Yesterday, 2nd of august, I had my first lucid dream. A lucid dream happens when you realize in the dream that you are dreaming but the fun part is that you can control your dream afterword. The first thing I did is to try to fly which is something hard even for experts because when you fly you touch nothing that keeps you intact to the dream so most beginners tend to wake up when they try to fly which is what happened to me.
In the second dream I decided, it seems taking decisions in the dream is possible, to take it slow and allow my subconscious to kick in and create the environment, which it did. The environment was my house; the floor was full of presents given by my mom’s visitors for my sister’s wedding. On the floor was my older sister opening presents with her Abaya. I tried to jump the presents but concentrated on keeping a foot on the ground at all times. The rug touching my feet kept me intact to the dream, since I learned that once I feel the bed I get closer to waking up.
I decided to create people instead of places, which is what I did. Before I entered the room I created one of my dear old friends that I miss so much, which was my first conscious creation. In the dream and to make sure that I can create stuff, I wanted it him to be asleep and there he was lying on a chair asleep in the room. I woke him up and we started conversing; I know that everything he said was my subconscious knowledge of him talking. Suddenly I decided to touch him just to make sure he feels real, he turned to a laptop! Then a stupid watsapp message woke me upL.
A person I admire asked some philosophical questions: do the people I created have their own feelings, world, and thoughts that are separated, yet connected, to me. I was playing God’s role in the dream. I knew what my friend would say in the room but my subconscious controlled him, therefore my knowledge of him meant that I completely controlled him.
On the other hand, my subconscious knowledge of him is a biased perception of the real him. It is what I think he would say based on what I stored about him in my subconscious, not 100% what he really is.
I will conclude this article here because I do not want to turn it to philosophy since I am not in a philosophical mode.
Radi alzayer
3rd of August 2011
Pic from: http://cwnl.tumblr.com/post/6730323522/the-stuff-of-dreams-part-2-lucidity-and-its
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