Thread: Does being lucid stop you from resting.

Originally Posted by Dannon Oneironaut

To live lucid means to have that same relaxed self awareness that you have during a lucid dream during the day as well. To be able to pay attention to details around you at the same time as the whole environment as one unity and at the same time your own consciousness and to realize that the only way that you are able to perceive your environment is because of your own awareness. I get into this state by pretending that I am in a lucid dream during the day and I look at how effortlessly my mind creates the environment is such lucid detail. Of course I am awake and the question of whether or not it is a projection of my mind or not is purely philosophical, but I don't worry about the philosophy of it but I use it as a technique. Of course, having regular lucid dreams helps. During sleep one can remain lucid for the duration of the dream and even when the dream is over in which case if one doesn't wake up one will experience pure consciousness without form, it is very blissful. It is not an alternative to meditation... it IS meditation, or SAMADHI. I don't know about gamma waves, I'll have to research those. I use sound the sound technique I talked about above to prepare for WILDing. But I do the AH OM HUM RAM (rum) DZA mantra. I first do AH a number of times to vibrate the third eye until I am visualizing a strong white color and my head feels spacious, and I then move on to red OM in throat chakra and do likewise. Then blue HUM at heart likewise, Red RAM in belly likewise, and then green DZA in the root chakra. I take time with each syllable before moving on to the next. This has the effect of opening and purifying and energizing the channels and getting a good relaxed flow through body and mind which facillitates lucidity.

The other night I remained lucid the whole night and felt completely rested in the morning 8 hours later. I could tell that I was in DELTA when I wasn't dreaming but I felt like my head was in a bright light and I felt bodyless.

Oh, you posted just before I did so that's why I said "I don't know what he means exactly" but I guess we meant the same thing. How do you stay awake the whole night? Using the AH OM HUM RAM (rum) DZA mantra? You start at night when you go to bed? Do you just lie in the same position and just don't move and wait for 8 hours? That's cool. I'll try.
(I knew about AH but not about the other ones.)