I returned to Michigan and resumed my job as a surgical orderly. But something had changed. The hangovers from my drinking binges couldn’t completely erase the hangover of my otherworldly experiences. Within a few months I felt stable enough to begin venturing back into what I had experienced. I knew that something profound, and
I’m often asked what got me into dream yoga? For me, the journey into these incredible nighttime practices started nearly forty years ago and I have been exploring them ever since. Some of the most remarkable experiences I’ve ever had occurred in my dreams. In my early twenties one such experience would change my life — and send
Why We Dream: The Transformative Power of Our Nightly Journey, by science journalist Alice Robb, is a fine companion volume to Walker’s magisterial tome (Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams).
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker, PhD, is a masterful book by a neuroscientist working out of the University of California, Berkeley. https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Sleep-Unlocking-Dreams/dp/1501144316
Just like with all the other nocturnal meditations, there are things to do during the day to prepare for sleep yoga and things you can do at night. Using the tenet that lucid dreaming is partial lucidity while lucid sleep is full lucidity, you can use the lucid dreaming state as a halfway house to lucid sleep. While the meditation
Illusory form is not commonly presented in most teachings on lucid dreaming, but I have found it to be of enormous benefit in inducing lucid dreams. It’s more connected to dream yoga, but the principles surely apply to lucid dreaming. In some classic texts on dream yoga, the practice of Illusory Form is actually the main practice.
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