Show of hands, how many of you lucid dream by default? Did it start out naturally for you or did you have to learn it? Well for me I naturally lucid dream though perhaps that might be because of the nature of my dreams or moreover what they lack. Ahem, allow me to back up and give some definitions so that we are on the same page.
Lucid dreaming is being aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming. It does not include dream control but nor does it exclude it and similarly dream control does not require lucidity but is bolstered by it. Now with that out of the way let's continue.
So most of my dreams are typically experienced through vision. Sometimes I can hear music, taste, feel the sensation of motion. What I cannot do or rather have yet to have done is feel tactile sensations. Sight, sound, taste, balance and yet no tactile sensation. Some of you may have similar experiences. How many of you have dreams which are completely devoid of one of the senses? Does this occur on a regular basis?
Sometimes when we dream we dream that we have superpowers or abilities. Often times this is induced by external sources but occasionally there are those which lack an external inspiration. And then there are those of us who consistently have certain abilities which persist even in nightmares, even regardless of our waking lives circumstances and desires. Taking myself as an example, ever since the beginning in my dreams I've been able to levitate, warp and possess others all at will. I did not need to learn how, it came naturally. Perhaps I saw a movie or read a book you say? No, these abilities existed way before I was introduced to the concept. Anyways as I grew older I decided to test them out and there were a couple of things I found out about them. Remember, just because they came naturally to me doesn't mean I would know the ins and outs of them. It just means I can use them at will or rather I didn't need to learn how to use them.
Levitation; Passive, effectively always on. Generates a field of anti-gravity. Not the same thing as flight, in fact the anti-gravity can cause some challenges when moving around.
Possession; State, like a daemon I am able to possess others, multiples even and observe from them while having a general reading of my hosts however either I am not able to control them like puppets on a string or it's not in my nature to do so. Also, the more hosts I am possessing the more spread out and thus weaker my influence becomes. Thankfully for some reason my hosts seem to never know that I am possessing them so I guess I have the stealthy variant.
Warping; Active. Teleport to a random location. It can be in the same plane, another dimension, what have you. The only requirements of the destination is that it cannot be lethal however that does not mean it cannot be hostile.
These traits persisted regardless of attempts to preprogram and regardless of whether I was having a nightmare or not I am able to use them with no penalty however as you can see they have in-built limitations. Sure it's easy to say you can dream up anything and let it would seem that my dreams have a sort of logic to them so for some of you that may be true but as for myself, based off of experience I'd say that seems unlikely.
What about you? Are your dreams subject to your will or are you like some of us where when we dream, we might be entering into another world entirely?
Lucid dreaming is being aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming. It does not include dream control but nor does it exclude it and similarly dream control does not require lucidity but is bolstered by it. Now with that out of the way let's continue.
So most of my dreams are typically experienced through vision. Sometimes I can hear music, taste, feel the sensation of motion. What I cannot do or rather have yet to have done is feel tactile sensations. Sight, sound, taste, balance and yet no tactile sensation. Some of you may have similar experiences. How many of you have dreams which are completely devoid of one of the senses? Does this occur on a regular basis?
Sometimes when we dream we dream that we have superpowers or abilities. Often times this is induced by external sources but occasionally there are those which lack an external inspiration. And then there are those of us who consistently have certain abilities which persist even in nightmares, even regardless of our waking lives circumstances and desires. Taking myself as an example, ever since the beginning in my dreams I've been able to levitate, warp and possess others all at will. I did not need to learn how, it came naturally. Perhaps I saw a movie or read a book you say? No, these abilities existed way before I was introduced to the concept. Anyways as I grew older I decided to test them out and there were a couple of things I found out about them. Remember, just because they came naturally to me doesn't mean I would know the ins and outs of them. It just means I can use them at will or rather I didn't need to learn how to use them.
Levitation; Passive, effectively always on. Generates a field of anti-gravity. Not the same thing as flight, in fact the anti-gravity can cause some challenges when moving around.
Possession; State, like a daemon I am able to possess others, multiples even and observe from them while having a general reading of my hosts however either I am not able to control them like puppets on a string or it's not in my nature to do so. Also, the more hosts I am possessing the more spread out and thus weaker my influence becomes. Thankfully for some reason my hosts seem to never know that I am possessing them so I guess I have the stealthy variant.
Warping; Active. Teleport to a random location. It can be in the same plane, another dimension, what have you. The only requirements of the destination is that it cannot be lethal however that does not mean it cannot be hostile.
These traits persisted regardless of attempts to preprogram and regardless of whether I was having a nightmare or not I am able to use them with no penalty however as you can see they have in-built limitations. Sure it's easy to say you can dream up anything and let it would seem that my dreams have a sort of logic to them so for some of you that may be true but as for myself, based off of experience I'd say that seems unlikely.
What about you? Are your dreams subject to your will or are you like some of us where when we dream, we might be entering into another world entirely?
