Thread: What's the deepest dream you've had?

Originally Posted by sivason

I suppose you never can. If one chooses to be an atheist or require physical proof, then these things will be unattainable. However, in my case these things have repeated in such clear ways that I have no doubt. I have sat completely lucid and talked with these entities for long periods. I have talked with the same recurrent DCs in literally hundreds of dreams. Everything was revealed slowly over the years with no inconsistencies. It will be unconvincing to one who chooses to doubt, when I say that the quality of these dreams is so different than normal experience that I can not doubt for a moment.

with your experience lucid dreaming while all of these things are happening, what would you tell yourself if you could go back to the years when you first started/were a beginning attempting to keep dreams lucid/not awake?
I find it's tough to stay lucid (for me) too long when a lot is going on, so I'm wondering if you have any tips for beginners in general.

Originally Posted by blizzardesigns

with your experience lucid dreaming while all of these things are happening, what would you tell yourself if you could go back to the years when you first started/were a beginning attempting to keep dreams lucid/not awake?
I find it's tough to stay lucid (for me) too long when a lot is going on, so I'm wondering if you have any tips for beginners in general.

Focus on an activity and do not let the mind wander too much. Work on mental discipline while awake, such as maintaining focus on a single mantra or thought. Example: Try sitting in the sun with a pebble in front of you. Look at the shadow, not at the pebble and relax while paying only attention to the shadow for as long as you can until you can do it for 5 minutes.
When inside the dream start by focusing on your hands. Try flexing them and feeling one hand with the other. Keep that kind of focus while going through the dream.

Originally Posted by sivason

[1] Focus on an activity and do not let the mind wander too much. [2] Work on mental discipline while awake, such as maintaining focus on a single mantra or thought. [3] Example: Try sitting in the sun with a pebble in front of you. [4] Look at the shadow, not at the pebble and relax while paying only attention to the shadow for as long as you can until you can do it for 5 minutes.
[5] When inside the dream start by focusing on your hands. [6] Try flexing them and feeling one hand with the other. [7]Keep that kind of focus while going through the dream.

Those were two sentences over the limit, Sivason... Maybe should have used that semicolon.

(Reference to this thread)

[EDIT] I guess I should add my own deepest dreams to stay on topic.

I have had deep dream in the "contemplating the world that I have created and being amazed by how vivid it is" genre. My second lucid dream captures this. I was walking on a sidewalk between too high ways. The cars were passing by fast. I walked to a tree on the sidewalk and touched a leaf. Touching it was more vivid than it would be in real life. A drop of water slid down and onto my finger. The wetness of the leaf was just amazing. In awe, I said "this tree is so beautiful". A woman passing by said "I had a tree like this in my backyard, when my dog saw it, it went 'plop'", and she did a little thing with her hands. And then, the dream went on, but that tree was amazing. And, in another LD, I had, what really marked me, was the feeling of the dream, when I had my face pressed against a yellowed window, moving my finger across its surface. Such simple moments, but so beautiful at the same time.

I have had dreams, so very ordinary, but that reached me and helped me change my behavior in real life. Just things like a woman asking me if I was happy, and I realized I was scared, a week before embarking on an exciting journey in real life. It reminded me to not let paperwork get the best of me.

I've had dreams with intense emotions, such as one in which I fathered a child, although I'm really not at that stage in real life. Weirdly, in those dreams, there is very little focus on the mother, my whole love is for the baby and this loves persists for the whole day. I had a dream, I actually entered the bedroom of my "ex-wife". Her new husband was sleeping with her. I felt no emotions towards that. I was going directly to my baby girl's baby bed, to rock her to sleep, saying, "my little girl needs her daddy to go to sleep". I think it's a very interesting dream.

And I've had dreams in which I've experienced being a complete different individual. My personal favorite: I was a seabird. And that was my life, just flying over the sea. I didn't even know what a human was, and where the boats went, and in the end, I finally decided to embark on an adventure, to leave my nest and follow the boats to wherever they go. I woke up confused to find out I was a human.

So many great memories... I love dreams.

I'm still waiting for that mystical dream experience though ... But my view right now, is that dreams are just "God" and I, just being together, so I don't have to look very far. (Replace the word "God" by whatever word you prefer, I don't personally use that word to describe what I'm talking about).

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