Lucid or Lucidish: Integration of Waking Self and Dream Self

The other night in a Dream an older lady offered me a ride in her car and I accepted her offer. Soon a car ahead of us went out of control and this sweet little old lady did not react quickly enough to avoid a head-on collision with the careening out of control auto. The first of the impact sent us off the main road down an access road that was nearly straight down for miles. Being worried for the little old lady, I instantly spread my arms and intoned an AUM which slowed our diving wreckage of a car to a halt. I motioned some office workers – the side of this mountain was covered with office cubicles – to give me a hand with the old lady and we pulled her from the wreckage and delivered her to safety, whereupon I clapped my hands to allow the wreckage of her car to finish plunging to its fate.

Ordinarily I would have said that this was a Lucid Dream, because I used lucid powers. One would suppose that one can only use Lucid Powers after having become Lucid; however, we need to wonder whether Lucid Powers can simply be used from out of habit and customary use.

What is Lucidity but the temporary conjunction and integration of Waking Consciousness with Dreaming Consciousness, or, maybe more exactly, the possession of the Dream Self by Waking Consciousness. This Invasion of the Dreaming Self by the Consciousness of the Waking Self can bring a new perspective to the Dreaming Self. The Dream Self can be awakened to a sense of Morality (the Waking Self is never as morally decadent as the usual primitive dream self) well as being given a taste for the Miraculous, along with the virtue of fearless bravery that comes with repeatedly meeting and thwarting Death. When eventually all of these lessons are learned, the Waking Self no longer is required to completely take possession of the Dreaming Self, as the Dreaming Self learns to automatically do, in each situation, as the Waking Self would have done. So it was, as in my dream of the other night, that my Dream Self did exactly what ‘I’ would have done had I gone Lucid.

Well, in fact, my Dream Self may have taken my Lucid Skills to a more refined level. I cannot recall that I had ever before spread my arms to intone an AUM in order to evoke a Miraculous Event. It seems to be a skill that I learned from dreams of which I have no conscious recall. And then the suspension of the Miracle by a dismissive clapping of my hands… I don’t recall ever having learned that either.

Anyway, let us return to the distinction between actually being Lucid and simply engaging in Lucid Activities. Remember, True Lucidity implies that Waking Consciousness has taken total possession of the Dream Self. We know it is our Waking Self because all of our Waking Memory References are in play – the Guy who has the 9 to 5 Job at the Cement Plant, or whatever, is in a Strange Dream World and looks about in awe and wonder. But a Lucid-ish Dream is one in which the Dreaming Self reproduces skills that were first learned in the State of Lucidity, from contact with the Waking Self.

There is the matter of eventual Integration of the Two Selves – the Waking Self and the Dreaming Self, which may not be entirely healthy, as I would suppose psychotic individuals are those in which the Dreaming Self has risen to the Waking Surface. But I suppose the pathological Psychotic is one whose Waking Self has lost out and not been truly Integrated into the working combination.