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Tibetan Dream Yoga Yoga and the ancient philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism. Explore new new depths to lucid dreaming and get a taste of some dre dream yoga techniques.
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Tibetan Dream Yoga is the original form of lucid dreaming documented for at least
1,000 years. Also known as Milam - the yoga of the dream state - it's a suite of advanced tantric techniques. Just like our Westernized understanding of lucid dreams, the initial aim is to awaken the consciousness in the dream state. However, as for what happens next, Tibetan lamas have more esoteric goals in mind...
The Basis of Dream Yoga Dream yoga is taught within the trance Bardos of Dream and Sleep. In the tradiditon of tantra, it's usually passed on by a qualified teacher, once the student has passed an initiation. It's considered a passing on of enlightened experience rather than reading texts, and requires the student to develop sufficient self awareness to achieve conscious lucidity during sleep. Their aim is to harness the power of the lucid dream state by "apprehending the
dream". Students are then required to complete set tasks to take them to the next level. These tasks include: Practice sadhana (a spiritual discipline) Receive initiations, empowerments and transmissions Visit different places, planes and lokas (worlds) Communicate with yidam (an enlightened being) Meet with other sentient beings Fly and shape shift into other creatures The ultimate goal in Tibetan dream yoga is to apprehend the dream - and then dissolve the dream state. When deprived of physical and conceptual stimulus from the dreaming mind, you can observe the purest form of conscious awareness.
Dream Yoga Techniques The philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism is complex, but you don't need to be an expert to practice dream yoga techniques. However, you do need to show commitment; a technique is only as good as you are prepared to work at it. One very broad but basic rule is this: continually compare your dreams to waking reality and know what it feels like to be conscious. This will increase your self awareness and you will find it easier to induce lucidity in dreams. Here's an example of a dream yoga technique. If you already practice lucid dreaming, you'll find it familiar because dream recall is the key to lucid dreaming which ever way you look at it.
Dream Recollection
Every time you wake up, reflect on all the dreams you can remember. In Tibetan Buddhism, it's believed that the ego travels about during sleep - revisiting places we have been to in real life, and repeating all our experiences. So it's important to meditate upon your latest dreams and recollections. Stay completely still while you do this, because the "dream body" is disturbed by physical movement and the memories are lost. As you meditate on your dreams, repeat the mantra: RAOM GAOM, accentuating the O and splitting each word into two syllables. This will help focus your awareness on memories from the unconscious.
Further Reading To learn more about dream yoga, I recommend The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Unlike many other books on the subject, Tenzin is clear and concise and offers lots of practical examples. This book is aimed at beginners to dream yoga, starting with the nature of dreams and their relationship with reality. He also emphasizes how you can incorporate dream yoga into your daily life and reap the rewards of this profound lucid dreaming practice.
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About the author Rebecca Turner is the founder of World of Lucid Dreaming. She is currently studying for a science degree in Auckland and becoming famous as a science writer. Try our free lucid dreaming course and connect with the team on Facebook and the lucid dream forum.
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Linda Katz · Garden City High School When I lucid dream, and I decide I do not want to be where ever I find myself in my dream, I know I can go somewhere else, but most of the times I {in my dream} just shout out "my name" as loud as I can over and over so I will wake up. About three
, people in your dream when you , say are standing on a street corner in your dream and start shouting your own name like a crazy person. They will react to you , back up and look at you like you have lost your mind. Then as you wake your self up from the shouting from inside your mind, "not really making any noise of course" , as you wake up you can have a smile about the scene you have just caused. If you would like to talk about dreaming my email is
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n_inhursag This is what I need. Like · Reply · 22 June 2014 13:18
Nayima Archer · Works at New York Yoga According to Tibetan Dream Yoga, there are two ways of dreaming. One takes place during our waking hours of daily life. The other occurs in our night dreams. In passing through the Four Gateways, we come to fully realize that the two types of dreams are really identical. With this realization comes true Oneness with our Source and an end to the separation that causes all of our pain. Nayima Anamaya Resort and Retreat Center. www.anamayaresort.com Like · Reply ·
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Bhavani Lee · Works at I want to do something If lucid dreaming is enlighten then how we can say that it is our last goal? May be our enlightenment is any type of mental state nothing else like trance etc...and this state is may be not reality only the mental state. How can we say that SAMADHI is our last goal and reality? Like · Reply · 22 August 2014 04:35
Utkarsh Sanjanwala · Teacher Aide at Oaklynn Special School Lucid Dreaming is a good experience, like a movie or a book. and some lessons can be learnt from all films, boks, stories and dreams. But it will only take you so far. Real experience comes from connecting to the higher self, in meditation and most often in waking state, or even in dream, but it s not the same... In real experiences, one meets real people, or beings or spirits, in real places or dimensions on earth or beyond. And its purpose is to learn and develop spiritually. These are things way beyond the Mind. Real experences seem even more real than reality. They are not impressions of the mind, and when one comes out of it, one is TRANSFORMED for good! a permanante ascent or Transformation of Consciousness is attained by such experience. Like · Reply ·
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Andrzej Neo-Mahakala Wysocki · - at Samsara i've practiced Lucid Dreaming since a while, had one Lucid Dream already ... now
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