Thread: Hi all, got a few Q's

Originally posted by Añimalé
Hi everybody,

*I've been having lucid dreams for some time now, I don't have control over them, I don't know when they'll come, and I dont know what triggers them. I actually didn't even realize it was anything out of the ordinary until I confided the dream about seeing myself to a friend.

the odd thing is its always one of 2 dreams, The first is just me staring down at myself asleep in bed, or seeing myself doing something, sort of an out of body experience. I realize I'm asleep but I can't look around or see anything other than myself and blurred surroundings. I've probably had one of those dreams at least 10 times. The other dream which I've only had a few times consists of me opening my eyes looking forward at a big tan wall that melts as if its sand and then I wake up for real .

It's pretty odd, I know. What I was wondering was, is this usual (the subjects of the dreams)? Also are there things/substances that can induce these dreams? *

on that subject the most frequent (I think it was 4 in one week) number of dreams in a period of time was when I was in Europe this summer. After drinking absinthe (alcoholic drink w/ a chemical called wormwood/thujone) during the day I would have the lucid dream(s) at night (even after the absinthe was out of my system). I really don't understand this but I do know it was dreams I was having and not some alcoholic daze. So If anyone could shed some light on this for me it would really help clear my head.

thanks in advance

1) Welcome to the Forum!
2) You are a natural! Congrats. Controlling LDs isn't easy, even for naturals (in fact, I had no control at all when I was 3)
3) Sounds like that you could be having some False Awakenings, meaning that you think you are awake, but you really are dreaming. As for the other thing, if you are seriously awake when looking at this tan wall, it could possibly be hypnotic imagery (HI), which is associated w/the technique WILD
4) Yeah, it is normal. All dreams can be strange if you aren't controlling them. The most common substance to induce LDing that I know of would be Vitamin B6, which is commonly found in foods containing protein, vitamin pills, & Bananas.
5) Amazing! I never knew that people could drink & LD. You are talented, remember that.. (sorry I can't explain more, but I don't drink)

I have great dreams when I go to bed shortly after beginning to sober up after drinking. Alcohol can help you become lucid, and any psychedelic (like wormwood?) will increase your dream vividness, recall, and chance of LDing, though they won't do it on their own.

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I have great dreams when I go to bed shortly after beginning to sober up after drinking. Alcohol can help you become lucid, and any psychedelic (like wormwood?) will increase your dream vividness, recall, and chance of LDing, though they won't do it on their own.[/b]

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1) Welcome to the Forum!
2) You are a natural! Congrats. Controlling LDs isn't easy, even for naturals (in fact, I had no control at all when I was 3)
3) Sounds like that you could be having some False Awakenings, meaning that you think you are awake, but you really are dreaming. As for the other thing, if you are seriously awake when looking at this tan wall, it could possibly be hypnotic imagery (HI), which is associated w/the technique WILD
4) Yeah, it is normal. All dreams can be strange if you aren't controlling them. The most common substance to induce LDing that I know of would be Vitamin B6, which is commonly found in foods containing protein, vitamin pills, & Bananas.
5) Amazing! I never knew that people could drink & LD. You are talented, remember that.. (sorry I can't explain more, but I don't drink)

Wow, thanks guys, that clears up alot of what I was wondering. The odd part about the whole tan wall dream is that my house no longer has any tan walls. I forgot mention that the wall is nothing I ever saw in real life, not that I remember at least . As for the absinthe, I do know that the wormwood is some sort of mild pyschadelic chemical. Never did anything to me in real life though, no visions or anything like that . It does have some odd effects though, you feel fully aware after drinking a decent amount of the stuff and yet your body is drunk. It's sort of like your whole body went out, got drunk, and forgot to tell your brain. In any case I think if I become a little more experienced with LD's I'll try it again next time I go overseas.

Originally posted by Añimalé
Hi everybody,

*I've been having lucid dreams for some time now, I don't have control over them, I don't know when they'll come, and I dont know what triggers them. I actually didn't even realize it was anything out of the ordinary until I confided the dream about seeing myself to a friend.

the odd thing is its always one of 2 dreams, The first is just me staring down at myself asleep in bed, or seeing myself doing something, sort of an out of body experience. I realize I'm asleep but I can't look around or see anything other than myself and blurred surroundings. I've probably had one of those dreams at least 10 times. The other dream which I've only had a few times consists of me opening my eyes looking forward at a big tan wall that melts as if its sand and then I wake up for real .

It's pretty odd, I know. What I was wondering was, is this usual (the subjects of the dreams)? Also are there things/substances that can induce these dreams? *

on that subject the most frequent (I think it was 4 in one week) number of dreams in a period of time was when I was in Europe this summer. After drinking absinthe (alcoholic drink w/ a chemical called wormwood/thujone) during the day I would have the lucid dream(s) at night (even after the absinthe was out of my system). I really don't understand this but I do know it was dreams I was having and not some alcoholic daze. So If anyone could shed some light on this for me it would really help clear my head.

thanks in advance

Dear Annebelle Lee,

Only one of those two Dreams mentioned above is a true dream -- the one of you looking upon your sleeping body should actually be called an Astral Projection or, in modern terms, an Out of Body Experience (OBE), but the source of the Experience remains the same in either case -- your Higher Mind is showing you these things and putting you through these experiences as formative to your evolving character and capacities.

In the case of your Astral Projection, you are being shown, or rather it is being demonstrated, that you and your body are not strictly identical -- that there is a Sufficient Part of you that can exist outside of your Body. Your Consciousness, if not entirely independent of the body, can at least move and travel from it.

The Second Dream is very Spiritual and shows you in what I would suppose, at my level, to be a very high state. The Wall between yourself and the Truth is breaking down into sand. This supposes that you are on the tottering edge of Enlightenment.

If you had not been so very spiritual in your life up until now, then we can assign the cause of your good luck, here, to good family breeding. Before one decides to have children, one should always pick out the mate with the highest level of Spirituality, Intelligence and Health, simply for the sake of the child that will result from the match. One cannot get quality Souls from anybody, and apples insist on not falling very far from their trees. High and Noble families, despite whatever their present economic situation may be in this Age that so pushes Barbarism forward as its Ideal, but it is these Parents of Strong Spiritual and Moral Timbre that can have children who, almost as a Birth Right, come to the Highest Spiritual Realizations because they seem to be entitled to them.

Well, some Olympians are born on the Mountain Top, while the rest of us need to climb it day by day, month by month, year by year, and, yes, perhaps even Generation by Generation. We are all the crawly legs of Human Evolution.