Meditating with Sleep and Sleepiness

In this video, Mingyur Rinpoche instructs us on how to meditate while sleeping. He describes the process of having awareness as you are falling asleep and how this awareness continues in the sleeping state.
 
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Reflection Question

• Have you experimented with being aware or meditating as you are falling asleep? If so, what was it like? If you don’t have this experience, how do you react to this idea of meditating while you are sleeping?

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