Tai-Chi and lucidity

[Citizen Erased]

I had a weird experience this morning. I became lucid in a bedroom I knew wasn't mine and as usual felt the usual rush of adrenaline. I've gotten better at controlling the adrenaline and keeping calm but it still makes my LD's quite short. Anyway, I was about to leave the room I was in when for no reason I decided to stop and practise Tai-Chi. I don't know Tai-Chi very well in the real world, I haven't been able to dedicate much time to it and only know a few basic positions. Anyway, in the dream my moves flowed perfectly into each other, I started doing moves I didn't even know and most importantly I was immediatly calm. I know Tai-Chi is supposed to be calming but this was unreal, as soon as I got into the first position all my excitment just evaporated, I felt completly calm with being lucid. I kept doing moves and the room came into sharp focus like I've never seen in a dream. Everything seemed impossibly real, I've seen 'realistic' environments in dreams but this surpassed all of them, it almost seemed more real than reality (hard to explain, has anyone else ever noticed this?). I got completly caught up in this and spent the whole dream doing Tai-Chi and looking at the room in awe. When the dream started to fade, I wanted to kick myself for gettign so caught up in the moment and not exploring. Still, an interesting experience, I think I'll use Tai-Chi to calm myself and increase lucidity again, see if the same thing happens. EDIT: I forgot to mention, at points I felt this welling up of energy during certain moves. I've managed to create this energy in dreams before (used it to knock a wall down once) without the aid of Tai-Chi. It's interesting because the energy feels like an unused limb. It's hard to explain, it feels very familiar, like i've used it before but I haven't. I assume it came about during the Tai-Chi because my subconscious has picked up on things I've read about Chi and is making me think that's what it is. I'm quite glad of this because I love the feeling of that energy, it feels so familiar. Anyone else experienced a similar energy?

[ffx-dreamz]

That sounds bluedini!It seems to me that something must have told you or you might have read that tai-chi really helped your lucidity and just forgot about it.And then in the dream your subconcious remembered that.

[Ev]

That's great! Dont feel sorry cause you havent explored anything. I want to try meditation in LD, so I can learn how to do it and what to expect... Your mind is great at predicting, and you can actually have "precognition" about how something feels... I've noticed that if you focus on something in LD your exitement will fade.

[Aural Girl]

Wow! That's what I was thinking about doing (well sort of) when I'm able to LD more often. I practice Qigong (practice of moving of universal energy to heal by clearing of energy blockages in the body) and I was hoping that I could do my Qigong exercises in my dream and it would be extra effective in removing energy blockages. The question to me is, by moving the energy in your dream, is it actually moving in your sleeping body? How did you feel when you woke up? Did you feel like you did some powerful Tau-chi?

[ashliebelle]

I'm quite glad of this because I love the feeling of that energy, it feels so familiar. Anyone else experienced a similar energy? [/b] The few times i've been able to change things within my dream, I can totally feel that energy. It's like a part of my mind, but also feels physical. Have you seen the movie Matilda? I feel like her when it happens.

[WerBurN]

power of suggestion is teh uber-pwn