Lucid Dreaming

Sometime during my senior year in high school, I remember that I began to experience unusual sleeping patterns. Some nights I would have insomnia, others I would sleep 11-12 hours. Consequently, some weeks later, I became curious about the meaning of my dreams. My dreams meant something to me, they confirmed which emotions I was experiencing in my adolescence were correct. I'd finally found a meaning to my life, or I had found what appeared to look like it. Needless to say, prior to my sleep disorder episodes, I also played a part to night terrors and unpleasant sleep paralysis periods of religious proportion. I decided dreaming was something I couldn't ignore. Hence, I became a dreamer and I began an odyssey of sleep exploration and affirmation.

I started noticing that some things just didn't add up. Like when I dream about my house for instance, it always looked like my real home but it has a twist to it, sometimes it's in a different location, in different country or it has a different design. Nevertheless, it always feels like home. This transition led me to a particular habit for when I’m aware that I’m dreaming, it let me to fly.

In a recent dream, I remember that everything around me looked the same as my current room; the bed was the same color as my real bed, my door led to a hallway, but my bed was in the middle of the room. Most people probably aren’t going to care about this if they were to encounter a similar situation. However, I used this incident as a cue to notice that I was in a dream. Or better yet, in my own reality. So, I began to concentrate and started to think about levitating. I was feeling weightless and as if gravitation had zero effect on me. Then, suddenly, I began to float like most people picture Jesus floating when he resuscitated. I could see and feel that the ground was getting farther and farther from my feet. Next, I eased my way out to the hallway without wasting any energy, just to find out that I was in my old high school. I saw students I’d never seen before, but they didn’t mind me flying past them. I talked to one of the students and then I woke up.

After a couple of minutes I went back to sleep, right away I knew that I was dreaming and started to fly again.

In our contemporary world, dreaming experience as the previous ones described is widely common. However, it is when a person becomes sensitive to nuances in their dreams that they enable themselves to be acceptant to lucid dreams. There are numerous theories on how to lucid dream, but only a percentage of the population is able to actually experience it.

In my dreams, when I’m conscious that I’m being part of a dream and not reality as we know it, I practice established set of norms which after doing my own research I now realize, are in fact, the standards for lucid dreamers. What are these norms? Flying and sex fantasies.

Flying in my dreams is my Holy Grail, it is my freedom to do whatever I want since it’s also a sign of having a lucid dream. Sometimes when I’m having a nightmare I use flying to escape from my predators. Other times I just fly because its feelings are indescribable. One can describe how sex feels like because we are able to experience it as a part of our life. Flying is something that only exists in dreams.

Lucid dreamers tend to explore their worlds not as being part of them, but being consciously under command to a certain degree. They are still governed by its paradigm; the scenery remains the same, random and illogical. A wall can turn into a car, people can turn into animals, and outside can mean you are inside. Nevertheless, they know they are dreaming.

This type of dreaming is connected to what you already feel in reality. For example, flying isn't something that we experience every day. Therefore its feelings surpass any others.

As a dreamer, I choose to fly, to feel rich, to talk to celebrities, and so forth. Think, what would you do if you knew you were dreaming and there were no consequences to your actions? I remember one time I robbed a bank, another time I jumped off a building to prove to myself that I was in control of my dream. I also love Mustangs because I use to have one, it was my first vehicle, so in one of my dreams I stole a 2010 Mustang GT and I drove it like I stole it.

Aside from self satisfaction, dreaming can serve a purpose. If you’re currently working on a project and you have the ability to lucid dream, you can make your brain do the work for you. For example, if you are working with music, just think that all of the sudden you are talented and you will be able to come up with some lyrics that are worth writing. The only problem is to remember what you said in your dream. I wouldn’t be able to remember a song the way it sounded in my dream. Lucid dreaming can make an architect take a step forward into the future. As for myself, I don’t need to solve any puzzles, projects, issues, and so forth. Otherwise I would use my dreaming skills to accomplish the unthinkable.
Finally, in our modern world view, we are experiencing technological advances never before seen. There is going to be a point when we won't be able to come up with anything new anymore. The key to progress beyond our capability to think is to dream about new innovations the world is yet to create. Our future depends on how far our dreams can extent.
by: Nelson Maldonado

To watch a related interesting video I found online please click here:
Dicovery Channel Video on Lucid Dreams