Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Lucid Dream - Curious Freedom

Longest lucid dream yet, lasted about an hour and a half of total control and awareness. It started out in the town I'm off to tomorrow in Guatemala called San Marcos. I had moved into this huge housing complex, and hung out with these two locals, one had long dreadlocks. When a girl came in, I said "nice to meet you", but she replied with "I see you." They started to jam, but I didn't have my didgeridoo! But realizing I was dreaming, I conjured one up and did a mind-melting solo.

Decided to explore, flew through the wall over an expansive urban sprawl, looked out over the horizon at a scene of vibrant moving clouds illuminated by the sun. Went inside a building and began questioning everyone how it felt to be a character in my dream. Responses varied from ignoring me, to anger, to intense curiosity. I ran into one group who claimed to be other lucid dreamers, we shared stories for a while, they pointed me towards an arcade down the way. Headed towards it and began engaging in a game in which I had to maneuver a blue octopus through the afterlife. Interesting concept, but had other things to do!

Chatted with two dream characters who ended up becoming friends for this dream and appeared periodically. One had a very interesting response when I questioned him on being a dream character. He replied, "Well Kant describes how you can only find confirmation for not being in a dream by the agreement of those around you that you are in reality, but if everyone around you is claiming to be in reality how can you know for certain?" He made a good point, looking around me things were just as vivid as real life with individuals walking about engaged in what seemed to be autonomous lives. We talked about how maybe I was entering their reality temporarily, decided to continue my journey, floated through the wall and up into the sky.

Flew past a series of condominium balconies, families sitting down to lunch, a couple angrily arguing about their finances, landed on one where two women were talking about Spanish. One of them told me about her trip down to South America. Suddenly a party erupted around and the host began a speech. Time to continue on!

Decided to try meditating, sat down on a concrete lot and brought my awareness within. Some dream characters appeared attempting to distract me, but willed myself deeper. Suddenly I was pure consciousness floating above the clouds, these bizarre looking entities were drifting around going about their life. Upon seeing me they stopped to observe. They looked like ancient doors covered in Mayan design, a giant golden sphere being with hundreds of arms came over, and I disappeared from the place.

Suddenly I was back home, went to my neighbor's door, willed it to open to Guatemala, and as sunlight erupted around the edges knew it would open there. Appeared inside a boat watching the sun rise over what looked like Lake Atitlan with two other dream characters. We marveled at its beauty.
Ended up in this industrial area, a big gathering was going on. Decided to try shapeshifting, had been unsuccessful before, willed myself into a wolf and ran around the lot.

After more wandering ended up on this bridge that reminded me a lot of Burning Man, my two dream character friends from before were at my side. There was artwork alongside the bridge, and dubstep blasting all around. I told my friends to look, and focusing on the sky, I turned it into a whirling psychedelic pattern of clouds.

One thing that made this dream so much longer than previous lucid dreams, was I finally figured out how to stabilize my dream and keep from waking up. Periodically and whenever things would fade a little, I would look at my hands and focus on the details in them, and if I suddenly started to drift awake I would spin in circles until the dream came back.

4 comments:

Andrew R. Calderon said...

This dream sounded wonderful.
I'm curious about how you started lucid dreaming?
I have been meditation for a while and in my dreams I feel much more aware. I believe that in time it will just happen. Would you agree?
Also, I really really want to meditate in my dreams.

Hope Guatemala treats you to new experiences, and maybe reconsidering some old ones.
Stay fresh papa bear.

qdeezy48 said...
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qdeezy48 said...

This is really awesome. How did you train yourself to do this? (THIS IS BEN LEVINE)

Chris Rollins said...

Yo dudes, yea it was my craziest lucid dream. Definitely Andrew, the longer you meditate the more aware you become in dreams I´d say. Been lucid dreaming for a while, but got more into it when I was home from Guatemala by doing dream yoga. Check it, The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. Start practicing the exercises in that if you really want to develop it.