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- From: tobritt@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Randall K. Britton)
- Newsgroups: alt.dreams
- Subject: 1st time lucidity (sort of)
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 15:09:53 GMT
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- Reply-To: tobritt@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Randall K. Britton)
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- Hello Netters,
-
- This is a first time post for me to this group. I have been skulking this
- group for about 2 weeks now because I have always been rather interested in
- dreams. I have always had difficulty rembering my own dreams however. So,
- ever since I started reading this group I have been making a
- conscious effort to remember my dreams. Well, last night I did the usual
- ritual of repeating to myself that I was going to remember my dreams, etc.
- Lo and behold but it worked (with an additional bonus). Not only do I have
- a very vivid remberance of a dream but also a memory of actually affecting the
- dream's outcome in one instance (which seems strange to me because I never
- intended to have a lucid dream). I must tell you that I woke up this morning
- with quite a rush, because this is the very first time I ever remember
- directly affecting one of my dreams (I suppose it could have happened before,
- I just don't remember it). The dream itself isn't very spectacular.
- Certainly not as bizarre as some of the dreams I've read about in this group.
- But, it was (in my mind) rather humorous so I'll relate it here.
-
- My memory of the dream begins with me on an airplane headed for Reno, Nevada
- for an Aerospace Sciences Conference. We had just taken off and had reached
- a fair altitude. I was speaking with a guy I know from work who was sitting
- beside me. Suddenly the plane lurched downwards and to the left. The plane
- began a downward spiral. I remember looking out the window and seeing a
- smaller airplane in similar trouble. It was rather odd because, even though
- it was apparant that I was about to die I was not frightened in the least.
- My colleague was absolutely flipping out beside me screaming and so forth.
- Well, as the plane approached the ground a strange thing happened. I
- remember telling myself, "Wait a minute. This is stupid. I just got back
- from Reno 2 weeks ago. This can't be right." (This is true. I really did
- just get back from Reno 2 weeks ago). So I decided that I didn't really want
- to die because that would end the dream. (Pretty silly huh? Well, it gets
- really dumn from here on out.) So I got up, and walk right through the side
- of the airplane and out on to the wing. I walked all the way to the end of
- the wing (right side) and grabbed on to the wing tip. As the airplane struck
- the ground it began to slide along what for all the world appeared to be a
- runway (which doesn't make a lot of sense). Anyways, I remember standing up
- on the right wing and riding the wreckage down the runway like a surfboard
- yelling at the top of my lungs "Yee-Haw". I then jumped off the wreckage and
- dusted myself off. The pilot (who somehow got out of the plane also) came up
- to me and said, "Those damn downbursts will get you every time." [For those
- of you who don't know a downburst is an atmospheric phenomena which happens
- very quickly with very little warning resulting in a sudden down rushing of
- air. Very very dangerous to aircraft, particularly at take-off and landing.
- Also referred to as a micro-burst].
-
- Well, there was a little more to the dream after that but the rest is pretty
- unremarkable. I'm not really sure what the dream "means" if anything at all.
- But believe me, being able to consciously decide to walk through the wall of
- the airplane and do something as ridiculous as ride an airplane wreck down a
- runway because I *wanted* to was a very powerful experience for me. I do
- have a question however. Is it common to have lucid dreams even when your
- not really trying to? I thought you had to make a real concerted effort to
- do this. Any comments?
-
- - Randy
-