What can Lucid Dreaming tell us about consciousness?

www.scienceandnonduality.com/
Maurizio Benazzo(SAND co-founder) in conversation with Stephen LaBerge.
Stephen LaBerge is the first scientist to empirically prove the existence of lucid dreaming. His work has developed this technique into a powerful tool for studying mind-body relationships in the dream state, and he has demonstrated the potential for lucid dreaming in the fields of psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine. His books Lucid Dreaming, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, and Conscious Mind, Sleeping Brain, have received enormous popular interest. He is the founder of The Lucidity Institute an organization that promotes research into lucid dreaming, and offers courses on how to achieve a lucid dream.
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[@amtownsyou]

My lucid dream experiences have had an exponential impact on my personality and life more than my waking experiences. This needs to be taught in schools because it reveals the dormant power we all have within us

[@Dimensions100]

confusing reality with fantasy. Lucid dreams are dreams. Don't live in dreamland cuz reality is hard...

[@Dimensions100]

Sid, stop trolling the poor guy he deals with a lot.

[@mellingmichael777]

You're so right, amtownsyou510.

[@JokesOnUs1986]

amtownsyou510 You honestly think that's what schools are intended to do...?

[@fionacrowe9216]

I think there’s something to this Infinity510. So many kids have sleep problems and anxiety about night terrors. Teaching them how to master their dreams and get lucid could help so much!

[@williamheale5162]

What I love most about lucid dreaming is I am part conscious and part unconscious at the same time, as in I can only control my actions in the dream and not the scenario.

[@createnewbeliefs2981]

William Heale yes great point.. in my most recent lucid dream I didn’t consciously create the landscape or people in it but I created what I did in the dream flying talking to people interacting with the dream etc..

[@thememoryhole9355]

That's a good observation. The dream itself is like a movie .. but you are an actor. I feel I am getting better at lucid dreaming. But I always wake up soon after I become lucid. I feel disappointed when I wake up that I couldn't stay longer .. but excited at the same time that it happened, especially when my dream involves flying.

[@TotalGAMIX]

A lot like reality itself

[@bicstic8]

It would seem with practice you could create a scene/scenario, like find a dream door and focus on what it is you want to see/experience beyond the door and open it.

[@elizabethgmerek2951]

@@thememoryhole9355 yes and they can be exhausting and very active. Lots of flying for me.

[@CooperMiley]

Appreciate the distinction between awareness and consciousness. It reminds me of the difference between listening and hearing..

[@sandrallewellyn2632]

I can see that. It's like Consciousness and Listening are both intentional/proactive and Awareness and Hearing are automatic/passive.

[@euanlankybombamccombie6015]

Well frickin said sir

[@zutu70]

@@sandrallewellyn2632 interesting, i would personally see those descriptions switched

[@sandrallewellyn2632]

@@zutu70 You know what, I think I would too, but my overall sentiment is that there could be an active and passive version of an action and the difference may come down to intention??

[@zutu70]

@@sandrallewellyn2632 yeah, completely with you on that. I love the analogy. Talking to people about consciousness and awareness can be really difficult sometimes, simple analogys like this are perfect :)

[@tobes9284]

Lucid dreams involving my renunciation are what helped me travel above my trivial primordial wants and needs. I like that part where mentions his own experience with the hitch hiker. It was a lot like my own experience. "Waking up feeling joy, a sense of oneness, a homecoming, which I've forgotten" My powerful lucid dream showed me a new form of travel, and whoosh! I was shot across the universe to a place I couldn't comprehend, but felt like home.

[@carv_W_9519]

Such an energetic guy. I read one of his books years ago and I had a lucid dream randomly while in a trip to the beach. It changed me profoundly. I digged into the subject on the following years and it inspired me to get a graduation in psychology. But I never stopped to watch him speak until tonight! Thanks for this video

[@ironrobin]

Very enlightened individual. Doesn't take himself seriously, yet has an important message. Beautiful talk.

[@anduinxbym6633]

Vivid lucid dreams combined with spontaneous out of body experiences are part of what got me interested in the subject of consciousness in the first place. I have come to believe that consciousness is not a function of the brain.

[@islandonlinenews]

Correct, studies have been shown that you can physically remap your brain by conscious effort. Also there is nowhere in the brain responsible for unifying perception. In other words, your unified perception or consciousness takes place outside the brain.

[@mew_f_o]

humans are like antenna and consciousness is the frequency

[@euanlankybombamccombie6015]

Totally,ive grown to think it is a particle in its own right..that obviously transmits in wave form and has the ability to collapse particles of ultimate potential and possibility....do we all share the same consciousness but experience our own uniquely decoded version or is it field like around us akin to a phones range!?...God I love this stuff

[@euanlankybombamccombie6015]

Ah I've just had a thought....I have been lucid in dreams a few times..but if consciousness isn't in or from our brain how can we become lucid in a dream,in bed or wherever we are asleep or where we are in our dream.....is this quantum entanglement of consciousness!???

[@euanlankybombamccombie6015]

@@GriuGriu64 I've grown to think that they will theorize and/or prove that consciousness is a particle but obviously in abundance and wave form like a field or frequency and I'm wondering if it is transmitted from an individual's physical brain or mind.....or is it something exterior to us and our brain is just the antenna or decoder

[@rektchord]

I've spent a fair amount of time in lucid dreams, going up to solid object and just trying to work out how it's possible my mind is creating such an identical experience to the matter i come into contact with when I'm awake. I have no answers but I do know it can feel more real than when I'm awake. I also experience moments of euphoria and peace within them, often with angelic singing and images of the universe. It's fascinated me my whole life

[@wonder_platypus8337]

(Not a scientist or physiologist) I'd imagine it's due to the fact that your brain stores the experience of experiences. You've never held a solid object that didn't feel like a solid object so the brain must find it much easier to represent things it already has a lot of data for. Not saying this idea holds any real water. Just a water cooler idea.

[@Degjoy]

I have heard perfect replication of songs I know (classical and complex music) I have felt very stark temperature change (when stepping ‘outside’) and I have even tasted. I have felt pressure, suction, buoyancy, and specific textures. I have knowingly woken myself up on several occasions and been awestruck that I find myself in an equally ‘real’ place, lying on my bed.

[@SAdhinayak-oz9kd]

​@Degjoy

[@Thefishos]

Lucid dreaming is indeed a life changer!!

[@amtownsyou]

Very much so!

[@islandonlinenews]

Indeed, I find the number 1 factor for inducing lucid dreams is getting lots of sleep.

[@mellingmichael777]

Yes, the full-blown variety are beyond amazing. And it's painful when suddenly out of the blue one stops having them.:-(

[@xxicuracao137]

Graham Wellington ye thats why lot of company forcing the people to have work so much hrs and having not enough sleep thy dont want us to know the truth about a good result of having lucid dreams on that we dont need to be scared on demons or other cuz jesus is the powerful than them🙏👊

[@robertw2930]

@@islandonlinenews I got one and was barely asleep 3 hours. I was aware ,but must beeen a non-flying dimension cause I tired and couldn;t. IT was that kinda of dream reminded me of back to the future ,but the alternate 1985 one.

[@joshc7865]

This guy is exactly on point. I’ve experienced lucid dreams & also the infinite expansion of awareness state he spoke about... the subjective nature of NDE’s can also be explained by lucid dreaming at death

[@mr.mikaeel6264]

After his time travels Doc decided that traveling inside one's self was the way into the future.

[@3iiis]

Imo dreams are consciousness's (our soul) way of existing outside the prison it identifies with as the body.. Its our freest form the form we actually exist in just the body doesn't have the tools, or it does which are dreams, for us to truly be free

[@kxlot79]

“Instead of reflecting, we’re *refracting* !” Major aha moment for me!💡

[@Kelsington96]

ive learned how to control all my dreams. so where lucid dream is strange for most people its what i have every night.

[@idan7989]

How??

[@Mowdown]

ً ً Some people are lucky and don‘t need these „techniques“. Everyone will lucid dream , doesn‘t matter if u use techniques. This guy here is lucky and , like he said , dreams every night with full awareness

[@JeremyCrow]

@@Mowdown It's not just luck. Maybe a bit of luck, but he says explicitly that he learned it. Meaning it doesn't just happen without trying.

[@nathanplant21]

It was weird at the end how there seemed to be such a strict time constraint just after this beautiful discourse on many worlds and transcension of spacetime :P

[@Demention94]

I've listened to so many intellectuals, acedemics, and philosophers speak on consciousness, but this guy's input is just heavy, like overwhelming. Very eye opening :)

[@euanlankybombamccombie6015]

Very much as well as being a quirky and animated chap which I find endearing he speaks from experience and not just from a txt book

[@anneford1351]

Lucid dreaming opens the door to one's human potential; staying awake in the dream, anything and everything is possible! I love it!

[@pridepotterz6564]

this man speaks with his whole body…interesting to listien to and to look at

[@michaeldelisieux5252]

Was so into non duality that experiences like lucid dreaming was completely out of the picture. Now that this experience was presented to it, would like to learn how to proceed with it. Many thanks for this talk.

[@GordonXavier]

I've had a few crazy experiences with this. Probably one of the more popular topics on my channel. People are waking up to this! Great video!

[@gauravmehra5454]

I loved it soo much!!! I'm a follower of 'Advaita' philosophy which literally means Non-Dual... If you remove all the spiritual teachings from 1st step of that philosophy... That's quite a lot almost completely similar to what he explains!! I think now we have a better proof to say spirituality has a great deal of truth actually related to our lives and the way we think about it... World should give deserving attention to do more researches on such things...

[@jedics1]

LaBerge is the poster child for learning lucid dreaming :)

[@johnzapata2837]

Incredible! What a brilliant man! Plus, he’s a joy to listen to :)

[@hellsatan1000]

Thank you so much uploading for the video!!!!

[@ichschwoersosehr]

Fantastic and useful insight into the world of different awareness.

[@automotivetech-vet]

I dream every night, all my life .. I remember all my dreams some good some vivid and out of this world, I wake up and feel excited so vivid..so surreal!!

[@ardentizzy7720]

Iv had some truly amazing lucid dreams that changed my view of the world ..

[@nathanplant21]

Sweet. I loved this at 3:08: "I don't need to see your 'reality papers' before I act with love."

[@andrewnovion5634]

I lucid dream almost every sleep. I can (all tricky) fly, telekinesis, change all features and "people". I would rather sleep at this point than be awake. I am "God" (as you might say), but often I would be a part of the script, even though I could change and control it all. I like to let my subconscious do it's part(s) but I play along.

[@andrewnovion5634]

Call me.

[@andrewnovion5634]

Lucid dreaming real researchers, let me know. I don't think this guy knows about lucid dreaming.

[@andrewnovion5634]

Bullshit! ...

[@andrewnovion5634]

As you get closer to sexual arousal your heart rate increases and you wake.

[@andrewnovion5634]

Yes, in that state you can ask questions and have them answered by "yourself".

[@theworldofluciddreams2977]

Wow he is saying exactly what I’ve been thinking about all this time...

[@chadgrewal4829]

LaBerge is a Legend.

[@clxv]

I've had very interesting dreams not just "story"wise but because of the nature of them, like how little by little I gained consciousness in them, I started being able to realice I was dreaming to actually having a couple of lucid dreams, or how I had to use my real cognitive functions and knoledge to solve some problem (like I was a hair dresser and has thinking about color theory and how chemicals interact with the way proteins/keratine work), and the most recent one where I thought I was in a dream but there where so many realistic details, like way the faces of the people I was with looked and moved with expressions, and when I asked them to touch me to confirm it their touch was so real I coudn't accept it.

[@lindabea]

He's a really fun speaker. I learned a lot, and I laughed also. He reminds me of Christopher Lloyd in "Back to the Future." 🙂

[@mv2768]

Rupert Spira brought me here and I am grateful.

[@halfpipefreak]

Morty is so sober here indeed ...

[@evanneidich]

You guys mean Rick and TOTALLY

[@dsld9838]

That's insulting, hes real not fictional character

[@mew_f_o]

i like the dream realm more than the flesh realm.. i want to dream forever

[@Magical77711]

SAMEEE. I'll meet ya in the dream realm aha :)

[@rap7123]

I'm gunna have to rewatch this one because my mind got blown from the offset. Seriously though that is a beautiful heavy discussion on some incredible topics I've never heard articulated so well

[@vconsumer]

alan watts

[@wokk9543]

gunna and offset

[@vblake530530]

This guy is a genius. Mad as a Hatter but ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!

[@lifewasgiventous1614]

If you want to invoke a lucid dream you can write on your hand a symbol mark or saying, and through out the day just glance down at it from time to time. Eventually if you find yourself in a dream and you look down at your hand your more likely to remember doing that awake and thus question if it’s a dream or not. I had a lucid dream once that I was walking in an empty parking lot, so I wanted to do something crazy and I thought of a single high rise like in New York, and by thinking of that in the next 2 minutes an entire city rose up from the ground including those town square water falls, tons of buildings a giant Farris wheel etc I woke up immediately, I’ve had about 6-8 lucid dreams in my life, and I’ve noticed if you don’t continue to change things or control the guidelines of the dream you will wake up. Also if the dream has any scary elements to it it’s difficult to control what happens in it as well. Lucid dreams have always fascinated me.

[@Dion_Mustard]

I have had out of body experiences and lucid dreams and I can tell you now, these were no illusions.

[@sydneyt.5837]

here y’all are with you’re wonderful lucid dreams and i’m here stuck with the most vivid nightmares (lucid) but unable to wake up. if i do, it’s a false awakening and a few seconds later i realize it, and so on

[@baileyekin2858]

Meditation has helped me a lot with this. I have nightmare lucid dreams also, only recently have I been able to let go of the pain and fear I experience in the dreams to get away and take control of the dream. Fear can keep us from taking control. As I found to be the same in my waking life. Every journey is different, but somehow I had to learn how to let go of fear. For me it was a process of understanding the abuse I received as a child, and how fear has shaped my waking world, and how to let that all go and forgive myself and treat myself with the love I always deserved.

[@paganiyah]

Microdosing Lsd allied with practice of lucid dreams , make me change a lot... Now I face my fears during the dream and interact with them knowing that they're actually shadows of my unconsciousness

[@nirojkandel1437]

WHAT IS TRUE? King Janank was sleeping peacefully in his palace at night. Just then the sentry came running in frantically and woke him up. "Maharaj, wake up wake up", the sentry said," our kingdom has been attacked by the enemy all of a sudden. We are surrounded from all the sides. Please do something !" Hearing this, King Janak immediately got into action. He called all his generals and got into his fighting gear. The king fought very valiantly along with all his army, but lost to the enemy that had attacked so suddenly. King Janak was now brought in front of the victor king like a prisoner. The victor king told Janak that he would not kill him, since he was also a king, but he would exile him. And so King Janak soon found himself wounded, hungry and thirsty travelling through the streets of his own capital. Such was his miserable state that that the people, who were his own subjects till just a little while ago, also refused to give him water for fear of the new victorious king. So King Janak travelled to the outskirts of his kingdom where he found a rich man giving food to the beggars. The king also stood in queue. But alas, the food finished as soon as he came to the head of the queue. But the person distributing the food toook pity on Janak's pitiable state and gave him the watery remains of food from the bottom of the vessel. In this miserable state, Janak was grateful for even this much. But as soon as he was about to sip the watery soup, an eagle pounced on his bowl. And in his efforts to save the bowl, Janak fell into the mud - hungry, thirsty and wounded - cursing his misery and change of fate in just a day's time ! It was then that Janak woke up from his dream and found himself sitting on his bed; sweating profusely. He must have shouted aloud since the sentry had come running in and asked him if he was alright. "Maharaj, what happened? Are you OK? Did you see a nightmare? ", asked the sentry. But king Janak just sat still, like in a trance. And then he uttered, "Wo sach, ya yeh sach? (Was the dream true or this is waking world true?)".The sentry, unable to understand what the king was saying, called the ministers. When they asked the king the same question, he uttered, "Wo sach, ya yeh sach?".The queen was then called who was wondering what had happened to the old man, but the king could only mutter the same words, "Wo sach, ya yeh sach?" For the next few days, the king did not speak to anyone. Even in his courtyard, where all his ministers, his queen, and eminent people used to gather the king refused to speak. He would just sit there staring blankly at the wall or at the sky. No work was getting done. If someone came to him to get his approval, the only thing he would utter was, "Wo sach, ya yeh sach?" Rumours now spread thick and fast throughout the kingdom that the king had gone off his rocker. Incidently the great sage Ashtavakra was also passing by in the capital city at that time. He too heard the stories of King Janak's mysterious state. He then decided to go and meet the king himself. When sage Ashtavakra reached king Janak's courtyard, he was greeted by the worried ministers who were kind of relieved that the great sage had come. Perhaps, he would be able to cure the king out of this mysterious condition. The sage, who had realized what had happened, smiled at everyone. He then asked the king, "How are you Janak?". The king again replied," Wo sach, ya yeh sach?" and looked at the sage blankly. Then the sage asked, "When you were rolling on the dust wounded, hungry, thirsty, depressed and miserable; was all this - your lovely queen, your faithful ministers, your well-wishers, your comfortable throne, the comforts of your palace, your power - with you?". The king's eyes immediately widened and he said, "No. It was not there.". The other's present there of course had no idea about what the sage was talking about. Only the king and the sage knew. "And now when you are here sitting with your lovely queen, your faithful ministers, your well-wishers, your comfortable throne, the comforts of your throne; is that dirt, hunger, misery around right now ?" The king again said, "No". "Then O king, na yeh sach, na woh sach." (Neither that was true, nor this is true). Hearing this, Janak was shocked. "Is nothing true then?", he asked. The sage continued, "During the defeat, were you there to experience your defeat, your misery, your wounds, your hunger and thirst?" Janak said, "Yes i was there. I agree that it might have been a dream and hence false, but i have experienced it all." "And are you here now experiencing this present with all your power and people around you?" "Yes. I am experiencing all this too", said the king. "Then O king, na yeh sach, na woh sach....KEVAL TU HEE SACH." (Neither that was true, nor this is true..only you, the experiencer of it all, is true.) Question to Ponder - Who is this experiencer? Who am I?WHAT IS TRUE? King Janank was sleeping peacefully in his palace at night. Just then the sentry came running in frantically and woke him up. "Maharaj, wake up wake up", the sentry said," our kingdom has been attacked by the enemy all of a sudden. We are surrounded from all the sides. Please do something !" Hearing this, King Janak immediately got into action. He called all his generals and got into his fighting gear. The king fought very valiantly along with all his army, but lost to the enemy that had attacked so suddenly. King Janak was now brought in front of the victor king like a prisoner. The victor king told Janak that he would not kill him, since he was also a king, but he would exile him. And so King Janak soon found himself wounded, hungry and thirsty travelling through the streets of his own capital. Such was his miserable state that that the people, who were his own subjects till just a little while ago, also refused to give him water for fear of the new victorious king. So King Janak travelled to the outskirts of his kingdom where he found a rich man giving food to the beggars. The king also stood in queue. But alas, the food finished as soon as he came to the head of the queue. But the person distributing the food toook pity on Janak's pitiable state and gave him the watery remains of food from the bottom of the vessel. In this miserable state, Janak was grateful for even this much. But as soon as he was about to sip the watery soup, an eagle pounced on his bowl. And in his efforts to save the bowl, Janak fell into the mud - hungry, thirsty and wounded - cursing his misery and change of fate in just a day's time ! It was then that Janak woke up from his dream and found himself sitting on his bed; sweating profusely. He must have shouted aloud since the sentry had come running in and asked him if he was alright. "Maharaj, what happened? Are you OK? Did you see a nightmare? ", asked the sentry. But king Janak just sat still, like in a trance. And then he uttered, "Wo sach, ya yeh sach? (Was the dream true or this is waking world true?)".The sentry, unable to understand what the king was saying, called the ministers. When they asked the king the same question, he uttered, "Wo sach, ya yeh sach?".The queen was then called who was wondering what had happened to the old man, but the king could only mutter the same words, "Wo sach, ya yeh sach?" For the next few days, the king did not speak to anyone. Even in his courtyard, where all his ministers, his queen, and eminent people used to gather the king refused to speak. He would just sit there staring blankly at the wall or at the sky. No work was getting done. If someone came to him to get his approval, the only thing he would utter was, "Wo sach, ya yeh sach?" Rumours now spread thick and fast throughout the kingdom that the king had gone off his rocker. Incidently the great sage Ashtavakra was also passing by in the capital city at that time. He too heard the stories of King Janak's mysterious state. He then decided to go and meet the king himself. When sage Ashtavakra reached king Janak's courtyard, he was greeted by the worried ministers who were kind of relieved that the great sage had come. Perhaps, he would be able to cure the king out of this mysterious condition. The sage, who had realized what had happened, smiled at everyone. He then asked the king, "How are you Janak?". The king again replied," Wo sach, ya yeh sach?" and looked at the sage blankly. Then the sage asked, "When you were rolling on the dust wounded, hungry, thirsty, depressed and miserable; was all this - your lovely queen, your faithful ministers, your well-wishers, your comfortable throne, the comforts of your palace, your power - with you?". The king's eyes immediately widened and he said, "No. It was not there.". The other's present there of course had no idea about what the sage was talking about. Only the king and the sage knew. "And now when you are here sitting with your lovely queen, your faithful ministers, your well-wishers, your comfortable throne, the comforts of your throne; is that dirt, hunger, misery around right now ?" The king again said, "No". "Then O king, na yeh sach, na woh sach." (Neither that was true, nor this is true). Hearing this, Janak was shocked. "Is nothing true then?", he asked. The sage continued, "During the defeat, were you there to experience your defeat, your misery, your wounds, your hunger and thirst?" Janak said, "Yes i was there. I agree that it might have been a dream and hence false, but i have experienced it all." "And are you here now experiencing this present with all your power and people around you?" "Yes. I am experiencing all this too", said the king. "Then O king, na yeh sach, na woh sach....KEVAL TU HEE SACH." (Neither that was true, nor this is true..only you, the experiencer of it all, is true.) Question to Ponder - Who is this experiencer? Who am I?

[@sjohnson1216]

"There's a seeker born every minute!" -- Firesign

[@ext1013]

working on it....

[@tonystephen6312]

He's a good speaker presents it well.

[@kirstinstrand6292]

My lucid dreams almost always occur BEFORE I drop off into sleep. They manifest in a semi-sleep state. Transforming? Not exactly; they mostly depict an aspect of your awake life that is coming into awareness. They can facilitate truth, depicted in Dream Symbols.

[@juliacalismusic8572]

Yesterday I was like : Hmmm I think would want to lucid dream again, AND I DID. I flew and I feel sooo good today! :D

[@CesarSandoval024]

I just wanna chill in a lucid dream to be honest... and just enjoy the scenery.. I got a beautiful spot I dreamt of...

[@wokk9543]

@@CesarSandoval024 i wanna dream about going to an alien world

[@Am_Brew]

I find it difficult to leave the hitchhiker on the side of the road and look for a more deeper meaning to my lucid dreams but it's a work in progress.

[@minimumwage2millionaire]

Haven't had a lucid dream since I got kicked out of lucid dreamland for blowing things up lol maybe I wasn't ready for so much power lol

[@baileyekin2858]

There is no difference in how we experience waking reality and dream reality, except dream reality has no boundaries. - that blew my mind when he said that. WHAT IS LIIIIFE?!

[@naz0079]

The real question is: are we currently living in a lucid dream in our waking life, but a controlled and manipulated one by a malevolent force?

[@goldilocks913]

First time seeing and hearing Steven. What a force of nature 😂

[@olm7080]

I feel a lot of synchronicities with this subject and this video in particular. I just downloaded the book "I AM THAT" a few days ago (prior seeing this video) and this video was uploaded the very day of my birthday, so... I'm very interested.

[@Hypnotherapie-strelzigDe]

lucid dreaming has much in common with self-hypnosis and modern hypnotherapy

[@bob1881]

35:51 Why it may not always benefit you to know you are dreaming 39:07 Love and suffering

[@evetsnitram8866]

I had a lucid dream two nights ago. I was in a room and I knew it was a dream(I usually have no clue) and I was excited about it. I kept saying out loud, "Ah ha! I'm dreaming and I know it!". There was a woman sitting on a chair, looked like a nun in off white and she said, "I've never seen you here before" and I said, "Its a dream, I'm an illusion". I was too excited to ask who she was and where we were. Then it all started to turn white and I woke up.

[@gymnast2890]

I never took drugs. I had a nightmare I lost my 3 yr old son & was freaking out. Then I told myself this is a dream, don't freak out. Then "But what if it isn't?"....and went back & forth but I didn't freak out & this is my WORST nightmare. I have dreams that come true in detail, people places before I meet them/see them. I dreamed someone very important to me died 3 times. In red water? I couldn't find a metaphor for red water, 8 yrs before He was run over by a boat twice. And he visited me in my dream once. I think there's a SUBCONCIOUS or spirit soul UNCONSCIOUS that supercedes this physical world. Old philosophers called it the spirit soul.....different names IT KNOWS MORE THAN I DO.....OR ANYONE COULD I keep a dream diary I don't remember my dreams for years. I never fear death my friend told me it was better & I would be OK now & in the future. He communicated telepathically & I knew I couldn't talk back. No setting or background. I felt his presence. I was in pain & conflicted, he was trying to comfort me, but it just pointed me in the right direction Did NOT impart peace to me, though he was in peace.

[@andrewstang-green3107]

Want a road map to the Dream? Ehem... Jyotish calculators are all over Google. ;) not to mention the very Mandukya Upanishad on KZbin. Blessings and enlightenment friend....... Yes, You there reading this. Isn't the Mind amazing? You are writing this as you read!! You asked if you were in a dream. The answer is always yes. Make the best of it!

[@TheRobTynanProject]

I find it that I experience most of my lucid dreaming on weekend mornings after awakening from a deep sleep and then I start to fall back asleep again. On several occasions, I have felt as if I was suddenly being sucked down into black emptiness. It feels like a perceptual movement of fluidity, like water being sucked down the drain, that produces this intense jolt of deep tranquility. From there, I have found that I am able to manifest a desired experience and the forms just appear. Other times, I come to the realization that I am dreaming while in the dream. Like the speaker, I too had a lucid dream once where I chose not to lustfully indulge and asked for a higher truth. I was manipulating clouds in the sky when a naked woman appeared in front of me. I thought about giving in, but then asked to be shown truth. I then found my perception in a black spaciousness. It seemed as if I was floating in water and I was looking upwards. It appeared that a dark shadowy human form was floating above me and I recall noticing a faint purplish light in the distance.

[@TheA13000]

Great! You actually experience a kinda of "WILD". What is the meaning of what you saw, well, that's a bit beyond my comprehension. I started to ask stuff to my dreams and the answers where a bit strange and complex, and so I have to ask them again in the next dream. Then i've got the idea to use "white cards" that in the dream shows in words the answer of what I ask. So I ask the question and then "extract" the card, and the dream write his answer in a less metaphorical and "prophetically" than usual.

[@salvadorceja3843]

That feeling you explained....I have felt so many times before....that's my indication that I'm about to go into lucid land....I just have to not freak out....it's like a buzzing vibration feeling and either falling or ascending....also clouds if colors morphing

[@MATTYBANDZ]

Wow same with me.

[@shufflewing]

Thank youse 🙏🏻🙂

[@ekaterinaivanova7521]

I have weird lucid dreaming. at some point in my dreams I realize that I'm dreaming. So I do cool things in my dreams like going to the bars making people change they face change to the way I like. Asking them to look the way I want them to look and stuff. I tried jumping down from the buildings, but Im afraid of heights, so I always stopped it. I travelled many times in my dreams and saw a lot of beautiful sceneries. But some of my dreams seemed like forever. So at some point I started questioning on how to get out from the dream and I couldn't. I was asking my body to move a finger or something to wake up. So I did waking up in my room and everything was normal - regular morning.I reached out to my phone and it was a flip phone (and I have iPhone), thats when I realized I didn't really wake up and I was still trapped in my dream. So the plot continued, I saw things, communicated with people and all that entire time I focused on waking up, I woke up and I still knew it was a dream and when I finally woke up it was the same setting as in my dream, so it took me some time to make sure I was not asleep anymore (I kept pinching myself, tried reading things and looked at the clock (for some reason I get dyslexic in my dreams and clock works in a different way). Lucid dreams can be out of this world experience, but id rather not have them.

[@euanlankybombamccombie6015]

Try this next time you are lucid.....simply look at your hands back and front and 'try' and count your fingers!!!! Or materialize mirror and look right at yourself.....try those two things and let me know what happened please

[@wokk9543]

everytime you wake up from a lucid dream then try to put your finger through your palm and if it goes through then you are still dreaming

[@ekaterinaivanova7521]

@@wokk9543 haha, true

[@safiurahmon3379]

I don't just know the difference between lucid dream and the awaking reality... In my lucid dream I saw people around me I talked to them, but no reply.. I saw all their activities but they weren't aware...

[@QED_]

20:17 I especially recommend this particular point for everyone's consideration. There's more than one interpretation/experience of "nothingness". Here, LaBerge is emphasizing that interpretation of it that understands "nothingness" to be the ABSENCE of limitation of any kind. And the absence of limitation . . . is experienced as FULLNESS (not "emptiness").

[@ohlalamuah5832]

Please help, I have dreams in which I fly like superman and have total control, I also can achieve this in other dreams when I am aware I can fly in my dreams...I just run and there I go. In other dreams when something tragic is about to happen I aware I am dreaming so I immediately get out of it or jump from one dream to another...do these experiences count as lucid dreaming??

[@user-ix7ym3jq3h]

Oh la la Muah .Yes.You are lucid dreaming. aware of dream when dreaming. Tibetan buddhist yogi use this to do dream Yoga(best to meditate on buddhist concept of emptiness because no sensory or sense disturbance involved) which help the person to train their mind (to control the conceptual mind when awake) thereby the trained person can overcome the negative emotions without carried over by it. Hence the trained person will not be affected by external sensorial negativity. Thus, happy forever.

[@mayelinhernandez119]

Oh la la Muah Yeah I think you are, if you have control and awareness then it is very likely you are in a lucid dream that's so awesome I'm still trying to have one ..

[@default587]

Oh la la Muah help for what?

[@cheryll1278]

I have heard you should turn around and ask the chaser what the purpose of the chase is. I saw this on KZbin. Weiss is the mans name.

[@squirlmy]

Stephen Laverne says this himself in another video on KZbin. In fact he suggests your are rejecting parts of yourself when you fly away from monsters and chasing enemies.Worse is trying to attacking them, because it amounts to self-destruction.

[@nicholasherbst9821]

I can lucid dream, do anything I want once I realize I'm in a dream. How do I further this.... experience?

[@medicalinterest9091]

A few days ago I had a lucid dream and remembered "home" is now. Awareness is now.

[@Magical77711]

Damn...

[@tadasjancys5650]

Wow it was great

[@CheddaSuave]

I lucid dream 3 to 5 times Everytime I sleep even when I nap, I fully control my dreams, and I smell, feel, things, I fly, walk thru walls, teleport, and all,(But I watch alot of X-Men movies) and some dreams are so real I don't realize that I'm dreaming til I wake up, and I really get mad when I dream of millions of dollars in front of me then I wake up broke...lol.....but I also have a very photographic memory, I can remember my father license plates number from 25 years ago, I can remember all my service cards- 16 digit numbers, and I can adapt to any situation And I can remain calm no matter what is going on in front of my eyes. Idk if it has something to do with my name, because my new is so close to the word "equanimity,"(which describes me to the T) idk I'm always being told I'm different from the average guy, whatever that is..but I ask my family members and none of them agree that they can control their dreams, and they all looked at me crazy when I told them what I do in my dreams, and my daughter told me twice " dad you was smiling before you woke up, and I was having a dream about a relative that had passed away recently, and in that dream I had to tell my relative that he had passed away because he didn't know he was dead.... I also remember 85% of my dreams, and I also have dreams where I am communicating with a dead ,friend or family member. And they are alive in my dream. But I never have dreams about the deceased that passed from "Suicide" makes me wonder. I have dreams where I literally leave the dimension and visit a 3rd or 4th dimension with weird looking people. Even had dreams of Aliens examining my body and then the aliens just disappeared....(That happen after I watch the movie "Dark Skies") I have had any type of dream that you can think of,(Especially the one where I'm looking at my self sleep or can't wake up but I can hear and see(Sleep paralysis), sometimes I'm afraid to fall back to sleep. I thought I was the only one who goes thru this, and the part where he said it could be mental illness is true...I can wake up from nightmares if I don't like what's going on...lol...I roll my eyes into head and I force my self to wake up, except for that dream where I wake up and jail twice before Im actually awake...." Which is one of my biggest fears, because I would be away from my kids"...I know this is deep, and I hope I can help someone or Science with my story, (Maybe it's just comes from our thought process and things we encountered throughout the day). but it's not always fun, some dreams will have me in sweats, heart pounding, and out of breath when I wake up...And last but not least, This has been going on for more than 25 years and I never sleep more than 2hrs at a time...I have a poor sleep pattern....and I've tried meds and I used to drink heavy just to stay asleep longer but woke up feeling yucky.....now I just deal with it.....But I look at things and people different I see outside the box, nothing is really what it seems, And yes Lucid dreaming is true, I wonder how would my brain waves light up if I volunteered for a study..

[@OnlyNewAgeMusic]

Thank you for this wonderful talk! If Awareness is prior to all that appears, consciousness appears in awareness, mind appears in consciousness and the body/world appears in the mind. In that sense Awareness is the only reality. The world (as perceived) is an Illusion, only Brahman (Awareness) is, Brahman (Awareness) is the world.

[@robbieward103]

I've not only experienced knowing I'm dreaming but have seen my "self" in mirrors. And even changed the scenario of my dream by jumping thru the mirror to rooms on the other side how is this possible

[@mellingmichael777]

KZbin "Journey to the Center of the Mind to get a feel for what lucid dreams are about. Btw, am I mistaken in that (the great) Dr. LeBerge is contradicting himself in this vid from what I read years ago in one of his books in that he's saying here that "reality" is not out there but in one's mind (whereas before he said that lucid dreams are NOT reality)? Lastly, is there ANY vitamin or drug that can kickstart one into having lucid dreams? Years ago I was going through a stretch of time where I was often having lucid dreams, and some were SUPER amazing, but then it all suddenly shut off and for over two decades now I've been feeling depressed about it as I don't feel connected to the Universe as I did back then. Any help would be MUCH appreciated (save for suggesting to get into some rigorous exercise routine, as I'm a little lazy and weary in my advancing years). Thanks Much!!:-)

[@marlacharbonneau590]

Read up on Galantamine. It has triggered many lucid dreams for me. It's safe but should only be taken once or twice a week because your body gets use to it and it will be less effective if overused. First take something like HTP at bedtime which gives you a rebound effect of more REM in the early morning hours. You take the Galantamine 4 - 8 mg sometime around 4am or so, depending on when you plan to get up. Good luck!

[@djackson006]

Smoke lots of weed every day for a month and then stop. You'll get a good week of lucid dreaming.

[@ghayden8080]

@@marlacharbonneau590, I have used galantamine about four times now and it hasn't done anything for me--4 mgs. Maybe I'll try 8 next time. I've tried calea z and a couple of other things... as the Lucid Sage says, you still have to do your "homework," whatever else to induce lucid dreaming.

[@ghayden8080]

@@djackson006 That might be because weed reduces REM sleep?

[@shadw4701]

Everyone in the world should learn how to lucid dream. Sadly there's lots of misinformation out there

[@sgdgsc3236]

Before I ever heard of lucid dreaming I was having them knowing I was dreaming

[@j.dragon651]

I have had a few where I stay dreaming. Yet, most of the time I realize I am dreaming I wake up, darn.

[@chophel1]

Who is the Alan that Stephen keeps referring to? Is it B Alan Wallace?

[@paxdriver]

Lots of love, this guy's pretty funny too

[@kdeeuk]

got this theorie bout dreams, that they are to do with a concious state outside the body, we no we are concious awake, but dreams prove we are in fact concious while sleep, could it be possible, that dreams are in fact prepring us for the afterlife, now this would make it possible for a dream to become reality, when the body dies in fact could point to a soul, is the soul, a dream living outside the body, all interesting stuff, i had a dream about my pet cat, whom i loved so dearly, who had died a month before it was so real in fact, i was actully strocking the cat and could feel the texture of his fur, the amazing thing was i had a great feeling of calmness when i woke, very strange, and it has stuck with me, no lewd comments please , sencible ones thank you

[@nicholasherbst9821]

Not I am... but where I am at the moment to understand the circumstance

[@kumarabhishek7130]

It is like quotes from Geeta/ Vedas. Read more on Brahm please (I have to, to see how related they are to his thoughts)

[@Vlatka211]

Is there a community somewhere? I would like to make friends lucid dreamers.

[@TheSoltor]

More to life...., yes...

[@gymnast2890]

My dream I can't explain how he felt or what he said it was in concepts. I figured some things out later. He seemed to be struggling to communicate. But I've known him all my life until his death, so I eventually figured it out. I know he ascended, he was brutally killed.

[@robwestonline]

What is the book he reads from?

[@zyxmyk]

what Nisargadatta is calling awareness in Buddhism is called, Dharmakaya or in Bon The Base. But they also say that after death a mind does not sink back into just awareness and, in fact, a mind never will. the problem with Nisargadatta "maharaj" is he tends to use different words to mean different things at different times so it's really difficult to get a coherent set of ideas out of him. he calls it awareness then but later he may call it something else. I can't follow him over the long haul. I have no idea what he's talking about from book to book.

[@hachikosenjo1915]

I just had a lucid dream like 2mins ago it feels really weird all these weird noises strange i was just dreaming normaly and then i realised i was in the dream

[@salvadorceja3843]

Like a buzzing sound...and vibration

[@andrzejsati3861]

Amassing

[@jugsewell]

Chan Master Foyan (1067-1120 ce) On the Basis of Awareness: ...This reality is not susceptible to your intellectual understanding. Now those who think, attend, and reflect all have some intellectual understanding; but then when they turn back to examine their own eyes and think of the mind that thinks, at this point why do people unknowingly say, “ It has never been blue, yellow, red, or white; it has no appearance, no form” ? I tell you, this is what I call talk; it is not your original mind. How can you think of your original mind? How can you see your own eye? When you are looking inward, furthermore, there is no seeing subject. Some people swallow this in one gulp, so their eye of insight opens wide and they immediately arrive at their homeland... Everything is always there; you see people, houses, and all sorts of forms, like boiling water bubbling. .. Once you came to the age of reason,... you listened to discriminatory thinking, and from that time on have suffered a split between the primal and the temporal. At this point, it is inevitably hard for people to restore natural order even if they want to... That is why the Buddha said, “The eyes seeing forms is equivalent to blindness; the ears hearing sounds is equivalent to deafness.” ...What we see and hear is all equivalent to an echo. It is like seeing all sorts of things in a dream- is it all there when you wake up? If you say yes, yet there’s only the blanket and pillow on the bed; if you say no, yet all those things are clearly registered in your mind, and you can tell what they were. The same is true of what you see and hear now in broad daylight. So it is said, what can be seen by the eye or heard by the ear can be studied in the scriptures and treatises; but what about the basis of awareness itself- how do you study that?

[@Queenie-the-genie]

existence exists

[@alexax3888]

sounds like an ego death on lots of shrooms, love it

[@joelleblanc8670]

Am I dreaming?

[@ly6113]

I used to have a lucid dream almost every night, now I rarely get them :(

[@smartcatcollarproject5699]

Try active imagination. You can do it at night if no time during the day.

[@ly6113]

Smart Cat Collar Project Thx

[@Vidav030]

I do reality checks...compuslively... But I never have lucid dreams or anything near it. I set intentions to do them but it just doesn't happen. What's something else I can try? Anyone?

[@morlax20]

gerald g sleep for 5 hours then wake for an hour just lay in bed try and stay awake, dont watch tv or go on your phone. Think about being in a dream, use reality checks, quit weed for a few days too lol

[@dragonsmore67]

Put yourself into sleep paralysis. Stay super still, let your body fall asleep but DO NOT FALL ASLEEP. You may see/hear something frightening, ignore it and try to slip through the floor. Fall through it. Escape, make or find a door, and know that through that door is a good dream. Once you go through it, you can control your dreams. No reality checks necessary. But, before you do this you need a dream log. Every morning you wake up, write down anything you remember, even if it's just an oven or something. Do that for a month, you'll see you can remember more, maybe even multiple dreams. Then try sleep paralysis. Just don't fear it, that will set you back.

[@robwestonline]

Throughout your waking day from time to time imagine yourself going lucid while you are “awake” now. Imagine the feeling of you going lucid right now. This is the program that will automatically run when you begin to dream. Make sense?

[@abelchavez5647]

We live in a REAL World but if you can live in both the real World and in your Dreams , you can see the future , tap into it even tap into peoples attractions

[@wzupppp]

I lucid dream a lot. what does lucid dreaming tell about a person. why do some people never have these dreams?

[@steelty]

It seems likely that it occurs more with individuals who question reality. People who take LSD often have a great number of lucid dreams for years after taking it, and likely for the same reason: they experienced another state of consciousness that caused them to question reality more frequently. Because that is how you learn to lucid dream; do reality checks and remain skeptical of reality.

[@wzupppp]

steelty that something I do often but I had my first lucid dream when I was a child. I dont remember questioning reality at that time

[@steelty]

+jan jansen Yeah, I think that's because we naturally question our surroundings more as children. Not really more questioning, but maybe more aware and notice when things aren't right. Most people have lucid dreams as children and then stop having them as adults, likely after they've become more accustomed to accepting he reality they're given. I also had many lucid dreams as a child, and then stopped having them as an adult. I always realized I was dreaming and woke myself up by closing my eyes really hard. I never wanted to be in the dream because it was strange to me. I never explored the dream world until I was an adult and realized lucid dreaming was a thing, and something we could learn to do again.

[@wzupppp]

steelty that could be true. its really interesting. thanks for your remark

[@steelty]

+jan jansen Sure no problem.

[@ivanm.r.7363]

what a great guy. he even reads Nisargadatta XD. btw currently learning how to lucid dream and i'm making great progress. everyone should try it out.

[@ajskkskskska463]

any update on the lucid dreaming

[@ivanm.r.7363]

ajskksksksk A i've had some amazing experiences a couple of months ago. then i stopped practicing. stopped writing on my dream journal and not doing reality checks. so my lucidity dissapeared. but i'm beginning my practices again. i realize that if you do them with real interest they truly work. thanks for asking. how about you?

[@ajskkskskska463]

yea seems really cool i wanna start it but i dont want to get shit like sleep paralysis thats the only thing putting me off it. Also thanks for the really fast reply ☺

[@ivanm.r.7363]

ajskksksksk A don't worry about sleep paralysis. try it! you won't regret it :)

[@TheA13000]

Sleep paralysis is great and fun if you are aware of it! Don't have fear of something that can't hurt!

[@gamecreepers]

we just found live action Rick!

[@mieblock4856]

this guy reminds me of the wacky professor from Waking Life

[@ronaldhonore3454]

It happened to me many times. The last time I knew I was dreaming, I was trying to find my way out, then a white guy in my dream knew what was happening to me, and that white guy in my dream told me to sleep, and then I woke up all of a sudden.

[@mr.mikaeel6264]

To me happened the opposite. I was in my grave when two black guys came in the tomb and the one guy says to the other. Hey, he's not dead.

[@notbrandonion]

THIS GUY IS RICK. ITS PICKLE RIIIIIIIIIIIICK

[@juleslee]

Harrison Wells