Comments on: Lucid

By: mig

mig — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:34:01 +0000

You reminded me of something. Upon waking, still in the hypnogogic state as the dream lingers, I do have conversations with the dream objects. I find one hasn’t much time before the dream fades, and gets in about one question (for example, “what are you?”), but the answers can be intriguing.

By: intrados

intrados — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 08:34:27 +0000

I’ve long argued the same point about unraveling the meaning vs. lucidity during the dream. I’d much rather posses the ability to translate what my more remote regions have to say about life-as-i-know-it than be able to manipulate my creations.
However, one friend made an interesting point I’d not considered; that it’s much more like a dance vs. complete control. You may think “snake” but what arises from the ground beneath is 60 times larger than you anticipated and begins to discuss your mothers’ grocery list with you… so there are still plenty of interesting things in there. I’ll admit I wouldn’t mind having the ability to ask that snake a few questions. Nothing quite like a good, long, exploratory conversation – day or night/human or reptile.

By: Jann

Jann — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 00:10:38 +0000

The odd thing about dreams for me is that I always know I’m dreaming if I think about it; but I don’t think about it unless the dream becomes so unpleasant as to be intolerable. Then I either wake myself up or jump off a building (because I know I can fly if it’s a dream). But why do I wait until the dream is intolerable to think about it; why not when the dream is merely weird, otherworldly and unpleasant? The strangest thing is the places: there are places I dream about frequently but that I only recognise in my dreams.

By: nat

nat — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:22:13 +0000

as a child, i had lucid dreams quite often. this was certainly not by choice, and i didn’t even know what they were until years later, after it stopped happening so commonly. these days my lucidity generally goes no farther than being able to wake myself from a bad dream, but again, it’s not usually something i’m trying to instigate.

it’s true that you don’t always know that you’re dreaming, but with lucid dreams, you can act and impact things, where normal dreams to me feel more like a “ride” of sorts. when i was a teen, i tried to stimulate lucid dreams after reading some new-age-y dream book my mom had bought. it never worked. i’ve never had any idea why some of my dreams were lucid and other not.

btw, i’ve been enjoying your writings for a while. i was directed here from the blog ‘how to learn swedish in 1000 difficult lessions’, and it’s quite the pleasure. i would love to escape the states and live in europe, and you’ve possibly even made me a teeny tiny bit less terrified of children.