Last night I had a pretty lengthy lucid dream. Lately I have been having more and more of these, as I fully make the adjustment from viewing the world from a materialistic point of view to a spiritual point of view. In a way things like this ensure me that I’m on the right track again.

I had a rough day Friday and was physically exhausted when I went to sleep. I woke up at 2:00 AM. I was still physically exhausted, but I couldn’t get back to sleep as my mind seemed to be in hyper active mode.

I managed to get it under control via meditation. As I began drifting off to sleep I decided to try and go lucid, just for the hell of it. And I succeeded this time! My body went to sleep and I transitioned into a nice lucid dream. It’s very rare for me to be able to just transition from the waking state to a lucid dream state. Normally I realize that I’m dreaming in my dream and become lucid from there.

I’ll quickly go over how I experience this process, as it may be slightly different for others. First I lie down on my back and put myself into a meditative state. This basically means that I allow my thoughts to slow down or disappear all together, and I identify myself more with awareness itself instead of the ‘individual me’. In other words, I take the focus off of myself and my thoughts and I put the focus on awareness or “just being”, and nothing else.

After a while the body decides to shut itself down and go to sleep. I can feel when this begins to happen. It’s almost like something in the body hits the sleep trigger, and so the process begins. First I lose my perceptions. I lose vision, hearing, and spatial awareness. Then I lose bodily awareness and everything goes black. Out of the blackness there is a bright light that I always follow. As I get close to the light it turns into a tunnel, which I go through. On the other side of the tunnel you wake up in the dream world. It’s that simple!

Of course, the trick is keeping your mind awake while your body goes to sleep. Normally I am most successful with this when my body is exhausted and my mind is hyper active. The drastic split in energy difference there seems conducive to lucid dreaming. I’m still trying to learn how to do this on a ‘normal’ day.

The Dream

The lucid dream itself was awesome, as usual. It was even longer than most of my lucid dreams. But I do have to work on my dream recall some, as I don’t remember it as vividly as I would like. Here are some of the parts that I remember.

When I came out of the tunnel I woke up in a lucid dream, in my bedroom. I know I was lucid because I didn’t actually come out of my body, or astral project. Dreams have a completely different feel to them than astral projection.

I remember being at a gas station and deciding to fly. I jumped, hovered for a moment, and then drifted upwards. Once I accepted completely that I could fly I took off! Flying around in a lucid dream is truly an amazing experience. You can fly up really high, look down at the city, follow the birds, etc. It seems pretty realistic actually.

I remember flying down beside a river where some people were gathered. I tried to read a newspaper that was lying on a table. I had trouble reading it because every time I focused on a specific line it disappeared! Although I could always see the lines I wasn’t focusing on. The subconscious mind is evil…

I remember walking through walls and changing people into other people. That was pretty cool. Most of the strangers I met I could touch them on the forehead and change them into anyone I wanted them to be. I would touch them and they would shake a lot as they transformed. When I look into their eyes while I do this they would have the matrix code scrolling downwards, which is pretty cool.

This trick didn’t seem to work with everyone. When I tried it on my dream uncle he just looked at me and said, “I don’t think so”. Perhaps it worked better on strangers because I have a stronger mental image of people I know, and thus my subconscious mind plays more of a role in dictating their actions.

I also had sex with a few women in my dream. You generally can’t go ‘all the way’ in a dream because you will find yourself awake. But when I found my beautiful wife in my dream I guess I couldn’t help myself. I quickly found myself awake again, lying next to my beautiful wife, ironically.

Other Random Thoughts

I should probably work on controlling my sexual urges more in my dreams. I have woken up a number of times because I tried to have sex in my lucid dream.

Another thoughts is this. How would I be able to go into a lucid dream in a ‘normal’ state? It’s pretty easy when you’re physical body is exhausted and your mind is being hyper, but on a normal day it is fairly difficult for me to transfer my consciousness from a waking state to a lucid dream state. Perhaps there is some way to do this more effectively. More meditation, perhaps? I don’t know.

Well, time for me to go. If you’re aspiring to have a lucid dream, don’t give up! For most people it actually takes several months or even years of trying. But the first time you go flying in a lucid dream, you’ll realize it was definitely all worth it.

Just don’t get too excited while lucid. You’ll get kicked out of the club.

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