So, I just had a lucid dream this morning. It was pretty incredible. It wasn’t my first one, but the first of my adult life.
[cue the dream sequence]
My wife and I had just showed up at my parents’ house and I noticed my old dog walking around in the front yard. “But Jessie is dead!”, I said. We walked around to the back yard to let her in there and were greeted by their current dogs. Charlie, however, (the oldest Wire Fox Terrier) was twice his normal size. At this point I realized I might be dreaming. So what do the lucid techiques tell you to do? Check your watch multiple times, or do something that will check reality. Well, I didn’t do anything practical like that. I just jumped in the air a little and some guy appeared and disappeared in a flash. Very strange, but then I knew I was in a lucid dream. Sadly the dream didn’t last much longer, but I did get to experiment with a few things…
[end dream sequence]
How was I able to determine so quickly that I was in a dream, and why did I not wake up at the first instance of disbelief? I wonder if it had to do with it being late in the morning and I probably should’ve been awake anyways. Did it have to do with my brain getting a little more conscious in the later morning?
I felt like I might be talking outloud in my dream, but I have no way to know if I was. I didn’t appear to have disturbed the dog that was 2 feet away from me.
Now I’m waiting for another.
Posted on October 29th, 2008 by brian
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