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TIBETAN METHODS
Tibetan buddhists practice what is known as
Tibetan dream yoga. Probably the most time
consuming way of inducing lucid dreams, it is
also, according to the practitioners, the most
rewarding. The basic practice is awareness.
Awareness should be practiced while sleeping
just as well as while being awake. Meditating on
the question “who is aware?” might catapult you
into a higher degree of awareness. Keeping this
level of awareness is another matter. The
Tibetans have developed many yogic exercises and
disciplines to be practiced.
Maybe the most interesting difference between
Tibetan dream yoga and western modern methods of
lucid dream induction is the Tibetan claim of
the possibility to be aware during deep sleep,
not only in the REM periods of sleep. For the
reader who is interested in these methods a good
start is to begin to regard all experience as a
dream. After all, from the countless multitude
of matter and radiation reaching our senses the
nervous system tunes in only to a small fraction
of this chaos. For members of the phalanx that
believes we, more or less, create our own
reality in the above sense this practice should
feel natural. In general, though, it's
recommended to get instructions from a teacher
made of flesh and blood rather than consulting
the literature or books such as this one.
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