So, I just achieved lucidity again this morning after an awesome dream where I decided to faith jump from the third floor onto a cement/tile floor and didn't die in the process. I think I've confirmed that the gravitational constant in my dreams is significantly less then what it is in reality, maybe even 1/2 g*, but the sensation of weightlessness remains the same. Doing this caused me to feel that if I could fall, maybe I could fly like in my dreams. The keyword knocked me into my senses...

...This was a dream...

Anyways, given that I was lucid I wanted to do the things I had previously planned. In particular (though I didn't have the state of consciousness to remember it then) I wanted to talk to my true "self", the archetype in Jungian psychology. I had a theory that we can't typically see ourselves clearly in the mirrors of our dreams because we don't truly understand ourselves (it's a metaphor of dream-language). So, in order to see clearly - I figured, why not walk through to the other side of the mirror.

This has been tried before apparently: [1] (albeit for different reasons)

Without invoking grave digging, I would like to say that I experienced the mirror a little differently. The substance was just a little thicker then water and I was easily able to climb in. But I didn't find myself on the other side. Instead, I found myself in darkness. Just darkness. I turned around and found the mirror was gone. I even tried imagining things into existence in the dream, but nothing. It was rather funny, I was in my mind's imagination experiencing a dream and I was imagining full scenery "inside of my mind". So I was imagining in my mind in my mind...

Anyways, I know other people have had similarly "stuck" experiences in their dreams when closing their eyes. Does anyone know how to get out of this "dark world" in their dreams?

-Pascal

*Seeing as it took about 2 seconds to hit the ground while falling, 3 stories are about 27 feet, gravity has an acceleration on Earth of 32 feet/sec^2 and the equation for distance traveled with constant acceleration is z_f - z_0 = 0.5 * a * t ^ 2.

**I'm also considering the possibility that the darkness was a metaphor for the idea that my true "self", the archetype is actually sleeping and that I can't meet "myself" as I'm me. Maybe if I "opened the eyes of the darkness" I would truly see as me.