I just woke up from a morning nap on my sofa and yet again had an extremely conscious dream. My ex-wife was sitting next to me on the sofa, and I was very aware that I was sleeping and that she wasn't actually there, but her voice was clear as day. And I knew that if i concentrated she would just appear. And she did. But she kept disappearing, and I'd hear her in another room. So I would go to that room (which, now that I think about it, felt like the house I grew up in)--and in that room I would listen for her voice, and then tell her to appear and she would. At one point I said explicitly in the dream, "I know that I'm dreaming," three times in a row. Like Dorothy. I kept seeeing her, but could not approach her. I told her I wanted to talk, that I'd heard she gotten married. She laughed, and said it was none of my business. She kept laughing, and then I believe I fell into deep sleep.
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This is exactly my problem with lucid dreaming-- all the other stuff that happens. Sure, you were able to get your ex-wife to appear, but you weren't able to control everything. She kept disappearing from your sight. Suddenly this was the house you grew up in. And you wanted to talk to her but couldn't.
Are lucid dreams supposed to be entirely controlled to be considered lucid? Or (and here's a doozy) can someone dream that they can control the dream but it's actually part of the plot?
Posted by John A. Dreams | May 26, 2007 3:09 AM
Posted on May 26, 2007 03:09
This dream and John's comment just reminded of the dream I had last night and had already forgotten, because in it I had the same problem. I realized at some point within the dream that I was dreaming, and said to myself, "Well I should try to make things happen," but I didn't have full control, and when I tried to fly up to the moon, I just ended up running really fast down a lane that then turned into my block and then the dream turned into a dream where I was driving on the highway and trying to get off of the Grand Central but was unable to get over to the other side of the highway where the exit lanes were fast enough to avoid speeding cars and I ended up on the wrong highway and crashing in a slow fender-bender because the more I wanted to control the car in traffic the more torpid and slow to react I felt. I guess sometimes, just realizing that you are dreaming is not enough to take full control, and now that I think about it, this was a dream that for me also preceeded a fall into a deeper sleep. Maybe when dreams occur at that point in the sleep cycle it is harder to become fully lucid because your body is reacting against it and your mind loses focus. I don't know. But this is a really interesting problem.
Posted by mR. mXyLpLyX | May 26, 2007 5:40 PM
Posted on May 26, 2007 17:40