Lonely janitor Bill listens to opera music on his headphones during the day and practices lucid dreaming (LD) at night, where he does things he does not dare to attempt in real life. This story, filmed in 2007 (When a Man Falls in the Forest), intrigued Hollywood star Sharon Stone so much that she began to study and practice LD.
Since then, Sharon, who played the main female role in the film and became an executive producer, has been sleeping eight hours a day. “I super love sleeping, and I love this opportunity to work on lucid dreaming,” she said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
The actress uses meditative and breathing practice as her main method of achieving this state: “I’m a Buddhist, and I enjoy meditating and chanting and the whole thing. Breathing is always your best way into everything in life – lucid dreaming, meditation, sanity, calmness, balance, temper, control. Breathing is the answer to all things.”
This is not the first time that Sharon has experienced a phase state. Let’s recall that at the beginning of this year, the star of Basic Instinct published her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, in which she shared a near-death experience. In 2001, as a result of a stroke and a brain hemorrhage, the actress saw the footage of her life rushing back through a camera lens, before reuniting with deceased loved ones. Like lucid dreams, such experiences may indicate being in a phase state, which also applies to sleep paralysis, false awakenings, etc.
Have you tried meditations and breathing exercises to improve your practice of lucid dreaming?
