Quote Originally Posted by VinceField View Post
Just responding to the title of this thread, it is actually the opposite: Mindfulness practice is a useful tool in developing the ability to lucid dream.
He's already covered that angle and is investigating the inverse:

Quote Originally Posted by Patjunfa View Post
There is enough written and researched in the other direction, that mindfulness helps induction of lucid dreams. As my MSc is in mindfulness studies, I’m interested if I can research weather Lucid dreaming can be useful in developing mindfulness.
This seems like a reasonable question, if a difficult one to answer.

Certainly it was not a tendency toward mindfulness that helped me get lucid, as far as I can tell, because I am about the least mindful person imaginable, if by "mindfulness" you are referring to what is called sati in Pali. I am profoundly absent-minded, oblivious, and generally lack situational awareness to an absurd degree.

Has lucidity helped me to be more mindful? In terms of sati, not really, I'm afraid. I do think it has had benefits in other areas, but these are more the consequence of intellectual reasoning than presence of mind.

As for "dream yoga," I would really like to know more about the primary source texts. Unfortunately, I do not read Tibetan, and I have yet to encounter any evidence of such practices in the forms of Buddhism that prevail in China, Japan, Thailand, etc.

The Pure Land Sutras describe forms of visualization that might possibly border on VILD practice, but fall short of confirming this. There also isn't much evidence of Pure Land Buddhists literally performing the visualization practices described in the sutras, at least in recent centuries.

If you've been researching Tibetan dream yoga, could you perhaps clarify the nature of the primary sources that describe this practice, and their dates? Translations (as opposed to the well-known contemporary commentaries), if they exist, would be extremely useful to those of us not fluent in Tibetan.