first visit. Anyways that is that. So what is your technique? Any stories or recommendations? btw to the teachers of Vispassana the vision is considered a distraction and I am breaking the rules by paying attention to it. But hey I'm a rebel. Oh and that could have been a 6 hour vision too fyi. Amazing it all fits in one paragraph. Hi.

[cygnus]

vispassana is kind of weird to me, seeing that i'm mainly into tibetan buddhism and try to be flexible with meditation... it seems very rigid, almost like a mental exercise rather than effortless rigpa...but what do i know. my meditations are relatively personal, not really structured though influenced by tibetan zhiné. i can definitely say that meditation is very effective in lucid dreams. in fact, most spiritual practices are taken to another level in lucids. hey i'm happy you payed attention to the vision! sounds like clairvoyance to me. sounds awesome, too. are you aware that there are vortexes in sedona? maybe that has some import.