Hi. I just had this really powerful lucid dream that I thought i'd share. Any help with interpreting it's meaning would be appreciated. To give some background I have been engaging in dreamwork on and off for a few years now. I feel that it has made a huge difference in my life. Anyways lately I have been getting very much into mysticism, especially buddhism and kabbalah along with various altered states of conciousness such as Lucid Dreaming to help attain a deeper spirituality in my life. Anyways now to the dream. I was with my friend and his new girlfriend (he had just dumped his old one for her in this dream for some strange reason) when I started to become lucid. Anyways when I thought I might be dreaming I performed the reality test of flying in the dream and saw that I could do it so once I knew I was lucid I ventured off from them. I started going around this hotel that was like the coolest hotel and place to be at. It was really beautiful and I was flying around it. Then I came across lots of really beautiful food full of fruits and the best chocolates. I was floating around there and eating there for a while and was thinking how I wish I knew more of what I should be doing during this lucid dream except just eating great food which was loads of fun but ultimately trivial. Then I started hearing a tape play directing me through my dream. Well I decided to make things a little more interesting and decided to venture outside the hotel even though I really enjoyed it there with the food and all. Anyways I was really high up in the hotel close to outer space, so when I went outside to fly there I was surounded by beautiful stars and cosmos and was traveling towards space when that tape that was playing for me then told me to head further upward towards the light. I was flying in outer space surrounded by the beautiful cosmos and heading into the light and all of a sudden everything started to become really white and I was blinded by the light which was all I saw and I felt like my body dissolved into the light that completely surrounded me and I had the feeling of perfect bliss. It was amazing! I couldn't maintain my lucidity much after that, but I recall trying to replay that part of the tape that was telling me to go towards the light to help clarify its message with regards to what it had said because I couldn't believe what had just happened to me and wanted to be able to do it again. Anyways I feel that I had a transcendental experience. It was like I lost my ego in the white light and felt nothing but a pure blissful ecstasy. I general in my waking life I would consider myself to be a very happy person generally. There have been times in the past where I had mental breakdowns which I consider to have been spiritual crises where I had hit rock bottom and I have recovered greatly from them by this point and see myself as a renewed person after having recovered from these breakdowns which has greatly inspired my spiritual journey. Anyways this lucid dream has been a great inspiration for me towards continuing my journey on the spiritual path, but i'm not sure how much meaning I should attribute to it in my waking life. Could this be a sign that I am attaining enlightenment or at least a guidepost towards it, similar to a compass or north star that can keep me on track? Ever since I have had this dream in addition to the entusiasm it gave me to continue my spiritual path, I also feel more humble and have even less desire for material pursuits than I did before the dream. I also have a greater sense of ease feeling that everything will be ok. Before I felt more of a need to be in control of my environment, but I feel that by this point that need has greatly subsided. Anyways any help in interpreting this lucid dream would be appreciated.

Matt