So weird I was just thinking about this yesterday and how that could really strengthen one's presence. I've dabbled in lucid dreaming and I feel practicing staying conscious while in lower brain wave frequencies would help strengthen the ability to consciously direct your energy body while sleeping. I say this because the few times I've done it I lost coherence pretty quickly and only got to try some basic maneuver before I'd fade away. But you get what you put into a thing and I had only dabbled.

I did have an interesting experience I would be grateful for insight on, that was quite similar to experiences Castaneda had during his forays into "the second attention"; I was 16 (I'm now 52) and had come home from school. The house was empty and I had been so tired I lay on the couch crossways, legs over the armrests on my back, and promptly fell asleep. This is what happened next: I hear the sound of rushing water growing louder and louder until it stops abruptly and then the crystal-clear sound of song birds chirping away loudly. There was a feeling in my body, like building pressure but it didn't hurt. I'm sure I've forgot certain details but next thing I open my "eyes" and notice the whole house is dark (the light was on while this happened). I can't move my body except for my neck so I turn to look and there is a dark figure standing in the doorway between living room and kitchen. It appears to be wearing a black Niqab. I think it was a woman because the eyes were kholed. But oh this being wasn't sending love and light my way let's just say that. I got scared and this fear turned to fight instead of flight and so i told it to "get the f@#$ out of here!" Not sure if that even helped. Next thing I snap back awake to a lighted living room sans malevolent middle Eastern person. I'm wondering who it was and if they are still around.

One of the simplest and most effective means of getting your brain ready to lucid dream, besides fully actualizing that is 😉, is stopping yourself many times throughout the day and coming into prescence and saying "I am aware that I am awake right now, and I will be aware when I'm dreaming" or to that effect. What worked most for me though was gazing with that script. Focus and prescence; two potent tools to get things done. Binaural beats designed for lucid dreaming are all over the place and I've used some that worked right away. Binaural beats have been effective for me for sleep and anxiety and are a great way to feel what it's like when you're in theta or gamma, and train yourself to get to that state just by intentioning it. I think though it would be wise to explore methods for keeping oneself protected during these forays.

As for dreams, my favourite are the right-brain dreams; expansive, timeless, free, and the delicious ecstasy of beingness, which I believe feel a lot like that SGOB. To feel like that as a default of beingness...now that would be something. But enough of euphemisms and wish-making.

Thanks for bringing this back up again; great topic and an invitation to re-explore. 🙏