Lucid Dreaming While Still Being Able To Hear With My Ears

[SimonKarlos]

I had a very unusual experience with lucid dreaming about eleven years ago. I awoke one morning and decided to go back to sleep to have a lucid dream, but was concerned about being able to sleep while my sister was talking on the phone in her bedroom, which was next to mine. (Around this period I also took melatonin on occasion to help me sleep, as well as for lucid dreaming.) However, my intent to have a lucid dream was very clear, so I simply let my concern go and went back to sleep. After a short time I was dreaming that I was walking through a neighborhood with big, beautiful houses, and I suddenly became aware that I was dreaming, which caused the dream to become extremely vivid, colorful and physical-like. However, I noticed that my physical hearing was intact, and as I walked down the street in the dreamworld I could also clearly hear my sister in her bedroom talking on the phone! I found this to be humorous and fun, yet my focus was primarily on my lucid dreaming experience, and after several seconds my awareness of my physical hearing was disconnected. I continued walking down the street, enjoying the scenery, and then decided to enter a house. I found that it had a beautiful decor, and then the dream faded and I awoke. In excitement I told my sister about the experience, as she had been talking on the phone as I was dreaming. I was amazed but not surprised at how my mind had humorously allowed me the use of my physical ears while I was dreaming (even though it was just for several seconds), without letting the sounds disturb my experience and end the dream. Blessings Kar

[Raphael]

Yeah this happens to me all the time. My clock radio will go off and it's not loud enough to wake me, so I just hear the voices in my dream. It actually works as a good dream sign for me and helps me gain lucidity. It's also really good that your dream got more vivid after becoming lucid. Many beginners have the opposite problem, their dream starts falling apart after attaining lucidity.