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Lucid Dreaming: Reality Check November 24, 2006

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I had my fifth lucid dream last night and the durations they last are constantly increasing. I’ve moved over to only recall and journal my lucid dreams and skip the usual ones, which means I just write down a few sequences of them and their total time lapse so that I won’t forget them. The five first ones have lasted 5, 15, 20, 30 and 60-90 seconds approximately. These are estimates I make when I wake up and not something I do in the dream itself.

For about a week now I’ve been trying to create a certain place and sequence in my dream. The goal is to be in a tiny room with a door, a table and two chairs. Then all I want to accomplish is having my intuition/subconsciousness or higher self walk into the room and have a chat with me. This was the first time I had the chance to try and accomplish it.

When I turned lucid, it was nighttime, I walked out of my garage wearing nothing but a shirt and there was some snow and ice on the ground. My immediate reaction was to start dream spinning and rubbing my hands together simultaneously. According to accomplished lucid dreamers dream spinning is used to move yourself into another scenery or place and rubbing your hands together helps prolong your lucid experience. I just decided it’d be smart to do both at the same time.

I kept spinning around on the same spot for about ten seconds and thinking about where I wanted to go. Everything turned black and blurred, but when I stopped I was still there on my yard and nothing had changed. Not being frustrated by this setback I decided to sit down determined that a chair would appear behind me. All I got from that was a bump and a cold, icy feeling on my bum. I got up and witnessed a beautiful sunrise as well.

From that point onward I came to think that maybe this isn’t a dream, and it’s actually happening for real. Why else would I have sensory experiences? I hope I won’t be trapped by this illusion in the future when I’m dreaming because I ended up losing control of doing “supernatural” things once the lucid dream felt just as real as reality in the waking world. Once I woke up I felt like a fool for believing that.

If I’m still able to use all my senses in a lucid dream then I need to figure out a good way to do reality checks. What’s the point in pinching yourself if you know you’ll feel it whether you’re awake or lucid dreaming? This dream also showed that supernatural things like switching places don’t always work when you want them to and it’ll be even more difficult to separate these two worlds from each other than I suspected.

At least the hand rubbing worked. I spent a much longer time in this lucid dream than ever before, walking around and talking to some people. I literally felt the warmth of the friction that built up. The trick is now to not let the sensory impulses convince me that I’m not dreaming. I didn’t expect my lucid dreaming journey to be without setbacks and challenges so I’m not letting anything stop me from doing the really cool stuff in the future. Almost a month into this project I’m very happy with the results so far.

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Lucid Dreaming: Levitation November 1, 2006

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Defying gravity is commonly the first unnatural act you successfully master in the dream world. Last night was a bit different for me since I discovered the very basic issue that is required to start flying/levitating. I didn’t try levitation on spot because gliding forward seemed more exciting and useful.

At the beginning of my dream I just found myself doing it along a sidewalk close to where I live in the middle of the pitch black night when no one saw me. However, at the end of the road it was daytime, I was walking and I met a friend. We walked alongside back the way I came and thought that it’s time to prove to him that I can levitate. First, I concentrated on my steps while walking. Then I took a couple small jumps and noticed myself gradually gliding towards the surface - it was time. I took my last leap into the air, crossed my legs and put my hands together and found myself moving in the air at the same speed he was walking. After about half a kilometer there’s a 45 degree turn to the left. I simply leaned my body slightly to the left and found myself capable of turning.

My confidence rose as I felt that I’m now mastering this ability. That’s when the challenges started appearing. My friend took hold of me and asked me what I was doing. I decided not to let this distract me and he suddenly let go of me and said “Oh, ok”. My guess is that he thought I was meditating or something. After this a steep hill was up ahead. This was a major challenge indeed. While I did manage to float over it almost touching the ground, when the hill ended I bounced up high in the air and panicked slightly. This time I really lost control and my arms and legs were kicking about as I tried to aim for a tree. Just as I took hold of some branches my dream ended.

So what does it really take to do something like this? It’s not just about taking small jumps and a final leap into the air. No, it’s about taking a leap of faith. Without the belief that you’re actually capable of doing what you wish, it won’t succeed. If you’re a skeptic and want to prove it isn’t possible then that’s the only proof you will find. I like to think that this single issue will hold true to all the abilities I wish to experience while dreaming.

The reason I named this skill levitation is because it is scientifically explained as forces that repel each other and that’s how it felt as well. When walking it was like the surface or gravity itself was one magnetic polarity and I the other, which causes me to touch the ground. However, when I took the leap of faith I changed my body’s polarity to the same as the earth which caused me to float in the air. The upward movement while passing the hill forced me to be so close to the surface that eventually where the hill ended and the surface flattened out I bounced up sky high.

What also struck me as odd in this dream was that I usually switch places very often, but not this time. I was levitating almost for two kilometers in the same neighborhood I know and my friend was there the whole time. Chronologically it was also more congruent with the waking world once I really started focusing on what I was doing.

I still wasn’t able to distinct this experience as a dream though. My mind was strictly focused on the task and proving to myself and my friend that I could do it. This has given me a ‘chicken or the egg’ question for the dream world. Am I supposed to first do unnatural things and this causes me to realize it’s a dream or will I first notice I’m dreaming and this causes me to realize I can do unnatural things? So far at least in my own experience it’s leaning towards the first alternative. Nevertheless, this is all getting increasingly exciting and more fun to experience even as it’s just starting to unfold.