The evasive subconscious?
Hey all.
I have noticed unusual dream behaviour in the last 2 weeks and wanted to run it by the forum to get opinions on what’s happening.
Ok so I’ve been doing a dream diary for about 6 weeks and in that period have had 6 very low level lucid dreams with little control or losing lucidity quickly. After doing the diary for a while, I was watching a YouTube vid where a lucid dreamer pointed out that one of the great things about the dream diary is that the studying of it will reveal very significant ‘patterns’ or events, which can then be used as dream signs that can help with attaining lucidity.
So one of the VERY OBVIOUS scenarios I have is;
I’m on a London red bus, the ones with 2 floors, that stop every few hundred yards to pick up passengers. Suddenly the bus starts driving crazy speed, and swerving all over the place damaging cars and nearly hitting people until eventually there is a major crash, such as the bus going over a bridge, or toppling onto its side, or plunging into a lake etc, most of the accidents end with the bus landing on its side, and I usually escape a split second before the accident or if I don’t escape, I’m unharmed anyway.
I knew I had these dreams regularly but seeing it on paper just showed just how much. Often I am on a bus but there is no incident. So now I’m onto the dream, and therefore have started to Reality Check while taking the bus to and from work every day, and am trying to remember that if I find myself on a speeding bus, then I should do a reality check. These dreams occur at least twice a week sometimes more than that.
But guess what? Since I realised this about 2 weeks ago, I have not had one single bus dream, either that or I am not remembering them. Not only that, instead I’ve been having dreams where I’m traveling on a ‘COACH’ (not Red London buses, but the ones that take you from big city to big city, or small town to small town etc.) AND, these coaches are traveling very slowly, hardly any speed, not swerving and no possibility of an accident: I’m laughing right now as I think about this. It’s almost as though the subconscious is playing a game of ‘avoidance’, preventing the usual action-movie crazy bus scenario, and giving me the slow bus ride along quiet country roads to prevent me from becoming lucid now the cat’s out of the bag. The human mind is ‘Freakin Amazing’…
This reminds me of a comment in a book I’ve been reading called Liber Null & Psychonaut. It talks about something called the Psychic Censor, which makes it hard for us to be aware of irregular mental states or psychic/mental anomalies. Here’s what it says in a nutshell;
The Psychic Censor shields us from the intrusions of other realities. It edits out most telepathic communications, blinds us to prescience and reduces our ability to register significant coincidences, or recall dreams. The psychic censor is not just put there out of divine malice; ordinary physical life would be impossible without it. It would be like living permanently under the influence of hallucinogens.
Is this what’s going on in my subconscious? Is it trying to reinforce the boundaries between waking reality and dream reality to keep me from being confused? Just some food for thought. Would love to hear your ideas.
