Peacedog wrote:The Tibetans have the most developed schools of dream yoga and most of that stuff is written down.
A technique I frequently use with people who have milder forms of PTSD that involve recurrent bad dreams is as follows:
1. Place a pen and note pad by your bed.
2. Immediately before falling asleep say aloud, "I will remember my dreams."
3. Immediately upon waking and before getting out of bed write down anything you remember about your dreams.
A few notes on this process. First, the notebook should be single purpose. Only use it for your dreamwork. Within a week of doing this most people have trouble keeping their notes under a page. Only write a single page for now.
After a few week to a few months you will start to "wake up" in your dreams and be able to act independently in that state. With a little more work you can begin to turn things on and off in your dreams. With further work you can begin to program your dreams in advance and use them for studying specific material, etc. Finally, with a lot of work, the dream state can become a kind of doorway, or jumping off point, for out of body type work usually involving the astral realm.
Oddly, I have seen a connection between frequent dreams about fighting and parasitic infection. While anecdotal it is worth noting if you have any odd health problems.
Best of luck.
Peacedog wrote:MMM,
The method I described is my own.
The Tibetan methods are much more complicated.
It has been a few years, but I think these were the two books I read that got into technique form their perspective.
The Tibetan Yogas of Dreams and Sleep by Dahlby
https://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Yogas-Dr ... dream+yoga
and
Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light by Katz
https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Yoga-Pract ... dream+yoga
edededed wrote:I think I have only had one lucid dreaming experience - but I woke up very quickly (tried looking down, but it only delayed the inevitable a bit).
Nowadays, a worse problem is that I hardly ever dream anymore it seems! (Maybe I remember having a dream only once in several months now.) Any way to get dreams back again?
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