Hello fellow dreamers,

Welcome (or welcome back) to r/DreamYoga! I'm thrilled to announce the relaunch of this community, dedicated to the exploration and mastery of the tibetan dream yoga practice and all things related to the amazing potential of our dream world.

Whether you're a seasoned oneironaut or just starting your journey into the world of conscious dreaming, this is the place for you. I hope to build a thriving community where we can share experiences, techniques, insights, and support each other on our dream journeys.

To kick things off, I'd love to hear from you:

[Poll Question:] What is your biggest goal for your dream practice in the next 6 months?

I'm also open to suggestions for topics you'd like to see discussed, questions you have, or any resources you'd like to share. Let's create a vibrant and supportive space where we can all learn and grow together.

So, join us on this exciting adventure! Let's dream big and make this community a haven for dreamers of all levels.

Sweet dreams,

Your r/DreamYoga Moderation Team

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I’ve recently stumbled upon this concept and this sub. It seems that reality checks where I question my awareness to be the most aware state I can be on and off during the day.

Would this be a good beginning path to dream yoga?

Hey everyone,

So I just finished the book “Dream Yoga” by Andrew Holecek. I really enjoyed it and found it very interesting as I’ve always been interested in dreaming. I was just a little confused by one thing: At the start of book when he was talking about inducing lucid dreams he talked about reality checks and asking yourself throughout the day “Am I dreaming?”, and in a sense prove to yourself that you are awake with various methods ( jumping, trying to breathe through plugged nose, etc.)

Then later in the book he talks about illusory form practice where he says to basically tell yourself that you are always dreaming.

Is this not a contradiction or am I understanding this wrong?

I don’t know how I can perform reality checks but also tell myself I am dreaming. Any insights would be awesome. Thanks!

Anyone else with same experience? Is this normal? How long does it take to recover?

Looks like this subreddit isn’t super active but I’m very excited for it. I spent awhile in the lucid dreaming sub and it just wasn’t fully what I was looking for. I’ve been practicing dream yoga for a little over a year now and I’ve been really wanting people I can discuss it with so I’m thrilled to see y’all are here!

Where do I start?

I followed the technique described in this video which I will briefly summarize towards the end. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grlnGklIgMk

I tried this after about a week long dry spell of my dream recall falling off to nothing despite trying several lucid dream techniques and having a dream journal. I had two lucid dreams that I was lucid in from holding the same thread of awareness over from the waking realm. My first dream was somewhat short and was nothing special, my second dream was really cool and I did some flying, not that long but very well remembered and I felt amazing afterwards. 

    I have a question regarding meditating while dreaming, whenever I tried this I basically was back in my bed focusing on my breathing, do you have any tips for meditating while sleeping/dreaming?

The Technique:

Lye down flat, set the intention “I will have many dreams tonight, I will remember my dreams, I will be lucid in my dreams”

Count 21 breaths

Roll over to right side and focus on your throat, you can try to visualize a red lotus there

For this attempt I meditated for 45 minutes before this two hour nap in the afternoon, for that meditation I set the intention to be always aware, conscious and awake as was the Buddha. 

Hello fellow dream yoga goers. I’m about to finish The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep and I’m looking for more books, especially audiobooks, that target dream yoga and sleep yoga. I’ve enjoyed the book a lot and will definitely have to read it again. If there’s anything you’ve read that targets sleep yoga or NREM, I’m very interested. I’m also open to podcasts or other content regarding sleep yoga. Thank you for anything and everything you can share.

I recently reached out to Steve James from the Guru Viking podcast to hear if he could point me towards interesting dream yoga information. He was kind enough to reply with a list of stuff. I thought I’d share it here in case anyone is interested.

If you feel anything vital is missing, maybe post in the comments?

Here are some more dream yoga resources that I'm aware of:

• Nida Chenatsang 'Dream Yoga'
• Namkhai Norbu - various books
• Glenn Mullin (https://youtu.be/d3XLzAnD67w)
• Andrew Holocek
• Stephen Laberge
• Charlie Morley (https://youtu.be/8cbjB-v5DDsy)

There are also recourses with a South American influence:

• Carlos Castaneda - The Art of Dreaming
• Nyei Murez (https://youtu.be/EertTS2LOBY)
• Sergio Magana

Hello everyone,

I have been attempting to practice dream yoga with pretty little progress for the past few years on and off. Whenever I try to get into it I end up being taken elsewhere but now I really feel is the right time.

I was wondering if anyone here has been initiated by a master in waking or dream life? I've read a few books by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Namkhai Norbu and Michael Katz so I am familiar with the basics but I am really looking for a community to dive deep into dream yoga since I feel like I really don't know anything about it.

What has your experience been with dream yoga?

Thank you and blessings for any guidance!

Doing this utterly myself, I'm just looking for validation for what I'm doing. That I'm moving along the path.

I've stopped, for the most part playing. I attempt to talk to my subconscious as much as I can to figure out what hell is going on. I can manipulate objects, create objects, teleport, teleport people. I have meditated 5 or 6 times which is wild. I've been attempting to dissolve my body and the past 2 lucid dreams I've attempted to shapeshift.

Last night I had a lucid dream where I fully knew that I was dreaming and had absolutely no fear. Someone stabbed me and I didn't care. Cars went through me on the highway because I knew fully that it was a dream. What's my next step?

P.s. has anyone talked to a Tibetan Buddhist master of dream yoga?

Looking for people practicing dream yoga. Have had over 100 lucid dreams. After around 50 I stopped playing and recently I’ve stopped trying to control. I want to use my lucidity to help with the goal.

Currently I have had fears come up in my lucid dream. I know that it is only a dream and try to maintain perspective but having a baby saw through my forehead or having knives fall on me or having dogs eat my hands has me forget the illusory nature and the fear gets so strong.

What is my next step. How do I overcome this fear? Why am I having so many fear based dreams?

Thank you.

Research Update from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. This is the laboratory of Richie Davidson that is known for their high density brain imaging research on Tibetan Monks. Looking forward to see more publications by Dr. Baird.

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https://www.mindfulluciddreaming.com/single-post/2018/12/10/Research-Update-Relationship-of-Mindfulness-Meditation-and-Lucid-Dreaming

The Shift Network have a Dream Work Summit on now! There’s an amazing lineup. I highly recommend tuning in. https://thedreamworksummit.com/program

Assuming that you all have Buddhist leanings, I have a question about making offerings. I keep a little Buddhist shrine where I’ve made daily offerings of water, a tea light candle and incense each morning for many years. However since my main practice has changed of that last year and is now dream yoga, it feel like I should be making offerings at the shrine in the evenings.

What do you think??

I've heard of dream incubation before and was curious if I could receive any insight into connecting with earthen spirits like crystals through incubation or other means...

I'm very pleased that our study on galantamine and lucid dreaming was published today. The article is open access and you can read it here: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0201246

I have often heard opinions of Buddhists (mostly American Buddhists) that are against taking galantamine to help you lucid dream or practice dream yoga, saying that you cannot count on taking a substance when you die so you should not use it to practice lucid dreaming when you are alive. I met a buddhist monk at a recent retreat who shared his experiences taking the substance. His dreams were quite profound and beautiful, and he relayed how much the experiences taught him about navigating the state and applying his knowledge there. Seems you do not need to take galantamine forever to benefit from it. Rather, the substance can teach you much about lucid dreaming and the nature of mind just by relying on it temporarily during a learning period.

So I have tried this several times but for some reason while in a lucid dream I’m not able to sit down! Last night in my dream I wanted to do some meditation, but I went from a standing, straight to a lying horizontal position looking up at the night sky, as if pivoted around the central point of my abdomen!

Also I wanted to ask what kind of meditation are you able to do? I was able to do a few conscious breaths, but they felt so real I thought it would wake me up.... and I lost lucidity.

Have you tried walking meditation? Would that be more effective?

Hi, hope someone can help me!:) I have been practising lucid dreaming almost a half year now, so that i can have more time to meditate, when i am able to do it consistently in the future. Have only had about 4 lucid dreams. I meditate alongside the traditional "non-spiritual" practises of western lucid dreaming such as ADA, RC and MILD and have also tried the dream yoga thechniques of visualizing "drops" at the throat or heart chakra. My problem is, that i find it really hard to fall asleep. It has always been a problem throughout my life, but I had expected these practises to make it easier. Some nights, I feel like it is even harder. I try setting my intention to wake up in my dreams, or visualize one of the chakras and/or meditate before sleep, but often I feel like this only makes it even harder. I don't know where to "put my attention". It's like my mind won't slow down and my senses won't relax. All over my body, iches arise, and I know meditation says to observe objectively and ignore, but when I do this, the sensations start to build up and I get more and more tense and agitated... :/ I really hope someone has any kind of advise/experience/tips or any kind of knowledge on the problem.. is has really become a big hindrance on my path and I don't know how to overcome it.

Btw, my dream recall is great, I can vividly recall at least 3 dreams every night. Except for those nights (as last night....) where I lay wake for like 3 and a half hour or so and only manage to get about 4 hours sleep :(

This is a very interesting podcast from Lucidsage with Andrew Holecek, it covers illusory form practice. I’ve enjoyed listening to it.

https://lucidsage.com/episode-14-dream-yoga-with-andrew-holecek/

I dreamed that I was in the shrine room of my dharma centre as it was 20 years ago. (It’s moved locations since then). I was awed by the beautiful the space. Then HH Karmapa came and sat in my space and I moved over to show respect. Then my lama, (who died a few years ago) entered the room through the same space. He looked tired and unwell, as if visiting briefly before returning to another realm. He came to introduce a new teacher, a lay Tibetan man with a London accent, the other sangha members and I were very excited.

I moved spaces again as he entered the room, this time I was near the shrine room facing into the room.

I’m aware that seat, direction and position are very important in dreams and in Tibetan Buddhism.

I feel this dream is significant, but I’m not sure how, also it was not lucid.

Any input is greatly appreciated 🙏

I’m posting here because I feel a bit put-off by the lucidreaming sub. I’d really like to find a forum to talk about using lucid dreaming for mind training and spiritual practice. Is this dreamyoga group active? If not is there anything we can do to bring more people to this group?

I have a red haired woman who is endlessly friendly and kind. When I meet her I always feel grateful. But I also am met by generous monks and nuns who are eager to guide me and I sometimes fail their dreaming lessons. I want to hear about other experiences with helping spirits that you may meet during your karmic trace dreams

Looking for feedback from people who have practiced meditation in their lucid dreams. In waking life I always meditate with my eyes closed, however it's a bit of a gamble shutting your eyes in a lucid dream so I was wondering what everyone else usually does?

I've only meditated in a couple of dreams before and usually I have my eyes shut but after a while a new scene materialises so I don't have to worry about opening them again.

Hi everyone! I thought it would be a good idea to try and get a list going of book recommendations which teach about Dream Yoga or similar topics.

Feel free to post what you're reading now, or have read in the past, or anything else you think might be interesting.