Is this a dream or what is this exactly?

[technoviking]

Hi there, So I have a pretty big imagination and if I listen to music such as The Field, Pantha du prince or Gui buratio which is mainly pleasant noises and very little vocals I will get insane images in my head. Actually any music you give me will produce imagines in my head but the more exciting ones are when its mainly experimental electronica. I also don't have to think of what the images will be, they are just created. I can though move things around, like set the environment. But the things moving to the music I usually can't control what they look like and they are doing their own thing to the beat. But I can interact with them. Basically the music creates a world inside my head and the world is constantly changing based on the music. I actually got to the point where I can close my eyes, the world is generated after a few minutes of closing my eyes and with concentration I can enter that world and interact with what is going on. The hardest part is actually entering the world. Its super easy to get the world generated and just watch everything happening. For example my most exciting experience was when the music was very fat sounding and all of a sudden a blobby robot creature appeared and I was like HEY! I want to be on that guys shoulder. Soon enough I found myself on that robots shoulder as its moving around to the music. The land around me was green and the trees looked magical and blobby. I then saw some clouds in the distance and I wanted to get thrown into those clouds. Soon enough the robot picked me up and tossed me into the clouds. NOW here is the cool part. Once I went through the clouds I physically felt chilled like I went through some mist. I then landed and felt the tree and it felt cold/metal then I opened my eyes to tell my friend all about it. This experience is what actually made me look into lucid dreaming. Also when the music stops, the dream/experience also stops. So what is this considered?

[Darkmatters]

I know exactly what you're talking about... it's basically daydreaming. By any chance were you high at the time? That makes it even better as you can imagine (if you do that sort of thing of course). I assume it's very closely related to Hypnagogoc Imagery, which are the images that appear just as you're falling asleep and will turn into dreams. Go to the navbar across the top of the page and click on wiki, then DV Dictionary, then look up Hypnagogic Imagery or Hypnagogic Halucination or whatever it says there.

[technoviking]

Hi Darkmatters, I actually was high! I notice when I'm high the images are much more rich and exciting. Excellent I'll check those out. My roommate also can have these types of images but when I told him I actually entered the world he was like WAAT!

[Darkmatters]

Yeah I remember when I was probably around 18 or so (when I used to get high) my friend and I sat in his room with Ted Nugent cranked up real high and we leaned back in our chairs and closed our eyes and just imagined these vivid scenarios through an entire song, then we'd excitedly tell each other what we saw and try to draw them. I also lay on my bed one time listening to Supertramp's Fool's Overture and saw dancing colored strings. It's weird, to some extent you can control what you see, but mostly passively. And to a large extent it takes over and does what it will. If you can do that, you can probably do lucid dreaming pretty well. I don't really know if that correlates or not though. But it seems likely to me.

[technoviking]

Why would you ever stop getting high? Yes these experiences really get me excited for LD. I feel its coming soon! I've only had LD's as a child, and its only been twice.

[Darkmatters]

If you really want to learn about lucid dreaming, you MUST get the book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Steven LaBerge. Best book ever written on the subject. I had a few random lucids as a kid too, fun!!!

[technoviking]

Excellent! I just found the .pdf online I'll start reading it and also purchase it to support him