Tibetan Buddhism

Dream Yoga

Maintaining awareness in the dream state to prepare for the bardos.

Dream yoga involves becoming lucid in dreams and using that awareness for spiritual practice. It prepares the practitioner for maintaining consciousness in the intermediate states after death.

Recognize dreams as dreams, and phenomena as phenomena.

Tilopa, Mahamudra Instructions

Dream yoga develops the capacity to maintain awareness through transitions.

Six Yogas of Naropa