Thread: Thinking in a lucid dream

Hey guys, I just did a Google search for "lucid dream forum" so that I could share the experience I had last night on a discussion forum. I've had a few lucid dreams every now and then, and some quasi-lucid dreams where I'm vaguely aware that I'm dreaming and can control things. But last night I had a lucid dream where I was actually aware of thinking inside the dream, separately from the thoughts that were actually creating the dream itself, and I found it rather interesting.

So, in the dream I was looking at some pictures of myself on a plane. Next thing I knew, I was on the plane in the present. The plane was much larger than they are in real life; for some reason they always are in my dreams. A friend of mine had a seat in the row behind me, so I started talking to him. In the conversation I actually mentioned the present reality being a dream, something along the lines of, "... in a dream like this one." Then I stopped and realized what I had just said, and it dawned on me that I was having a dream and completely aware of it. So I thought to myself, "Maybe I can have a lucid dream."

One thing interesting is that I could actually look around in the dream without anything changing or going all wacky and disrupting the laws of physics.

So I started floating around in the plane. The next part is the part that I find interesting. I started thinking about things to dream about. I was actually visualizing things the way I would in real life. I actually wondered if thinking about these things would cause them to manifest, since it was a dream, and technically everything I was experiencing was just a thought in itself. But they all remained thoughts, separate from what I was experiencing in the dream.

Continuity was disrupted however. I found myself walking through a building with my friend, and was completely oblivious to the fact that I had just been on a plane. I actually had intended to exit the plane and go through the terminal, but there was no transition. I was suddenly off the plane, and the building wasn't an airport. But other than that, I was still thinking of things to dream about, and none of them became real without my wanting them to. I decided to stay in the building and play around a bit with powers, floating and whatnot.

Eventually I approached the building's exit and some sort of disturbance happened; either security stopped me or there was a rude person or something, maybe a bank robber. That part is a bit vague. But I decided to handle it by turning into a god of some sort. At this point, I seemed to be losing the awareness that I was dreaming. Sometimes I'll figure out that I'm dreaming and give myself powers, but then I'll eventually forget that it's a dream and accept the powers as part of reality.

So anyway, I became this large terrible being and in a deep rumbling voice, I declared "I am Omniptipus..." then I stopped and thought about it... Omniptipus? Does it really have to end with "pus"? Not very formidable. So I said, "Okay, forget I just said that." Then I tried again, "I am Omnipitus!" Apparently I still have a sense of humor even when I turn myself into a terrible god.

I woke up shortly after that. But I was thinking about it just now how I could actually think about things within the dream without them becoming the dream.