This post will differ from my last in that it is going to be a few points of interest from dreams I've had recently in which I have again been pointed further in the direction of lucidity, while still not quite 'getting there' as it were.
I've been complimenting my ADA with period checks in which I review the day as far back as I can to see the progression leading to the present moment. After only a few days of practicing this, I had a dream in which I was walking downtown where I live, and arrived in front of my dad's office. I was eating a box of frozen skittles in the dream, when I suddenly realized I could not remember at all how I had arrived where I was that moment. Afterward I was again swept away by the bright and vivid events that followed, all of which are obvious signs of a dream to me while awake, but are merely cause for captivation in the dream at this point. The first sign being that the skittles were frozen despite being so far from my home and being on foot, followed by a curious looking moon with a different face on its surface than normal. It had very dark and bold contours forming a much more definitive face, and there was a strange bulge on the upper left side of the disc that I pointed out to my father as I stared at it. While I was trying to figure out why the moon was so different, and what the structure could be, a street light suddenly exploded violently off to my right, waking me instantly.
In another dream, I was at a friends house, and I saw his cat walking with a limp. I spoke to it as I often speak to animals, saying "aw, kitty, did you hurt your leg?" at which point she responded "yes". "You can understand me!?" I asked. "of course" she said, "but its not me..." She spoke playfully, and had a silent sort of laugh in her voice. Also, as her mouth moved there was a clear disconnect between its frequency and the words being said, which I took note of while dreaming. It was like she was being poorly dubbed. I leaned in close and looked her right in the eyes and said, "I know... it's me" not really thinking about what that meant fully. Next I remember feeling embarrassed, as if I were being watched and might be thought crazy for talking to a cat. I rejoined my human friends on the couch and said "I think I just projected... never mind" the finishing thought that I stopped myself from speaking in the dream was "...my voice through the cat." but I stopped myself because I knew it was crazy, and then woke up.
The dream events above represent precedents in my dream life more than new perspectives achieved, another from a recent dream was watching cars drive backwards while I waited to cross a street, which I immediately wondered about in the dream, but did not make the jump to "I'm dreaming", and last night I had an even more realistic dream in which the dream took place in real world time, at my real world setting. I awoke in my bed that I knew I was sleeping in, and looked around the room, I saw shadows moving about on my walls and thought, "I can see the shadow people that my brother saw when we were kids" something I never experienced as a boy, but I hear about from many individuals. I tried to turn on my lamp, and the switch did not operate on it, or any other light in my room. I felt a bit panicky, and experienced a gasping sensation that happens occasionally in my more anxious states which I have come to recognize as being aware of my physical body's breathing. I left my room and went downstairs to sleep on the couch because I was too freaked out. I turned on the den's analog overhead lights to a low setting and laid down on the couch. "I forgot a blanket" I think and settle for just a pillow that I place beneath my head as I lay down to go back to sleep, at which point I opened my eyes, back in my room.
Again, these events mark some interesting experiences that I haven't had before that are definitely catching my attention and are just begging me to make the next step, but I'm just not quite there. I always remember dreams now, however, and they have been dazzling me more and more with levels of creativity and vividity I didn't think possible. My conclusion is that my next step is to fully comprehend that the dream is not separate from myself, or acting on me, such that I can start to externally manipulate them. I have as such changed my reality checks from testing the reality of waking life to rather reinforce to myself that I am dreaming instead of "am I dreaming?".
Also, I got a local book shop to order me a copy of the Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. It has been a good read, and a helpful supplement, I actually had found out about the book before this class, so I'm glad I'm finally getting to read it.
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