--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote:
> I recently posted a rap about Lucid Dreaming. It is > pasted in at the bottom of this post. What I'm inter- > ested in is whether anyone on FFL has had experiences > of this sort, and wants to rap about them. No "experts," > no dogma, just rappin'...trying to figure things out. I have long been able to be conscious of my dreams as dreams and control their outcome. When I was a child, like many, I had terrible nightmares. My mother said think about looking for signs for knowing something is a dream. That suggestion was an effective way of teaching me to lucid dream. Also, we did a lot of dream talk at home which encouraged the remembering of dreams. Reviewing your dreams after they occur help you remember them plus helps you get some measure of control. When thinking about this thread I went to the wikipedia entry on lucid dreaming. The article gives some suggestions on how to lucid dream. What I thought was interesting was the section where it talks about going to sleep while maintaining some awareness, which will then allow you to lucid dream. The description which I quote below sounds like something a meditator would describe: During the actual transition into the dream state, one is likely to experience sleep paralysis, including rapid vibrations,[15] a sequence of loud sounds and a feeling of twirling into another state of body awareness, "to drift off into another dimension", or the feeling like passing the interface between water into air face-front body first, or images or sceneries they are thinking of and trying to visualize gradually sharpen and become "real", which they can actually "see", instead of the fuzzy indefinable sensations one feels when trying to imagine something when wide awake.
