Indian researcher Ayush Srivastava has reviewed the book Dream Yoga: Illuminating Your Life Through Lucid Dreaming and the Tibetan Yogas of Sleep by Andrew Holecek. The book itself is not new, having been released in 2016. However, the scholar’s decision to analyze it from a philosophical perspective provides new insights.
The researcher emphasizes that dream yoga is not for entertainment or self-realization. He differentiates between the practice of lucid dreaming, which is commonly used for worldly purposes and represents “home entertainment,” and dream yoga, the goal of which is a profound spiritual journey.
Drawing an analogy to Sartre’s concepts of “being-for-itself” and “being-for-others,” the scholar believes that the usual practice of lucid dreaming entails an interaction with superficial desires, while dream yoga involves a search for oneself and enlightenment. Here, the practitioner creates their own dreams in pursuit of spiritual goals.
For you, is lucid dreaming a form of entertainment, a spiritual practice, or something else?
The article was published in October 2024 in the Journal of Dharma Studies.
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