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It's been awhile since I've had such a dream, and felt the need to write about it, but... early this morning I had the most incredible lucid dream. It was full screen, full color, it felt larger than life, with me in it, and I knew I was dreaming, but I looked around with caution as typical dreams can be very perishable.
I was a young adult, basically my mental state anyway, I don't think of myself as being old, just physically old. The people around me where young adults. I was in a large interior, nicely furnished space and I was walking down stairs observing the scene, kind of in wonder. I was like, don't do anything sudden or this might go away. I determined I could move and interact without fear of it whooshing away. I determined that a blond haired fellow was my cousin. We were discussing some plans we had. There was a woman looking at herself in a mirror, possibly putting on makeup, whose skin color changed several times, with normal human skin tones and another woman who entered the room who I quickly realized, I was intimate with by the way we interacted with each other.
About this time, I knew it was time to wake up (leave my dream state), but I lingered a while longer, didn't want to go. And I did not have the where with all to say "good bye, I plan on coming back", maybe because it was like a secret I was keeping from them. But I hope I do. It was a pretty incredible experience, despite it's routine nature.
Based on past experience, these dreams happen in the morning, possibly because I remember them when they happen in the morning, close to the time when I would get up, so I kind of rise a little from being asleep, realizing I'm in bed, and then drift back into the lucid state of dreaming. It does not seem to be something that can be willfully qued up. The transition can happen quickly. The lucid dream is not watching yourself in a movie, it is you being able to make some choices while in the movie, you have just partial control, but the important part is you realize this is a dream while it's happening.
It's also different from a bad dream where you wake yourself up. In those cases for myself, there is a very brief time while in the dream, you are able to recognize and say "I've had enough of this dream" During the entire lucid dream, I realized where I was and was enjoying it as a little adventure, even though on the face of it, it was nothing special other than the novelty of the experience. Nothing like flying an airliner through the woods dodging trees, or being downtown, realizing there is a bomb about to go off, yelling at people to run, while running yourself, and jumping behind a barrier, just as it goes off, and witnessing quite a cinematic event.
I was a young adult, basically my mental state anyway, I don't think of myself as being old, just physically old. The people around me where young adults. I was in a large interior, nicely furnished space and I was walking down stairs observing the scene, kind of in wonder. I was like, don't do anything sudden or this might go away. I determined I could move and interact without fear of it whooshing away. I determined that a blond haired fellow was my cousin. We were discussing some plans we had. There was a woman looking at herself in a mirror, possibly putting on makeup, whose skin color changed several times, with normal human skin tones and another woman who entered the room who I quickly realized, I was intimate with by the way we interacted with each other.
About this time, I knew it was time to wake up (leave my dream state), but I lingered a while longer, didn't want to go. And I did not have the where with all to say "good bye, I plan on coming back", maybe because it was like a secret I was keeping from them. But I hope I do. It was a pretty incredible experience, despite it's routine nature.
Based on past experience, these dreams happen in the morning, possibly because I remember them when they happen in the morning, close to the time when I would get up, so I kind of rise a little from being asleep, realizing I'm in bed, and then drift back into the lucid state of dreaming. It does not seem to be something that can be willfully qued up. The transition can happen quickly. The lucid dream is not watching yourself in a movie, it is you being able to make some choices while in the movie, you have just partial control, but the important part is you realize this is a dream while it's happening.
It's also different from a bad dream where you wake yourself up. In those cases for myself, there is a very brief time while in the dream, you are able to recognize and say "I've had enough of this dream" During the entire lucid dream, I realized where I was and was enjoying it as a little adventure, even though on the face of it, it was nothing special other than the novelty of the experience. Nothing like flying an airliner through the woods dodging trees, or being downtown, realizing there is a bomb about to go off, yelling at people to run, while running yourself, and jumping behind a barrier, just as it goes off, and witnessing quite a cinematic event.
