Lucid Dreaming, and other unusual encounters

[Devotee]

Okay I'll try starting another new thread. While my daughter Tanbar seems to have started the most popular thread (the Lyric game), I have not had such success. Maybe it's because I'm too obscure. Like Jon's lyrics.
Anyway, have you had any unusual experiences in dreaming? Do you practice lucid dreaming? I suppose we can include astral projection here as well. Has Yesmusic come to you in your dreams, or have you ever thought you encountered a Yes member in dreaming? Could be interesting...

[Jackaranda]

About a week after my cousin died (suddenly and unexpectedly), I was hearing her leading me in a dream to where she was. I was going up a flight of stairs, and at the top was an open door with nothing but light coming out of it. She was there!!!

As soon as I got to the door, it shut. I took that to be that I wasn't allowed to go any further, but I knew my cousin was fine...Jack

[Gustavo]

One time I had a dream that I was at John Lennon’s apartment at the Dakota in New York. I sat down with Yoko in the sofa that appears in a famous picture of them and we had a nice chat. She told me about all the negative energy that the world had directed at her and how she missed John.

It was fun to hang out with Yoko.

Hey Devotee, I'm very interested in hearing about the other techniques you use to assist you in lucid dreaming. As I have not had much success, I would like some tips. That hands thing is the only one I know as that was the one Don Juan spoke of in his instruction to Carlos.

[Ahkin]

The first 20 seconds of Gates of Delirium once played in my dream, very clearly.

[RobAdams]

I had a dream about a year ago. It was really weird. I was floating around a room with a fireplace and Christmas decorations everywhere. It was like I was flying around very quickly, able to stop and turn when I wanted, so very precicely. There was a person sitting in a big chair (it wasn't the diamond chair from In The Presence Of), and I was trying to get this person's attention. I don't know who they were, but I don't think I recognized them as someone in my life. In the dream I felt I knew this person, and my attempts to be seen by them went unnoticed. I don't even know if the person was male or female.
I have no clue what this was about...

[Jackaranda]

For what it's worth--I'm certainly no expert.

It sounds as if someone in your family associates drugs with Satan, or evil, and you know it. Am I right?

I also dreamed my dad was having a heart attack while he WAS having a heart attack....

For those who believe, no explanation is needed. For those who don't believe, no explanation will suffice....

[Devotee]

Looks like we've got a winner here!

Dreams are so complex and I believe it is more than just neural activity while our bodies rest. If you go for the assumption that there are more than 3 dimensions, dreaming seems to be one of them. Now sometimes dreams are just reflections of our fears and hopes, but sometimes they are ways for us to transport to other times and other places.
The best success I've had with lucid dreaming usually follows several days of good meditations. I have alot of energy and am able to be very focused. I will fall asleep with an intention on my mind such as I want to fly or I want to see the sunrise. Then at some point I'll be walking around and notice my feet (being a dancer that's always a good one). The key here is remembering that I'm dreaming, once I'm able to do that then it takes it's own path. I've been able to have conversations with my guardian angel and go all over world.

i and i : the person in your dream was a guide of some sort. If you ask for their help in meditation you will have some interesting experiences.

I always have precognitive dreams before a close freind or relative is going to die. It's freaky, but it also is very helpful.

[Tanbar]

for the past week or so, i had been telling myself before i fell asleep that i would be able to control my dream that night. finally yesterday morning, i was able to do it!!!

in my dream, i was running away from someone of something that was chasing me around my old middle skool. suddenly, it was like i had woken up, but was still asleep, (i know i was dreaming still b/c i don't see pictures in my mind when i am awake), and i said to myself " i know, i'll use my wings" which i uncased and used to fly away. (and no, they are not gold, they are red, black, blue, green, and purpled feathered wings). the sky was made of these scenery flat like things, and after flying up to them a few times, i decided that they were illusions and flew through one. on the other side was the NY city sky line, (with out the trade towers), at dawn.

i don't know how i did it, and i don't know how i ended up in NY, (no, i wasn't in NJ to begin with... but maybe i'll try to get there sometime **grin**)


so there it is! ta da!

sooner,
*tink*

Originally posted by Tanbar
for the past week or so, i had been telling myself before i fell asleep that i would be able to control my dream that night. finally yesterday morning, i was able to do it!!!

Indeed! So proud of you! That is a hard thing to do. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree! This is only the beginning. Have you read the first four Carlos Castenada books? If not, I would seriously recommend them. They will give you very good ideas on how to continue on this. Easy, yet fascinating reads. Keep us posted.

[Tanbar]

i haven't read any carlos, but my mum and step dad have told me a lot about them, and i pick things like that up rather easily. i kind of tend to steer clear of texts any more, trying to find my own way with the help of my guides Progo, Bwaya, and Virgil. however, i have taken to studying angels, they are quite fascinating and very helpful.

sooner,
*tink*

Originally posted by Tanbar
i kind of tend to steer clear of texts any more

Well, they are not exactly texts. They are listed under novels but a lot of people think that they are true experiences.

[Tanbar]

text being written accounts etc. in this instance (and in general with me)

sooner,
*tink*

[Silent_wings]

Way cool old thread

I've been having some strange, powerful, awful dreams that I've been unable (an unusually occurrence for me) to wake up in. All of them have involved death and/or dismemberment. I really wasn't upset or scared by the dream until I woke up and remebered how distribing the dream was.