I wrote an article a while back which documented my interest and various successes with lucid dreaming. At the time my interest had been raised by a particular book I’d purchased which purported to show the reader how to improve their chances of having lucid dreams. I suppose in the interest of following up on that article, I’d like to return to that topic this week.

My main reason for wanting to return is that I had another lucid dream only three nights ago. This was quite unexpected because I hadn’t been practicing the required methodologies for their invocation. Just to recap a little before I go on, the book which I’d read – Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming – outlined a number of varying methods which when practised repeatedly and regularly allowed for increased occurrences of lucid dreams. If these methods were followed daily the reader could be fairly confident of achieving regular lucid dreams. Although while reading the book at the time I had followed the instructions and, as indicated, managed to lucid dream, soon after I began to wane until basically I’d almost clean forgotten about the whole thing.

That is why I was so surprised to have a lucid dream the other night. But I think I understand the conditions which may have allowed for it to happen. You see I was forced awake at about 6am on the morning in question, having to tend to my baby son who was crying. He was so inconsolable I ended up taking him into the bed and lying him down between myself and Barbara. He began to calm and quieten but every now and again he’d flare up. This lasted about an hour before he eventually fell back to sleep, which is when I drifted into my lucid dream. I suspect I was in that twilight phase between being fully conscious and falling asleep and that’s how it happened.

The dream itself saw me wandering around an old familiar house or building which was now run and owned by others. As I walked along a corridor and through a door I bumped into a man with a suitcase who was climbing a flight of stairs. As I looked at him I felt like an imposter in his place of work, and he seemed to read my expression. “What are you doing here?” he asked. But in that same second, as I looked around me, I became aware (conscious) of the fact that this was maybe a dream. I actually turned to the man and said as much, “I think this is all part of my dream,” as I panned the area with my hand. Just to prove it – to myself and the man – I looked down through the stairwell to a woman who seemed to be running naked below. With a sweeping commanding movement of my arm I ‘wished’ the woman to float up to me. I didn’t really expect this to happen, but then it did. It was right at that point that I KNEW for certain that I was in a dream. But as I had this lady at my beck and call I became over excited at the fact that I wielded such power and that I was inside my own dream. The excitement threatened to wake me up though and I could actually feel myself coming out of the dream. So, remembering a technique from the book for such situations, I began to spin around. This worked instantly. I immediately felt my presence becoming stronger in the dream again. But just then I felt a sensation as if my mind was trying to separate or split from my physical body, and with it I became excited at the possibility that this was becoming an OBE. But with that excitement I began to slip again and I woke up in the bed.

It was a fascinating experience and one that has once again stoked my interest for this area. As I’ve mentioned before, areas such as lucid dreams, OBE’s, dream consciousness and such like are of great importance to me since my son passed away. In my search for understanding and truth – for Craig – I need to investigate these realms further myself and am incredibly eager to have further such experiences.