3 ms·

>I have a bit of a backdoor experience into mindfulness through my background in lucid dreaming Could you elaborate on this? How does it help?

• bgroat 5y ago
  90% of lucid dreaming is just becoming extremely aware of your surroundings, and your experience of your surroundings, and whether they're real. Once you find out a few times that they aren't it can pretty fundamentally change some of your perceptions
  • state_less 5y ago
    It’s an odd thing to ‘wake up’ to the reality that you’re dreaming. Any tips on getting into that state again would be welcome. It tends to happen for me after I’ve been pretty focused/mindful of the present for some time.
    • bgroat 5y ago
      What's helped me is getting really comfortable to the fact that the things around me are never really real. They're either wholly manufactured (dreams), or partially manufactured (flawed senses and biases). This tends to make me very mindful when awake, and very lucid while asleep