Thread: The Matrix Morpheus Experiment

Well, I managed lucidity this morning but my experience didn't last and I never managed to summon Morpheus. I must be very rusty. I will continue to try, though, as this task is fairly straightforward apart from being interesting. I'll regard the following as my first half-assed attempt ...

Date: 05/01/2021
Method of entry: dream consciousness
Bedtime: 3.30am
Awakening: 8.30am
Return to bed: 8.35am
Awakening: 1.30pm
Attempt: briefly successful
Phase experience: waterspout/false awakening

Waking State

I drink a bottle of Bailey's and devour a few episodes of The Undoing series. It is well past midnight. Just before bedtime, I drink cloves tea and fall asleep to a video about lucid dreaming on my Phaser app. Upon my first awakening from deep sleep, I make sure my son is up for his remote lessons and return to bed after using the loo.

Dream State

Dream recall is vague but the setting is a beach house that I take to be mine despite the contradiction with waking life. I open the front door to admire the beach under an unusually colourful night sky. There are no stars. The sky is characterised by vivid multicoloured patches, like Monet brush strokes resembling chromatic cloud wisps against a deep ultramarine, celestial canvas. The dark sea appears to be receding, as though a tsunami is brewing near the horizon, where the vista is a lot darker and turbulent; a massive waterspout tornado is forming before my eyes, and my alarming urge to call my wife inside the house is quickly overturned by the realisation that I'm dreaming.

Phase State

The colossal waterspout dominating the sea doesn't take long to disintegrate. I allow myself to get too excited and vision starts fading. I run inside the house to touch as many objects as possible, feeling like I'm moving through an unstable corridor with furniture units along the way. Panicking that the lucid dream might collapse, I spin for a couple of seconds and then deliberately fall backwards. I perceive my body lying in bed but immediately bounce back up no matter the outcome. I'm walking around in my bedroom and perambulate into the living room. The environment is dark but feels absolutely real—as opposed to dreamlike—but I still entertain the possibility that it is hallucinatory in nature; I rub my hands and the room brightens gradually. Subsequently, I find myself lying in bed for real as my wife jolts me in her sleep. I review my experience in order to refine my practice in future attempts.