I stopped smoking MJ recently (just for a while) and have been having very vivid dreams, as usually happens during a break. I wrote about my melatonin nightmares in a recent post.
Anyway, I've had an interest in lucid dreaming but the only time I've ever been aware I was dreaming was during a recurring dream I had as a child, which I described in another thread. I've never done any conscious work to try to have lucid dreams, though I have read some of Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics book. I certainly was not trying to have a lucid dream when I went to sleep last night.
I was at some sort of event, a concert or something, and after it was over I wandered into a nearby room where someone was playing piano. He asked me if I played and when I said no he told me I was in the wrong place, so I left. I wandered around the streets looking for my car, but everything was wrong for the location I thought I was at. I wandered down an alley, and somehow I ended up in a small room with two guys, neither of whom I recognized.
One of them started to tell me that he could tell when he was dreaming because he could do things he could not do when he was awake. "Like this.", he said then walked over and very casually stuck the front half of his face a few inches right into the wall. When he pulled it out and looked at me I didn't even feel surprised at this and I said to him, "Yeah, but I'm not dreaming." Then the other guy came over in front of me and said, "Yes you are." All at once I realized Wow, I am dreaming aren't I? :surprised then instantly woke up in bed. I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down the dream before I could forget it.
I remember that Bruce says that when first becoming lucid many people will awake as soon as they realize it, and it takes a while to get used to it enough to hang on.
Very cool, but very strange too. 8) I'm thinking it might be time to start keeping a dream journal.
Anyway, I've had an interest in lucid dreaming but the only time I've ever been aware I was dreaming was during a recurring dream I had as a child, which I described in another thread. I've never done any conscious work to try to have lucid dreams, though I have read some of Robert Bruce's Astral Dynamics book. I certainly was not trying to have a lucid dream when I went to sleep last night.
I was at some sort of event, a concert or something, and after it was over I wandered into a nearby room where someone was playing piano. He asked me if I played and when I said no he told me I was in the wrong place, so I left. I wandered around the streets looking for my car, but everything was wrong for the location I thought I was at. I wandered down an alley, and somehow I ended up in a small room with two guys, neither of whom I recognized.
One of them started to tell me that he could tell when he was dreaming because he could do things he could not do when he was awake. "Like this.", he said then walked over and very casually stuck the front half of his face a few inches right into the wall. When he pulled it out and looked at me I didn't even feel surprised at this and I said to him, "Yeah, but I'm not dreaming." Then the other guy came over in front of me and said, "Yes you are." All at once I realized Wow, I am dreaming aren't I? :surprised then instantly woke up in bed. I grabbed a piece of paper and wrote down the dream before I could forget it.
I remember that Bruce says that when first becoming lucid many people will awake as soon as they realize it, and it takes a while to get used to it enough to hang on.
Very cool, but very strange too. 8) I'm thinking it might be time to start keeping a dream journal.
.- SO, now i know where i'm going each night, and who i'll see...but not what will happen (so far!:lol
i noticed, fairly recently, that if my dog is whining to go out; the phone is ringing; kids crying, etc. i hear those 'outside' noises while 'inside' my dream. i am fully aware that it is a sound (or touch, or smell, or whatever) from my 'waking life'. i know i must get up, and act upon it. i occasionally have to do something nutty to wake up. the other night i could not wake up, i heard the dogs barking in awake world...it's like the sound is coming from the sky; but i know, in my sleep world, that the sound is from my awake world. i act upon the outside stimuli. in this instance i was forced to climb onto a dream table, in a dream restaurant, and basically dream face-plant into the dream concrete. i sat up straight in bed...breathing fast and hard. i don't usually have to do something so severe to wake up, but i was sleepin' HARD.
