NaBloPoMo has been revived by a handful of awesome bloggers! Check out the Facebook page and join us! The prompt for Day 1 is What’s Your Dream?
Instead of writing about my aspirations in life (I may do that another time), I decided to take another spin on this topic and talk about something that’s always intrigued me, lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is when, you become conscious during your dream, and you basically realize in your dream, that you are dreaming. Then, you completely control the dream and can do anything you want – fight off a pack of wolves, swim across the ocean, jump off a building and fly.
I’ve only been able to do it three times in my life. The first time, I woke up right after saying to myself, “this is a dream”, so unfortunately, I didn’t get far. The second time, I remember the setting being similar to that of the Walking Dead, I was in the middle of a town and zombies were closing in from all directions. Right at that moment I realized I was dreaming and I took off running like I had super powers. That dream didn’t last too much longer either, so I didn’t have the chance to change the dream completely, like maybe lose the zombies.
The third time, which I’d honestly forgotten about until now, was pretty scary. I wrote about it here, which was included on Erin Pavlina’s blog. She published a book on astral projection and also has several articles on her site about lucid dreaming. There are also lots of other articles on the topic at other sites such as this one, which includes a technique I’d never heard of and I look forward to trying.
Have you had a lucid dream?
I have had very vivid dreams ever since I was a child, but I’ve never been able to master lucid dreaming. I can, however, wake up from a particularly pleasant dream and make my way back into it:-)
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How very cool! I wish I could do that! Is there a trick?
I have very vivid and often epic dreams. The type of lucid dreaming I most often have is where something is upsetting in my dream and, realizing I am dreaming, I reassure myself and change the dream. Like, “I’m dreaming. It doesn’t have to happen this way. It’s ok. I’ll make THIS happen.” I love my dreams. Unfortunately, I suffer from depression, so I have to make sure that I never get so enamored of my dreams that that is all I want to do — sleep and dream. They have their place, but I make sure I stay busy and as happy as possible in my waking life.
Wow! That would be amazing! Never any bad dreams because you can change what is happening. I need to work on that.