Very Lucid Dream
This one was great. I was a little uncomfortable sleeping, so I was kind of aware of it. Then I was all "Ooh, time for some lucid dreaming. I think I'll try to fly."
So I excused myself from my current dream conversation and walked outside the 34th street building onto the nyc night sidewalk. There were all kinds of people I could ramble on about, but the point is that I kept my focus and said, "Okay, this is just a dream. Time to fly."
I was no Superman. I was able to bound upwards a few stories, and then float downwads. It was actually my backpack that lifted and lowered me. (I used to be really good at this!) I focused and got better and better, making it halfway up a skyscraper.
I saw my reflection in a window, with the backpack holding me aloft like a phantom coat hanger. The sight of myself startled me, and I almost fell/woke up. I swear my concentration kept me aloft as well as asleep.
Later, I was exploring a restaurant looking for ways to challenge myself and triumph. A waiter and waitress came up onto the dining patio, and I told them to take a seat. I bussed the dishes they had and asked what I could get them, with a grin. The order was red wine and chardonnay, and I trotted down, found my way through the kitchen, dropped off the plates, bought a couple bottles of fine wine, and spent the afternoon chatting it up with total strangers in a European restaurant.
8 Iconoclasm
7 Focus
(I've kept piles of dream journals, and got in the habbit of recording the feel of each dream. So that's what those stats are about.)
I haven't felt so free and aware in a looong time. (Hmm - I like those words together: "free and aware".) But what is remarkable to me is the presence of struggle. If you know it's a dream, why not blast off to Jupiter in a nanosecond? It's like we're so accustomed to being physical/social beings that we introduce physical/social limitations so we can feel and enjoy the triumph in stretching them.
Our dream experiences aren't "real", but they are tremendously critical to our personal development because the fashioning of neural pathways is very real. As we establish habits and cycles of behavior, the conscious shaping of our own persona is worthy of much more attention than we typically give it.
So fire that personal coach and get dreaming.
So I excused myself from my current dream conversation and walked outside the 34th street building onto the nyc night sidewalk. There were all kinds of people I could ramble on about, but the point is that I kept my focus and said, "Okay, this is just a dream. Time to fly."
I was no Superman. I was able to bound upwards a few stories, and then float downwads. It was actually my backpack that lifted and lowered me. (I used to be really good at this!) I focused and got better and better, making it halfway up a skyscraper.
I saw my reflection in a window, with the backpack holding me aloft like a phantom coat hanger. The sight of myself startled me, and I almost fell/woke up. I swear my concentration kept me aloft as well as asleep.
Later, I was exploring a restaurant looking for ways to challenge myself and triumph. A waiter and waitress came up onto the dining patio, and I told them to take a seat. I bussed the dishes they had and asked what I could get them, with a grin. The order was red wine and chardonnay, and I trotted down, found my way through the kitchen, dropped off the plates, bought a couple bottles of fine wine, and spent the afternoon chatting it up with total strangers in a European restaurant.
8 Iconoclasm
7 Focus
(I've kept piles of dream journals, and got in the habbit of recording the feel of each dream. So that's what those stats are about.)
I haven't felt so free and aware in a looong time. (Hmm - I like those words together: "free and aware".) But what is remarkable to me is the presence of struggle. If you know it's a dream, why not blast off to Jupiter in a nanosecond? It's like we're so accustomed to being physical/social beings that we introduce physical/social limitations so we can feel and enjoy the triumph in stretching them.
Our dream experiences aren't "real", but they are tremendously critical to our personal development because the fashioning of neural pathways is very real. As we establish habits and cycles of behavior, the conscious shaping of our own persona is worthy of much more attention than we typically give it.
So fire that personal coach and get dreaming.