I just joined, so I figured I would dive right in and share my most mind-blowing Lucid Dream I've had recently. There have been many that blew my mind at the time, this one takes the cake. The main reason is that I wasn't really lucid until the very end... or was I?

There were other dreams before this, they're always a long chain of dreams. In this one I'm wading through a slow moving creek, when I came across what I thought was a large coy. Turned out it was a small water dragon. It had a fish body and a very draconian head. It was quite stunning... And aggressive. I scampered up some large roots, but it kept jumping out of the water and nipping at me. It actually managed to get a hold of me a couple times.

At this point, I'm in full blown nightmare mode. I'm focused on getting away from this thing, clambering up roots as this enormous beast is leaping out of the water in an attempt to... I don't know, eat me or something. It's kind of a generic "animal threat" theme. This whole time I was calling for help. It was all I could manage. I was so anchored in fear, that it didn't occur to me that I could be dreaming. I just continued to climb, fend off the dragon, and frantically call for help, which did eventually come.

Gracefully walking along the roots from the shore of the creek to where I was, came a girl in an Olympic style swimsuit. Her grace and fearlessness seemed oddly out of place for the situation I found myself in. Noticing her swimsuit, and assuming it meant that she would be getting in the water, I asked "You're not going to be fighting that thing are you?"

She laughed and said "no, we're taking the bridge." and sure enough there now was a bridge from where I was to the shore. It didn't appear, it was simply as if it had always been there. It was rather thin, and suspended by vines which were fastened to it's center not unlike many conjoined rope swings. Over the next few exchanges, the bridge would gradually and imperceptibly widen to resemble a more traditional suspension bridge wide enough for a car to drive across. Basically, imagine that the bridge is a symbol for my mental stability. As always, it wouldn't change from one state to another, it would simply be as if it had always been that way.

As we began to walk our way to safety, the dragon continued it's attempts to jump up and get us. "don't worry" she said, "the position of his mouth is too low for him to get hold."

But I knew this was false, I had seen it's teeth inside it's triangular reptilian head. She hadn't seen it when it managed to grab hold of my leg nor when I had to kick him off. I started to object, but she cut me off.

"sure he USED to have a more functional jaw, but now that I've planted the impression that he cannot bite you, it has become as if it were always so... And you know why don't you?"

"it's because I'm dreaming." she turned with a smile and a nod. "But if I'm dreaming, and this is all in my mind, then you are also a part of me. What part would that be?"

She replied as if the answer were obvious "the conscious mind isn't the only part which can recognize a dream for what it is. I'm from a part of your subconscious which has become lucid."



It got a little fuzzy from there, I'm sure I had more dreams, but they didn't stick as well as this one.
When I woke, my mind was blown. We lucid dreamers focus on getting our conscious minds to recognize the dream. I never once even considered the possibility of my subconscious becoming lucid. It's kind of a confusing concept since lucidity and consciousness are sort of linked and the subconscious is not conscious by definition.

Upon further thought, I realized that it actually made perfect sense. In order for my conscious mind to be aware of something, it usually has to bubble up from my subconscious first. It's actually possible that my subconscious became lucid far before I ever did... it just took me a while before I became aware of this fact. The implications of this are HUGE!

Now, I've never been able to find or meet a dream guide. I've run into a few DCs who were far more multidimensional than the average and occasionally I'll have conversations like this one. Could this simply be the same kind of experience as a dream guide or is this something entirely different? Furthermore, what could it mean to have a lucid subconscious? What are your thoughts on the implications of this?