A great deal of scientific research has revealed the physiological underpinnings of sleep and dreams. In this section of Night Club we will unpack how staying current on the science and medicine of sleep can provide real benefits for you. This section of Night Club has the widest applicability, being relevant to anyone who sleeps –
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
As with other social media platforms, rules about how to appropriately share and comment on our dreams are needed.
The last stage in the nocturnal practices is bardo yoga, which is a uniquely Tibetan contribution. “Bardo” means “gap, transitional process, in-between,” and refers to the gap between any two states of consciousness. This means that bardos occur constantly, as often as the gap between any two thoughts. But bardo yoga is classically
If lucid dreaming and dream yoga are a form of “night school,” with sleep yoga and bardo yoga we enter “graduate school.” They’re not for everyone. Don’t worry if they don’t speak to you. But these more advanced practices are in the traditions, and just knowing about them can vastly expand your horizons in terms of what’s possible
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