Lucid Dream Meditations

If you’re looking to enhance your meditation practice in the new year, consider meditating in a lucid dream. 😴🧘

Meditation in lucid dreams can lead to profound experiences and enable dreamers to drop into deep meditative states faster than while in the waking state.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Before going to sleep, set two intentions: (1) to realize you are dreaming in a dream and (2) to remember to meditate in the dream once lucid.
2. Wake up after about 6 hours of sleep and then go back to sleep after repeating Step 1.
3. If you realize you are dreaming, do a reality check to confirm that you are indeed in a dream (e.g. I like to levitate to confirm lucidity).
4. Assume your usual meditation position in the dream and begin meditating using your preferred method from waking life.
5. Try to remain calm and witness the experience without getting too excited, as heightened emotions can cause you to wake up before fully entering a deep meditative state.

I’m fortunate to have had many meditation sessions in lucid dreams. After revisiting ~50 meditation-related dream journal entries, here are the themes that coalesced from my personal experience:

1. Sensations. Typically accompanied by intense energetic, vibrational sensations. It sometimes feels like I am going to explode.
2. Oneness. The feeling of expansive oneness beyond myself — like my consciousness popped out of the usual container and got spread across the universe.
3. Cosmic imagery. I sometimes see stars and it feels like being in outer space. It can feel like floating in a sea of cosmic bliss. Other times, it feels like vibrating in an empty void.
4. Deeper dreams. After meditating, I’m sometimes transported to a more vivid dreamscape — like other Earth-like planets that are subtly different.
5. Wiser dream figures. After meditating, there is also an increased probability of interacting with wise dream figures. Some dream figures claim to exist in that reality and refuse to be limited to being a figment of my subconscious mind.
6. More false awakenings. After meditating, It’s not uncommon for me to have more false awakenings before waking up in this physical reality. Sometimes I even write in my dream journal in the dream before ultimately waking up.

These experiences can’t be adequately put into words, and I’m eager to explore this state more. More importantly, I’m curious to hear about your experiences with meditation in lucid dreams. Feel free to share in the comments! :)