I had another lucid dream the other night. It was R-rated (obviously), as no lucid dream of mine is ever less than 18+. Without expanding too deeply into XXX detail, at one point I was looking around astounded at the authentic quality the dream had in its depiction of waking reality. I was in a room, it was full colour, totally stable, four walls, I was touching binders and papers that were lying on a counter top, watching people as they went about their dream lives. The environment was incredibly difficult to determine any differences between it and waking reality.
At this point I can't remember what triggered me into realizing I was dreaming, I think I was still skeptical, which is something I've trained myself to take as the ultimate YES YOU ARE DREAMING indication. I am never skeptical [of whether I am dreaming or not] during waking reality.
Anyway, some days later during waking hours I was chatting to a good friend of mine who had some tips. In everyday life, tap the palm of your hand with your other hand, whenever you remember. I have been doing this for 30 seconds to a minute every day for two days now. Allegedly, our bodies operate at 5% consciousness and 95% pre-programmed subconscious levels at any given time (I heard this percentage spoken a few times from a self proclaimed expert on the issue after he'd read a few books-- so the accuracy of these percentiles is questionable at best, however is something to consider). The best way to program our subconsciousness is to repeat an activity or belief over in our conscious mind until we have our auto-pilot subconsciousness programmed with the same intention. Eventually, in dream life, you will tap your hand out of habit, and your tapping hand will pass right through the palm of your other hand. Bam! Lucid dreaming! Now, another tip she had was to spin around in your dream if the environment beings to fade away and you feel you are about to wake. In theory, this should keep you within the dream, so you could fly, explore, rip off all your clothes and have sex with everyone, or do whatever else you would want to do. Free virtual reality!
I'm going to continue the tapping thing, and try to update this blog with whatever results I get.
On a darker note, I've been having night terrors lately. The last time it happened was the night after the lucid dream I just spoke of, and in the dream I was pressed down by a white furry creature with an evil scowling grin who was holding me down via my right shoulder and not letting me up. I don't think it was sleep paralysis because I was not in my own room in the dream, but it was similar to hallucinations I've had during sleep paralysis. I began to hyperventilate, which is my usual response to sleep paralysis or any sort of night terror. My boyfriend woke me up a few seconds into the hyperventilation though, and I snapped out of it. Forever grateful to him for that. I was scared shitless.
Before that a few weeks ago, I was sleeping on the couch because my boyfriend had a terrible cold and was snoring profusely. I was frozen on the couch, feeling an ominous presence, and I had fallen out of my body onto the floor, and was doing a weird jerky army crawl desperately clawing my way back to the bedroom. I was trying to get to Matt so he could wake me up. I was intermittently trying to scream, which wasn't working, because I can never scream in this state.
This type of reaction is getting frustrating for me, mainly because I was having an out of body experience and letting it go entirely to waste due to my own irrational fears. I could have relaxed, realized that I was out of body, and gone astrally traveling and had a stellar time! If this ever happens to you, I recommend you try to relax, tell any ominous presence to take a hike, and ask the universe for a guide to help you. The one time I was able to collect my bearings and ask for a guide, a spirit named Yoshi came to my side. Yoshi, the little green dinosaur from Mario Bros. He didn't look like Yoshi from Mario Bros, but the presence of Yoshi (yes my favorite video game character of all time) gave me a sense of peace and I was immediately calmed. I'm working on this, banishing irrational fears, and I'll let you know how it goes. If anyone has any tips, please comment! I would love to hear from you.
With love and other indoor sports,
CASH
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