Does meditation affect sleep and lucid dreaming? Absolutely. Improving your quality of sleep and wake time is essential for successful lucid dreaming. Meditation will dramatically improve your chances of a lucid dream, as well as a more restorative night of sleep. Lucid dreaming is not reported, even by frequent dreamers to detract from sleep time. …
Category Archive: Techniques
Oct 13
Voice Recording iPhone/iPad App
I recently came across a great iPhone app that I wanted to share. I’ve always been particularly lazy with my dream journal, and I’m sure that I’m not alone. We know that keeping a dream journal helps dramatically with dream recall. By the time I get out of bed and can be bothered to go …
Oct 08
The Dreaming Body
It seems that dreams often do not involve a body in the same form as waking life. The level that we transcend to in dreaming is as a direct result of our daily consciousness. In hindsight, looking at the earliest dreams that I can first recall, I would always retreat into animal consciousness in dreaming, …
Oct 08
Setting up Dreamscapes
To some degree or other, our dreams are all made up of things on our mind, and things that we’ve been thinking about that particular day. The closer you get to sleep, the more your thoughts have an effect on your dreams. This makes setting up dreamscapes, or “dream scenes” very simple to do. Much …
Sep 26
Real Meditation
I have posted three popular types of meditation that I have always preferred to use, the breathing meditation, the all day awareness, and the focus meditation. These are three very powerful awareness practices, that I use on a daily basis. The ‘real’ meditation however, is just sitting in pure awareness. The breathing meditation entails resting …
Sep 25
Focus Meditation
The idea of the focus meditation is to use a single word to fall back into deeper and deeper meditation, or awareness. It’s important to select a simple word that has absolutely no meaning. For example – looga to be pronounced, ‘loo-gar’. Picking a mantra word like ‘flower’ would not be a great idea, as …
Sep 24
All Day Awareness Meditation
All day awareness is a great way to increase the number of lucid dreams that you have on a regular basis. As with breathing meditation, this is really just another type of meditation, or remaining in awareness. This can be used with or independently of the breathing meditation. Performing this all day awareness meditation through …
Sep 23
Simple Meditation Technique
Meditation is not a technique in itself. Meditation means ‘awareness’, and there are various techniques available to bring us into awareness, into meditation. How often have you walked from one place to another, and been unable to recall any of the details of the journey? Or spent hours lost in thought or television? This is …
Sep 23
Sleep Paralysis
Sleep Paralysis is a phenomenon whereby the entire body becomes paralyzed as the body drifts off to sleep. It is commonly thought to be an evolutionary response to prevent the physical body acting out dreams. It is likely that this gets disrupted to varying degrees with various sleep disorders such as the well known “sleep …
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