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| - | The first step in lucid dreaming is to open your awareness. | + | The first step in lucid dreaming is to open your awareness. |
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| - | Try to find a mirror. What does your reflection look like in the mirror? If your body image strikes you as unexpected or unusual in some way, you are either dreaming or have seen through the illusion of your ideal self. | + | Find a mirror. What does your reflection look like in the mirror? If your body image strikes you as unexpected or unusual in some way, you are either dreaming or have seen through the illusion of your ideal self. |
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| - | Are you able to remember how you got here, why you are here and what happened an hour ago? Close your eyes and rewind the last hour in your mind's eye. Take your time. If you find gaps in your memory, or time isn't flowing from the past to the present, you might be dreaming. Practice time winding and unwinding: slow down to glacial time, or speed up to live as long as a dragon fly. | + | Are you able to remember how you got here, why you are here and what happened an hour ago? Close your eyes and rewind the last hour in your mind's eye. If you find gaps in your memory, or time isn't flowing |
| - | If the physical world appears more malleable than you are used to and you are aware of it, you are likely to be dreaming. Feel free to change | + | If the physical world appears more malleable than you are used to and you are aware of it, you are likely to be dreaming. Feel free to mold your reality as you see fit. |
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| While sitting or standing in a moving vehicle, silently repeat a short mantra, such as “When I'm dreaming, I will remember I'm dreaming”. Imagine that you are back in a dream you've had recently, but this time you recognise that you are dreaming. | While sitting or standing in a moving vehicle, silently repeat a short mantra, such as “When I'm dreaming, I will remember I'm dreaming”. Imagine that you are back in a dream you've had recently, but this time you recognise that you are dreaming. | ||
| - | Lie down and make yourself comfortable. Begin by focusing on your breathing. Feel the air as it passes through your nostrils and into your lungs and belly. In and out, in and out. After a few minutes visualise yourself breathing through your "third eye", in the centre of your forehead. In and out, in and out, in and out, until you fall asleep and begin lucid dreaming. | + | Lie down and make yourself comfortable. Begin by focusing on your breathing. Feel the air as it passes through your nostrils and into your lungs and belly. In and out. After a few minutes visualise yourself breathing through your "third eye", in the centre of your forehead. In and out, in and out, until you fall asleep and begin lucid dreaming. |
| Stimulate your thinking patterns by constantly switching your attention. After doing this long enough, the images and sounds should begin to emerge on their own, becoming very strange and illogical. You are entering your own dream at this point and can quickly become lucid. It might feel like being flipped upside down, spun around, or tugged by an outside force. You can expect strange auditory hallucinations, | Stimulate your thinking patterns by constantly switching your attention. After doing this long enough, the images and sounds should begin to emerge on their own, becoming very strange and illogical. You are entering your own dream at this point and can quickly become lucid. It might feel like being flipped upside down, spun around, or tugged by an outside force. You can expect strange auditory hallucinations, | ||
| - | All phenomenal experience is a dream. Dream is only one type of illusion. Wakefulness is another. Repeat these sentences as a mantra for one day. How does this change | + | All phenomenal experience is a dream. Dream is only one type of illusion. Wakefulness is another. Repeat these sentences as a mantra for one day. Observe how your experience of the world changes. |
| Try living your life for one day while meditating on physical reality as an illusion. Begin by meditating on the question, "Who is aware?" | Try living your life for one day while meditating on physical reality as an illusion. Begin by meditating on the question, "Who is aware?" | ||
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| As you pick up this card it will transform itself into a box. Give the box to someone near you and suggest that they put their hand in it. Ask them to describe what's in the box. As they describe the contents, the box transforms and empties, ready to be passed on to someone else. Repeat. | As you pick up this card it will transform itself into a box. Give the box to someone near you and suggest that they put their hand in it. Ask them to describe what's in the box. As they describe the contents, the box transforms and empties, ready to be passed on to someone else. Repeat. | ||
| - | Stand at the window. Look outside. Observe | + | Stand at the window. Look outside. Observe geometrical patterns in front of you. Let everything else fade away. Then shift your attention to green plants. Finally focus on anything that moves. Sit down, close your eyes and let your awareness blend your visual impressions into a creature made of geometry, greenery and movement. Welcome to the Lucid Peninsula. |
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