Can't turn on the lights in a dream
I wasn't feeling well last night, and went to be early. (I thought I was getting a cold or flu, but it was really more just a feeling of being very tired and unable to wake up.) Somewhere around 9 or 10pm I had a semi-lucid dream where something happened that hasn't happened in a while.
Three hours of lucid dreams
Very cool, three hours of lucid dreams this afternoon. I decided to take the day off today, and went to the zoo in the morning, had some donuts for breakfast and a burger for lunch. When I came home in the early afternoon I felt very tired, so I decided "Hey, it's my day off", so I laid down, and bam, the lucid dreams started immediately.
Semi-lucid PK dream in old house
4:11am. Just finished a long, long dream where I thought I was awake. Not a multi-layered dream where I wake up from one dream into another, just one that had me convinced it was real.
I started off in the house where I grew up, and I'm in my room, and my brother-in-law Kenny is there with me. I should have known it was a dream then, because he's never been there, but I'm out of practice, and wasn't conscious enough to figure it out.
Lucid dream: Flying in Yucca, Arizona, September, 1992
Lucid dream last night: I gained consciousness in a dream, and I'm thinking I might be at the Hilton in College Station, Texas, where I worked in 1995-1996. I'm drifting around, exploring.
On the way out, I know I'm not at the Hilton, but I am in a nice facility. Two times I am stopped by a woman, and she keeps asking about some sort of drink, a "mango" drink, I think. After the second encounter I know I can have lucid dream sex with this woman, but I decide I'd rather get out of the hotel and fly.
Enhance your lucid dreams with a simple practice
As I noted in my last blog entry, I've been working on a method to enhance my lucid dreaming abilities that I read in a book titled The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. Based on my own experience, I think it makes a lot of sense, and more importantly, it works.
The method I'm working on right now is the first of four "Foundational Practices" that the author introduces, and this first method is to practice dreaming during the day. Specifically, as you go through your daily routine, see all of your life as a dream. As the author states when talking about this first foundational practice:
"... throughout the day, practice the dream-like nature of life until the same recognition begins to manifest in dream. Upon waking in the morning, think to yourself, 'I am awake in a dream'. When you enter the kitchen, recognize it as a dream kitchen."
Lucid, erotic dream
After practicing yoga twice a day for roughly the last 10 days, and not indulging in energy-sappers like working overtime or indulging in alcohol, my lucid dreams returned with a series of erotic, lucid dreams this morning. (Not anything I planned, but I'm also not complaining.)
I've been sleeping on my couch the last week or two, and when I gained consciousness in this dream, I was still on a couch, but the surroundings were different. I'll skip the details, but the most important technical point was when the dream went from "lucid dream" to "wait, I can feel things in this dream", including a woman who came over and sat on me (jokingly) while I was laying on the couch. When she sat on me the physical sensation was perfectly real, as was her voice, along with other sounds in the dream. Later on another woman sat on the couch next to me, and when she did I could "feel" the couch sink in where she sat down.
Trying for a good night's sleep
I haven't reported any OBE's or lucid dreams lately because I've been keeping myself a little sleep-deprived, and also drinking a little bit each night, in order to keep them from happening. Pretty shallow, I know, but sometimes you just need a break, and this is the only way I know to do it. The dreams still keep coming, but this approach seems to stop, or at least slow down, the OBE's and lucid dreams.
If you don't experience these things on a regular basis it may be hard to understand, but some times what you need is just a good night's sleep, with no special effects.
Setting my intention before going to sleep
Last night was also the first night I said a prayer ... actually, I'm not sure "prayer" is the right word, it was really more like a phrase, a way of setting my intent, or intention. I don't remember the exact words, but it was something like "I'd like to have an OBE and be able to see the card in the kitchen, OR, I'd like to have a shared lucid experience with a friend who is willing to share in this experience, and also be willing to report their experience back to me."
Hours and hours of hell
A very long dream night last night .... hours and hours of hell, over and over again. I was in a two-layered dream, almost lucid enough in the higher layer that I could control things.
Middle of the night, between 11pm and 5am ... I keep going to this deepest layer, and I'm always being attacked one way or another ... at some point I realize it's a dream ... I think "Fine, fine, it's not safe down here."
A lucid dream with real physical sensations
Wow, the lucid dream I had at three o'clock this morning was the most incredible lucid dream I've had in at least a few months. Okay, yes, there was a sexual component to it, but more important was the reality of my "senses" within the dream. Here's the scene:
First, I'm sleeping soundly, when suddenly I "wake up" inside my dream. I'm still laying in my bed, everything else is just as it is in the physical world, when a woman walks up to the bed and asks if she can get in. I'm at the point mentally where I know this is a dream, so I say sure, come on in.
