Sleeping and dreaming Qi Gong

[fiercest tiger]

Anyone learn or explored this type of training?

Regards
Gaz

[Faruq]

I've done hei gong in my dreams before.

[spiralstair]

hi FT,
It is essential that one become 'self-concious' while 'unconcious' to do theses types of training. "Awake while asleep".

One good training technique for this is to go out into the woods or somewhere where it isn't likely you will be seen, take off all your clothes, and walk around shouting, " I'm Dreaming, I'm Dreaming".

Having your clothes off outside will make you 'self' concious, hearing your own voice saying "I'm dreaming" will set you up to have the same experience in your sleep.
You want to become aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming, concious of your 'self' while unconcious. From there begin many interesting (and dangerous) paths...

[Buho_Nival]

but make sure you are in the woods first....

[Faruq]

I think I'd really need to see clips of people actually performing this type of training before I'd be able to attempt it myself. It's just too dangerous for me to attempt without having seen a skilled practitioner actually performing it.

[Justaguy]

Screaming "I'm dreaming" sounds like a more intense version of an exercise that I read in a book by some psychologist who was supposedly the leading researcher on Lucid Dreaming - its been years, so no I don't remember his name. The idea is to get in the habit while waking of constantly thinking "Am I dreaming?", if you get it so that thought pops into your head on a regular basis while you're awake - it will while you're dreaming and you'll pop into lucidity.

Never worked much for me.

I learned a sleeping qigong exercise a while back, which had nothing to do with lucid dreaming. Its pretty neat - a way of getting the qi circulating through your body before you go to sleep so that it will continue to flow strongly as you're asleep.

For the really involved sleep meditations, though, I'd look towards Tibetan Dream Yoga.

[pokomkno3]

Anyone learn or explored this type of training?

Regards
Gaz

it's definitely possible with lucid dreaming ~ I know that people meditate in their dreams ~ I have done other things but it has never crossed my mind to do qigong ~ what a great idea