Thread: Dealing with darkness or "the void"?

I have this right before I wake up, sometimes. If you're in no danger of waking up, have you tried opening a portal?

IMO, this requires a bit of preparation. Throughout the day and before you go to bed, visualize opening a portal/teleporting/disolving the dream/whatever method appeals to you. For instance, visualize cutting open a hole in the dreamscape, making a portal to another place with a bit more substance. Daydreaming about it tends to help me.

Originally Posted by Samael

I have this right before I wake up, sometimes. If you're in no danger of waking up, have you tried opening a portal?

IMO, this requires a bit of preparation. Throughout the day and before you go to bed, visualize opening a portal/teleporting/disolving the dream/whatever method appeals to you. For instance, visualize cutting open a hole in the dreamscape, making a portal to another place with a bit more substance. Daydreaming about it tends to help me.

I actually have not had much success with portals. That would be perfect. It seems like the mind will only do so much, like walking up steps. Baby steps. As it fully forms the dream. Now that could be entirely incorrect, visually it is possible to be seeing things instantly, your room obviously, or a world. But there is something about teleporting that is difficult.

I did have another experience with the blackness a few weeks ago. I was about to start flying and do the tunnel thing, but I could feel the ground. I stayed still a minute and listened. I could hear running water. Slowly I must have looked at the ground, when I looked back up I was in a forest at nighttime, with a stream running down a hill below me. Visually it was very weak, but it was something. I think I lasted a minute or so before waking.

So I didn't make anything, but my mind slowly, automatically almost created this place, or took me there. But I guess my body was not ready to wake up yet. I guess it's up to your mind whether a new dream will start or not. It will make that choice, wake up or stay asleep. That's one thing we can't really force, that sort of ultimate decision - sleep or awake. I woke because I was lucid, not because my body was ready to wake up, that's my theory at least.