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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.