The Well

Sometimes relating these dreams to those who have never had a LD can be
frustrating. Glad to know there are others who share in this wonderful Blessing.

Last night's dream was my fourth or so, but ranked very high on what I call the
"goose bump scale"....This is a measure of intensity based on the amount of goose bumps
you get when you recall the dream to someone the next day.


I realized I was in a dream as I was staring at a drain in the floor at some type of
sporting event. The drain was missing the grate and was circular and only about 6 inches
in diameter. I immediately decided to command a grate to appear and cover the drain...
.....DONE!.....a small metallic grate morphed onto the opening.....

(One thing that blows me away about LDs is the intense clarity and ultra realistic nature of the detail in the dreams.....)

not satisfied with just the grate appearing - (it has been a number of years since my last LD)
I found myself wanting more.....so I commanded the grate to turn into an alligator head - a friendly one...
it was slow, but it morphed into a spiny orangish alligator head.....oh yes, this is fun, so I commanded the grate
to become liquid.......at first nothing...then it began to shine as it became wet and appeared like
water running over marble.......

suddenly the wet marble grate was the size of a manhole cover and slid to the side to reveal what appeared
to be a 10 ft. deep hole/well......the watery liquid below was dark and slightly wavy.......as I leaned over,
I looked into the well/hole and commanded to see a mirror......before anything could morph, I was suddenly
realizing that the intensity level of the dream was increasing, so.....

I had a thought from a book I had read
in the past about LDs.....I changed my command to ...." SHOW ME MY GOD!"....."I COMMAND YOU TO SHOW ME MY GOD!"

I remembered that this was one thing I had always wanted to command, but never remembered to do in the past...
Again I said, "Show me my GOD!"...it still gives me chill bumps even as I type this.............for what happened next
was beautiful in its simplicity!!!!!!

I was expecting to see some sort of lighted being morph or appear in the water below...
some sort of glorious apparition or angelic figure..


..at this point I was on
my stomach and peering down into the well.......

suddenly something appeared to be rising from the well's depths....

as it neared the surface, it appeared to be ...letters?......i ask to see GOD and get letters? text?!!!!

The letters broke the surface arranged in small pieces as if each letter were constructed from hundreds of small ceramic pieces - a mosaic.....
4 simple letters that spelled one
simple word........

"JUMP"

Jump down into the unknown with no visible way out?

No way


I immediately awoke.......



How incredible..Basically, I was being told that to see what I wanted to see, I must commit....
One simple word said so much.....Kind of like it was laughing at me and saying I was not ready.
It seemed to me that my dream was reminding me that this is a journey....not a quick fix....
you cant just see God, just command up an image......can God even be contained in one image?
Well, we live in a world of instant gratification and sadly I brought that to my dream with my selfish
command of "Show me my God!"... I was wanting an image! How neat that the cool calm collected response simply
stated for me to ..jump.

I guess it could be considered a faith issue too right? Basically, if I had faith I would
have jumped, so maybe it was saying I need to work on my faith? So many things can be read into that one word....
The water was waiting, but I had no idea how deep it was, so there was no way I was jumping....how funny.
I just cannot get over it ......The word just came up from the depths of the well...... as if to say....

"I have what you seek, but first you must give yourself totally to this cause..have faith.....let go....

...jump....... I can only imagine what I would have seen if I had followed that advice......

Next time I will.

wow, that was the best and most interesting dream i have every heard. if you have any other dreams please post it.

Amazing. Remember this experience. I'm going to pray for you right now ... Done. I know, seems weird when you read it, but yea. I'm puting my faith in God that you'll find him.

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Originally Posted by frisbenis

wow, that was the best and most interesting dream i have every heard. if you have any other dreams please post it.
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Thanks for the reply. Only one prior dream could compare ....... A friend had gotten me interested in the subject of LDs......Always having been a vivid dreamer, I thought I would love to experiment with this...but I must be honest and say that I had my doubts....this whole business about how the light is more real than real...how you feel like elctricity is flowing through you at the moment you become lucid...how it seems more real than reality?....yeah right!...what could be more real than reality? Sounded like a bunch of crackpots who had taken toooooo much acid.....BUT.....What if we could go to sleep and have no boundaries in our dreams? What if every night could be like a big adventure? My dreams were always very vivid and real and easily recalled so I thought that if this stuff was real, then I must be as close as anybody to being able to experiment with this gift.
Soooooo...after doing the old "I see my hands, I know I am dreaming" recitation for 9 straight nights......nothing happened.....so on night 10, I gave up and wrote it off.....must not be for me.......
Approx 3 or 4 nights later.......it happened.....like nothing I have ever experienced......

I was in a regular dream standing atop a wonderful ridge overlooking a valley....it was autumn and nearly dark.....stars were beginning to appear as the sun was well beneath the horizon.....somehow or another I caught a glimpse of my hands in the dream....and I remember saying "I see my hands I know I am dreaming".....As God is my witness it happened just like the book said! - My hands seemed to illuminate and words cannot describe the feeling....sort of like stepping from within a foggy world to an ultra clear, super High Definition, Vivid, world of ultra awareness.....EVERYTHING WAS ON SUPER SENSITIVITY MODE.....

I was suddenly flying and the light was sourceless...meaning it was everywhere and did not eminate froma single source like our sun....it was much more clear there than in the real world.....(I know it sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have believed it either if it had not happened to me!)..........the wind was real, the light was real, the scenery was real........I was flying above a valley and I noticed a 5 dollar bill was grasped in my left hand.....the corner of the bill was flapping around in the wind as I flew.....

I saw a small town on a hillside and made a mental note that I should land there.....I saw a large cross that was standing near the center of the town - YES, I should land there...but for now, back to flying in this incredible place!...

I immediately remembered that the book said that if this was a lucid dream then I could make things change, etc...so, I commanded the 5 to change into a 10.......I did not know what to expect...I thought it would be like a magic trick and then POOF it would be done....what I did not know is that (for me at least) the item actually morphs....melts and then reforms into the new item....sure enough the 5 turned to a 10!!!!! The corner clearly displayed the classic 10 dollar bill - all the while still remaining tightly clenched in my hand......all of this was only a matter of seconds......but!!!!...guess what?.......

while playing around with MONEY....I completely missed the town and THE CROSS.......Once I relaized I had forgotten to land....I awoke..... I awoke with tears streaming down my face....... I dont do drugs, I am not into anything alternative.....dont believe in alien abductions (not knocking those who do) but just so you know, I consider myself a well grounded individual......NOTHING up to this point in my life and nothing since has ever affected me the way this first experience did.....

when someone says LDs can be more real than reality -I AGREE! I think there are different levels of LDs and not all are spiritual in nature and not all are as intense as others.......Again, I feel like there was a message ...... by focusing on money - I was ignoring or missing out on spiritual things in life.......And at that point, I was very concerned about money...newly divorced, I had next to nothing......The dream reminded me to keep things in perspective...seek Peace first..seek Serenity......God......these should be placed before tangibles and money................ I think for me, LDs are like a little taste of what Heaven will be like.....not the changing and commanding of things, but that wonderful light! Has anyone else experienced this ? If you have then you will know what I am talking about....a light that is well...no words to describe it.....

This one and the one about the well are the only 2 that lasted long enough to affect me... I really think that sometimes we are not ready for how powerful these can be..... After this last one about the well.....I think it is time that I begin to seriously explore LDs further........Take Care!

Hey Man,

Your "Well Dream" rated pretty highly on my goosebump scale as well. I really feel what you're saying. And the light! The high definition... those are the ones to remember! After a glory period where I was having a few of these high-definition dreams I started to have Lucid Dreams more frequently but they lost their definition and clarity of thought. I feel I am working towards some bigger things now (God, Guides, Spirtual Experience) and reading your posts gave me a great shot of energy.

Dae,

Rob.

Hi

Your experiences give me a sense of excitement. That 'LDs are for spiritual adventure' is a Grand Message. I highly admire and respect you. You are blessed. God Speed.

Wow, Blasphemy :P jk. I'm not stronly religious. But I wouldn't dare to Challenge GOD in the way of a simple image. Magicl dream for sure. If only you had jumped. Maybe you'd have been smitten for expecting God to be a Visual appearance :P Maybe a good thingyou did not.

I remember as a little boy looking into the sky and asking My Father (My dad) ''Where is God? How I can I see God?'' and he replied: ''You cannot. God is too great to be able to see''

At the time I thought it was so that he was everywhere and I couldn't see everywhere so...

But later I understood that he meant that God is so great He/it is simply not something like ordinairy graspable things we can see and touch.

hmm interesting..

Very interesting. I have a question for you though: If you had seen God what would you do? The Bible says that man cannot see the glory of God and live.

18Moses said, "Please show me your glory." 19And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The LORD.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live."
Exodus 33:18-20 (English Standard Version)

(i changed the one part of the text to green to point out what pertains to this situation)

I don't want to be a naysayer, I am just curious what you think? Would you really have seen God or just what you subconciously think God looks like?
God Bless!

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Originally Posted by TheDreamer

Very interesting. I have a question for you though: If you had seen God what would you do? The Bible says that man cannot see the glory of God and live.

18Moses said, "Please show me your glory." 19And he said, "I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name 'The LORD.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. 20But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live."
Exodus 33:18-20 (English Standard Version)

(i changed the one part of the text to green to point out what pertains to this situation)

I don't want to be a naysayer, I am just curious what you think? Would you really have seen God or just what you subconciously think God looks like?
God Bless!
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Great thoughts!
Thanks!
Let me first say that in the non-dream world (what we commonly refer to as reality) I would never order something to "show me God".......... God, in my opinion cannot be sumarized/contained/represented in anything as simple as a 3 dimensional image. We can see God's works in such form maybe....we can see signs from God in such form, but God as a whole? ....No.

These LD's are funny though and I think we are sometimes so overwhelmed when we realize we are finally in one, that we get a bit bold..........

I do however think the image I saw was a sign from God.....a sign that reminded me I have some faith issues to work on and that he thought my request was so outlandish that it did not even warrant an image of any kind! Hey, I didn't even get the stereotypical white being or thundering words from above! Haha. Just a
few simple letters - Yes, I think I did see part of God......a message directly delivered through a glorious Gift he has chosen to alow me to expore - the Lucid Dream!

Regarding the quoted Old Testament verse....Yes, I am aware of that quote. However, I am not a big fan of literal interpretation of the Old Testament. I believe much (not all) of the Old Testament is symbolic in nature. I take the above Old Testament quote to mean more of something like :

"Man experiences the non-spiritual world through his senses...I am more. Trying to contain everything that I am would overwhelm you to the point that your body would cease to function...How does one place the beauty of a butterfly into a "face"..How does one place the glorious sound of a baby's first cries into one "face" how does one place the awe of a perfect sunset into one face? ..How does one contain the power of a shooting star or a rainbow into one "face"?...How does someone contain my Love for the World into one "face"?........................................... ...

Just my opinions :)............................
Take Care!

I don't know if you take this part literally, but later it talks about how after Moses came down from the moutnain, his face glowed because he had been around glory of God (he actual wore a veil so that the Isrealites would not be afraid of him). If God's glory can make someone's face glow when you haven't even actually seen him, think what would happend if you did see him. Although, as you alluded to, since it was a dream, things are different than real life. I also believe that God uses dreams for various purposes at various times and you may be the blessed recipient of one such dream.
BTW, it's great to see another believer on here.
God Bless!

Hey, thanks!

SUNANDSHADOW1, I too wonder what would have happened if you had "jumped" or if I would have had the courage to do so.

Thanks so much for sharing "The Well".
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Thanks Clairity! I have been away but glad to check back in and see your comment! Take Care~

Has been a while, yet this dream still pops into mind from time to time....only I think I have a little different thought on the meaning these days.....

I asked to see God.....
the result?
"Jump"
I was called into the well......

Basically,
"Look within yourself"
"God is within, and there is your answer"

Reminds me of a great poem by Emerson:

If thou canst bear
Strong meat of simple truth
If thou durst my words compare
With what thou thinkest in my soul’s free youth,
Then take this fact unto thy soul,-----
God dwells in thee.
It is no metaphor nor parable,
It is unknown to thousands, and to thee;
Yet there is God.
II
He is in thy world,
But thy world knows him not.
He is the mighty Heart
From which life’s varied pulses part.
Clouded and shrouded there doth sit
The Infinite
Embosomed in a man;
And thou art stranger to thy guest
And know’st not what thou doth invest.
The clouds that veil his life within
Are thy thick woven webs of sin,
Which his glory struggling through
Darkens to thine evil hue.
III
Then bear thyself, O man!
Up to the scale and compass of thy guest;
Soul of thy soul.
Be great as doth beseem
The ambassador who bears
The royal presence where he goes.
IV
Give up to thy soul-----
Let it have its way-----
It is, I tell thee, God himself,
The selfsame One that rules the Whole,
Tho’ he speaks thro’ thee with a stifled voice,
And looks through thee, shorn of his beams.
But if thou listen to his voice,
If thou obey the royal thought,
It will grow clearer to thine ear,
More glorious to thine eye.
The clouds will burst that veil him now
And thou shalt see the Lord.
V
Therefore be great,
Not proud,-----too great to be proud.
Let not thine eyes rove,
Peep not in corners; let thine eyes
Look straight before thee, as befits
The simplicity of Power.
And in thy closet carry state;
Filled with light, walk therein;
And, as a king
Would do no treason to his own empire,
So do not thou to thine.
VI
This is the reason why thou dost recognize
Things now first revealed,
Because in thee resides
The Spirit that lives in all;
And thou canst learn the laws of nature
Because its author is latent in thy breast.
VII
Therefore, O happy youth,
Happy if thou dost know and love this truth,
Thou art unto thyself a law,
And since the soul of things is in thee,
Thou needest nothing out of thee.
The law, the gospel, and the Providence,
Heaven, Hell, the Judgement, and the stores
Immeasurable of Truth and Good,
All these thou must find
Within thy single mind,
Or never find.
VIII
Thou art the law;
The gospel has no revelation
Of peace and hope until there is response
From the deep chambers of thy mind thereto,-----
The rest is straw.
It can reveal no truth unknown before.
The Providence
Thou art thyself that doth dispense
Wealth to thy work, want to thy sloth,
Glory to goodness, to neglect, the moth.
Thou sow’st the wind, the whirlwind reapest,
Thou payest the wages
Of thy own work, through all ages.
The almighty energy within
Crowneth virtue, curseth sin.
Virtue sees by its own light;
Stumbleth sin in self-made night.
IX
Who approves thee doing right?
God in thee.
Who condemns thee doing wrong?
God in thee.
Who punishes thine evil deed?
God in thee.
What is thine evil meed?
Thy worse mind, with error blind
And more prone to evil
That is, the greater hiding of the God within:
The loss of peace
The terrible displeasure of this inmate
And next the consequence
More faintly as more distant wro’t
Upon our outward fortunes
Which decay with vice
With Virtue rise.
X
The selfsame God
By the same law
Makes the souls of angels glad
And the souls of devils sad
See
There is nothing else but God
Where e'er I look
All things hasten back to him
Light is but his shadow dim.
XI
Shall I ask wealth or power of God, who gave
An image of himself to be my soul?
As well might swilling ocean ask a wave,
Or the starred firmament a dying coal,-----
For that which is in me lives in the whole.
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