Rizwan Virk

So you had that much control.

It was awesome.

Yeah.

It's interesting.

So what we call lucid dreaming, which is what you were doing there in modern times, it's a deviation of what the Tibetan monks called dream yoga.

And in dream yoga, what would happen is they would train the monks through meditation during the day, but then while they're falling asleep to try to keep... Because we have a waking consciousness and we have a dreaming consciousness, and there's a wall in the middle.

That's why it's hard to remember.

You can remember a dream when you first wake up, but then over time...

You don't remember it, but they train the monks to recognize that they're in a dream.

And I used to do a lot of lucid dreaming too.

And flying was one of my clues that, okay, this might be a dream if I can fly.

I can't tell you the number of times where I was sitting with somebody in a restaurant or something and I thought, well, this is obviously not a dream.

I'm not going to try to fly.

That would be stupid.

And then I floated up off my chair and turns out it actually was a dream.

But so they would train them.

But the reason they would train them is because then the monks would remember their waking life.

And they would remember that this is a false world.

And in Buddhism, that's basically one of the main tenets of, you know, not just the spiritual practice, but of the cosmology is that the world is Maya or an illusion, which is the term that Eastern mystics use from Sanskrit.

And basically they said, look, if you can wake up in the dream, you should be able to wake up here and remember there's a part of you that's outside the dream.