GUEST POST – BY MIKE B.
I have lucid dreamed since I was a young child just was not very aware in a semi state of control. As I grew into my teens the intensity and control increased and I began researching on the topic obsessively. Most helpful book for me was Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge. Which so happened to be sitting in an old used book store around the corner from my house tucked away on the top shelf in the back corner labeled under psychology books, it seemed like fate to me.
I learned many techniques and had some very profound experiences as I began getting into drug use with psychedelics and smoking pot regularly I noticed that I began to dream less. One day I stopped remembering a majority of my dreams altogether and lucidity ceased. I stopped using the heavier drugs but continued smoking pot and I continued to not dream this is after I turned 20. Fast forward 7 years and this is recently I had a minor manic episode I suppose the medical community would identify it as. I describe it as another level of perception, of our base reality. I was isolated and going through an emotional time with my partner, I hadn’t been smoking pot, my appetite decreased and I hadn’t been sleeping. I began to have these rushes of what seemed to be memories of past lives, and I began perceiving the world in a much different way, my entire life fell apart and even as I write this today I am rebuilding and attempting to come to a regular baseline reality again. I have been eating and smoking pot far less than I have before and I’ve been having these very vivid dreams again almost daily. There’s a difference though, it is almost as if my dream body is living it’s own life in its own world and when I try to impose my choices on its reality were having this tug of war of who’s in control of the dream body, I would relate the feeling to dream paralysis when you feel the vibrations but my dream body and I are fighting each other for control of the body itself. Very odd experience just happened this evening I will post more info as it comes.
Has anyone else experienced something similar to this? It’s raising some questions for me is this reality a dream am I being dreamt or am I dreaming the dreamer when I sleep or is he dream I when he sleeps on some level. Ha ha very out there I know – please feel free to contact me if you wish to discuss the nature of dreaming as it is a topic I put down many years ago and at one point in my life wanted to pursue as a career which I still may do now that I am regaining my abilities all the best.