Thread: (Prove Me Wrong) No One Has Literally Ever Talked to Their Subconscious. Ever.

Originally Posted by StephL

Yeah - this makes all perfect sense - but where is the reference in your dream to lucid living, or as you so nicely put it - doing creative reality checks? If you don't actually have something from your dream to deduce that from - you're just saying it out of the blue sky, because that would have been the answer, which you would have wanted to get.

And I guess, that's the one, you should be following too! Trust thy consciousness!!

The thing why I bring it up again is not because I want to pester you - I find it highly interesting, how and why it is, that you take this extraordinary jump in conclusions - it's fascinating.

I suppose I didn't really elaborate on that much at all did I. Since it was a lucid dream, I can communicate telepathically with the dream characters. I can read their body language with 100% accuracy, and they know my every thought (if I want them to). Since this particular DC was talking too much, and not giving me any verbal space to get my question out, I had to pose it mentally. I directed a mental question along the lines of, "Isn't lucid living (basically self awareness and memory) the most effective way for me to have more lucid dreams?" and her cryptic reply about "when a cancer patient finds the cure, it isn't so important to try anymore" was a very indirect way of saying, 'you got it, run with that, stop your search' As she said that to me, it immediately brought to my mind the lucid living idea again, as if she were finding a way to express it inside my own mind.

From my personal experience in the dream, telepathic communication and all, it was like she was first baiting me for an easy out with supplements to see if I would just give up at that, but when I pushed more, with a direct question about what I thought, she agreed with me that it was the best idea. Best for me that is. Which opens up a whole can of worms about superlatives. It's best for now, but I'm pretty sure I'll improve upon it or find something better when new information presents itself to me.

Spoiler for TMI?:

Recognizing that the whole dream is me, every part of it, the communication is a bit more complex, because the entire dream is a message. I thought all these extra bits were just TMI for people. I don't recall if I included this bit earlier, but after I got my answer from her, just before I woke up, I stood there, and took in every bit of the whole experience and listened to it with every fiber of my being, every perceptive capability I have, and just absorbed it for the message it was giving me. Basically being hyper alert/mindful of every aspect of the moment, with a recognition that it is speaking to me on some level, and I can learn from it. The fact that I woke up shortly after doing this could be due to many things. Maybe it was telling me to start living this way right now. Or maybe I drank too much water before bed. Or maybe my subtle thoughts in my mind triggered the dream to occur just before waking and having to pee, precisely to give me that message. That last one sounds crazy, I'm just throwing out random interpretations at this point, I think I just had to pee...

Since I chose to believe that lucid living is the best reality check for my personal situation, I did ask directly (telepathically) about it, and since it is what I believe, it makes sense that my subconscious/unconscious/dreamcharacter/younameit would agree with me, since it is me. If I didn't believe it personally, I probably would've asked something different, and gotten a different answer. The whole premise of how to have more lucid dreams seems to me to be very dependent on the individual, and their likes/dislikes/daily life/responsibilities, etc, and I must say I have learned a lot from people on this site, which has shaped my beliefs about lucid dreaming to a good extent.