Lucid dreams as a bridge between realities | Chongtul Rinpoche | TEDxFultonStreet

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. By walking the line between the dream world and the waking world, we can train to access more of our own wisdom and our own consciousness. In this discussion, we learn about his mode of spirituality.
Chongtul Rinpoche is a reincarnated Tibetan lama who grew up in India and studied philosophy for over 20 years. He was the director of a Bön monastery in India and now resides in America and gives various courses in Tibetan philosophy. In the US he founded a Bon educational fund that provides education and training for students of Tibetan philosophy around the world as well as for over 400 Tibetan orphan children living in India and Nepal. Bön is the indigenous religion of Tibet.
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[@prabhdyalsingh3116]

Lucid dreams are much more vivid than real life.....its addictive

[@droidbugbotghl6139]

I wish I had them more often :c

[@Vincisomething]

I had a dream that was so vivid, I didn't even know it was a dream lol

[@armpower1995]

Prabhdyal Singh its true ! ☺

[@Blake7obsession]

No they are not they are about the same as ordinary life. Are you certain you have had a real lucid dream ? ?

[@jarrodthomas4745]

I must agree with Steven. There are so many glitches when dealing with lucid dreams. Like waking up only to realize you’re still in a dream and you are somewhere else and you can recall where you are but not sure why or how you got there. Maybe I can’t control them as well as others but my hypothesis and it remains a hypothesis is that we are in a dream state even in this reality. What happens when we die? No one knows. My hypothesis is that when we die we actually wake up realizing how crazy of a dream we just had. We realize it was the ultimate lucid and clear, transparent and vivid reality when actually there are still some glitches in this reality that won’t be there when we die and awake in a new reality. It’s a difficult concept but one that I’m earnest on discovering. I guess the only way to discover if this hypothesis is true or not is to die and find out. We’ll find out eventually. In the meantime I will enjoy my lucid dreams and appreciate my ability to concoct such realities inside my head.

[@luhental]

Translation: Lucid dream trains your mind to be constantly checking about reality and your own awareness level. Once you form a habit to constantly check your level of awareness and gain a deeper understanding of the illusory nature of reality, you are closer to being enlightened even while awake.

[@fernandaconceicao146]

Exactly is a training to recognise the illusory quality of experiences.

[@seahawks1185]

It isn't learned, it comes naturally, you either have it or you don't, yes, a lot of people have random lucid dreams, then there are those that know it's a dream the vast majority, and others rarely even remember dreams, or claim they do not have dreams at all.

[@dreamthedream8929]

@@fernandaconceicao146 what is the illusory nature of the experience? Lets get that one straight first. Or are you just repeating the words that you heard some guru saying?

[@joseibanez1881]

Sea Hawks you have no idea what you’re talking about. Lucid dreaming can definitely be learned. If you practice enough it will come. Why are you saying This?

[@seahawks1185]

@@joseibanez1881 Personal anecdote, I don't think we can "learn" how to dream, You missed the nuance of what I meant.

[@BamCoonRising]

I've had flying dreams all my life, it's the most amazing feeling in the world. Sometimes I'm aware I'm dreaming within a dream. The greatest lucid was seeing my dead brother. I hugged him. I felt him, smelled him, felt his hands, it was as if my brother was right there. I was so excited at first but then realized it was only a dream, so I leaned in and told him he couldn't stay here. He looked down and me and "yeah I can, you're the one who can't stay, but you're gonna be alright". At that instant I jolted awake like I had been slammed into my body and when I woke up I swear I could still smell him. I was shook for months after that lucid. Now I just kinda fly or hover at my tree lines and occasionally I will pull an all-nighter partying with a rockstar but I've not had anything profound since my brother and I would love nothing more than to see him one more time, if only in my dreams. I just can't seem to get back there, I can't get back to that place of conscious awareness like I was. And maybe I'm only having vivid instead of lucid but I heard the difference was that in Lucid you are aware that you're dreaming and I know when I'm dreaming. And I can change the dream in mid dream but it's usually only when I'm getting ready to die or I'm already dead( saw my body with a toe tag once) that I decide to change the dream.

[@leeeastham695]

How good is it👍 I go there almost every night.. I don't want to wake up! The best thing I like is asking the ppl that you meet in these different realms questions about our world👍😉 some won't say anything but others will,,,,

[@BamCoonRising]

@@leeeastham695 it's absolutely the best. Colors that I can't begin to describe for this physical world. And being able to smell and feel, my senses in that dream state are so hypersensitive. One thing I've learned is that it is so hard to communicate physically with the mouth. I've learned that if you just think it you can hear them better. I started out sounding like Charlie Brown teacher but their words back to me would be so clear but I can never remember the next day but practice communicating telepathically and see how cool it is. The ones that don't say anything, do they look at you & smile like a parent would smile at their child in a loving way and not at all mocking? Curious because that's always the reaction I receive and was wondering how much of it is my imagination in dream state.

[@melatrude4269]

It's amazing isn't it? I also had a lucid dream with my mom 1 month after she passed away we hugged so tight and said I love you to each other and then suddenly I woke up it was so amazingly real I craved to have her visit me in my dreams again and finally last night I had another visit from her it was so beautiful I woke up feeling great. I wish I could have these lucid dreams every night.

[@BamCoonRising]

@@melatrude4269 that's a wonderful gift you received! Oh how beautiful I'm so glad you were able to be in your mother's arms again.

[@healingspirit8812]

If you look at a different perspective which is the one I am connecting into, maybe just maybe it was your brother being able to connect with you while you were in this state of consciousness and maybe just maybe he and you were to become one once more because of your love connection. I hope you can see and even believe my perspective 💜

[@myronschrader5552]

I can totally understand this. I unknowingly healed my childhood trauma. Lucid Dreaming can achieve so much emotionally, physically etc...

[@myronschrader5552]

esteban barrientos hey Esteban, it doesnt work all the time, but it helps. I say affirmations while in bed. Kind of like programming your mind as your body rests. I tell myself that I am lucid and I hear, see, speak, & remember as I dream. I am a concious projector. I do look at my surroundings because when I do sleep I realize this isn't the "last place" I was. When you do realize, because you will that you are "dreaming" you become aware and concious, do whatever you need to do, healing, remote viewing, Astral project, but you might feel a pull to "go back" to your body if you do then you do its no big deal the key is to be focused. The 1st time I did it I woke up with the worst headache like I used apart of the brain I never conciously used before. Just practice. Good Luck.

[@LDuke-pc7kq]

Myron Schrader , that is so wonderful:) and so glad to hear you were healed by it. That is also how I use lucid dreaming aswell; it helps me safely deal with all that has been repressed. Many Blessings to you!:)

[@eternalawakening9392]

So true

[@matty_daddy]

Lamow Fortnite is way better and has a much deeper storyline. GTA is the wanna be version of Fortnite, it’s gameplay is also way better, and it’s replay ability. Lamow any other game is pathetic compared to Fortnite.

[@stevrgrs]

Yeah it’s proven ayuwaska and stuff really has profound impacts on people’s lives. Lucid dreaming for me is just like what I imagine that stuff to be like . It’s awesome. As long as you don’t shift into the night terror ones :(

[@rachelhmua]

I had the most beautiful lucid dream a week ago while camping in the Australian bush. I think about it everyday. I never want to forget it.

[@olas591]

Tell us more

[@nightcandle62]

yes please do

[@myamdane6895]

Please? We need more

[@okcharleigh]

Write it down! I re-read mine often!

[@mr.mikaeel6264]

You wont forget. I've had a bunch of lucid dreams beginning 15 years ago and a few random throughout the years. Now i once again am learning more and picking it back up. All those past lucid dreams that i thought i forgot are coming back :)

[@miracles_metanoia]

I love ‘wisdom’ lucid dreaming!! Lucidity (aka full vivid consciousness) is so fun, both in waking life and dream life! Yay! All the power of the universe is only limited by your imagination. It’s like the way you experienced life as a child, in awe with creative imagining. The most profound experiences were healing decades of traumatic experiences and literally healing / regenerating my physical body. I’ve also successfully used these dreams to study, prepare speeches, and work so that everything in real life is 10x easier and faster. The most fun thing is visiting ancestors and grandparents, learning things about them in the most delightful ways, and then having my parents validate those facts in waking life.

[@biloudior2317]

So its Astral

[@TheKing-qu8cm]

How to have quite realistic dreams , I used to have in realistic dreams

[@Questioneverythingg730]

I went through a period of lucid dreaming after I had a bad breakup from a 10 year relationship. I was drinking heavily and generally not looking after myself. I found myself lucid dreaming virtually every night for weeks. I can assure you it’s real... very real. Then one day it just stopped. It’s was hard to accept it ended actually and I tried for ages to get it back. I ended up making a point to not to actively chase it. I think it was the universes way of helping me out when I needed it. I used it as a doorway first to escape my hurt then used it to deal With it. A very powerful tool. Maybe one day I will be enlightened enough to embrace it on my own terms and have the gift of lucid dreaming walk with me again.

[@sydneyice]

I had extremely vivid nightmares after my break up. It all felt so real and horrible. Even still with small things, I think something actually happened, only to realize it was just in my dream. The really horrible nightmares have stopped but my dreams are still vivid. Something about that bad break up trauma really bring vivid dreams out

[@msshaffer5]

I’ve only ever had lucid dreams, and I astral project as well. I never used to try, it would just happen, it started when I was around 12 years old. Now I’m almost 40 and still experiencing advances in techniques and abilities. I know we are so much more than we think.

[@jeromepeters9109]

Geschichten aus dem Paulaner Garten

[@seanjayabt3033]

​​@@jeromepeters9109 hatte mit jeder antwort gerechnet nur nicht mit der 😂😂😂

[@annode]

I don't believe you, a woman would never reveal her real age!

[@AlisonRowe-kc2sg]

spoken by a true see you next Tuesday sort of guy. man up@@annode

[@Treebark56]

I’ve had lucid dreams since I was a kid so I didn’t even think it was something uncommon but I also have sleep paralysis because of it I feel. This is all really interesting and this guy is so informative on the topic.

[@show_me_your_kitties]

Me too

[@jakeigoe2578]

I can't stop lucid dreaming. Sometimes it's very disconcerting. In a single night i will remember previous dreams, while in a dream. I get anxious and confused about reality and wake myself up after 4 or five dreams . When I wake, I thought dream 1 or 2 was reality. I am really confused for a minute or two after a forced wake. It's so weird. Then I put myself back into the dream i liked the most and continue to control it.

[@danix454]

@@jakeigoe2578 if you’re confusing them for reality, you’re not lucid dreaming. You know it’s not reality and that’s how you control it. You’re still in the baby stage of lucid dreaming. There are levels of awareness, and lucid dreaming. Advanced lucid dreamers know they’re dreaming and use this as a gateway to other experiences like astral projection, subconscious access, meditating, etc.

[@alexeswright1668]

That thing that makes you lucid dream is actually a deeper connection with our entirety to the universe. It's self awareness. You can find it by looking into your mind. The more you do it in real life, the more it naturally happens in your dreams. Different elements means different fractions of consciences. This is amazing. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@roberthutchings8439]

7:25 best part of the ted talk

[@saransh2021]

Lol😂 why you just said that .

[@emilyr1702]

Lmao

[@dragoflamer786]

Lmaooo

[@kirankrutanjali5347]

That was frozone bruh!

[@cornhub8823]

reminds me of how mace windu nods to yoda on the gunship flying over corucant in ep 3

[@kimberlyjohnson1571]

This is fantastic! This man & I are on the same page. I have experienced exactly what he's talking about & my beliefs a line with his. Love you Chongtul Rinpoche! People have tried 2 tell me that I'm crazy. I am NOT crazy! I needed to hear you!

[@ManishVIBES]

Our tibetian friend tried his best to explain, And I understood him.

[@malex4321]

Lucid dreaming is very real!!!!! And its fuc..ng awesome!!! It only happens to me when I am having a nap during the day. I also wake up in the dream only to find that I am still dreaming!! It's hard to explain but it is awesome!!! Now when I am in the middle of a lucid dream, I really enjoy just looking around at the architecture that my mind is creating in the dream!!! I don't know how to describe it!!! It's so amazing, yet I can see the flaws in my mind's creation. I also have trouble creating people's faces when I am in a lucid dream! They always seem slightly animated. I wish I could do this every time I go to bed!!!! On the down side, I also suffer from sleep paralysis!! It is terrifying. Imagine waking up and there is an intruder in your room..... The only problem is, you are in a dream state that renders you powerless.... It is like being completely paralysed from the neck down while an intruder is in the room. Not fun!!!! It's terrible when it's happening but quite funny when you wake up!

[@anonimo3030]

Hi, I am really interested in lucid dreaming. How do you become aware that you are dreaming while sleeping?

[@juandivar96]

anonimo3030 There's many ways to lucid dream, people will tell you to write what you dream as soon as you wake up, or look at your reflection when you're dreaming, and the list goes on. It really is up to you to find out, if you're determined to lucid dream, you will. For me lucid dreams just happen, I just realize that what I'm dreaming makes no sense. At some point in my dreams I tell myself that I'm dreaming, this realization is triggered by something absurd that would only happen in a dream. I'll give you an example of a dream I had last night, I was at a water park ready to go on a ride that I won't go into detail to explain, it was just bizarre, and next thing I know I'm playing guitar with my grandma and I'm driving my car, at this point I realize I'm dreaming because the order of events are completely flawed. From this point on I decide in what directions I want my dream to go, I take this opportunity to find myself and get to know me better (if that makes sense) or just have crazy fun doing whatever I want. It really is impressive seeing your imagination work as the dreams happen. Everyone is different, so it's up to you to find out what makes you lucid dream.

[@anonimo3030]

juandivar96 Thank you for your reply. Right, dreams are full of absurd events and situations. I did happen to me once, but I was unable to take control. Perhaps, the key is to keep asking yourself, if what you see is possible or makes sense at all times.

[@silverrush2508]

malex4321 OMG you have no idea how happy I am to have stumbled on your comment. When I was 14 I discovered lucid dreaming (didn't know it was called that or it existed) by accident. Just like you described, I realized I was in a dream but miraculously I did not wake up. Subsequently, I was attacked and created weapons out of thin air. I then flew for a while and willed an entirely different scenario as fantasy fulfillment, but let's just say her female parts were as anatomically correct as Barbie and then I woke up. Now the CRAZY part is that although this was my only lucid dream to date, years later I started having recurring sleep paralysis (another thing i needed to look up, to find out a logical explanation). I came up with a theory that while many ppl can learn lucid dreaming, a small percentage of the population are predisposed/naturally inclined to it and that these people are also exposed to the risk of sleep paralysis which is related in that the mind is awake and the body is asleep. In the other Ted X on Lucidity the guy says that scientists theorize that in LD parts of your mind are awake and parts are asleep. Besides for this striking parallel, SP seems to be the polar opposite of LD in that your awake but you have no control VS being asleep and having full control !!! I am stunned to hear you describe your experience because it validates what I've been thinking and shows me that I'm not the only one!!!

[@n0e83]

anonimo3030 dreams are not really 'absurd', they are just not logical in the common sense of the left-brain logic, but they have meaning arising from the unconscious mind. sometimes they operate on symbolic items, characters or events, which deep down correlate with your past inner experience. Yossi Singer you can try performing out of body experience when in sleep paralysis: imagine a rope above you and pull yourself up from the body.

[@TeatimeMedium]

As a professional medium that works with the Spirit world, I can appreciate how Chongtul Rinpoche talks about "wisdom" dreams while we are awake. This is how I experience my connection with Spirit during a mediumship reading. I learn so much from each session. Even though the client is coming to connect with their loved one, I am the witness to that love and the wisdom that comes through. I am grateful.

[@papabear2262]

I loved him in Doctor Strange!

[@bethanyangel1721]

best comment of all

[@jesagen1606]

Haha 😂🤣

[@audreona7525]

I almost agreed with you lol

[@UHFStation1]

Yes, he seemed much wiser when he talked less.

[@lagi213]

🤣🤣🤣

[@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165]

i watched a TED TALK abt the blind & hallucinations, & wonder if being born blind in my left eye ALSO caused being born a lucid dreamer. When i converted to Buddhism in 1993, & officially in 2005, i started to study the texts on the bridge, & knew then, that i was also born a Buddhist.💞 Namaste.🙏 ~Khong Hao

[@Decentricity]

I searched for "dreams about alternate realities" and found this video, since I'm a 36-year old semi-successful IT entrepreneur and I think i just had a lucid dream where I saw three of my alternate lives. in one alternate life, I was an architect; this was very clear. Me and my (friend? boyfriend? colleague?) were standing in a field looking at a brand new hotel. he was congratulating me, as it was the first building I ever led to completion we took a tour around the building and it's so vivid that I actually redrew it upon awaking. it has a unique staggered design, looks kind of cool anyway in the other dream I think I'm an academic, focusing on maths a colleague was giving me an interesting matrix-based problem and told me to make the derivative i can still remember the matrix in my head. Strangely enough in this dream the world uses the old Arabic numbers, so it's extremely hard to decipher as in, dot for 0, different shapes for most of the numbers the fading dream, which was possibly the first one, saw me as the propreitor of a bookshop. the bookshop's empty and I think I'm going to need to close it no covid-19 in that world; it's just closing because people want to buy ebooks instead

[@TheSlatoff02]

I have no idea what he said, but I'm sure he's right.

[@ADBVoiceActing]

Tyler Slatoff I was thinking the same thing. LOL!

[@sergiohr40]

Aubrey Bryant Haha. Exactly

[@ZincMX]

Tyler Slatoff Hahahaha what he means is that lucid dreams are tools that help us understound ourselves in deeper ways. They bring us closer, like meditation.

[@StasherDragon]

Tyler Slatoff OMG, I can't listen to the whole thing...

[@lhakammedia]

+listen2watidontsay English language is not enough rich as tibetan language to translate the buddhist text completely. So, I think his english language is well enough to the people who are not familiar of Tibetan Buddhism.

[@lighty805]

I set my alarm to wake me up at 3:05am and fall back to sleep for 7am. I found this method to lucid dream more and I'm addicted I remember my dreams almost every single day. I don't want to sound cocky but I feel really powerful in my lucid dreams I also dream about this place I never been to but my dreams always takes me there. I can literally write a book of my experience.

[@jpfrazer69]

Do it :-)

[@rg1360]

Choose you meditate next time you're in a lucid dream. I did this and I kind of woooshed off to something divine

[@pancake_ghosty]

"Just relax on the nice sofa" I don't know why that made me laugh. Maybe because my sofa is covered in laundry and dog hair

[@MrMaefiu]

that's why he said "nice sofa". it doesn't work if it's not nice, obviously. :P

[@hannelorenulph2337]

:-)

[@zoelewis4219]

Thats why you make it nice ☺

[@sandragordon6219]

If I lay down I’m asleep in two minutes. Even on laundry

[@Smith.S.sStocHasticSs]

😆🤣 lmao!!!

[@nimanegi1197]

H.E.Chongtrul Rinpoche La, I really appreciate your great speech on lucid dream and flourishing and spreading the greatest Bon Dharma. I love Bon.

[@cyndimoring9389]

My lucid dreams usually are prophetic too, meaning they often come true. The more lucid they are, the higher chance they come true or are happening as I dream them.

[@anastasistzaras7389]

Its called de ja vu

[@maverickifoe5323]

@@anastasistzaras7389 you just shocked me. Mind blowing.

[@gigilagous8020]

I have lucid dreams where I’m visiting my son who passed away 5 months ago

[@cyndimoring9389]

Maybe you are. When my dad died I dreamed of him a lot. He showed me heaven, a green field with rolling hills and little cottages. When his brother, my uncle died,his daughter, my cousin ,repeated the same description of heaven from her dream.

[@gigilagous8020]

@@cyndimoring9389 my son was murdered on Easter he comes to me sad shocked in disbelief

[@ext1013]

what he's saying is coming from your own practice...if you are new to buddhism meditation practice, you will be lost....but if you have, even a beginner's mind, you will be awe with what he is saying....so, to follow him...you have to listen again and contemplate on each part you can't understand like...karmic dream (is the ordinary dream we experience every time) wisdom dream (is probably the lucid dream)...the 5 elements, he mentioned all of them, buddhahood, this is something you already know when you first decided to listen to this talk....there are so much more to what he is saying, and it's amazing...i will rewind and listen again....and when you get it...forget everything I said and interpret it the way you want it.

[@greggtownsley]

Good stuff. Entry into that sacred space is not only a source of stability and insight in one's daily living, but "Buddhahood." Much appreciated.

[@jenniferreding9382]

I’ve had 2 lucid dreams and I’m 52. The one I remember most begins with me walking down a sidewalk at night. I suddenly said out loud, “I’m dreaming! I can do anything I want!” So I tried to fly. I pushed up a couple of times but was only able to get maybe 3 feet off the ground but flying nonetheless. I wish I could do it anytime I want!

[@kmilliken7208]

you can

[@teovu5557]

i had the same lucid dream once where I knew I was dreaming but couldnt wake up and i flew by kicking my legs like i was swimming but I could only get so high off the ground. it was fun. felt so damn real.

[@georgianeff4818]

"Be Still".. Silence... it takes practice... Focus on 1 thing.. Relax.. when your mind wanders.. don't worry or react, just relax, gentle down your reactions/emotions to an ebb.. picture the one thing.. ~When you can do this, you can stop all chatter.. Then relax.. tune into Peace... Focus on that.. Peace & calm/ trust will enter, Beattitudes/ Fruit of the Spirit.. & your "Eye" shall be 1.. all silence of the mind can be attained. ~*~ Here is where creation & the Law of Attraction Kick in.. Namaste

[@echedesignla4485]

Are u an ifnj

[@abraintrust]

As a society, we have hidden and locked away our dreams. Think about how much stuff in the world we pay attention to rather than paying attention to what is going on inside of our heads. The more I think about it, the more serious the problem seems..

[@anthonyallencabrera]

I've always wondered this my entire life, why has the human race not come together and solved the human mind.. it's the most impressive computer the world has ever seen and we are to niave to look inside

[@dubstepilluminati1823]

@@anthonyallencabrera "I want a country full of workers not thinkers"-Thomas Edison (I think)

[@anthonyallencabrera]

@@dubstepilluminati1823 seems like an Edison thing to say, he tried everything he could to prevent teslas works from seeing the light of day and likely was the reason for his death. Tesla explored the human mind like few ever have.

[@anacheque5197]

I really feel inspired with Chongtul Rinpoche's Insightful video! I am repeating to my mind, "Ra, La, Sha, Sa" as hearing my own voice is hypnotizing.

[@SandyCheeks63564]

I don't think he explained what those four words mean. Do you know?

[@anacheque5197]

@@SandyCheeks63564 I didn't know, but I searched and found this, " the visualization of a lotus with 4 petals. In each of the petals there is a syllable: Ra La Sha Sa.

[@sylliboiswag5349]

God be with us! We carry on like we know more about these other dimensions than you do. People will refuse to believe your Word yet think they've got it all figured out because they had a supernatural encounter. You make it so clear in every way, that you are infinitely more intelligent than us and therefore know better than us. When you tell us not to dibble dabble in witchcraft and to literally "take your WORD for it" why can't we just believe the truth? Amen!

[@NateTimeTV]

This video is magical! You can skip to any point in the video at any time and it still all continues to make as much sense.

[@0prikshit]

This is a very underrated comment.

[@NateTimeTV]

@@0prikshit thank you kind Sir.

[@georgekyle165]

i skipped to 9:22.. video didnt make any sense..

[@kimberlyhoward4032]

I could do this all the time in my teens, I could wake up in the morning, think of anything I want go back to sleep and dream about it, was really cool, can’t do it any more.

[@jonjenkins3868]

when i was younger i had a re-occuring nightmare that i fixed with a lucid dream wasn't intentional but a powerful experience i will never forget.

[@shortsdeliveries]

i had too, with dogs attacking me for years, then in a certain week i had that nightmare in three nights, in the third night i was so exausted by it that i simply offered my body to the dogs to eat me. Then i felt they had no teeth and they became pacific, then i petted them. I never had nightmare about dog attacks anymore

[@songbirdy]

@@shortsdeliveries at the point the dogs had no teeth...That was you taking control. Before that you were letting fear take control. When I have a nightmare I relive the dream in my mind but change the outcome. I find I am not so traumatized by nightmares if I do this. I don't go through the day reliving something upsetting because I changed it into something more positive. It works for me.

[@shortsdeliveries]

@@songbirdy that's an interesting way of seeing it

[@Lovemyfriends1]

I had multiple dreams in one night, mind boggling 🤯🤯🤯

[@gingersnapuu444]

I think most of us do we just don't remember all of them

[@howedelamitri]

This is happening to me almost every night. I listen to shamanic drum music on KZbin. My dreams are amazing and I feel torn between dimensions.

[@zohakhan3601]

Hey would u explain this shamanic drum a little bit and how does it help??

[@howedelamitri]

@@zohakhan3601 it's hard to explain, but I can tell you that these sounds trigger something unique in my brain. Not Always, but sometimes. Sometimes when I lie down and listen to this music I have a series of vivid dreams....it's almost like being conscious, and I see old friends and/or have epiphanies about what to do with my life. That said.... It doesn't happen every time I listen. You are part of a vast, playful Universe. It should not surprise you that you are always guided ✌️

[@zohakhan3601]

Thanks dude

[@howedelamitri]

@@zohakhan3601 also....look into Nikola Tesla and Einstein. The clues are there but nobody seems to get it

[@zohakhan3601]

Actually I don't know much about lucid dreaming but I have experienced it but in a different way like mostly I can't move my body ..with my eyes closed I can see everything infact my sleeping position and when I wakeup it is almost the same and sometimes when I get that I'm in dream it doesn't last longer I wakeup ....and ya feel headache too..that's why I asked you about this thing thinking it might help somehow..

[@Cyber.Geisha]

Its amazing how I can feel a huge good energie from listening this person, tells you the peace of mind and how possible and easy could be.

[@PossumPityParty]

I was just starting to read and study LDing. Perfectly timed, finding this video. I never thought LDing could/is a connection to our wisdom. That sounds awesome. I know when I have much more lucidity in dreams, I feel so much better. I also didn't know LDing was affiliated with Buddhism.

[@cody4rock]

+Golighty678 Your dream world is probably your very own world.. or universe.. Don't think to hard on that ;)

[@B-lazer3]

Tibetan culture is simply beautiful, I’m in love ❤

[@ballenadelfin2]

I am a trainee at the School of Images of New York and with Catherine Shainberg and Bonnie Buckner I have learned to dialog with my dreams and respond to them.... It is an awesome work that have transformed my life and I talk about them with many people. I have several dream groups where I teach the technique I have learned and the outcomes are really wonderful. Our dreams are part of us, if we ignore them is just like we are not a whole person and we are missing something very important. All dreams are important, and lucid dreams offers you the opportunity to address something in your life, while you are dreaming.Dreams are very important in many cultures and traditions, and they are important for each one of us.

[@MillerDenmark]

I'm a heavy dreamer (light sleeper) or so I would call. For quite a few years I have experienced having memorable dreams pretty much every day. Most unfortunately nightmares. I'd love to hear more about that. Why don't you create a youtube video where you illustrate and teach the techniques? ;) Kind regards Kasper

[@ballenadelfin2]

Kasper Miller Hi Casper, sorry I don't have enough experience with this kind of techonology or a camera to do so, but if you like I can explain to you if you send me your email, or maybe on Skype? I think I can help with the nightmares. Kind regards ;) 8Mayte

[@ballenadelfin2]

ballenadelfin2 Hi, again Kasper (sorry I wrote it wrong before). I forget to mention there is a very interesting book by one of my teachers, Bonnie Buckner. The title is "Dream Your Self into Being" and also, in her blog there are several interesting videos that you can check: bonniebuckner.com/videos/ ;) 8Mayte

[@annajaffe9891]

ballenadelfin2 Hi. Are you still doing meetups in NYC ? i have a meetup.com group about 400+ ppl that can be interested. And I'm interested too =) ! Please send me a quick msg 1immorta at gmail.com

[@8mayte904]

Anna Jaffe Hi Anna, I live in Spain, sorry I cannot go to NYC now. I don't know how to send you a msg to 1inmorta, but if you are interested we can contact by email: [e-mail] and maybe set a meeting on skype. Than you for your reply

[@missreggae1luv]

So nice to see Chongtul Rinpoche sharing the wisdom of Bon with mainstream America!

[@giampaolomannucci8281]

It's the internet, that would be "sharing with the whole world"

[@giampaolomannucci8281]

***** Dunno what you mean, he's sharing with the whole world, not just america. Try and explain without offending the next time, maybe you'll do it better if you calm down just a little.

[@pochem86]

Consciouness!

[@AngelEllena]

pochem86 That we are 😉💜☯🙏

[@Nyxlink]

Our minds have so much to teach us. Sometimes, when Im sure I am in fact lucid dreaming, I lament that I will never know those I encounter.

[@uygygog]

05:00 how to lucid dream. I came here for this. hope i helped u

[@konmari7511]

thanks buddy

[@Englandsbestlover]

Sandr000 . Sweet 🦁

[@XXgenderloveXY]

thank you

[@deepbrar9750]

life saver

[@possiblyhuman1370]

Thanks 👌

[@Thresholdmoment]

Welcome to a world where there are countless people who are "explaining" all sorts of things etc.

[@nikitabishnoi505]

Really Helpful! Thanks a lot Mr. Chongtul Rinpoche... :)

[@thomashsouthern]

The lucid dreaming taught in most of KZbin and in bookstores is the dreaming path of the ego. I chose to simply participate in my dream just as I participate in the wake. I did this from age 14 to 22 before I tried to do anything other than participate. This path leads to much greater awareness in general. After doing that, if you have also been feeling and heal your past especially as it appears in the lucid dream you will eventually be able to pass very consciously through the viel. You will even feel both bodies at the point when you used to go unconscious. Normally your subconscious would define the dream but if you cross consciously you can define the dream without giving in to ego. Going to sleep in a dream that copies reality in which you slept will lead to dreaming awake which is your dreaming awareness in your waking body. I know the next step but so far I keep getting overwhelmed and forget to perform the next step. If you recall the state of lucid dreaming you had that lead to dreaming awake with the intent of attaining the awareness that contains both but is found between their extremes yet beyond any middle one might conceive, the result should be a sort of walking nirvana. This path had taken me three decades to get this far so it is not a fast path but I believe it to be a better path.

[@An123Observer]

+Thomas Southern Wow, cool concept. That actually makes sense. That actually sounds like what might have happened during a spiritual experience I had years ago, where I woke up in my waking life, as a sort of non local awareness, and I could see how I had been dreaming my whole life that I was "me". I've fallen back asleep since then, but I will always remember seeing "me" the way I see my character when I am lucid dreaming. The idea that that may be dream consciousness in waking life makes me go, "mind blown" and want to explore more. BTW, what seemed to cause my waking at that time was that I had entered a dark night of the soul and accidentally dis identified from absolutely everything, and entered complete apathy and fell asleep. I woke, in the same state, saw a sunbeam through my window, appreciated its beauty (without Identifying) and experienced the beauty as oneness of observer/observed, of lover/beloved (Kinda). Then I kinda just work up. lasted for about 6-8hours. Changed my life....

[@hanadraws2002]

i am starting to be believe that mind is so powerful

[@Ellering_Stories]

This is so fascinating! I’ve had so many unique sleep, dream and out of body experiences in my life that run parallel to these beliefs. I’m excited to begin a more focused practice into this lucid dreaming experience given what Ive learned from this presentation. Thank you to everyone involved in producing this video! ❤ love you all!

[@stevenbjerke302]

Sleep deprivation and exhaustion are good at triggering lucid dreams

[@changchen09]

Maybe true!! I've been lucid dreaming since months when I couldn't sleep at night and saw weird dreams while in daytime which was so real and unique like from another planet.

[@TH3C001]

Then my current job should cause me to have a lucid dream nearly every night, but it doesn't. Instead I average almost 2 a month. I'd love to have at least 2 a week or more of possible.

[@hManuelcPinales]

@@TH3C001 While going to sleep, try to be slightly conscious not fully conscious or it won't happen and relax your body... try not to move, but if you become fully unconscious you will just dream or sleep without dreaming. For me it's like a duality of being consciously unconscious or unconsciously conscious. You must remain in this level of consciousness while in astral projection or lucid dreaming because if your to unconscious you will dose of into a dream and when you become really conscious you wake up.

[@danthadon87]

Totally true in fact the only lucid dream I ever had was due to sleep deprivation

[@Adam-Joel]

@@hManuelcPinales Perfect explanation

[@onefreebird1]

I'm an epic lucid dreamer. It's amazing and it is part of your spiritual path.

[@fionacrowe9216]

What a pleasure to listen to your teaching Chongtul Rinpoche! Thank you for sharing this with the world 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@jados5504]

Lately I've been having lucid dreams just about every night, I can count my fingers, I can feel the breeze, I look around and everything looks and feels so real, yet I know I'm dreaming, I'm starting to think dreams, especially lucid dreams are doorways into another plane of existence, its at the point where it doesn't feel real, but I'm convinced these places I travel to are actually real, We don't fully understand consciousness yet, dreams are just another form of consciousness

[@tronist]

Lucid dreaming is amazing! Keeping a dream journal will help you remember and be more in control of your dreams! Try a light switch in your dream. If it doesnt work its very likely you are sleeping (most light switches IRL work). Now the sky is the limit! I have flown around like a bird in my lucid dreams :D

[@tylertube8964]

Same! Love to fly! But I have bad dreams when I turn the lights off, they act weird or won't come back on :(

[@04dram04]

7:24 ahahha that shot of him shaking his head is hilarious

[@artofthebart]

It seriously is, hahahaba

[@subarna89]

Yaaa 😂

[@TH3C001]

I think he might be familiar with these practices lol.

[@jsinghgermany]

20 bug deal bevor the show

[@DIONYABA]

Dr Dre playing in the background

[@abramsinsights7562]

Hypnagogia (consciousness between wake and sleep) also provides some very psychedelic experience. Seems extremely beneficial to anxiety before sleep, you have to practice breathing and relaxation exercises (perhaps out of bed) before your sleep and you WILL tap into this state, sometimes quite profoundly. I personally like to practice on the ground near the bed, then crawl into bed and snooze.

[@HeadMikuPriest]

yes, meditation before bed makes dreams more vivid and clear

[@deadheroz]

I lucid dream nightly almost. There are reoccurring places I go to. Almost like a persistent dream city. Its so amazing. I want to help teach people to do this.

[@champagnefranklin5515]

I can do the same! I just don’t know how to control it so it only happens a couple nights a week and when I’m there I can feel when I’m about to leave and wake up to reality!

[@degas7aaa274]

Is so cool that they divide dreams into two types(karmic and wisdom dream) just like Homer and the greeks did back in the day with the gates of horn and ivory.

[@stebolian]

I do this a lot when i feel like im vibrating i start to stand up from my bed and float out the window ,its awesome..the vibration used to scare me into waking up but now i use it as a path to lucid dreaming

[@eb2142]

im pretty sure what you are doing is astral projection rather than lucid dreaming - when lucid dreaming you are in a dream, but simply aware that your dreaming so you have free will and can explore the dream. Astral projection is when you have an out-of-body experience. There are tons of resources on youtube and otherwise on this topic

[@zubisstar508]

I guess you're astral projecting

[@tenzind4175]

True ..it does exist ...Thank you. Very Inspiring Teachings ..

[@amirulislam8418]

This is the real definition of Lucid dream..Thanks. Some say Lucid dream only can be happened in deep sleep.

[@Andy-yr1qn]

I have had lucid dreams all my life but I have recently discovered that I am able to trigger astral projection via lucid dreaming.

[@opentrunk]

Everyone on KZbin can do that. Get back to us when you can make yourself vanish in Iowa and 3 seconds later reappear in Mongolia

[@NetiNeti-gm5bz]

opentrunks wot?

[@sachingupta8434]

That's hallucinations bro....for astral travel you require regular 3 hour meditation for 12 year

[@olas591]

@@sachingupta8434 hahahaha

[@justinhammon4750]

If you're interested in controlled out of body experiences, read "Adventures beyond the body" by William Buhlman. It's a really good read that changed the way I look at the world. He talks about how lucid dreams are kinda like a sneak peak of what's beyond physical exsistence. In fact, using lucid dreams as a sort of "springboard" into out of body experiences is the preferred method of induction by veteran travelers. Great book, highly recommend it if you are intrigued by consciousness!

[@siuman1124]

I really experience a dream where I know that place/building/road/geopolitics. Its not the first time I dream in that place, sometimes it occur few times in a year. Then again that place is so beautiful and peaceful. The physics is just out of this world. A different dimension if I were to call it. I usually get that dream while my body senses are on alert(Getting up to work, suddenly feel asleep at the sofa) and mind is relaxed.

[@melparadise7378]

I almost had a lucid dream once, but I was so excited that I woke up. lol

[@jaxgiven416]

Brilliant.! So the key is to align and strengthen our elements in our body to help acheive the lucid dream

[@sethr.c1065]

An interesting insight, as well as an interesting study on the way people understand English.

[@GriswoldCain]

Before tapping into the dream world, I would have made fun of him and had no idea what was being said. After dipping my toes into alternate realities, this series of garbled nouns and verbs makes total sense.

[@inmate411]

He's the real life wong from dr strange

[@TreyTruth619]

The dream world is the real world!

[@countwolverinedraculia-ord4253]

it can be scary sometimes but my dreams are vivid and somehow connect to my future. call me crazy or nut my dreams forecast future mostly which relates to me or my family.

[@jordanred3273]

Well I've had 3 mushroom cloud dreams, one so realistic I fell out of bed when I woke up and frantically searched for any news of nukes going off haha. So I hope my dreams aren't prophetic.

[@ylpinko98]

That's not crazy at all. It's called prophetic dreaming. It's a psychic gift :) I have it too but only concerning my life and my family as well. No one else :)

[@joshuachigwidden426]

Dreams could me glimpse into parallel universes of yourself where it may be a better world or it may be more worse than the world were already living in now. When u die you could just repeat life in an alternate universe to this one.

[@jacobrogers798]

I once had a dream of my sister calling me and saying in a demonic voice "we'll give you a family". Three weeks later I learn that was the night she got pregnant with my neice who has been born this year

[@countwolverinedraculia-ord4253]

@@jacobrogers798 looks like telepathy to me which is not bad in itself. only few luck ones have such gifts.

[@jarrodthomas4745]

I must agree with Steven. There are so many glitches when dealing with lucid dreams. Like waking up only to realize you’re still in a dream and you are somewhere else and you can recall where you are but not sure why or how you got there. Maybe I can’t control them as well as others but my hypothesis and it remains a hypothesis is that we are in a dream state even in this reality. What happens when we die? No one knows. My hypothesis is that when we die we actually wake up realizing how crazy of a dream we just had. We realize it was the ultimate lucid and clear, transparent and vivid reality when actually there are still some glitches in this reality that won’t be there when we die and awake in a new reality. It’s a difficult concept but one that I’m earnest on discovering. I guess the only way to discover if this hypothesis is true or not is to die and find out. We’ll find out eventually. In the meantime I will enjoy my lucid dreams and appreciate my ability to concoct such realities inside my head.

[@marcojacinto6454]

I believe we would get a lot more of clear information if he simply talked in his own native language with someone else translating it. I'm pretty sure he couldn't get his point across as efectively this way...😞

[@justalangusta260]

Not necessarily. The way how Tibetan people mind works is so different than in western society so it's very difficult to translate. He speaks very well actually.

[@meemee9302]

English my second language not long I learned it fluently I understood everything..

[@6079Smith]

English is my native language and I didn't find anything wrong with how he spoke. Your comment however, doesn't make much sense.

[@fratquintero]

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 🧘‍♂️ *Rinpoche will discuss Tibetan dreams and lucid dreams from the perspective of the Tibetan Bon tradition.* 00:30 📜 *The Bon tradition is the indigenous culture and tradition of Tibet before Buddhism arrived in the 7th century. * 00:57 📚 *The Bon tradition has three main teachings: Sutras, Tantras, and Great Perfection (Dzogchen), which relate to dreams.* 01:28 💤 *Dreams can be divided into karmic dreams and wisdom dreams. Karmic dreams happen while sleeping, wisdom dreams can happen while awake.* 02:20 🧠 *Lucid dreams connect strongly with one's consciousness and experience of the five elements in the body. * 03:44 🏃‍♂️ *The "monkey mind" that is always running can be trained to be more stable through lucid dream practices.* 04:40 🕉️ *Training the mind with lucid dreaming helps one move toward Buddhahood, which is awakening the mind within.* 06:38 🖼️ *Lucid dreams can connect one's past life experiences with their current waking reality. * 08:06 ✨ *Lucid dreams bring wisdom, peace, happiness and stress release, as compared to karmic dreams which can be negative.* Made with HARPA AI

[@Trach3a]

That black guy at 9:23 gets them Wu Tang vibes goin' on XD

[@FrederikFalk21]

You mean 7:25

[@farjanayasmin9919]

I know he is right.. Because I am living proof of that!

[@tashinegi6798]

Our whole life is a dream having extra dreams

[@mikemadrid687]

I got sober after almost 20 years and began to lucid dream regularly.

[@wiccankitten1111]

Same here! Congrats on your sobriety!

[@mikemadrid687]

Thank you for the kind words and same to you . Everything fell in to place after.

[@boutrosboutrosghaliboutros3148]

When I was in my late teens I would wake up inside the dream and I knew I was dreaming and there for I realised that the laws of physics does not apply here and I look off into the air and fly just like super man. And I could jump like the hulk could in the movie...its the most amazing thing because you can literally feel the wind on your skin. reality too is a dream and when we come together as one we can change the laws of reality because it isn't real anyway. remember in a normal dream we don't know we are dreaming and so we have to abide by the laws of physics and reality.. consciousness create/observes reality collapsing the wave of potential..no consciousness, no universe!!

[@Lord_Jela1527]

I'm lucid like almost every night. Since childhood. I thought i was the only one in my circle of people.

[@johnjaycubrado7090]

How do you do it???

[@B-lazer3]

@@johnjaycubrado7090it’s natural

[@wbworkout]

Ha, I can't believe he called it the monkey mind. I have been talking about that for about a year, I called what he calls the monkey mind, monkey chatter in then basement and I have to yell down to him, QUIET, I am meditating. I also say when some one is talking air doing something that is crazy or deleterious like constantly getting into crisis over everything, I say, not my monkey, not my circus! Meaning I got enough Monkey chatter to deal with in myself. I loved this talk. I sometimes put on recordings of ocean waves or a gentle stream, even a steady drum beat help me quiet the mind sometimes. Very cool talk.

[@naer92]

how to find steady drum beat brtoher?

[@TheMrTropicalgamer]

Dano Pierce how can you tell you are at 100% state of peace or is that possible, or even better, what does it feel like to have a lucid dream? does it look like reallity? does it FEEL like reallity? i really want to know this, i was told that if you experience too much of a lucid dream you can stay attached to him, like addicted, and to flee from the job or familly stress or any other type of stress that people just want to stay in the lucid dream and it will be affected by that in bad ways like dehidration and stuff, i just want to know what do you feel when you are lucid dreaming

[@leaa8445]

Dano Pierce QUIET, I am meditating, yes, exactly ;) I catch myself going "shhhhhhh" all day long, I am talking to my mind.

[@kinhotas]

+Dano Pierce Dude, meditation is relaxation, if you stress yourself to calm yourself, you cant. just be confortable and calm. dont try to think about nothing. just relax yourself and JUST EXIST. NO NEED FOR ANYTHING ELSE

[@Organisierer]

+kinhotas you are doing it right. the whole process is about the content of your mind... if you try to suppress certain pieces of content, you are going to miss something important for sure!

[@SugarDad5555]

I had a lucid dream about working in an office building with a haunted elevator which stops in a haunted floor. I have to transfer to another haunted elevator before reaching the office. Seems so real that everytime I go to the capital city, I always go to the avenue where I believe it's located.

[@DURGESH-gy8hb]

when i get up i feel that my brain was talking too much in dreaming and i feel that now i am in peace after wake up .it makes too much talk during sleep

[@hear-and-know]

If you are confused and would like to better understand this video, try searching for the following topics relating to Tibetan Bön: * Dream yoga * 5 elements * 3 levels of practice (dzogchen, tantra, shamanism) Then you'll have entered the rabbit hole!

[@Adam-vp4oe]

7:23 dude gets it

[@kittywampusdrums]

lmao! Thanks for showing us. Dude check out Drukama, allot of this stuff is covered there if you are interested. Be well!

[@blowintrees4885]

Wisdom dreaming is the realization or remembrance of what this reality actually is. This comes from focusing not on the monkey mind, but instead the buddha wood mind, meaning not the automatic thinking, but conscious thinking, present awareness, and remembrance. This can bring about peace and joy in life

[@dkipu266]

Start a meditation practice, and sleep directly following your meditation. This is the way to settle the mind, and if you find the opportunity to have a practice with a Tibetan Geshe, take it. Lastly, the dream is not the goal, its a thing that happens at times. You gain some experience from the dreams, but becoming fascinated by the dreams will negatively impact your minds development.

[@mattandmegandiercks8809]

I fully agree and respect every aspect and as I repeat this over and over I come across new information that of which I’ve never previously experienced or thought of thank you for I will probably never be capable of putting a fraction of a fraction of this knowledge into feasible terms for others beyond my inner self to understand from my lack of verbal language and knowledge thank you

[@ericbondhutton2170]

Here's something apropos that I had published in _Fortean Times_ for April 2015. I called it "Hutton's Paradox." ******** One day when I was five or six years old (I remember the classroom I was in and the row of desks at which I was sitting and have no doubt I was still in my first year at school) I was suddenly panic-stricken at the thought that I might not exist. If life was a dream, how could I be certain it was my dream, not somebody else's? And if I existed only in somebody else's dream.... But first something about the fascination dreams held for me in those days. As a child I often had _lucid_ dreams-dreams, that is, in which I became aware that I was dreaming and realised that my body was asleep in bed. I still have the occasional such dream-sometimes I even find myself trapped in one, disconcertingly unable to wake-and I never fail to be struck by the verisimilitude of the experience: I can gaze upon a sun blazing in a bright blue sky and feel its warmth on my face; I can run a fingernail over a piece of wood and not only distinctly feel the grain but also hear the sound thus produced; I can talk to people and receive replies so unexpected and so thought-provoking that it seems they must have originated outside my own sphere of consciousness. Such a dream is indistinguishable from real life save for what one might term the physics of the dream world: the attenuated pull of gravity; the penetrability of solid objects; the recalcitrance of electrical equipment; and so forth. Sometimes I had _pre-lucid_ dreams-dreams, that is, in which I suspected I was dreaming. I have never forgotten one in which my family were the proprietors of a timberyard in Fulmer, the Buckinghamshire village where I attended school. (In real life they owned a chain of fish-and-chip shops and several other businesses-none connected with timber-and had nothing to do with Fulmer.) As I wandered about the village and encountered friends and relatives, the suspicion grew on me that I was dreaming. Everything seemed real, yet something I could not put my finger on told me it was not. Could I remember waking up that morning? Did my family really own that timberyard (which had no counterpart in the waking world)? All this dragged on, it seemed, for about half an hour. Time and again I asked myself whether I was dreaming. Time and again I concluded I was not. Yet I could not altogether rid myself of the suspicion that I was. Such dreams-this one in particular-disturbed me greatly. Whether it ever occurred to me to establish my true situation in one by attempting, say, to pass my hand through a wall, I cannot now recall. (And resorting to such a tactic nowadays usually leads me to conclude I am awake and must have acquired some preternatural power!) I did, anyhow, come up with a magic formula-an open sesame, if you like-for use in them: "If I find myself asking 'Am I dreaming?' it proves I am, for the question would never occur to me in waking life." Yet, such is the nature of dreams, I could never recall it when I needed to. That day at school, bored with classwork and disenchanted with the world in general, I was reflecting on my dreams and the nature of reality when, as I have said, I was suddenly panic-stricken at the thought that I might not exist. If life was a dream (as I had often conjectured it was), how could I be certain it was my dream, not somebody else's? And if I existed only in somebody else's dream, what would become of me when he woke? (The parallel with Alice and the Red King's dream is obvious, though I do not believe I was familiar with _Through the Looking-Glass_ in any shape or form till my 20s.) A moment's reflection reassured me: I could be certain I existed because I thought. Or, to put it another way, I think, therefore I am. But no sooner had this sublime example of deductive reasoning occurred to me than it slipped my mind and panic supervened once more. I struggled to recall it, succeeded, forgot it again almost immediately and had to rack my brains for it afresh. Many years passed till I learnt to my chagrin that one René Descartes had beaten me to this most fundamental of epistemological propositions by some three hundred and thirty years. Now and again during my schooldays I became obsessed with the idea that I alone might exist, that everything else-my family and friends, my own body, the universe itself-might be illusory. Over time I formulated a hypothesis: the life I was living was one of a long, perhaps infinite, series of confused and troubled dreams; if the series was not infinite, I would one day enter an ultimate reality, in which it would no longer be possible to doubt I was awake. I am now in my 50s, and the suspicion that I am trapped in a dream has never entirely left me. When, some years ago, I wrote a piece about solipsism and my childhood interest in dreams, I was struck by a contradiction in my earlier reasoning.* True, asking oneself "Am I dreaming?" _in a dream_ would seem to prove one is. Yet that is precisely what I had often asked myself in waking life. Therein lay a paradox-Hutton's Paradox as I christened it with characteristic modesty. What was I to conclude? That it does not prove one is dreaming? Or that life really is a dream? * "Adversaria V," _Write Justified,_ Spring 1989.

[@MohamedMohamed-tr2rz]

Quran 17:52💚

[@dancagle2533]

I've done some lucid dreaming after tuning into the subject. This type of dream seems real and may take longer to wake up from.

[@CastVooDoo]

in my lucid dream....I had a dream that I fell asleep on my sofa and dreamt that I astral projecting and I had more control of my astral projection I had in my dream. I started learning astral projection, I had 7 so far this montm

[@itsm3dud39]

Francisco Castillo is there any problem with astral projection?

[@FireFun63]

@@itsm3dud39 No there isnt, but theres a lot of false stuff online that makes it seem scary. Reddit trolls etc. Astral Projection is amazing and can be really insightful, like meditation. For some reason people like to make up lies saying about how 'entities' can hurt you etc. this is all false. If you ever find that astral projection is scaring you, just take a break from it. Try not to extensively research it online, just research the methods and techniques like the rope method. The problem I have with astral projection is that it's really difficult and i can only do it unintentionally/accidentally, you have to be in the right mood (tired/drowsy). I usually astral project when im really hungover after a night of drinking lol. If you have any more questions feel free to ask me bro!

[@TarotRider-t2m]

@@FireFun63 what techniques you use to astral projection? Do I have to meditate before it, does it needs practice?

[@auraxfire]

@@FireFun63 Yea, never mind 'those people'. I am sure you are the one who has it right and we should all listen to you instead.

[@swan7269]

I've had a astral projection myself and it is the most beautiful thing that happened to me so far in my life. Their was a overwhelming feeling of clarity, purity and secure, I felt so secure up there !

[@shraddha4735]

I experienced lucid dream two days ago ..n it's just feel wowwwww 😸

[@kittywampusdrums]

Awesome! They are very powerful aren't they? It might interest you to check out the mystic tradition I ended up in, it's called Drukama, these experiences led me there as well as helped continue them too.

[@LifeSavingDefense]

His description is different than I know. My “lucid” dreams are usually when I can control them such as flying and can be improved with effort but has nothing to do with when I am awake. I don’t dream when awake except for day dreaming which is nothing more than imagination and conscious thoughts of what could be. However I also have prophetic dreams of the future and past where I also know I’m dreaming and I know to look for things when I’m awake. Making yourself more aware when you are awake is a learned skill added to a natural fight or flight instinct. I can’t say you can’t consciously use one to better the other but they are separate…... Or…. Are they…….? Are we the sum of our parts?

[@linhdothuy5097]

brilliant. this concept opens my mind and gives me more clues to keep following to discover more. thanks.

[@TheBandProblem]

I've started lucid dreaming the past year, every couple of weeks. I love flying but the dream fights back. it's getting easier. instead of this guy's method try asking every time you go through a doorway if you are dreaming. after doing this routinely for a few days you should start asking that when you are dreaming and become lucid. or if you smoke do it when you light up.

[@lemonaidinmyskin]

This post is 7 years old . MAYBE someone can help ? I keep experiencing dreams while I’m lucid and not lucid . Even when I not lucid I still feel like a backseat of my mind and I’m not in control or in the front seat like when your lucid , but I like feel that moment before you take control and let your brain warp and feel like you finally solved the answer you have been looking for . My question is ? Why do I keep dreaming of being in a world that I’m in keeps changing realities . I get comfortable and then the roles of everything and everybody change . It feels like a whole new parallel universe I just went into . And it keeps changing after things get crazy like people chase me or try to kill be because they know imma awake . It’s crazy because I cry from being homesick because of all the people I miss . It feel like you want to go back but there no way and you just start all over remembering that this world is not the same world as the last one .

[@wuboozals]

What an amazing, beautiful soul. Thank you kind Llama :)

[@nirjalmainali4439]

wuboozals he is Lama, Llama is an animal 😂

[@wokk9543]

llama??

[@terryblack7019]

Thank you Sir! Baraka Bashad!

[@haleyhowell7889]

"I'm trying to *RRRGHFRDHKGNFGMBDH*... talk about the Tibetan dream..." 😭😭 precious human

[@Lightmaker5]

I was a researcher for new energy to solve Earth's energy problem. I made the greatest discovery on the way. I can prove with science that dreams are im fact just as real as the life on Earth. I wrote a scientific book about this and around 40 more questions which are very related to the topic.

[@kevinmillan5952]

Whats thé Name of the book ?

[@Lightmaker5]

@@kevinmillan5952 My book is called 'The Great Knowledge about the Everythingness'. It's on amazon. The universe formula is free to read though if you click to preview the book.

[@neponsetriver]

'Rinpoche' is an honorific title, not a name.

[@andrewollmann304]

Neponset River Yes...it's just like "Father" for Catholic priests...that's why they included it as part of his name.

[@Vajrabrother]

No it seems to be more, Lama is like Mother !! Rinpoche is like precious teacher or "jewel"! !! They have many more terms like tertoen, tulku and so on ....!!

[@jabrown]

They should have displayed his name in bold print and Rinpoche in regular, then.

[@youdonn]

When I was younger, I was told tht its the same as someone wth their master's. Still a younger intellectual, but rinpoches are still the monks who've gone far in their learnings of buddhism

[@annamaegold]

Namaste🙏🏽