posted January 07, 2005 05:22 PM         

another time i flew around and hung out with my cats. or wait, this is astral projection, that one. cuz it was all real, my house, everything, was exactly as it was..

well, now my boyfriend is hooked on lucid dreaming, and he has been doing it lots. and having really neat things happen.. like really amazing. we have been agreeing to meet at my old elamentary school, but haven't yet. mostly cuz my dreams are seriously interrupted constantly (16 month old restless sleeper and teether sleeping beside me), but i have been conscious of dreaming in my dreams, and even remember vaguely *going* to my school, but he never dreamed that night, or doesn't remember them..

so what are some tricks? and i would LOVE to hear of any experiences!! thanks!!

posted January 08, 2005 02:02 AM         

Strange things have been happening in my dreams. I'm practising all kinds of spiritual things, like astral travelling and being able to change the outcome (lucid dreaming). It's almost as though subconsciously, I'm using that time to further my spirituality. Very good time organisation on my part, hey?

Here's what happened in a dream I had about four weeks ago. It reminded me of that movie "The Butterfly Effect".

Essentially, in the dream, I got the chance to relive a situation, over and over again, changing things along the way, which in turn changed the outcome.

The basis of the dream was me visiting a bar (pub) with the intention of working there. On arrival, I met with a blonde woman to discuss my employment. She was interviewing me, on the recommendation of one of my friends who is in the hospitality industry.

What followed was essentially a tour of the premises, and then interaction with a variety of people (customers, other staff etc).

The tour weaved in and out of several rooms, all connected to a central hallway. The pub itself had lots of wood (floors, walls, bars and counters). The hall also had a wooden floor.

At the end of the tour, I was returned back to the pub, the point where I first met the blonde woman. Then she told me, if I wanted the job, I had to re-do the tour on my own, and reproduce every single event that happened. Everything had to be exactly the same, including body movements and dialogue - the interaction I had with others. Only, there would be a small change. I needed to do everything in a mirrored way. So for example, in the tour, a man entered the room from the left, followed by the woman from the right. And then I had a conversation with them both. This time on the tour, the man would enter from the right, and the woman from the left. I had to make those adjustments to complete the tour.

So off I started. At first, I found it hard to adjust and I looked to my left instead of my right to see the man enter. Like a computer game, each time I erred, I was taken back to the start of the tour to try again. And I'd try over and over, progressing a little further each time, only to be taken back to the start. I quickly learnt that I could change the outcome and I started to deliberately change the circumstance to see what would happen.

The dream was interrupted when my son woke me up. He wanted a drink.

I think there's a fine line between normal dreaming and premonition dreaming too. Last night I dreamt of a man and I saw him today, at the supermarket. I've never seen him before.

posted January 08, 2005 08:15 PM         

Lucid dreaming is consciously knowing that you are dreaming and being able to control your actions or change the dream.

Here's a website that might answer some of your questions.

zoso, I enjoy writing as a hobby and I do get a lot of my stories from my dreams .

posted January 09, 2005 02:45 PM         

puple scorp, your dream is amazing! that is really, really interesting. i wonder if you could apply that technique (replaying and readjusting) more consciously in the future to work throo things.. (tired- not sure if this sentence makes the same kind of sense as my mental impression of what i'm trying to say! )

my boyfriend is getting pretty good at it and is having really cool, significant experiences.. it seems we are able to gradually bring the techniques to real life too.. after all, isn't this all a dream?

i've been having interesting waking visions since i met him, which i never really had in my life before. just a moment or three in which i SEE something SO clearly in my mind when i shut my eyes.. it is otherly; not a product of my imagination.. all of them have been comforting... but one was kind of weird- i shut my eyes and saw all these entities hovering.. people.. all hovering, and sort of floating, looking at me intently.. the only one i remember distinctly was a blonde woman at the front. it was soooooo surreal and amazing. i was sorta freaked by it tho, as i sensed they were dead, and they were trying to give me a message. i wonder if i'd kept in it if they would've said something..

posted January 11, 2005 07:11 AM         

sometimes, I can return to a dream to continue, if I am woken in-between. This is particularly helpful if you are interrupted in the middle of a really interesting bit.

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puple scorp, your dream is amazing! that is really, really interesting. i wonder if you could apply that technique (replaying and readjusting) more consciously in the future to work throo things.. (tired- not sure if this sentence makes the same kind of sense as my mental impression of what i'm trying to say! )

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I tried to do this last night in fact . I ended up dreaming about something else.

I had another interesting "spiritual" dream, the night before last. I spoke to ghosts. I was staying in a particular motel room because I knew that it was inhabited by ghosts (who were married when they were alive). What stuck in my mind was that on the wall, it had their picture with their birthdates. They were both born on 22 June (same day as my son) which makes them 22 Master Numbers (same as me too).

Later that night, they appeared in an animated cartoon on the wall. They were wishing me Merry Christmas and then they asked me to go and tell management that they wanted to move on (and didn't want to "work" there anymore).

So now, I'm a ghost broker, lol.

cheers