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Intense lucid dream...

#1942788 - 09/22/03 10:20 PM (22 years, 9 months ago)

I haven't posted here in a while but I just have to share this experience. Consider this like a trip report, because it was more enlightening than any trip on a drug I've ever had. A few nights ago I had what I'm sure was my first lucid dream. I've gone lucid for tiny bits of time some nights and have "known" I was dreaming many other times, but this experience was absolutely mind-blowing.

It started when I "woke up" with sleep paralysis. I get this many times a week, so I'm so familiar with this state that I know when I'm having it and can manipulate it very easily (I can decide to go back to sleep or wake up if I want to). But this time I forgot the method to wake up (which I remembered afterwards is to move your eyes), so I started flailing my arms around. I moved each arm around and could see each one very clearly, which I found unusual for sleep paralysis. I brought both arms into view above me, and then suddenly I woke up. I woke up but not into the "real" world. This really confused me, because I felt as conscious as I would when I'm awake. My conscious awareness was equal to that of this world. I could look, move, talk, and do anything I wanted, so the feeling I had entering this other world was that it wasn't a dream. I was sure (and still am) that I'd really had woken up in another world instead of the one I'm familiar with every day. I was fully aware of the "real" world, which made me a little afraid. I was sure that I was no longer dreaming and that my soul had wandered into an alternate universe by accident. That's the feeling I had thoughout the whole "dream", to give you an idea of how it felt.

Anyway, I raised myself up from my bed and looked out the window next to me, but the street down below was no longer there. Instead I found myself staring out into some sort of post-apocalyptic fantasy world. I was inside some sort of fortress complex, with a castle forming part of the wall at the top of a hill in the distance. It all seemed very familiar to me, and I had that feeling of "coming home." I walked outside into the courtyard and watched in amazement. There were workers walking around carrying iron beams, reenforcing the stone walls. Three men walked toward me carrying a metal beam. They looked at me like an old comrade whom they hadn't seen in a long time. The bearded red-haired man in front looked very familiar, like a good friend. I couldn't remember my relationship to him though so I just said Hi as they passed by. He smiled and said the same. Then I wandered into an semi-underground garage where a mechanic was fixing up cars. The whole time I'm gazing wide-eyed at everything. There was so much detail. I stared in wonder for a minute at the sun shining through a window onto an intricate spiderweb in this garage. It looked so real. I began wondering about the process of how I got to this real/dream world. It seemed to just be matter of constructing it in your mind, and then just putting yourself there... sort of like a day dream. At this point I realized that I had created this world in my head somehow, and knew that anyone could do this, create any kind of world they want and dwell within it. I began to think of the possibilites... and what's funny is one of the first things I thought of trying next was a sex fantasy.

I'm still watching the car mechanic while thinking about this, and then I get worried, because I feel a sudden obligation to return to the "real" world. I'm wondering and hoping that I can still go back there. I wanted to stay in this place but I felt obliged that people needed me elsewhere. At this point a man comes up to me who looks to be of Native/Central American descent. He's quietly smiling at me, as if he knows exactly what I'm thinking, and I knew he was. This is the second time I met him, because I remember him at that point from a passive dream earlier in the night. He says to me: "You are more comfortable here. Black is your history. You are the navigator." The only part that made sense to me was the first part, because I felt much more at peace in this other world than in the "real" world. When he said this I realized he's some sort of important dream/spirit guide. He was walking away up a set of stairs, so I begin to follow him to ask him questions about what exactly is going on, but I didn't want to seem too eager or bother him too much. So I just end up asking him, "Can I follow you around? Can I ask you some things? What should I do?" He replies simply with a smile and "See you around." A couple seconds later the world fades away and I'm back in bed with sleep paralysis. I was aware of what was going on the whole time, and at this point I wanted to wake up rather than go back to more dreaming, so I force myself to wake and recognize my surroundings.

Now for the weirdest part. When I woke up I knew this world was also a "dream." I was certain of it, and still am. I knew this world and all other dream/altered states are of equal "reality." I've been using "real" in quotes because I now know that this world is no more real than anything else in your consciousness. It's just that this one persists even when we don't want it. We are stuck in this world only for the sake of learning, before we move onto to other experiences.

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