Comments on: Open Practice: Vipassana-Induced Lucid Dream (VILD)

By: Unenlightened

Unenlightened — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:22:56 +0000

Ummm … pardon the typos above. Should have proof read before submitting.

By: Unenlightened

Unenlightened — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:21:40 +0000

I’m not a practicioner of any of the techniques you mention but have had 2 luck breaks with lucid dreaming.
Both time I bacame aware, in the midst of dreaming, that I was dreaming.
Alas I have not had any consistency with this and haven’t gotten to pratice manipulating the dream.

By: Tibovation

Tibovation — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 04:24:53 +0000

I always fall asleep regularly, ive been trying something like this for a while. Maybe i need to train my awareness more to not lose my awarness in that half-sleepy state. I can feel my awarness getting slow and blurry and *bamm* its morning already. Anyway…how do u perceive time while being aware throughout the night?

By: hoplite87@aol.com

hoplite87@aol.com — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:05:20 +0000

I Can’t lucid dream. i really really really wanna do it and have been trying for a while now but i just always have normal dreams. the only notice i see in my dreams is that i remember them better after i wake up now. Plz tell me how.

By: sensit

sensit — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:23:25 +0000

Based on your post, it seems to me that you are pretty open for alternative explorations. Have a look at my review on Bonpo Dzogchen Teachings‎ by Lopon Tenzin Namdak

http://sensit.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/bonpo-dzogchen-teachings%e2%80%8e-by-lopon-tenzin-namdak/

By: unknown

unknown — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:08:05 +0000

yesterday i had the lucidity of a lucid dream while seemingly awake and without any kind of dream anyway other than trying to concentrate on what i understand ‘emptiness’ to mean. i’m trying to practice samatha at the moment but haven’t got a teacher yet so i thought that it might indicate some progress but probably not?

also i have had that lucidity while i seemed to be dreamlessly asleep but still hearing the music i had on on headphones. the more recent experience was more interesting though. this was before my meditating much at all though i had been to a couple of classes i don’t remember practicing what they taught, not to the degree that was asked at least.
i also have suffered from psychosis with grotesquely grandiose [quasi?] buddhist themes: when i was briefly an inpatient i even spent a lot of time thinking about those little lines you see in your vision in the sky which are seem like a bit of a theme in buddhist philosophy. i wonder if it’s all connected and who’s ever going to take me on to teach me with such a bizarre history? but i’m stuck because i have a serious sincere belief in not just in being able to alter your conscious states through buddhism [is this just scientific fact?] but in nirvana at death for all sentient beings. which isn’t really buddhist exactly which is just another problem is getting really started with things. oh well, any advice from anyone appreciated…

By: j greene

j greene — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:47:05 +0000

o ya, what peacemaker said. Take the traditionalists with a grain of salt. We are the astronauts. Every step is a bold new world.

By: j greene

j greene — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:45:37 +0000

Ya, vipassana==increased lucid dreaming. My experience is similar.

I do vipassana while sliding into sleep too (well, vipassana all the time ideally, but u get the idea) – good results.

Just today a guy suggested behaving really well while in dreamland. Exercising great control over self, controlling anger, being really self-sacrificing – u know, really saintly. Planning to give it a go.

By: Shinzen Young On Lucid Dreaming and The Five Ways < ~C4Chaos

Shinzen Young On Lucid Dreaming and The Five Ways < ~C4Chaos — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:01:04 +0000

[...] I’ve been applying Shinzen Young’s Five Ways approach to my meditation practice for almost a year now and all I can say is that I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of it. It had dramatically improved my sitting meditation, relieved my migraine headaches, made me consistent with my open practice, and most importantly, it gave me a general sense of happiness and contentment in life. In addition, by applying the Five Ways, I’m also able to induce lucid dreams more frequently. That’s why I have incorporated it in my regular practice. See Vipassana-Induced Lucid Dream (VILD). [...]

By: c4chaos

c4chaos — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:52:49 +0000

thanks, haquan.

i’ve tried WILDs (as taught by LaBerge) but i wasn’t particularly good at it. that said, the vipassana-induced lucid dream technique i described above is a variation of WILD since it’s also wake-induced.

Turing test on the dream people we encounter? i haven’t thought of that. good idea. i’ll try that next time i’m lucid enough in my dreams

let me know how VILD works for you.