Thread: Dreams effecting waking life

I had a nonlucid dream about a week ago. I found myself in a small town. It was a pleasent afternoon in the early spring. The air was crisp, not too cool, and the sun was bright yellow. I felt drawn to the nearby trainstation for some reason. When i got there, a train was just pulling into the station. When it stopped, i approached it and started floating through the walls of the empty cars until i got to a car that wasn't empty. There were only two people in the car and they were sitting next to each other at the far end. To my surprise, one of them was me, and the other one was a beautiful girl. The spring sun was shining through the windows. I approached them from behind. When i got to them, the girl looked up at me. She looked me straight in the eyes and i felt as if i had been sitting next to her on the train talking for hours. I slowly stroked her cheek. She smiled at me and my heart filled up with warmth, then i woke up. After wakening, i felt incredibly happy, satisified, calm, mellow and relaxed. It was a complex fealing, but in short, i just felt very very good and at ease with myself.

Since then, every time i think of that dream, i get the same fealing i got when i woke up that day, and i don't know why. The dream itself doesn't seem like a big deal to me, still, it had this huge effect on my waking life. The fealing is starting to wear of now, (about a week later), but this experience has got me thinking. I haven't before realised the incredible impact our dreams can have on us, and what use one can really have with the skill of lucid dreaming in order to effect our waking lives. I mean, if i could wake up every day and feel like i did that day, i would be a very happy man. Perhaps this strange effect was just a one time thing, but if one could duplicate the experience when lucid, one might be able to control these effects and learn to have them more often (or at all).

Have any of you experienced something like this before, or have you experienced some other ways to improve your waking life with lucid dreaming?