On 11/17/2014 9:58 AM, Share Long wrote:
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Richard, I tried this last night but didn't notice anything different.
Maybe cuz I didn't sit up in bed when I did it? And I forgot to do it
this morning. Nonetheless, will soldier on, thanks again for posting.
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/The technique may not work for just anyone. Apparently MMY dropped
using this technique himself for some reason, but I found it quite
enjoyable.
People usually think thoughts just before going to sleep but quite often
they are just random thinking without any direction.
Until I was taught the "Night Technique" by Satyanand, I used another
technique that I developed myself - you simply think of something
positive to look forward to the next day and then slip into sleep.
It works too, but not as well. There is something about the directed
sound vibration than is a subtle relaxing feeling with the bija mantra -
Laya Yoga while you sleep./
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*From:* "'Richard J. Williams' pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]"
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*Sent:* Sunday, November 16, 2014 8:20 AM
*Subject:* Re: [FairfieldLife] Lucid-dreaming query
On 11/15/2014 5:22 PM, s3raphita wrote:
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So last night I had a lucid experience while dreaming (it's happened
a few times before - always involuntary as I've never bothered to
follow the "techniques" recommended by devotees of this perception).
At least I assume it was a lucid-dream experience - I suppose one
could have a normal dream which included the false thought that one
was lucid when in fact one wasn't (if you can follow that
explanation). What's more, I woke up (for real), mused about the
dream for a minute, then fell asleep again and immediately went back
into the same dream landscape in the same self-conscious, lucid state.
Now I'd heard that when in a lucid dream you can alter the
"dreamscape" to suit yourself. So you might find it amusing to flip
over into being a Zero pilot on a kamikaze mission and diving into
the Golden Dome in Fairfield. Whatever floats your boat. Anyway,
though I was lucidly self-aware that I was indeed dreaming I couldn't
change the story narration unfolding before me so just left the dream
to run its course while absorbing the novel experience.
My question is: is there some trick to getting the dream to change to
suit your whim or is it a case of practice makes perfect? Or maybe
most lucid dreams are like mine? Or maybe my will power is feeble
compared with my imaginative power and others have a more dominant will?
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/The trick is to practice a Laya Yoga technique we learned from
Satyanand: //
//
//When you are ready for sleep you just sit up in bed and then let
your bija mantra rest at the heart chakra for a few minutes. That way,
the subtle currents from your Istadevata will permeate your entire
being while you sleep.
For example, my Istadevata is Saraswati, the Goddess of Learning, so
by resting the bija portion of her mantra at the heart chakra, my
intelligence will grow by leaps and bounds, right while I'm sleeping.
Then, when you awaken in the morning you will feel refreshed and full
of energy and knowledge. It's that simple!/
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Anyone had a similar experience?
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/Yes. 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, so its
existence is well established. /
