Awareness during sleep.

[Tobin S.]

I've heard that Buddhist monks and other people who have had a long meditation practice can maintain awareness during sleep, including during the dream state and deep dreamless sleep.

Are you able to do that? What are your tips for becoming more aware?

[madaboutharry]

1. That is very interesting,

I would like to read more about that.

[mitch96]

2. What do you mean by awareness?

Detect sounds? movement?
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[Tobin S.]

7. I'm simply referring to consciousness.

Some people think that we are never truly unconscious. The fact that we remember our dreams or we know it when we've had a good night's rest seems to be evidence of that.

[mitch96]

8. got it, tnx................. nt

[Ponietz]

3. Tibetan dream yoga or lucid dreaming

[link:https://selfdefinition.org/tibetan/Tenzin-Wangyal-Rinpoche-The-Tibetan-Yogas-Of-Dream-And-Sleep.pdf|

[sagesnow]

5. Thanks for posting this.

It's really interesting and relevant to my practice. I think I met Tenzin Wangyal-Rinpoche at the 2016 SAND (Science and Non-Duality) Conference in San Jose. He's a great teacher.

[Harker]

4. I view my dreams as

my sleeping self offering guidance or illuminating concerns to my waking self, so I do nothing to direct or disrupt the free flow.

Sometimes the dream lesson is simply to see the value of amusement in chaos.

[sagesnow]

6. Here's a video of Stephen LeBarg

from a SAND Conference.

Dr. Stephen LaBerge is a world renowned expert on lucid dreaming. His groundbreaking research at Stanford University demonstrated the validity of lucid dreaming to the scientific world, and his books Lucid Dreaming and Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming are best sellers.

https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/video/lucid-dreaming-techniques-stephen-laberge