Crazy dreams again. I did my best to remember, which had an awesome side effect last night.
The only dream I really remember details was I was getting married...again, to a woman with crazy blue and blonde hair - she reminded me of Lady Gaga. Porcelain skin. She was also pregnant...by her existing husband. So I'm marrying a woman who's pregnant by her other husband, and I'm already married. Then I think to myself, "She's pregnant!? But my wife and I are pregnant, too, how am I going to deal with raising two new babies and my own son!?" <----------- STRESS
I then wake up to my wife making a bunch of noise getting ready for work this morning. I am irritated, and decide to get up and use the bathroom. While I do that, I'm repeating the dream I remember over and over and over in my mind so I don't forget what it was about.
This is where it gets awesome. I'm lying in bed repeating this dream so I don't forget, feeling wide awake, but suddenly...I'm in a car with an older dude and we hit a jump. We're flying through the air, and I think to myself, "I'm having an out-of-body experience!" I woke up in my dream - or whatever it was! I recently read a book called The Phase, recommended by someone here. I've read enough to get some of the techniques down, including one called "Deepening." To make everything in a "Phase" experience (which includes lucid dreaming as well as astral projection) more "real" the author recommends rubbing your arms and hands vigorously. I did this, and sure enough, everything became more "real" looking. Vivid detail. Then I think to myself, "So this is what the author was talking about when he said the Phase can appear more real than waking life." I was touching everything, feeling how it felt, etc. I also noticed that if I didn't keep this up, everything started to fade-to-black. I would think about making something happen, and surprisingly I felt this took some effort - like I didn't have full creative control of the dream/projection experience. I ate ice cream in an ice cream shop - but that was at the recommendation of the dude I was with, walked around a few bars that had vivid features - stuff on the walls that I studied up close, and even ran into a woman I know IRL (which was in another location after a fade-to-black moment) and asked her if she wanted to get in her swimsuit and go swimming, lol. Eventually one of those fading moments got the best of me, and then I woke up.
It's the weirdest experience, because while it's happening it feels so real, and is extremely exciting. But when you wake up from it, it already starts to fade, and you begin to question just how real it all was...
Regardless, I'm pretty sure it was a lucid dream, or an experience on the astral plane - I don't know which. Very cool.
The only dream I really remember details was I was getting married...again, to a woman with crazy blue and blonde hair - she reminded me of Lady Gaga. Porcelain skin. She was also pregnant...by her existing husband. So I'm marrying a woman who's pregnant by her other husband, and I'm already married. Then I think to myself, "She's pregnant!? But my wife and I are pregnant, too, how am I going to deal with raising two new babies and my own son!?" <----------- STRESS
I then wake up to my wife making a bunch of noise getting ready for work this morning. I am irritated, and decide to get up and use the bathroom. While I do that, I'm repeating the dream I remember over and over and over in my mind so I don't forget what it was about.
This is where it gets awesome. I'm lying in bed repeating this dream so I don't forget, feeling wide awake, but suddenly...I'm in a car with an older dude and we hit a jump. We're flying through the air, and I think to myself, "I'm having an out-of-body experience!" I woke up in my dream - or whatever it was! I recently read a book called The Phase, recommended by someone here. I've read enough to get some of the techniques down, including one called "Deepening." To make everything in a "Phase" experience (which includes lucid dreaming as well as astral projection) more "real" the author recommends rubbing your arms and hands vigorously. I did this, and sure enough, everything became more "real" looking. Vivid detail. Then I think to myself, "So this is what the author was talking about when he said the Phase can appear more real than waking life." I was touching everything, feeling how it felt, etc. I also noticed that if I didn't keep this up, everything started to fade-to-black. I would think about making something happen, and surprisingly I felt this took some effort - like I didn't have full creative control of the dream/projection experience. I ate ice cream in an ice cream shop - but that was at the recommendation of the dude I was with, walked around a few bars that had vivid features - stuff on the walls that I studied up close, and even ran into a woman I know IRL (which was in another location after a fade-to-black moment) and asked her if she wanted to get in her swimsuit and go swimming, lol. Eventually one of those fading moments got the best of me, and then I woke up.
It's the weirdest experience, because while it's happening it feels so real, and is extremely exciting. But when you wake up from it, it already starts to fade, and you begin to question just how real it all was...
Regardless, I'm pretty sure it was a lucid dream, or an experience on the astral plane - I don't know which. Very cool.
