Lucid Dreaming In Reverse: Dream Persona Possession
Lucid Dreaming In Reverse: Dream Persona Possession
As I have said before, Lucid Dreaming is intended to Integrate the Waking Self with the Dreaming Persona. But it does beg the question of whether the Dreaming Persona could also visit the Waking State and ‘take control’ just as the Waking Self invades and usurps the Dream World from the Dream Persona during Lucid Dreaming.
One needs to wonder about certain experiences as perhaps indicating that the Dreaming Persona had paid a visit and had taken over the house – when one ‘loses control of oneself’, or one’s behavior during drunken fugue states which are not remembered the next morning. In extreme cases we have the phenomena of multiple personality, where we can begin to conceptualize these competing Personalities as being Dream Personas invading Waking Life just as our Waking Selves take over in Dreams during Lucidity.
Now, ordinarily I would warn everybody to be extremely careful of allowing a Dream Persona’s taking over one’s Life. Ordinarily Dream Personas are more primitive than our Waking Selves. And often it is actually encouraged. How many dreamers will admit that they go to sleep in the hopes of enjoying some primitive experiences of the more morally indulgent Dream Persona. People go to sleep hoping for sex and violence, but little thought is given regarding the possibility that one is encouraging and strengthening these impulses within oneself, or the likelihood that one is building the strength and the substance of the Dreaming Persona. One should worry that a particularly strong Dream Persona might take over.
But then there can be some peculiar developments. Now, understand that I am an old man and have been working with my dreams and doing Lucid Dreaming for decades now. I’ve been startled lately to find that in many cases my Dream Persona is a better person then my Waking Self. Kinder, braver, more intelligent, more persuasive, and more effective.
Anyway, it appears that my program for Moralizing and Integrating the Waking Self into the Dream Persona has succeeded in its direction. The Dream Persona is no longer an indulged Primitive. But the Dream Persona has seen the Direction I have pointed and has continued on even until it has passed me by. It has become the Person I wish I was. Well, then, if such is the case, I would have nothing much to fear from my Dream Persona stepping into my Life to take control once in a while.