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Buddhism and Christian mysticism are generally both passive in the sense that they involve a laying of oneself out into a state of abandon and consequently letting flood in whatever happens to flood in, whether that be the light of God or something much closer to matter..

The metaphysician whether Hindu, Neoplatonist, Islamic, Taoist etc is by contrast the hero who takes on a more active and experiential method of pursuing realization by directing penetrating into the nature of things.

>>19781255
>I keep a dream journal, but in 400 days I've only done about 60 dreams because I just don't always remember them.
It helps if you write it down immediately upon waking before even showing or pissing etc. Also, you can use an alarm to wake you up before you usually wake up, and if it interrupts you in the middle of a dream that can help you remember it.
>I've only ever lucid dreamt once, many years ago, and that was I believe when I was actively trying to make it happen with reality checks etc.
I recommend the book "Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self" by Robert Waggoner, it helped me have more success at becoming lucid, he gives instructions for both sleep-initiated and wake-initiated lucid dreams as well (where you remain conscious but unmoving as your body thinks its asleep and starts to enter dreaming and you directly transition from waking to the dream state) but I have not done that.

Using reality checks in combination with dream journaling works well, but the reality checks are not infallible, I've done them while dreaming and failed to recognize it was a dream before. Lastly, the herbal tea Guayusa from Ecuador that you can order online is extremely delicious, healthy, and many people report that regular consumption of it helps them lucid dream more often, so you can try adding that to your plan too.