Originally posted by evolo


But can your dream self do things you'd normally do lucid in a non-lucid state?
I remember back in the old days when there was no such thing as Lucid Dreaming. Dr. Ann Faraday, in her book "Dream Power" spoke of Lucid Dreaming over the span of less than two pages. Back in those ancient days, people worked with their Dreaming largely by Auto-Suggestion -- if you wanted to fly in your dreams, then that was the subject of all your waking affirmations, and in a few nights, or a week or two, one would have a flying dream. Nobody thought about the concept of Lucidity, and so there was no lucidity, but still, people were able to influence their dreams. Some of my most important dreams were not Lucid.

But yes, even Dr. Ann Faraday saw the promise in what was still very new when she wrote -- that Concept of Lucid Dreaming... yes, she only commented upon it in two short pages, but it was a very optimistic two pages, afterall, I remembered them (oh, wait, that was before I was such an old man and remembering things was far so less a grand accomplishment).

I still remember my first Lucid Dream. It came with great symbolism in itself. In this dream I was the leader of a Exploration Expedition. I was on top of a mountain where myself and my team had pitched a tent, and I was going over the maps. All very symbolic of higher spirituality. Suddenly, I realized that it was a Dream, and so I left the maps and walked outside and saw a Perfect mountain top with perfect pebbles under my feet, a beautifully real blue sky, and scenic valleys in all directions. It was breath-taking.

Are we all familiar with that famous Zen quandry which is "When one has climbed the flag pole, then where?" Well, when I was at the top of that Lucid Mountain, you can all guess what I did. I flew off the top of it.

But, I had already known how to fly. There WAS life before Lucidity.