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Many people know about meditating during the day, but few are aware of the \u201cnocturnal meditations.\u201d They\u2019ve been around for thousands of years, tucked away under the blanket of darkness. Until recently, the nocturnal practices have been secret, deemed too subtle for the West. But with the mindfulness revolution in full swing and meditation now in the public domain, these \u201cdark\u201d practices are finally coming to light in the modern world. What surprises most people is how deep and vast these nocturnal meditations are\u2014and how applicable to daily life. \t<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The practices start with lucid dreaming<\/strong>, <\/em>which is when you wake up to the fact that you\u2019re dreaming while still remaining in the dream. Once it was scientifically proven in 1975, lucid dreaming has gained traction in the West. Initially, lucid dreaming isn\u2019t much of a meditation. Most people use it to indulge their fantasies\u2014to fulfill their wildest dreams in the privacy of their own mind. At this entry level, lucid dreaming is the ultimate in home entertainment, where you become the writer, producer, director, and main actor in an Academy Award-winning production of your own mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the higher levels of lucid dreaming have extraordinary psychological and even physical benefits. You can transform nightmares, rehearse things, resolve interpersonal issues, even improve athletic performance. Neuroscience has shown that you can use your mind to change your brain (neuroplasticity), and modern dream research continues to show that you can use your dreaming mind to enhance a host of daily psychological and physical activities. Lucid dreaming at this higher level is like going to night school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With some proficiency in lucid dreaming<\/g> you can progress into dream yoga,<\/strong> <\/em>which is when dreams are used for spiritual transformation. While lucid dreaming is largely about self-fulfillment, dream yoga is all about self-transcendence. It\u2019s been around for thousands of years, and the Buddha (the \u201cawakened one\u201d) was really the ultimate lucid dreamer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dream yoga, like lucid dreaming, progresses from beginning to advanced stages. A beginning yogi starts by addressing the question, “What are dreams made of?” They\u2019re made of your mind. So, by working with your dreams at this refined level, you\u2019re working to transform your mind. One early stage of dream yoga involves transforming the objects in your dreams, like changing a dream flower to a dream chair. In so doing, one discovers the malleable nature of mind and the truth of the saying, \u201cBlessed are the flexible, for they are never bent out of shape.\u201d This is the \u201cyoga\u201d or \u201cstretching\u201d part of dream yoga, which develops increased pliability of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One amazing quality of both lucid dreaming and dream yoga is that the benefits of what you do in your dreams don\u2019t stay tucked into the nighttime mind. By changing a flower into a chair in your dreams (not as easy as it sounds!), you realize you can change anger into compassion in your life. <\/em>In other words, your emotional states are not as solid as you think. They\u2019re essentially as solid as a dream, and therefore as workable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At higher levels of dream yoga, you use the \u201cexample dream\u201d or \u201cdouble delusion\u201d of the nighttime dream to wake you up from the \u201creal dream\u201d or \u201cprimary delusion\u201d of daily life\u2014which is precisely what the Buddha did. You eventually come to the shattering conclusion that this <\/em>is a dream. When seen properly\u2014when you\u2019re lucid to it\u2014your waking reality is no more concrete than a dream. So a dream yogi lives by the maxim, “This is a dream; I am free; I can change.” It\u2019s a liberating wake-up call, with profound implications for all of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For most people, lucid dreaming and dream yoga are enough. But for those wanting to go to \u201cgraduate school,\u201d one can advance into sleep yoga<\/strong> <\/em>(related to yoga nidra <\/em>in Hinduism). As incredible as it may sound, this is when you learn how to become lucid in deep, dreamless sleep. In Buddhism this is called \u201cluminosity yoga\u201d and adheres to the teaching that fundamentally there is no darkness within\u2014only light unseen. Sleep yoga turns on this nightlight, a luminosity so radiant that it eventually illuminates even the day. Scientists are currently trying to prove this outrageous claim with advanced meditators and dream yogis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLucidity\u201d is a code word for awareness. So, by working with any of these three practices, you\u2019re working to cultivate greater awareness. And what doesn\u2019t benefit with more awareness? All three of these practices engage the principle of bi-directionality, <\/em>which is all about opening a two-way street between the daytime and nighttime mind. What we do during the day affects how we sleep and dream; and what we do when we sleep and dream affects how we live during the day. By becoming lucid to our dreams and to dreamless sleep, we\u2019re secretly becoming more lucid or aware of our daily lives. So lucid dreaming leads to lucid living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As fruitful as these three practices are, there is one final step for those wanting to take the deepest dive. With some proficiency in sleep yoga, one can advance into bardo yoga<\/strong> <\/em>(\u201cgap\u201d yoga), which is when the darkness of sleep is used to prepare for the darkness of death. In Greek mythology, Thanatos (the god of death) and Hypnos (the god of sleep) aren\u2019t just brothers\u2014they\u2019re twins. Death and sleep are intimately related. In Buddhism, death is referred to as \u201cthe dream at the end of time.\u201d So bardo yoga, which is a Tibetan contribution, engages the tenet that dreamless means formless, and formless means deathless. Bardo yoga therefore introduces you to your formless\/deathless nature\u2014to who you really are. It points out the deepest part of you that doesn\u2019t get old, sick, or die. Bardo yoga is a \u201cdead end\u201d practice that points out eternal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We spend a third of our lives in sleep. If you live to be 90, you\u2019ve slept for 30 years. Imagine what you could do if you had even a fraction of that time. We spend 25% of our sleep time in dreams, which adds up to about a month a year. Think of what you could do if you added a month to each year! That\u2019s real \u201covertime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nocturnal meditations are cutting-edge practices. Neuroscientist Matthew Walker writes, \u201cIt is possible that lucid dreamers represent the next iteration in Homo sapiens\u2019<\/em> evolution.\u201d How evolutionary does that make lucid sleepers, let alone lucid \u201cdie-ers\u201d? Do you want to be the first one on your block to take the lead in evolution? Then open your eyes to the dark, engage the nocturnal meditations, and discover the leading light within. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andrew Holecek<\/strong> is the author of Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep<\/strong><\/a>. <\/em>He is also the founder of Night Club<\/em>, an online platform that explores the nocturnal meditations and the science that supports them. Learn more about Night<\/g> Club<\/strong><\/a><\/em>!
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