Milam — Practice Inside the Dreamtibetan vajrayana buddhismThe training runs across the whole night: an intention set deliberately as you fall asleep, attention held through the dissolution into sleep, and the aim of recognising, while it is happening, that a dream is a dream. Once recognised, the tradition teaches working with the dream rather than fleeing it. Milam is the third of the Six Yogas of Nāropa, an eleventh-century Tibetan transmission, where it is taught as preparation for meeting the states after death with the same recognition. It asks for real instruction and long practice — this is a description of what the lineage does, not a technique to try tonight.What it's for

Nightmares & Disturbed Sleep — A recurring nightmare is read here as the mind meeting its own projection and taking it for a world. What changes it, in this tradition, is not making the dream stop but recognising, inside it, what it is.

Waking in the Night — Waking through the night is read as the boundary between states being loose. This training works precisely at that boundary — deliberately, rather than trying to seal it.