Hi ebullere! No, I did not know that. I don't think you can 'do' kundalini but that it occurs once your chakras are all opened and active. I was activating my chakras. Perhaps that is a better explanation.

My ritual was using a journal to write a mantra, if you will, that tonight I would remember my dreams. I wrote it every night before I went to sleep. I kept the journal on my bedside table along with a pencil. If I woke during the night or first thing in the morning, I would write down whatever I did remember in that journal. Most started with just fragments. They made no sense. But as I kept at it, I got longer, more detailed dreams. Also, the mantra, or whatever one wishes to call it, also contained a sentence or two about waking to record my dreams. I had read that if you wake a lot during the night you can usually remember dreams better. Those who sleep straight through the night, remember fewer dreams, at first, anyways.

In addition to writing my 'mantra', I had been meditating daily, eventually building up to an hour each day. I believe(d) that with a clear mind you could focus yourself better. When I started meditating, I used Metamusic/Binural beats. It helped me focus my thoughts on the music instead of all my bodily noises or external noises and then eventually I focused on my own thoughts until my thoughts were few to none. I was able to get myself to a black void. It was incredible, but I have since fallen out of practice. And meditating, is not like getting back on a bike. I think, you must start all over again. So, I am at step one. I also kept a meditation ritual. I used the same music, the same incense, the same chair. I believe, could be wrong, that it helped my mind and body prepare itself for meditation. In meditation, as in lucid dreaming, there seems to be a trigger that 'wakes us', in meditating, I found the trigger of ritual to help calm my mind before I closed my eyes. Did that make any sense??

Nice to meet you too!