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- From: eric@geoblue.gcn.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle)
- Newsgroups: alt.dreams
- Subject: Re: flight
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- Date: 15 Nov 92 18:18:40 GMT
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- I used to be a very lucid dreamer as a child. I would go
- to sleep concentrating on wanting to control my dreams. My
- first lucid dream that I can recall was when I was really
- little. I couldn't sleep so I went into the front room and
- tried to sleep on the couch. I don't remember closing my
- eyes, because I thought I was just looking down the hall.
- Then after a little bit I saw a gorilla walking down the
- hal. He was making faces at me seemingly trying to scare me.
- I was tired of things picking on me in my dreams so I got
- off the couch and walked up to it and punched it in the
- face. It startled me when I hit him in the face because I
- felt it. I don't recall pain but I felt solidness. The
- gorilla had a surprised look on its face and then he shrunk
- into a monkey. Satisfied with my courage I went back to the
- couch and watched the monkey. It licked its lips and then
- smiled at me. His parents then walked down the hall and
- gathered around him. They stood there smiling and looking at
- me. I smiled and woke up to find nothing in the front room.
-
- Every dream following that one in my early youth I would
- try to control. Dreams of flying and fighting monsters or
- bullies were common.
- I think my flying dreams were stirred on by looking at
- night-light before I went to sleep. In staring at the light
- it felt as if my bed was slowly gliding across the room.
- This gliding motion often changed to rising and falling
- motions. I think I used this feeling to incorporate it into
- flying in my dreams. I loved to fly in my dreams.
-
- It has been years since I have truely lucid dreamed. I
- just seem to be going with the flow of the dreams anymore.
- My dreams have become more realistic. They consist of
- everyday events like being at school, or at the house,
- etc... I don't even notice I am dreaming anymore.
-
- A curious thing has left my dreams since I stopped
- concentrating on lucid dreaming: nightmares of monsters.
- I can't recall a monster being in my dreams for a long
- time. I just have a nightmare every nine months or so.
-
- Have I lost my imagination? Why don't I lucid dream
- anymore?
-
- I hated nightmares in dreams when I was little. I could
- just feel a nightmare coming. It never happened suddenly. My
- worst nightmares weren't of falling because I always fell
- like a feather and landed smoothly. My worst nightmares were
- of death. And that is a strange thing because I don't know
- many people who have said that they die in their dreams.
- They wake up before the event happens. Well I have died at
- least two times in my dreams.
-
- One was in a horrible dream that all the planets in the
- heavens were exploding. I could hear the planets bursting.
- In looking around, there was a crowd around me all looking
- up at the sky. Suddenly everyone got really scared and
- started screing realizing what was happening. I lost control
- of my legs for some reason and landed face down on the
- ground and I felt the earth explode. And I was only
- conscious of total blackness in my dream. It was a wierd
- experience of not knowing what was happening to me.
-
- In the next dream I was shot in the head. And the same
- blackness feeling came over me.
-
- So I don't believe in the saying that if someone dies in
- their dream they die in real life.
-
- Eric
-