Last night I had what I'd have to call a "semi-lucid" dream. I realized that I was dreaming and I was able to control what I was doing but I couldn't really change what was going on around me. In a normal lucid dream you can control everything.
The dream started with me going into a dimly-lit bar and ordering a drink. I'm sure it was based on reality...I played two gigs this past weekend and Friday night I had a glass of really nice bourbon. I forget the name but I'll find out. It may be the smoothest bourbon I've ever had.
In the dream I meant to order a small-batch bourbon but what came out of my mouth was "single malt scotch." I knew that was weird and at that point I realized I was dreaming. Cool. I told myself not to wake up. Since I don't have a problem with single malt I accepted it and took a sip. It wasn't bad.
The bartender showed me the bottle it came in. It was a large gallon-size glass bottle that was made to look like a whiskey barrel. Should I ever make a good single malt, that's how I'll package it.
It was odd that I couldn't control the entire dream like I normally can. I'd have changed the scotch to bourbon, and no telling what else. As it was though it was still extremely cool to know that I was dreaming, and at least be able to control myself.
I took my scotch and went to the also dimly-lit courtyard. It was like a jungle, and it reminded me of a line from the song Horse with No Name by America: "There were plants and birds and rocks and things..." it was nicely done. Then I realized that I was playing a gig there. Excellent. If I'd been able to control the entire dream I'd be gigging for sure, so it being in the dream anyway was nice.
I was about to go through the courtyard to where we were set up, but I was stopped by a very attractive woman. She had fairly short dark hair. I hope I don't sound "sexist" but usually I like longer hair on women, although once in a Blue Moon it doesn't matter at all, as is the case with the actress Janine Turner for example, and my all-time favorite close-cropped brunette, Candi Duke (real name) from the crazy restaurant.
Candi was even more beautiful on the inside as she was on the outside, and the outside was extraordinary. The sister in my dream was one of those. I got a vibe that she was really a genuine sweetheart too, and when I'm awake anyway, that vibe is right most of the time. Not always...but mostly.
She said something like "Well...here goes" and she started kissing me. Again it was something I'd have done anyway if I'd had full control of the dream, but I was able to control the amount of time we kissed, and it lasted a while. I was taken by surprise but I went with it.
I don't mind showing a little affection in public, even a good kiss, but if it goes further than that it's like "get a room," at least in my waking hours, but nobody was paying attention and it wasn't a problem at all to make it a long kiss. It's dorky to say these days I guess but it was very romantic. I enjoyed it, especially since it was a lucid dream, and much more vivid and easy to remember than an ordinary dream.
I was enjoying my new friend. We started talking and were getting along fine. I was about to go play a set, and I was already looking forward to hanging out with her afterwards. Unfortunately things started to go a little astray, and although I still knew I was dreaming I couldn't keep it from happening.
I don't remember everything that happened, but like a lot of dreams I have, I'll somehow end up outside, and having to walk somewhere. Occasionally I'll be lost and have to try to find my way to wherever. Sometimes my shoes and socks will come off and I'll be barefoot, which happened in last night's dream. It's not exactly a nightmare but it's a pain in the arse. I'm sure Freud would have something to say about it.
I was aware that this dream was similar to regular dreams where I ended up waking up anyway. I tried to change the situation like you can in a normal lucid dream but I couldn't, so I consciously pulled the plug on the dream and made myself wake up.
I was actually able to go back to sleep quickly and get back into the dream, which is extremely rare, only this time a different woman approached me. She was blonde with shoulder length hair and she was also very attractive. She didn't start kissing me like the first girl but she was very friendly.
The second part of the dream was also lucid, to about the same degree. I talked to the other girl and poked around in the dream for a bit but I couldn't find the first girl and I was bummed so I made myself wake up again. I was a bit disappointed but overall it was an extremely interesting experience.
This was a personal experience but anyone can have a lucid dream. If you've never had one you can't imagine how much fun and what a trip it is, especially if it's a normal one where you can fully control what happens. It's in my Top-5 coolest things to experience.
Among other things dreams are supposedly how our brains process things and figure out problems and such. Maybe lucid dreaming could help in those areas but I don't know for sure. I've never read anything about it. What I do know is that it's incredibly fun. You're in your own movie, and you can change the scene any time you like.
Back in the 80s or maybe the 70s they came out with these special glasses you wore to bed that would let you know when you were dreaming, so that you could have a lucid dream. It detected REM sleep when dreams occur, and it flashed a dim red light that wasn't bright enough to wake you up but bright enough to be noticed by your semi-conscious mind I guess, and let your brain know that you're dreaming. I'm sure those are still around.
If you don't want to wear REM-detecting glasses to bed there are other things you can do to help induce a lucid dream, such as repeating certain words before you go to sleep and things like that. It's easy to do. You're going to dream anyway...might as well enjoy it to the fullest. I wonder if it would be good therapy for people who tend to have more nightmares than usual.
The last lucid dream I had was pretty wild. It started out with a very basic layout of a grid for a city street, and it was like an early 8-bit video game, ready to be customized and brought up to date. There were stick people walking around.
I played it like a video game for a while...rolling and knocking balls around and such, and then I turned it into a beautiful city street, with a cobblestone street and beautiful houses and all. I ended up changing the scene fifty times, to outdoor scenes and old carnival scenes and scenes I imagined from history and anything I could think of, and bringing anyone I wanted into the dream and finding something really fun to do. It was incredibly cool.
I should do some of the things you can do to induce lucid dreaming, although I've had a good many of them without trying to. In my case sometimes my brain picks up on weird things in dreams and lets me know I'm dreaming, although as we know, the craziest things can happen in a dream but we don't usually question them. My stupid brain knew that it was weird that I ordered a scotch when I meant to order a bourbon, and it let me know that I must be dreaming. That's interesting.
What gets me though is the fact that I could only control myself in the dream and not the entire dream. As crazy as it sounds to people who haven't researched it, which is most people, it could be due to the intense solar radiation that's hitting Earth right now.
Long story short the Sun affects everything on planet Earth, including humans. It affects us physically and mentally. It affects heart rate, brainwave patterns and even our mood. Look it up if you don't believe it. It's very possible that solar radiation could've interfered with the lucidity of my lucid dream. Maybe not, but I've never had a half-lucid dream.
I wish the dream had been fully lucid...I'd have hung out with the first girl and who knows what else...anything I could've imagined. In any case if you've never had a lucid dream you owe it to yourself to try. Sweet dreams.
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