Active Lucid Dream (induced by dry throat)
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Date: Posted 7 years before Jul 17, 2018
Dear Beloved 7 years ago
Early in the morning on Jan 1, I was asleep and was breathing through my mouth due to semi-blocked nasal passageways. The air in the room where I was sleeping was very dry so my mouth had completely dried out and my tongue was extremely sticky. In a dream, I tried to get up and drink some water to rewet my throat and it remained dry after I drank some water. At this point I knew I was dreaming and went lucid.
I started doing a bunch of things that I don’t remember at all now and then I attempted to write down a note and hand it someone hoping that they would still have it when I woke up. I don’t remember what I wrote but then I went and sat down on a chair and tried to wake up but had zero awareness of my sleeping body. So I leaned back and let the chair fall down (an unconscious connection to a scene in the movie Inception). It seemed to work and I thought I was awake but it turned out that my throat was still dry and I wasn’t awake so I kept going on with my lucid dream in another dimension.
I jumped from scene to scene, location to location as my unconscious thoughts wandered at times and stay steady at other times. At times I was in a car and drove in areas that were impossible. At other times, my girlfriend’s dog was next to me and made impossible jumps with me. I went up to random people and did random things. One person turned to me and said, “Don’t you know what I am?” and then turned into a sitting robot that looked like a character out of the movie Tron (which I had actually seen 12 hours before this experience).
I then found myself standing on a steep woody hill and wanted to go down the hill. I was hesitant because of the possibility of falling and analyzed myself and my unneeded fear since I was dreaming and didn’t need to fear gravity. So I settled on a happy medium of going down the steep slope by jumping and swinging off dream branches but not just falling straight down it. I realized in the lucid dream that I couldn’t banish all of my fears and that I would at least experience the illusion of injury and wanted to avoid that. So I decided to go to the airport and catch a flight to the Arizona to go to the Grand Canyon and jump off of it and thereby start to fly. I thought it was deep enough to give my mind enough time to override the fear of gravity and then sustain flying.
At some point, my youngest sister materialized into the dream and she was going with me to the Grand Canyon. I had a sense of good will and good feelings towards her that this automatically confirmed. I didn’t relate it to any of my other sisters…it was purely related to this specific sister. The lucid dream ended shortly thereafter as I awoke in my real sleeping place and was able to actually go get some water to quench my dry throat.
There was no sense of time at all while in the lucid dream and this one felt as if it was somewhat limited in that it was only mental projections. My body was in a calm and deep state that allowed me to have zero awareness of it and I was able to objectively observe the movements of my subconscious mind. It was not an out-of-body experience in this particular case…just a long and active lucid dream induced by when I tried to quench a very dry throat in my sleeping body. I welcome any questions, inputs and analysis of this state and if others have experienced it.
MiBeloved 7 years ago
In kriya yoga the value of such lucid dreams is to inform the yogi of his or her actual advanced or not-so-advanced condition. He or she has to gage how the mind enters its different stages from conscious, unconscious, subconscious and lucid dream stage. Particularly one has to observe how the mind is affected by visual media, whereby it later creates those scenes in part or in full. One has to also gage what percentage of power one has over the mind in those states and study how one can increase one’s leverage over the mind’s hypnotic power to recreate scenes from the real world or from media and then subject one to those creations just as if they were in fact portions of reality.
I suspect that the dream occurs not because of the dry mouth but due to the fatigue of the mind in combination with the way the air was getting into the lungs or not getting into the lungs. The mind released itself from the gross body because the body was dull and its brain was not getting sufficient fresh air due to the blocked nasal condition.
Just imagine where you would be if your body died during the experience. Where would your subtle body go? What would it do there? How would it assess all the half-done projects which were left behind in this world and to which you would have no access to complete because the physical body was lost?
Bhagiratha 7 years ago
Dear wrote:
"At this point I knew I was dreaming and went lucid."
Bhagiratha’s query:
What do you mean by "went lucid"?
It sounds like you just shifted a gear. Was it a conscious decision or did the mind act on its own and then made you believe that you consciously switched your focus to a lucid one?
Dear Beloved 7 years ago
I shifted a gear. It was conscious. However, almost immediately after I made that decision, the mind went back into automatic mode and as I observed myself in the lucid dream I had very little control of how a dream scene developed. The only control I had was that when I visualized or desired something, it materialized in some manner but I couldn't always sustain the experience for very long before the jumpy mind was on to something else or an external thought or person inserted itself into my dream. Like Michael Beloved said, the room I was in didn't have a fresh flow of air and my body was physically tired so it was easy for my mind to be conscious and the rest of my body to remain shut down. I was in a light mode of sleep but with a tired body.
