On 10/2/2014 1:29 PM, danfriedman2002 wrote:
Thanks for taking up this Issue, while I needed to step away to reread
Sleep and Dreams: A Sourcebook Compiled by Jayne Gackenbach.
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You might be interested in this paper by Gackenbach on the experience of
lucid dreaming among TMers and its relationship to witnessing:
http://www.sawka.com/spiritwatch/fromlucid.htm
/A lucid dream is a dream in which the sleeper is aware that he or she
is dreaming./ From what I've read, the phenomenon of lucid dreaming has
been well established by scientific research by Gackenbach and others,
so its existence is well established. Barry may not be aware that /Dream
Yoga/ has been practiced by Tibetan Buddhists for years.
In /Tibetan Dream Yoga/, maintaining full consciousness while in the
dream state is part of /Dzogchen/ training. This training is described
by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche as /Rigpa Awareness/. Rigpa Awareness is very
similar to 'witnessing sleep' in TM, which helps the individual
understand the unreality of waking consciousness as phenomena.
/Apparently the EEG patterns are the same in Rigpa Awareness as in TM./
In Tibetan Yoga lucid dreaming is secondary to the experience of the
/Diamond Light/.
Read more:
/'Tibetan Yoga Of Dream And Sleep'/
by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Snow Lion, 1998
/'Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines' /
By Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup and W. Y. Evans-Wentz
Oxford University Press, 1967
