Tibetan Dream Yoga/Energy and Lucidity

[galacticsurfer]

I started doing some techniques from a book by a Tibetan Lama to stimulate lucidity in dreams. Instead of reality checks during the day one should see the dreamlike quality of life around oneself. In the night you are supposed to wake up 3 times(ca. 2 hour intervals) and concentrate each time on a different chakra with a visualization. You start with mild dreams because of this and it goes towards brave dreams and then wild dreams at the end as they correspond to the various chakra energies. I actually had one dream where I was fairly lucid and "wild" and flew away. I have also been writing down my dreams every day faithfully since a few weeks now.

More important is I think that there is the effect of stimulating chakras during the night gives the effect of a night meditation which increases astral body energy similar to the NEW techniques from Robert Bruce(excellent by the way).

I have been having a lot of success in remembering dreams every night and even interpreting them. I see that I make reality checks to a certain extent in the dreams(I notice odd things happening) but I do not seem to really become lucid in the dreams as I do not "get it".

One example of how stupid I really can be but which also shows a deeper progress in technique. I was trying to do visualing before going back to sleep early in the morning a couple of days ago but I really fell asleep instead of being able to go consciously over into the dream as theoretically should be possible.

In the dream I am lying on a bench in a room with a lot of people and trying to do visualizing and thinking "nobody knows what the hell I am doing". I actually got a really good visual image of a beautiful nature scenery and after several seconds it whited out again. I was disappointed that I was not able to jump into it or hold it longer but tried again and closed my eyes and saw people comiing into the room in my visualization. Then I noticed no it was not a visualization but  part of reality(actually my dream). So you see some people are so vague they never understand they are dreaming. On the other hand in Tibet they say doing a technique in a dream is 9 times more effective than in waking state and I found that to be true with the visualization. It was perfectly real, not like what I visualize from waking state.

Maybe it is unimportant  if my physical body is conscious that it is sleeping. I mean what if I obtain lucidity at a certain "energy level" all the time in my dreams where I can do certain things but not others and make no progress in this sense and then get bored with the whole thing. This would maybe not be so good as when I would make a lot of energy/astral body progress with very clear progress in my dreams in such techniques or meaning in my dreams although I am not at all lucid. I would always be just under lucidity but always on a higher level so that my conscious mind always has to play catch up as the sign posts are always changing due to increased energy increasing my innate abilities.

I just seem to see that the more I learn the more my mind tricks me on the lucidity point. My energy through NEW has really increeased and my base consciousness (waking self) has become more lucid about waking reality. This seems to be the critical thing and not just experiencing things at always the same level and getting stuck on a certain level in those experiences( lcuid dreams) or in the waking reality for that matter.