Name: Teko
Topic: Matt: Dreamstate fun
Sent: 14.21 - 5/14 2001
Matt:

There is a lot to discover and watch down there.

The various Emoclear tech that are feelings-only tech are great launching pads for lucid dreaming. The Core Transformation will also provide a gateway.

The trick is to enter a firm essence state. Once you are in essence if you recall any scene you will automatically go into a lucid dream. Or if you just layback and watch you will start getting hypnogogic imagery. Once that turns on you are only a short way from lucid or conscious dreaming.

There are many papers on lucid dreaming over at the Lucidity Institute. You won't need many of their approaches because you are entering the dreaming world from an essence state. This automatically makes you alert and aware during the process. Don't ask me why--I don't know why. It just works out that way.

Never force the issue or push it. Just allow it to happen. Be a quiet watcher. The dreams will naturally unfold. Don't interfere with them at first. Later you will quickly understand the power of your intention and will down there. But essence is the doorway down there. It's way, way more dependable than a Nova Dreamer or any of the Lucidity tricks.
They work, but sporadically. The essence doorway, once you recognize it, will open everytime once you get the nack.

One day you'lll be in essence and you'll say wow I'm watching a dream. You'll be heavily blissed at first, but forget about that. Just enjoy it and watch. When you get your sealegs you'll be right down there.

At first just be a watcher. Let your dreams develop--don't interfere or try to do anything at first. You'll be laying the groundwork. Your unconscious will be letting you know it's okay to go down into the treasure house.

Once you know it's really okay at a visceral level, it will feel okay. Then it all starts opening up for you. You have to remember a lot of these guys have been fooling with tech,meditation, hypnosis, Tibetan Dream Yoga, and lucid dreams. They can crack open the safe at a blink of the eye. They've been with their feelings though all sorts of situations and they don't have filters. If you still have a bunch of filters to work through, getting down there will be a little tougher because the unconscious has natural inbuilt safety locks. But as you become more and more comfortable I guarantee that world down there will open up.

The M.G. in the feelings only--just view mode does it often.

The Infinity Drill is really a pure meal ticket down there. It was meant to pop open essence. But don't rush yourself. It will happen.

You'll be laying there and all of a sudden you'll be watching dreams on a screen. Then you allow yourself to watch more and more and you'll be absorbed in them.

The first few times you might get pulled back because you'll have this like: "damn I'm actually dreaming."
Essence is a great doorway. Be patient.

But do read up on it at the Lucidity Instititute.
There's some Tibetan Dream Yoga books out there that are just first rate.

Teko

Name: Steve Mensing
Homepage: http://Nap.Fanspace.com
Topic: Matt: Tips on Conscious Dreaming
Sent: 13.08 - 5/15 2001
Hi Matt:

Here are some quick tips on Conscious or Lucid Dreaming:

* As Yogi and Larry were suggesting when you hit dreaming just watch it at first until you start to get the lay of the land down there. Don't push for anything to happen. An open and permissive attitude naturally allows dreaming to occur.

*Essence is an open doorway into dreams. Circular breathing will bring on dreamstates after a time. When we're ready, conscious dreaming will happen for us. We've dreamed many, many times during the night so we already know how to dream. We've been likely conscious during dreams many times too, but have likely forgotten upon waking.

*Essence generating tech is a solid doorway into dreamstate work. Self-hypnosis leading to sonambulistic trance is quite good as well. This is basically absorbed attention. Also following dayreams, imagery, intuitions, and felt senses can eventually lead to deeper trance. As our unconscious becomes more adept at this work it knows what to spin out for us.

* Working with a simple intention to be alert during dreaming can be useful. Trim counter intentions around the intention to have lucid dreams with your favorite clearing devices. This will allow that intention to become unconscious and join us in the dreamworld down there.

* In dreams ask the question: "Am I dreaming". If you practice asking this question in a light trance, chances are you'll have that question available to you in dreams. It can be a call to going lucid.

*Checking up to see your dreaming can be simple tests:
Looking away and looking back. If anything changes you can assume dreams. Changing the size, shape, and color of objects will demonstrate dreaming. Other tests might include changing the size, shape, an opacity of your dream body. Can you change the room or scenery with your intention? Dreams.

* Flying and swimming can be very curious events in dreaming. Falling asleep in a dream and dreaming can be stimulating. Also someone can fall asleep and dream of having a dream of falling asleep and having a dream. Set an alarm clock in your dream so the multiple sleepers can wake up at once. (Don't do this until you know how to clear in dreams!)

*Release or clear emotions in dreams. Doing this will set off non-stop highspeed clearing where much material is cleared and many memory images come and go rapidly before the conscious dreamer.

*Practice your favorite tech inside a dream. It can set off some pretty amazing runs.

* Spinning is a great way to return to a dream or even get one cooking. Simply imagine spinning like a dervish or a top. This spinning likely sets off vestibular action which can restart a dream or trigger one when you're close to it. Another tech for dream restart is to imagine both your hands rubbing briskly over your belly and heart region.

* Dissolve, expand, or make an object or being larger or smaller.

* Talk things over with a famous historical person.

* Let your unconscious be the guide in this work. It has a greater natural wisdom.

*Look at a mirror down there.

* Summon up ghosts, future/past, archetypes. Pay attention to them.

* Dream of graveyards.

* Create a dream tv down there and ask it questions.

* If you run into a nightmare down there, relax and surrender to it. Soon it will reveal it's polar opposite.

* Mediatate down there and observe your own thoughts and feelings. See what dream-state non-duality is like.

That should keep you active for a bit.

Take care, Steve