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merging with the light in a lucid dream

Forum: Practical Dharma

i experienced a series of lucid dreams again during my vipassana sitting/lying down practice. i won't bore you with the details of the content of the dream but i'd like to share a lesson in dream awareness i learned this morning.

next time you find yourself in lucid dream try this: look for a source of light (e.g. the moon, the sun, lamp, etc.). once you become aware of the light, focus on it, merge with it. something will happen, a shift in awareness, a shift in dream scenery, prolonging the lucid dream, or maybe even insight into the nature of the dream state.

give this a try, then let us know what happens.

~C

RE: merging with the light in a lucid dream
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3/24/09 7:09 AM as a reply to C4 Chaos.
Hi C,
That's an interesting approach to the lucid dream. Another one which I've found useful is sort of the opposite: In the dream, look at your hands. Then touch objects. The tactile sense (focus of attention) serves to increase the vividness of dream objects.

RE: merging with the light in a lucid dream
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3/24/09 9:23 AM as a reply to C4 Chaos.
yes, looking at the hands in the dream state is also a good way to get lucid in the dream. i remember learning this from Castaneda's "The Art of Dreaming". this is one of the dream signals i use. for example, when i look at my hands in the dream i'll notice its shapes-shifting features, sometimes the colors change. the real challenge, of course, is to *remember* to look at them in the dream, let alone touch objects and feel the sensations emoticon

~C