(I just posted this in the spirituality/philosophy forum and I had to repeat myself...)
I was trying to find a posting I talked about lucid dreaming in about a month ago but I can't find it, someone was asking how to lucid dream more and maintain... I just wanted to share the most amazing lucid dream I had, several nights ago. I was getting REM-rebound cuz I'd been doing speed and not sleeping more than a couple hours a night for a week or so, so when I ran out, I was sleeping bigtime, and dreaming like mad.
I always have very long and vivid dreams, rarely nightmares (except when I was in jail and in major Xanax withdrawal and with a head injury...) but last week I had two lucid dreams and I wanted to share with anyone who might be interested. The first was very simple, I was on a rooftop balcony near my home and suddenly I realized it was a dream. I immediately thought of the posting here where he was asking for some lucid dream tips, so in my dream I actually thought, "hey, I need to post this for that guy on Bluelight!" LOL. Nothing major about that dream, but the next one was TRANSCENDENT. And that word was SPOKEN to me in my actual dream as it was happening.
The dream started with me thinking of a lost love, my ex from almost 10 years ago who I think is the One who got away and I miss him all the time and we haven't talked in years... I dreamed I was in our old bed, but he was gone. I crawled out of the bed in the dream and realized I was dreaming, but I was in a college like campus class and some of the people told me that to not wake up I had to temporarily inhabit the bodies of others who were asleep.
Nothing like that has happened before, but I did just that, which was a little unnerving. I found two girls nearby me in the dream who were asleep and I "possessed" each of them until they were freaking out too much. I had to keep each one calm, and kept telling them we were "soul sisters" sharing souls while we dreamed. I actually walked around in their bodies, and had other memories that were not mine, like one girl giving birth, and the other one playing beach volleyball.
I kept them calm by lucidly picturing visual colors in the sky for them, mainly teal and pink. The weirder part was in this dream, there was like a VOICE or presence kinda informing me on what to do to make the dream better. (I don't hear voices or anything when I'm awake, or whatnot.) The voice seemed male, told me to try to focus on each color in the rainbow, including white and black though. And told me to tell the girls that each person has MANY soul sisters or soul brothers, connected kinda like string theory. I had to visualize that for them.
Normally in my lucid dreams, they are pretty short, and i am touching water or flying. This time there was a LOT more going on. (I was not on any drugs or meds while this happened, unusual for someone who relied on heavy doses of benzos for like 8 years, to sleep...) I TRIED to inhabit a male's body, but he would not have that. I did open my eyes once and saw the reflection of the streetlamps on my lamp shade but I forced myself right back into the dream.
I focused on all the colors (I used to paint abstract really colorful stuff, and i photograph really colorful abstract light photography, so I'm always into colors) and yellow/gold was VERY vivid. It was like flowing. I then was told to picture white, but I just kept seeing clouds and that was making me not see much in the dream. The voice told me that my friend is "good with the color white" and to remember that white is ALL the colors, so I had to start seeing rainbows in the clouds before I could go on with the dream.
I also was smelling a lot in the dream. (I lost my sense of smell last year due to a bad medical reaction to some medication, and it has not returned, so I can't taste or smell anymore.) I was smelling like perfume and real scents. Anyway, some smaller things happened that I don't think were quite so lucid, but eventually the voice came back and told me to FLY. So of course I did! I flew up into space, around earth (just by myself, no spaceship or anything) and came down over Africa, over some very green waters. It was then that i started making the water more blue by thinking about it, and I started hearing chanting: "MDMA. ECSTASY. MDMA. ECSTASY." In all voices, and that's when I heard "transcendent." (Yes, I was a big roller for almost 10 years,haven't done it in a couple years but I have nothing bad to say about it.... changed my life and my viewpoints so much for the better.) It was like I was supposed to TELL people that one of the ways to reach transcendence IS via MDMA! Lol. So, still lucid dreaming, I figured the best way would be to use MUSIC of course. somehow I was able to project music to everyone, so in my dream I conjured up everything from industrial/EBM (VNV Nation type) to ethereal trance to hippie style music, anything to try to communicate with people using music.
It was the ULTIMATE dream for someone like me who DREAMS about being a DJ, LOL!!! (And I am obsessed with music.)
SO, my points are: to stay in a lucid dream, the ways are really variable. I never had to posesss bodies or listen to a voice to help me out, I used to just say "Increase clarity" once I knew I was lucid dreaming and that would help. And i would fly (or just float) and always touch water to make sure it felt real. SOMETIMES I've dropped E or done speed (or drank) in lucid dreams, the E affects me exactly like it does in reality in my dreams, which is damn cool! The speed in my dreams never works. The alcohol works sometimes.
My lucid dreams used to always be me alone, sometimes with someone else sexually. I think that was just my way of seeing how real a lucid dream could get. But the latest two lucids I had were nothing like that. I seriously woke up thinking I had a near-death-experience or an OBE. (Who knows???) I guess what I'm saying is, once you KNOW you are dreaming, do whatever it takes not to wake up. And remember you can do almost ANYTHING you want, so just start experimenting. (I tried to make my ex come to me in that dream but he didn't.... however i had a non-lucid dream about him the night after, which made me sad...) But when I awoke from this major lucid dream, it was like someone had been trying to teach me a lesson that has been in several of my dreams in the past... usually having to do with understanding "pi" and eternity in an easy way (like I've dreamed of gummy bears and carnival rides that somehow explained "pi" to me... I have to say i understand it.) And that there IS something MUCH bigger than us, as most of us think or know, but sometimes we get caught up in the little shit and just forget that YES, there are HUGE things in nature and space and time and the spiritual realm that we just have no real clue about sometimes. And also the theme that life and death are, well, the same, if you think of all things being energy, and energy is always supposed to be at the same level in the universe... (theory, but I believe the energy thing.)
I don't meditate, really, so I can't say anything on that. But dreaming's my thing, and I totally had to tell about this lucid dream... I don't know if I ever had an OBE or NDE but I HAVE shared dreams with a couple people I was close to, we dreamed the same thing at the same time. That's pretty nuts.
Seriously, I thought that when I woke up, the dream state that I'd been in was VERY similar to being dead and without a physical body to tie you down. It was really eye opening. It wasn't scary at all, it was absolutely incredible and I HOPE that's what being dead is like, if not better of course!!!
I don't know how to START a lucid dream, because mine are always that I realize it while I'm already dreaming. But really, once you know you're dreaming, find ways to make yourself stay there as long as you can, because the more you do it, the easier and better it is.
(The only not great lucid times I've had are the few times i was having a semi-bad or weird dream and I literally somehow told myself, dude, you're DREAMING, just WAKE UP and I did.)
it does seem easier when you've had a short time of lack of sleep, due to whatever. On certain meds, I COULDN'T dream, and i hated that. It was an anti-depressant I'm not on anymore. But when I used to take xanax, or klonopin, at a higher amount I'd have no problem having lucid dreams.
Well I've written WAAYYYY too much, but where else can I tell a dream like that, LOL?!