Fox
5th March 2016, 20:00
(First off, not sure where to post this!)
I've always been into lucid dreaming ever since I was in high school, which ironically enough was the only time that I was able to have them consistently. I was a little jerk back then so nothing of real import was ever accomplished.
Over the past couple nights I've been falling asleep listening to various talks and I'm noticing I either hear them while dreaming or the dreams mold themselves around the topics. This gave me a bright idea.
Today, before taking a two hour power-nap in between jobs, I picked up my phone and recorded myself saying variations of, "You are dreaming. You are in a dream. Wake up, Donny. Is anything out of place? You are dreaming," for about 30 seconds. I put headphones on and played it on loop. I was pretty excited for this nap because I had a feeling it would, at the least, be very interesting.
Well, it worked. Oh boy.
I popped in and out of a dozen or so dreams. I sleep on the floor with a pile of blankets, thus, each time I was waking up in these dreams, I was on the floor in various scenarios wrapped up in my coverings. Each time I had the headphones on, also. Repeating and repeating my 30 second clip. For the first handful, I was just my typical dream self. Waking up, hearing the headphones, and going back to sleep in hopes I would wake up in a dream (ha!). But, after many times over, I noticed the phrasing would change each 30 second loop and that started making even my dream-self question it. Sometimes I would wake up in the real world and hear the loop being played normally, as I recorded it. So with that new knowledge, I fell back asleep and the next instance I didn't wake up in a dream, I was walking around snowy streets. I brought some of my consciousness into this one and had a feeling it was a dream so I decided to jump and see how high I could go. Not very, though the physics were a little strange, Wasn't convinced yet. I decided to hop over this car driving slowly though a parking lot and I totally did. I knew I was dreaming. But I woke up again in reality, even more thrilled. I closed my eyes and stared into the blackness of my eyelids and a very familiar thing began to happen.
In the darkness of my eyelids, a ring appeared. A faintly glowing ring. I know now in my infinite wisdom (:P) to relax and go through that ring without over-thinking it. The ring crept closer and closer until it seemed (and felt) like I went through it. At that moment, I felt the familiar rush of...the only way to describe it is falling. Falling fast. I started mentally repeating a mantra (the gayatri) quietly in the background to keep myself relaxed and then these neon green flecks started to appear and swirl around like a far-out snowglobe. They swirled and mixed and coalesced with neon blue flecks until I was falling as such a speed that I appeared in my final dream. I was fully aware, but I couldn't change anything. It was more intellectual, I suppose. I was in the passenger seat of my friend's car and we were headed to work in this snowy alternate town in which I live. I looked over at her and just wanted to ask what her life was like in this world and things like, "How'd it feel being a dream person? Do you know?" but I've read so much from Bruce Lipton and the like that I know that's very rude so I went with the flow.
Now the rest of more just an accounting of the moments that followed so if you're uninterested, I hope this tip works for you!
We were driving and there was this white building that looked very Christmassy. It was build across the road and we had to drive through it much like you drive through some of the big redwoods. On each side were glass booths with workers in them. We rolled down our windows and the attendants gave us lit cigarettes and we were to take one puff each and hand them back. We did so, while I was internally laughing at the situation. After we started moving forward, rolling up our windows, I started to joke, "Ha! They probably want our DNA or something, ya know?" As we exited the drive-through, the final booth had death in it. Looked like the stereotypical grim reaper with his scythe and a couple others dressed in gray or black torn robes with no faces. In fact, I was so excited to have this experience that the message was lost on me until now. I should probably stop smoking cigarettes like I've been wanting to. This should give me the courage, you'd think.
Thanks for reading. I hope some of you try this method of recording yourself reminding yourself to wake up in a dream. This was the first time I tried it and in two hours, dozens of dreams happened that were very very interesting and I remembered every bit of them. I had to force myself to roll over and stand up for work, my body just didn't want to move. I think I was deep into it. I dunno if I'll do it all night long or not, might be too disorientating.
I've always been into lucid dreaming ever since I was in high school, which ironically enough was the only time that I was able to have them consistently. I was a little jerk back then so nothing of real import was ever accomplished.
Over the past couple nights I've been falling asleep listening to various talks and I'm noticing I either hear them while dreaming or the dreams mold themselves around the topics. This gave me a bright idea.
Today, before taking a two hour power-nap in between jobs, I picked up my phone and recorded myself saying variations of, "You are dreaming. You are in a dream. Wake up, Donny. Is anything out of place? You are dreaming," for about 30 seconds. I put headphones on and played it on loop. I was pretty excited for this nap because I had a feeling it would, at the least, be very interesting.
Well, it worked. Oh boy.
I popped in and out of a dozen or so dreams. I sleep on the floor with a pile of blankets, thus, each time I was waking up in these dreams, I was on the floor in various scenarios wrapped up in my coverings. Each time I had the headphones on, also. Repeating and repeating my 30 second clip. For the first handful, I was just my typical dream self. Waking up, hearing the headphones, and going back to sleep in hopes I would wake up in a dream (ha!). But, after many times over, I noticed the phrasing would change each 30 second loop and that started making even my dream-self question it. Sometimes I would wake up in the real world and hear the loop being played normally, as I recorded it. So with that new knowledge, I fell back asleep and the next instance I didn't wake up in a dream, I was walking around snowy streets. I brought some of my consciousness into this one and had a feeling it was a dream so I decided to jump and see how high I could go. Not very, though the physics were a little strange, Wasn't convinced yet. I decided to hop over this car driving slowly though a parking lot and I totally did. I knew I was dreaming. But I woke up again in reality, even more thrilled. I closed my eyes and stared into the blackness of my eyelids and a very familiar thing began to happen.
In the darkness of my eyelids, a ring appeared. A faintly glowing ring. I know now in my infinite wisdom (:P) to relax and go through that ring without over-thinking it. The ring crept closer and closer until it seemed (and felt) like I went through it. At that moment, I felt the familiar rush of...the only way to describe it is falling. Falling fast. I started mentally repeating a mantra (the gayatri) quietly in the background to keep myself relaxed and then these neon green flecks started to appear and swirl around like a far-out snowglobe. They swirled and mixed and coalesced with neon blue flecks until I was falling as such a speed that I appeared in my final dream. I was fully aware, but I couldn't change anything. It was more intellectual, I suppose. I was in the passenger seat of my friend's car and we were headed to work in this snowy alternate town in which I live. I looked over at her and just wanted to ask what her life was like in this world and things like, "How'd it feel being a dream person? Do you know?" but I've read so much from Bruce Lipton and the like that I know that's very rude so I went with the flow.
Now the rest of more just an accounting of the moments that followed so if you're uninterested, I hope this tip works for you!
We were driving and there was this white building that looked very Christmassy. It was build across the road and we had to drive through it much like you drive through some of the big redwoods. On each side were glass booths with workers in them. We rolled down our windows and the attendants gave us lit cigarettes and we were to take one puff each and hand them back. We did so, while I was internally laughing at the situation. After we started moving forward, rolling up our windows, I started to joke, "Ha! They probably want our DNA or something, ya know?" As we exited the drive-through, the final booth had death in it. Looked like the stereotypical grim reaper with his scythe and a couple others dressed in gray or black torn robes with no faces. In fact, I was so excited to have this experience that the message was lost on me until now. I should probably stop smoking cigarettes like I've been wanting to. This should give me the courage, you'd think.
Thanks for reading. I hope some of you try this method of recording yourself reminding yourself to wake up in a dream. This was the first time I tried it and in two hours, dozens of dreams happened that were very very interesting and I remembered every bit of them. I had to force myself to roll over and stand up for work, my body just didn't want to move. I think I was deep into it. I dunno if I'll do it all night long or not, might be too disorientating.