Lucid Dreaming and the Deathly Hallows

[faceonmars]

So, there I was. Strolling along a hillside through tall grass and watching trees gently blowing in the wind. In the valley below I saw a large lake so, with a tremendous hop, I flew down to it. I was lucid again. A young cherub-faced girl in a flowing white dress and braided hair was standing by the lake. She slowly turned to me and said , 'You are dead'. I felt the familiar tug of real world awareness wash over me as the little girl faded and I awoke feeling a bit panicked. This dream occurred years ago and would start a series of lucid dream experiences where I found myself thinking 'Am I dead?' at which time the anxiety would pull me right out of the LD. However, after a few of these dreams the overriding feeling was if I am dead... so what? The lucid dream world is so fascinating and peaceful that, if it is death, who wouldn't want to stick around? I have learned to take that primal fear and turn it around. Now, if the thought occurs I find myself thinking' Okay, I'm dead... and loving every minute of it!' Just maybe that little girl dream character was try to help me extend the experience. I wonder how many in this forum have experienced the thought 'Am I dead?' in a lucid dream and how they have handled it.

[nina]

I thought this post was going to have something to do with Harry Potter. If I had a dream character telling me I was dead in a lucid dream, it would probably make me wonder. I can't remember if it's ever happened to me. But I'm pretty sure that I've never thought I was dead inside a LD.

[Robot_Butler]

This happened to me a couple of years ago. I had a string of lucid dreams where I thought I was dead. I would become lucid in the dream, only "lucid" meant "dead" for whatever reason. I felt totally aware, had memories from my waking life, ect. I just couldn't separate the two concepts of dream world vs afterlife. It was weird. It happened in quite a few dreams, and lasted for a few months.

[faceonmars]

I think it is only natural to question a reality that you know is not the 'real' world. I would guess that most accomplished lucid dreamers, at one point or another, have found themselves thinking 'am I dead?' . Further, I would say that lucid dreaming has substantially reduced my own fear of death.

[faceonmars]

Interesting stuff: I wrote this post yesterday and last night I died in a dream (not lucid). Ahh, the power of suggestion!

[silver2k]

Yup, probably gonna happen to me too now..

[riverboy]

I've had the opposite thing happen to me. I feel really relaxed about the concept of death now that I can lucid dream. It's made me realise how subjective the human experience really is (with LD's being so vivid) and I feel that death is just another step to conquer. Who knows? Hopefully death is just one huge lucid dream.

[faceonmars]

Who knows? Hopefully death is just one huge lucid dream. If that is true then we might think about becoming 'alive' in a spiritual world like we think about being dead in our physical world. Who would ever want to leave an LD world??