master checklist — the full game
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The four stages — the whole game▾
1
Stabilize attention — waking
Meditate on Guru Rinpoche for an indefinite length of time without losing the thread. Then your own breath. Then carry that into standing, walking, talking with others. This is the Elephant Path. The foundation of everything.
Sources: Daniel P. Brown · Joe Loizzo · Sustainable Happiness
2
Carry it into sleep — dream yoga
Lucid dreaming as training ground. The elephant path in sleep. Regular lucidity — start with one lucid dream a week. The WBTB method. Autosuggestion. Reality checks. This is where the real practice accelerates.
Sources: Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche · Charlie Morley · Dream Yoga
3
The bardo of deep sleep
Not just lucid dreams but awareness through dreamless sleep. Harder. The gap between dreams. Consciousness persisting through the void. This is advanced territory — the ground is prepared by stages 1 and 2.
Harder. Requires stages 1–2 as foundation.
4
Shoot the moon — the bardo of death
Dying consciously. The whole game. Every night of practice is rehearsal. Every lucid dream is a small death and rebirth. The ultimate orientation of this entire practice.
Shoot the moon. This lifetime.
Morning protocol — rise 3:30 / 4:00am
✓
Wake — no snooze
Feet on floor. The day begins here.
Nine breaths
Clear karmic traces from sleep. Body, speech, mind.
Guru Rinpoche meditation
Set intention for the day. Pray for what's ahead.
Dream log — write immediately
Before coffee. Before phone. Get it all down.
Physical diet
OMAD carnivore / keto
One meal. Clean. No cheating.
No alcohol
No coffee
Mental diet
I used social media — it did not use me
Intentional only. No scroll spirals.
Reading session
Dream literature OR fiction. Two books always running.
Creative work
Fiction writing — session 1
6:00–9:00am. Freshest brain. Plan or draft. No editing.
Fiction writing — session 2
11:00am–1:00pm. Alternate mode from session 1.
Fiction writing — session 3 or yMe work
2:00–4:00pm. Novel if flowing. Platform if dry.
Banjo practice
The YKW protocol — every 3 days
YKW — one drop
No exception. Every third day. Meditate after. No snapback.
YKW — fourth cycle: nighttime administration
Every fourth drop is taken at night. Sleep immediately after. This is advanced dream territory.
Content — daily
One note / post — Instagram or X
One thing. Dream related. Your voice.
One TikTok post
Short. Dream related. Keep showing up.
Content — weekly
One article — Thursday
Substack. Dream, consciousness, the modern magic system.
TSF newsletter — Sunday
Turtle Sean's Fiction. One piece of fiction writing. Weekly.
Dream Discourse call — biweekly Thursday 4pm PT
Dream Gate community. Show up. Keep talking.
Tuesday webinar — 2pm PT
Devotion to the Dreamer. One hour church service. Dreams and spirituality in a gilded age of confusion.
Evening protocol — asleep by 10pm
Pre-sleep meditation — 1 hour
Clear karmic traces. Set lucid intention. The elephant path in sleep begins here.
Autosuggestion — repeat until sleep
"I wake up inside of dreams." Aloud. Until you drift off. Bonus if you nod off mid-phrase.
Asleep by 10pm
King skill — waking in the night
Alarm set for 4 hours after sleep
3:30 or 4:00am. The fastest road to lucidity that exists.
Woke in the night — held the intention
Lie still. Think intensely about dreaming. Why it matters. What you want. 20–60 minutes then return to sleep.