Experiencing snippets of other people's lives in dreams?

[aussieblues]

So, a few months ago I had an extremely mind/eye opening high dose LSD trip. I had experienced a number of other high dose trips in the past, and had, on a number of occasions, skimmed the surface of the collective consciousness, however, this was my first experience truly immersing myself. This was also the night that, in the middle of one of my peaks, while I was fully immersed in the collective, I had a very untimely run in with Johnny Law. Needless to say, hardly able to comprehend the English language with no ID and smelling of weed, I was handcuffed and thrown in the back of a cruiser (most of this I have very little recollection of as, like I said, I was still quite immersed in the collective. Ultimately, I think this untimely arrest, leading to the act of being paraded around the police station like a faceless slab of meat and strip searched by a group of men who I'm surprised managed to graduate high school (only to have nothing illegal found), was what really opened my mind/eyes to the fact that we really are just one being. While I hated what was being done to my human self, I was able to see thing through the perspective of those treating me like shit (it felt like looking through the eyes of a frightened child, who doesn't really understand the negative repercussions of their actions) and, ultimately, I saw that they were just my brothers and sister, who's outlooks had, unfortunately, been skewed, and this really enforced the belief that we're all of one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively through the eyes of the living.

Anyway, now that I'm done with that long and rambling (my apologies) preface, I'd like to present my main point. Since this experience of mine, I find myself experiencing short snippets of other people's lives whilst dreaming. In my dreams before this I always felt like myself, though in some of my subsequent dreams it's very clear that the eyes I'm experiencing the situation through are not my own.

This morning, for example, I started to wake up, only to fall back asleep. Upon reentering the dream world I found myself, rather, someone else through whom I was experiencing this, in a hotel room with a number of unfamiliar faces, probably several years younger than I. We were carrying on like any normal group of friends, and at one point a decently attractive, but not unrealistic, girl invited me to join her in the other room. Once we were alone she pulled out my, definitely not my own, dick and started blowing me, at which point I almost immediately came (prematurely), something that's never happened to me-me (in fact, for me it's usually the opposite, as on several occasions girls have asked me to stop before I'm able to finish because they're sore). After this, the girl made fun of me and told the other people with whom we were hanging out, who then proceeded to make fun of me as well, until my alarm went off again.

I've had a number of other strange dreams like this that all felt very lucid (though I didn't seem to have control over the outcomes), but as though they were through the eyes of another person. Several have even been through the eyes of women, and none of the people I've encountered during these dreams have been the same age as me, some have even seemed to be from different time periods. Though my recollections of past dreams of a similar nature have become rather choppy, so they're more difficult to describe. The only other that I remember with much clarity was in the body/mind of a middle-aged business man on a flight that was crashing, and at the point when the plane hit the ground (when I would usually have woken up), I stayed dreaming and started to make an accent toward a white light, and had an experience very similar to that of a NDE type DMT trip.

Anyway, now that I'm through with my ramblings, anyone else experienced dreams like this after a psychedelic break through? :D

 

[vagueblur]

That's interesting - and it makes me really happy to hear that you've taken something really positive out of your experience with the cops.

I've read trip reports of people on high doses of ketamine having similar "being john malcovich" experiences.

I've had some pretty strange dreams in the months after high dose LSD trips... not what you're describing, but unlike any of my "usual" dreams.

In one I was flying above a landscape, kind of a hilly desert I guess - then in the dream I became the landscape. I was the land. It's hard to describe.

In another I dreamt I was with my brother in a huge white lab. It was explained to us that we'd be sent through different dimensions, which were on the verge of destruction, and that because of the way cross-dimensional travel worked, we'd be able to take our skills and knowledge with us but not memory of events. This was also explained on the other side which I guess is why I remember the event

In another very realistic dream my the ghost mother offered to transfer my conciousness into a computer. I agreed and it worked... and the sensation was intensely euphoric. But the process didn't totally work and some conciousness stayed in my body. Soon after that I woke up.

If you keep having these dreams maybe you could try to find out the address or some other details of where you are... and then go check the place out in real life

 

[aussieblues]

In one I was flying above a landscape, kind of a hilly desert I guess - then in the dream I became the landscape. I was the land. It's hard to describe.

In another I dreamt I was with my brother in a huge white lab. It was explained to us that we'd be sent through different dimensions, which were on the verge of destruction, and that because of the way cross-dimensional travel worked, we'd be able to take our skills and knowledge with us but not memory of events. This was also explained on the other side which I guess is why I remember the event

In another very realistic dream my the ghost mother offered to transfer my conciousness into a computer. I agreed and it worked... and the sensation was intensely euphoric. But the process didn't totally work and some conciousness stayed in my body. Soon after that I woke up.

These sound like some very interesting dreams as well. I've had trips during which I "become" something I'm focusing on, on a high dose of shrooms I was laying in a field, watching the clouds and treetops around the field. For a while I merged with one of the trees and felt what it was like to be a 100+ year old stationary object with very little concern outside that of photosynthesis. Then later in the day I merged with the clouds, not in the same way as I had with the tree, but it was as if I could feel the winds way up where they were and could predict exactly where each of us (all the clouds) was going to go next.

If you keep having these dreams maybe you could try to find out the address or some other details of where you are... and then go check the place out in real life

I'll have to see if I can figure this out, so far I haven't seen any major landmarks, and, like I said, it doesn't seem like I have any control over the outcome, or any of my actions really. It's more like watching a movie through someone else's eyes.

 

[vagueblur]

I've had trips during which I "become" something I'm focusing on, on a high dose of shrooms I was laying in a field, watching the clouds and treetops around the field. For a while I merged with one of the trees and felt what it was like to be a 100+ year old stationary object with very little concern outside that of photosynthesis. Then later in the day I merged with the clouds, not in the same way as I had with the tree, but it was as if I could feel the winds way up where they were and could predict exactly where each of us (all the clouds) was going to go next.

That's pretty similar to the landscape dream I had! Which is weird because I've never really had that while tripping.

I'll have to see if I can figure this out, so far I haven't seen any major landmarks, and, like I said, it doesn't seem like I have any control over the outcome, or any of my actions really. It's more like watching a movie through someone else's eyes.

I see what you're saying, it's not like you can walk outside and look at a street sign because you're passively observing it all anyway.

Sit back and enjoy the ride... and if you find yourself in my body try to wake up - not that it's a bad place to be, I just don't want you snooping