Thread: Attention To Detail: A Way To Insure Lucidity (Dream Article)

So awareness and what you choose to focus that awareness on is the key? I'll agree with that!

I heard somewhere recently that 85% of all of what a person does is on autopilot. We react to things without even thinking about them, which is the exact opposite of lucid dreaming.

So training yourself to pay attention to details during the day can help break up those periods of "autopilot", and will increase your odds of getting lucid. But only as long as your search for detail doesn't become another automated process.

Castaneda described a method to break free of the autopilot curse, what he referred to as "Not Doing". This was of vital importance to his training, and consisted of not doing the things you normally would do out of habit. This requires conscious thought to think of something new, and forces you out of autopilot mode.

You don't have to limit yourself to just one thing to grow your awareness. It could be something simple like brushing your teeth with your left hand instead of your right. There are countless opportunities to expand your awareness every moment of every day. If you can break free of that autopilot mode that is...

hey guys, I told you! try dream yoga, is based on this! on awareness, on day awareness!
look for the books : the power of now, and the tibetan dream yoga of tenzin wangyal rinpoche.

bye

Ironically and unexpectedly I had a lucid dream the other night just after reading this. I had walked out of my bedroom and saw a lattern outside the window and it was swaying like a tree would, my first thought was WHY WAS THERE A LATTERN OUTSIDE, the second was it swaying lol.

I lost control of the dream soon after walking around my house exploring though.

Originally Posted by spiritofthewolf

Yah that is a good point. I am actually going to be posting here in the near future, just my whole philosophy if you will, on how I go about Dreams / Lucid Dreams.. and being in the right state of mind.. so look for it sometime this week!

Warning: It will be quite long and in depth, but for those who read it all, may you gain knowledge!

Plz do send me a link to that when your done Spiritwolf would love it.