What do people do with dream yoga?

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Hi everyone,

I’m curious what people here actually do with lucid dreaming or dream yoga.

It’s something I explored a bit in the past, but I’m not really sure what the deeper possibilities are supposed to be.

I did some lucid dreaming. I remember touching my hands in the dream and being amazed at how real everything felt — the sensation of touch, gravity, buildings, etc. It felt incredibly convincing. It was amazing how realistic my imagination was.

After that I experimented a bit more. I tried the Wake-Back-To-Sleep method to see if OBEs were real, but the environments I saw didn’t match my real surroundings, so it seemed more like dreaming about an OBE rather than actually leaving the body.

I also tried interacting with dream characters or entities (like aliens), but it felt like I was just talking to my own imagination. I could imagine silly things and I couldn’t take the interaction seriously since I knew I was dreaming them up.

Eventually I ran out of ideas and found it more interesting to just let the dream unfold naturally rather than trying to control it.

Since there are entire traditions and practices around lucid dreaming and dream yoga, I’m wondering what people actually use it for and what I’m missing here.

What kinds of things are realistically achievable or worth exploring?

If you have suggestions, I’d also appreciate any books, practices, or resources I could look into.

Thanks.