How to Control Your Dreams
Meditationtime Forum Post
Date: Posted 7 years before Jul 08, 2018
Dear Beloved 7 years ago
Some snippets from an article for controlling your dreams:
"If you don't recall a dream immediately, see if you feel a particular emotion—the whole dream would come flooding back."
"Very often it's a person someone wants to dream of, and just a simple photo is an ideal trigger. If you used to have flying dreams and you haven't had one in a long time and you miss them, find a photo of a human flying."
"For any sort of dream recall or influencing of dreams, or for lucidity, simply getting enough sleep is one of the most boring pieces of advice, but one of the most important. When you deprive yourself of sleep, you are getting a lower proportion of REM."
"If you check on whether you're actually awake in a systematic way during the day, you'll eventually find yourself doing this in a dream, and that can make it likelier that you will have lucid dreams."
MiBeloved 7 years ago
Very solid advice and for different reasons from the yogic point of view.
For instance:
This:
"For any sort of dream recall or influencing of dreams, or for lucidity, simply getting enough sleep is one of the most boring pieces of advice, but one of the most important. When you deprive yourself of sleep, you are getting a lower proportion of REM."
Written like this for yogis:
For any sort of dream recall or influencing of dreams, or for lucidity, simply getting enough sleep is one of the most boring pieces of advice, but one of the most important. When you deprive yourself of sleep, you are taxing the life force which in turn will tax you by depriving your astral body of energy which will in turn kill its recall ability and its ability to be objective during dreams. By getting sufficient rest, the life force can afford to release more energy into the subtle body and that results in more conscious awareness during astral projections.
