This morning my dream turned pretty disturbing, it started at a chili restaurant and while everyone else got their food like they ordered i got my food inside a glass of water with a AA battery in it (now that I think about this that's really weird). So, I threw a fit to the waitress and manager and demanded I get my money back, etc. She gave me my money back in those gold dollar coins (this was important for some reason) and offered me a job at a different chili place closer to my house (I think I was on vacation). I turned it down, and went home. When I got home, my dad was on the roof of a neighbor's house. When he found out I didn't take the job and that I was still out of work, he jumped down what must have been five or six stories and landed on the ground without getting hurt at all, like a ninja or something. I don't really remember much of the details here but eventually I was fighting my dad and his new wife's mom, who in the dream was really old and almost crippled. I began to kick the shit out of this poor woman (who was trying to kick the shit out of me, too, for some reason) and soon I broke her spine or something like that. The fact that I was killing this old woman, and that she was so filled with rage at me for some reason I didn't even understand, I think it was just a misunderstanding, was incredibly disturbing to me. Here's the point of the post, this situation was so unrealistically disturbing to me that I realized it was a bad dream (this was the first time in my life I ever remember me realizing that I'm dreaming), and, almost as if I was in The Matrix or something, I saw through the false reality of it and I woke myself up. As I was 'stopping' the dream, I had an incredible and profound feeling that I had achieved something fantastic, as if my dream consciousness was just as real as my 'normal' consciousness and being able to see through and cease being in the dream world was just as important as if I could do the same thing when I was awake. Anyway, it's a really hard sensation to describe, but as I was waking up I was seeing really beautiful things, like I was bending space and time, and I was completely in control of this dream universe. The only thing I can really compare it to The Matrix, lol. But then, it seemed A LOT like The Matrix to me. Is this what people mean by lucid dreaming? I haven't really looked into it much before. How can I be sure, if at all, that this experience was not done by me at all, but was just part of the dream that I was 'seeing' instead of 'doing,' if that makes sense? In the end, what disturbed me much more than me killing this enraged old lady, was that, if what I think of me as being awake is just a dream, or vice versa, what if I can transcend this form of consciousness just by truly 'knowing' that it isn't real, as I did in my dream?
Yes, you had a lucid dream. Thier great. I've been able to really discover alot about myselfwhile in a lucid dream. The only way you can use a dream to your advantage by making it lucid, or controlable, is to realize that you ARE dreaming. One way to do that is to find a lightswitch and flick it on and off, if the lighting doesnt change thenyou are probably dreaming. or to try and read a clock (the numbers are often hard to decern), or try to read small writing. FOr some reason the brain cant cope with these details,, its odd but i love flying dreams now. Literaly i could do most anthing in my dreams. can be really fun just ry it some more, you'll get the hang of it eventualy you just need practice... nowif you excuse me i got some dreams to be lucid in.
lucid dreaing is the reason i became clinically depressed, but spiritualy enlightened to the point of complete hapiness. now im happiest when im sad and saddest when im happy, which just makes me more happy, because being happy makes me sad which makes me happy. you know what i mean. i dont know about clocks being blurry and stuff in dreams, ive had dreams more real than my supposed real life. but i guess that means my brain is just that much better at discerning details than yours. weird.
no the clocks stuff is just basics that i learned forma movie called waking life, not everyones brain or dream experiance/ realness (dont know if thats the word i'm looking for) will ever bee the same. jsutsomething that i pass on topeople if they ask...
damn pizz how can you describe your dream in such detail? I resonate with you b/c I always have really crazy random dreams like that too, but I always forget them. I know they were awesome, but I just can't remember them. speaking of lucid dreams though guys, I sort of had one the other night that I need help with. All I remember is that I was downtown, and all of a sudden I realized I was dreaming ( dont remember what caused it). well anyways, once I realized I was dreaming, I DIDN'T wake up, which was cool b/c up until that point I always instantly woke up when I found out I was dreaming b/c of the shock. so now that I knew I was dreaming, I decided I wanted to fly, so I tried and tried and tried, but I JUST COULD NOT DO IT. why? eventually I gave up and just woke myself up.
I remember my dreams maybe 2% of the time and out of those maybe 2% of them are in that much detail. It sucks that you couldn't fly I am in no way an expert about lucid dreaming though, lol. Maybe you have to, like, believe you can fly. (queue r. kelly)
well you did achieve something fantastic, taking control in a sense like that. it's not something any of us can do ALL of the time. especially like if several dreamshapers are having a contest with each other inside their/each other's dreams. but it does sound like some sort of threshold passing, of like exercising or practicing some art, and the first time you do something on and of your own in and with it. =^^= .../\...
