My Lucid Dream
I woke up early this morning. Oscar, a
Siamese cat with an attitude, woke me up by pacing on my back to
let me know there was only about one hour's worth of food left
in his dish. He's very demanding. It was still dark outside. In
fact it was three hours before my normal waking time. I arose,
puttered around the house a bit, fed the cat and soon realized
that I was still very sleepy. When you wake up in the middle of
the night your mind is probably still in the Theta or Alpha
brainwave state and still very relaxed so it is easy to fall
back to sleep. We (me and the cat) hopped back
into my bed.
Being an insomniac myself I usually have
three or four virtual dreams on my nightstand so I thought
wouldn't it be fun to have a lucid dream. I know through
research that the best time to experience a lucid dream is when
slipping back to sleep from a prematurely awakened state. In
lucid dreaming vernacular this is called a Wake Induced Lucid
Dream or WILD. I put my earbuds in and started the sleep sound 'Camping
with Friends' . All the while I was reminding myself that I
was about to dream and I was going to wake up in the
dream. I visualized the campsite, the woods, the campfire....
Already relaxed, within a minute or two I was asleep. When I
began dreaming I did not end up in a camping scene but was in a
house full of strangers. They were all laughing and someone was
playing an old guitar of mine. I reminded myself that I had sold
that guitar 5 years ago which brought on immediate lucidity. I
walked outside and the wind was blowing so hard the trees were
bending. I then did the thing I almost always do in a
lucid dream. I flew. The incredible detail of flying over the
treetops was mind boggling.
The entire LD (
Lucid Dream ) probably only
lasted 90 seconds but what a 90 second ride! In a LD things
appear as real as they do in waking life. To me it is like
experiencing a different dimension. I do not construct the
recordings for lucid dream induction. They are for sleep onset
and relaxation. But occasional LD's can and do happen.
Anyhoo, it was an intense and wonderful
experience I wanted to share with you.
Enjoy the day.
Brad McBride
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