March 29, 2004

Lucid dreams

Ken has an entry on Lucid dreams where he asks for feed back... I've had many lucid dreams, mostly when I'm almost done with my sleep cycle and about to wake. I've always wondered if I was really dreaming or what because I have remarkable amount of control and power. For example, when I was a kid I always wanted motorcycles and cool high end "GT" bmx bikes. I used to have dreams where my parents garage was full of these great toys. I knew I was dreaming and I knew as soon as I woke they would be gone so I would cling to my sleep so that I could imagine getting to use them. As I dreamed I was able to make them exactly as I wanted them at any given moment.

As I got older (teenager) I would be dreaming about what ever girl had my attention at the time. I don't think I'll go into that here...

As an adult, when I do lucid dream which is MUCH less often then when I was a kid or teenager (am I really an adult)? I tend to have dreams about, what else, motorcycles, or scarily enough having kids. I tend to have less control about the environment but more still full control over myself. I am however, fully aware that I'm dreaming.

I generally don't have dreams where physics and "reality" are fully suspended. My dreams tend to be set in the real world, although what constitutes the real world isn't always the same. Sometimes I have a huge trust fund or am just rich or I'm a pro-motorcycle racer. I, for example, never have a giant floating pink elephant or a panda that I can ride or the ability to fly.

Posted by pqbon at March 29, 2004 4:43 PM | TrackBack