My Lucid Dreaming Journey Day 42 - Meditating In a Dream!
Spiritual Dream
Ahh, I feel so tired today... Haven't been this tired in a while now. It's probably because I overslept... Again!
Seriously, gotta stop doing this. By sleeping 10 hours I become so unproductive and tired throughout the day. Less sleep is definitely more.
Yesterday I didn't have any dreams, so I didn't post. Today I had a lot of dreams actually, but...
When I woke up, I stayed still and I actually remembered everything. The moment I moved to take my phone, I immediately forgot everything, LOL.
I just couldn't believe this actually happened. I was like, "How the fuck can I forget it if I was just thinking about it?".
I guess moving really does make you forget the dreams. But thinking about them before moving should retain the memory. Didn't happen for me!
Also, I still fail to induce any lucid dreams by waking up after 4 hours of sleep. I just fall asleep way too quickly, and I'm unable to stay conscious.
I think I'm going to sleep way to fast after waking up. So, I'm going to do something differently now.
When I wake up after 4 hours of sleep, I will write down my dreams, so I would wake my brain up a bit, but not too much so I could fall asleep again.
This way I will remember more of my dreams, because I do a lot of dreaming until my alarm, but then I forget everything when I fall asleep again.
This time, I actually remember one of my dreams that I had throughout the night.
It was quite a long dream, but there's not much to talk about, because... I was meditating! Yep, I dreamt of meditation. That never happened before, so I'm quite surprised.
And, it wasn't just regular meditation. I was a buddhist monk or something. Another monk was mentoring me how to meditate and stuff like that.
I clearly remember that I was repeating a specific mantra while I was meditating, but I can't remember the whole sentence. I do know for sure that it had the word "money" in it.
The whole dream felt quite long, but like I've said, there's nothing to talk about, because I was sitting still and meditating while repeating the mantra in my mind most of the time.
Some Dream Interpretations
So, I was meditating in my dream. What could that possibly mean? I could barely find any sources that talk about meditation in dreams. I guess it doesn't occur very often?
Still, the information that I did find says that it's very spiritual do dream of such things. Here's something I found:
To be meditating in your dream (and see the buddha statue) signifies luck. You life is filled with great opportunity and several business ventures will be rewarding for you. (Source)
Luck? Yay, I'm going to be lucky! Better go buy a ton of lottery tickets, because dream interpretations never lie, right? I'll spend all my money on those tickets, because why not!
Here's another piece from the same website:
Buddhism dreams represent spirituality, peace, happiness and the urge to stop the chaos in life.
Indeed I'm trying to find peace in my mind and I'm happier than I've ever been in my life. I don't like chaos, thus this interpretation could possibly be right.
But then again... I did watch a documentary about ayahuasca (Psychedelic drug), shamans and spirituality yesterday, so this could be the reason for such dreams.
I'm ending this post here. At the end of each post I'll include my first post (down below) about this journey as it explains why and how I'm doing this! (Full Post Here)
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I Will Be Doing This Every Day!
The main reason I want to start lucid dreaming, is for self improvement. I've been reading a lot about it and studies have shown that you can actually improve certain abilities by doing it in your dreams. For example, if you wan't to learn a foreign language, you can practice it in your dreams. Since you're working with your subconscious mind while you're sleeping, you might find out that you know words that you were never aware of while conscious. It's really all up to your creativity to what you wanna learn and improve upon in your dreams. Is it basketball that you want to become better at? You can do that! Do you want to become a better fucker? Nobody is holding you back! Just make a nasty slut appear in front of you and do whatever you want with her! Apparently while sleeping, the neural pathways engaged in the activity are strengthened, and not only imagined or visualized. To achieve lucid dreaming, a lot of action has to be taken. Well... Some find it really easy to lucid dream, but most have to achieve it the hard way. It's really important to think about lucid dreaming throughout the day. This way you're telling your subconscious mind that this is what you're focusing on and what you want, thus it gives you the access to control the dream world. There are quite a few things I will be doing in order to achieve this goal! So, first of all, I will be posting my whole lucid dreaming journey here on Steemit every day. I will be writing down all of my dreams on a journal. A dream journal is basically essential if you want to achieve lucid dreaming. I will do at least 30-50 reality checks every day. Have a sleeping rhythm. That means I will be going to sleep at the same time every night. I'll also wake up at the same time every morning as well. I will also experiment with some techniques to induce lucid dreams. I won't look at any screens (computer, TV or even phone) 30-60 minutes before bed, because I've read that this helps a lot. For those 30-60 minutes I will be meditating. Talk, read and think about lucid dreaming constantly. Occasionally I will listen to lucid dreaming binaural beats and hypnosis. I will use an app called Awoken. This app is designed to help you achieve lucid dreaming. It reminds you to do reality checks throughout the day and it has a dream journal, which is where I will be writing down all my dreams when I wake up. I will experiment with the supplement called Dream Leaf, I already ordered it and I will use it when it arrives. I will take it only once or at most twice every week to see if it changes anything about my dreams and the ability to become lucid.
Tracking All My Progress!
So, like I've mentioned before, I will be tracking all my progress and I'll be posting about it every day here on Steemit. Also, after I achieve lucid dreaming, I won't stop posting about my experiences for some time still. When I achieve my goal, I will be writing down a lot of experiences that I have inside the dream world, and I'll experiment if it's actually possible to improve real life skills while sleeping. I set a personal goal to achieve lucid dreaming within 30 days starting today. I'm really excited and hopefully I'll be able to do that even faster than 30 days! This is not the first time I try to achieve lucid dreaming, but I never took it seriously and I was too inconsistent, so I never even came close to becoming lucid. But this time I'm gonna SMASH it and record the whole journey on this blockchain!
UPDATE: I achieved lucid dreaming for the first time on day 12
I'm going to lucid dream tonight!
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