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I've noticed over the past few months as I try to build routines for lucid dreaming that my migraines have gotten significantly less debilitating. For context, I've suffered from migraines with severe visual and auditory aura since I was child: people's faces will start to blur and fractal, or I will hear what sounds like people murmuring in another room even when I am alone in my home; when it is really severe, I can't look at any sharp inside corners (such as the corner of whatever room I am in, or the inside of a box, or even the crease between pages of a book) because they will start to... split open, for lack of a better description. the two edges start to come apart in a searing light that leaves me completely blind and unable to move through the pain. I take a migraine medication as needed which does help, as long as I catch it early enough, but I've been taking that medication for over a year now and I was still ending up bedridden about every other week. I mean unable to move, to talk, to think, to perceive anything but the pain and fractal light.
In college I had some minor success in treating my migraines with meditation, but never enough that it felt worth it to try and find the time for regular deep meditation within my hectic schedule. My work in creating routines for lucid dreams, or maybe the stronger connection that I've felt to my dreams since beginning it, seems to have had an effect on my migraines that has my doctor confused. Not to mention myself! It's a massive relief, not being completely gut-punched by these migraines all the time, but I don't understand why lucid dreaming work would have caused this. I've gone through all of my other routines and nothing else seems a more likely candidate: if anything, I've been under more stress than usual which usually makes my episodes worse.
I guess this post is part journal, part question. Has anyone else who suffers from migraines with aura noticed improvement when doing lucid dream work? Does anyone with more knowledge of the spiritual backgrounds of the practice have an explanation? I can come up with some fantastical reasons about the pressure of the subconscious weighing and pushing out into the waking mind, but that feels.... silly.
In college I had some minor success in treating my migraines with meditation, but never enough that it felt worth it to try and find the time for regular deep meditation within my hectic schedule. My work in creating routines for lucid dreams, or maybe the stronger connection that I've felt to my dreams since beginning it, seems to have had an effect on my migraines that has my doctor confused. Not to mention myself! It's a massive relief, not being completely gut-punched by these migraines all the time, but I don't understand why lucid dreaming work would have caused this. I've gone through all of my other routines and nothing else seems a more likely candidate: if anything, I've been under more stress than usual which usually makes my episodes worse.
I guess this post is part journal, part question. Has anyone else who suffers from migraines with aura noticed improvement when doing lucid dream work? Does anyone with more knowledge of the spiritual backgrounds of the practice have an explanation? I can come up with some fantastical reasons about the pressure of the subconscious weighing and pushing out into the waking mind, but that feels.... silly.