Thread: Dissolving the Dream

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Robert Wagonner mentions this in his book about lucid dreaming and the author of dream yogas also mentions this. Their view is that it is going beyond the normal dream construct to the "source". They also tell of experiences where they become one with the white light. Cool stuff.

i called it the void. no white light. just very dark colors (blue, purple, yellow) all swirling around. after a few minutes the new dream formed from the swirling material.

I've experimented with dissolving dreams, and as siuol said, moving through a sort of void filled with swirly lights. How the Void would appear to each person, I imagine, depends on their idea of Nothing. White as a blank page? Black as night? It's all a matter of opinion.

The problem with this method is that it's easy to lose focus, and it's difficult to recreate a scene from scratch. The best luck I've had with it was sometime last year. I focused on one tiny detail, and let the world spring up around that. It went a little like this:

I remember that I wanted to go to McAnally's to meet with the Lunar God character. I stretch a hand out in front of me and will the dream to dissolve. I close my eyes briefly, but when I open them, the green grass and concrete and sun are still there. Energy continues to swirl around me. I close my eyes again, and push through the dream-fabric.

When I open my eyes again, I can't see anything. Everything is dark, though coloured energy swirls through the space to break up the monotony. There seems to be a slight tear in the dream, so I move toward it (zooming closer, not walking). I drop to my knees and feel for the wooden door that I'm sure should be there. I imagine the texture, feel for iron handles of the closed door. I visualize the grain of the wood that should be there, the glass that is set into it.

"Open the door," says Mac, rolling his eyes. "We keep them open while we're open."

I stand up and dust myself off, shaking off the strange feeling and moving to the bar beside the door. This isn't anything like I'd imagined the place to be. The wood is darker, glossier, and everything is more streamlined than I'd expected.

Though I've never forcibly dissolved a dream, I'm pretty apt at creating from the void.

For instance, during a WILD a long ways back, I found myself floating, alone in blackness. After a minute or two, I got bored and created the universe from scratch. Didn't take too long, believe it or not.

i dont have to create the scene, i just sit back and relax and in its own time my mind does all the work for me. i usually see a blurry but bright light that contrasts with the void, and then its like i am opening my eyes (but they never closed) when really tired. its really usefull, and if i didnt find out about it i would have woken up thinking it was my eyelids or something when i could have just waited it out. and rather than dissolve the dream i entered the void by making a portal, and then walking through it with no intention of where to go, and didnt wait for a scene to form in the portal before jumping in, i just went in to blackness, but i believe dissolving it would be similar.

I have done it a few times, generally when I work on sealing stuff from within myself, though I don't see anything, darkeness, light, white, black, nothing but a "mind" exists in the place. Don't know if thats what you are talking about <.<