{"id":2496,"date":"2011-05-22T08:53:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T12:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dreamgates\/?p=2496"},"modified":"2011-05-20T01:44:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T05:44:13","slug":"an-experiment-with-tibetan-dream-yoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dreamgates\/2011\/05\/an-experiment-with-tibetan-dream-yoga.html","title":{"rendered":"An experiment with Tibetan dream yoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A note from my 1999 journal:<\/em><\/p>\n

After a long work day, I sat up with Tenzin Wangyal\u2019s book on Tibetan dream yoga. Quite a lot of it appeals to me, especially the guidance on using dream states for emotional clearing, which he calls the \u201cself-liberation\u201d of grasping and desire and \u201ckarmic traces\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Tibetans associate different dream experiences with the movement of subtle energy along the three central channels. The red one \u2013 on the right in men, on the left in women \u2013 is the channel for \u201cnegative\u201d traces, the white one for \u201cwisdom\u201d traces, and the central blue one for the clear awareness and balance associated with rigpa. Hence, if you\u2019re a man, you are encouraged to sleep on your right side to constrict the \u201cnegative\u201d channel (other way round for a woman).<\/p>\n

Tibetans also associate dream experiences with six realms, which are both dimensions of emotion and consciousness and transpersonal realms associated with gods, demigods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts and hell-beings. In dream yoga, dream experience is also linked to the chakras, and lift-off may involve successive meditation at different hours of the night (at two-hour intervals!) on the throat chakra, the brow chakra, the heart center and the \u201csecret chakra\u201d behind the genitals \u2013 which releases the challenge of confronting terrifying \u201cwrathful\u201d images and entities. I found the Dragon here \u2013 surprise, surprise! I also felt the solar plexus should be included; Tiger lives here, with a host of other protective energies.<\/p>\n

When I went to bed around 2:00AM,\u00a0 I focused lightly on Tenzin\u2019s four approved centers, not successively but all at one, and had the clear vision of colors revolving and radiating from these chakras. I lay on my back and then on my right side for quite a while without falling asleep or entering a significant flow of dream imagery (apart from an early burst of erotic flashes I associated with the focusing on the \u201csecret chakra\u201d and its \u201cblack\u201d light).<\/p>\n

When I rolled onto my left side (not<\/em> recommended by the Tibetans!) I experienced a dream series that may indeed reflect those negative \u201ckarmic traces\u201d \u2013 and also welcome emotional clearing, since (although not lucid) I traveled through these dreams and woke from them with calm, almost serene detachment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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