And now for something completely different…
I had a near-lucid dream this morning. I was walking around, and found myself in a zoo. I got myself stuck, and had to go down some stairs, but there was a huge snake guarding it. Unfortunately, I didn’t notice until I was so close the snake was right on my foot.
At first I was afraid to get bitten, but then I started to become partly lucid. I knew that if I feared the snake biting me, then it would bite me. Instead of focusing on the fear, I decided to try to focus on getting the snake to leave me alone. I started to visualize the snake going down the stairs, and leaving. It didn’t leave… but instead, the snake started licking my foot playfully.
I believe there are lessons to be had in dreams. If you’ve never had a lucid dream, then I recommend training for it. That applies to anyone. We sleep one third of our life - it’s amazing we don’t take that time period more seriously. No matter what your beliefs are about what dreams are - there is one thing for sure. You choose how to navigate your dream. And you use the same decision making process in your waking life. Dreams give us the opportunity to test our belief structures in fantasy situations without putting ourselves in real danger. They’re beyond helpful in self-discovery.
Plus it’s fun.
EDIT: Also…
A not-so-funny experience happened. Yesterday, I reminded myself that I needed to pay my car payment, which requires me to go to the bank. I asked myself, “When does the bank close?” and got a response of “1:00pm”. I thought - gee, that doesn’t sound right. When I got home, I checked the bank hours online. According to their website, they close at 3:00pm. So I felt confident going to the bank at 2:00pm to pay my bill, despite the little annoying voice within telling me otherwise. Upon arrival, it turns out it did close at 1:00pm because of Memorial Day weekend. On their door, they have the normal hours posted, and then a cute little printed paper saying they’re closing early because it’s Memorial Day weekend.
How nice. Now my car payment is going to be late. I should have listened to my subconscious.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
It’s always fun to have results like this
May 25th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I tried WILDing this morning, and I ended up having a False Awakening and thinking “Shoot! I better close my eyes and go back to trying to sleep/WILD!”
I don’t like how ironic my life can get…
May 25th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Ha, Cool dream.
I really should practice lucid dreaming.
You should have listened to your subconscious ;).
- hotfoot982
May 25th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
wtf was that link? “badgerbadgerbadger” lol, how the hell you find that site?
May 25th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I’ve had a few experiances like that.
May 27th, 2007 at 2:15 am
The movie “Waking Life” is a great film on lucid dreaming. I’d encourage anyone trying to have a lucid dream to watch it; it really gets your mind thinking
May 29th, 2007 at 11:05 am
Hahaha, never doubt your sub-c’s wiseness!
June 2nd, 2007 at 2:39 am
I get my sub-c telling me those things too. But I’m also a genius when it comes to connecting things that don’t make any sense. In this case Memorial Day would have been the first thing that popped into my head if someone had told me strange hours like that.
June 17th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
oh Oh i have had that happen before. It was before we bought our land and put the house on it. We moved out of our big place and into a townhouse. we were signing the leaves and had both decided it was going to take us a while to find what we wanted and were going to sign a year long lease. When we sat at the table I suddenly felt like we should be signing a six month one. My husband argued and still signed the 12 month lease. We ended up moving out and into our new place in 6 months anyway.