Buddhist Study

In the West we tend to look like lucid dreaming as an interesting and sometimes psychological therapy, but rarely such a thing in connection with the acquisition of wisdom or ultimate spiritual enlightenment. In Tibetan Buddhism is lucid dreaming is primarily a tool to achieve enlightenment and only rarely as a form of therapy or as a temporary retreat of the “reality”. Tibetan religious texts go into detail as to give the state of lucid dreaming and how to interpret them. It is fascinating to see both the similarities and differences in our Western approach to lucid dreaming.

Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines devotes a chapter to lucid dreaming. It begins with a description of “resolution” that is to say really just another way to recognize the first step to having a lucid dream, to establish the intention to realize if you’re in a dream and “wake up” in the dream. The proposed method of doing this is to remember the day that “all things that the substance of dreams” and the goal is to penetrate behind the veil of illusion. Then when you go to bed to the Guru that you see when you enter the dream state and conscious enter pray.
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