I had yet another lucid dream this morning. I was in a rural area, maybe in the south somewhere, and in and old cabin. There were a bunch of authoritative figures in the one room house with me, but I wanted them to leave, because I thought they were inhibiting my experiencing wholly the lucid experience. What I believed to be the semi-corporeal being of my subconscious was in the room with me, fortunately, and he seemed to shoo them out of the house at my unspoken demand.

I was, at this point, ready to do something worthwhile when my vision went out. This has happened often in the lucid dreams that I've had after already having 8 hours of sleep. Actually I sort developed a way of intentionally having a lucid dream after already getting a lot of sleep but I won't get into that--see my next journal entry after I post it. Anyway, I have had this happen before, my vision going black, and generally it spells the end of my dream. But a week or so ago just for fun I did this sort of exercise where I walked around my house and yard with my eyes closed to try to utilize different senses. And since I had done this so recently, I knew what to do this time when my vision went out in my dream. I tried to focus on the dream environment with my sense of smell and my kinesthetic sense, or the way it felt to move. I found that I couldn't smell, but I vividly sensed the way it felt to be walking and moving. I went outside and at some point my vision came back.

I found a creek and jumped up and clung to a beam on the underside of a bridge. I started to hoist myself along, but fell in the water. As soon as my head dunked beneath the water my vision went out again. I vividly felt the currents of the water however, which held my focus, while I pulled myself onto shore, again noting the way the splashing appealed to my tactility.

Sadly, at this point, I woke up.

The character of my subconscious, I forgot to mention, played a part in my vision going out too. The first time it went black, I interpreted his hand covering my eyes. He told me that I knew why I couldn't see. And I did--it was because I had already slept too much

I hope my subconscious returns as a character in more of my lucid dreams... he was like a tour guide of my head! How cool is that?


Anyhow, the reason I'm posting this as a thread is to enable a dialogue on the subject of the subconscious mind functioning as a character in one's dream. Is this something common? I wonder if one could give his or her subconscious advice in a dream that could serve him or her in real life. And tell me, what better dream guide could there be than your very own subconscious, the immediate architect of the dream?