I was having a dream about the idea of death. I was acutely aware of having said some very profound in my dream. I also knew that uttering profound truths in my dreams was a frequently occurring phenomenon and that this time I needed to wake up for it was too important a truth to later forget. So with lots of effort, I wake up and write down what I had said on a notebook on the table. Then I share my thoughts with people very happily and vow to maintain a dream diary.
What is most interesting is that, the paragraph above was in itself a dream!
I hear it takes effort and practice to learn to have lucid dreams. I have managed to have them a couple of times but it has been more by chance than by practice. Perhaps everyone has had them but are just unaware. I had long known what they were and have always wanted to have them. The state has always lasted only for a very short time, after which I either wake up completely or fall asleep possibly thinking the whole state of my being aware of my dreams was a dream in itself. That I think is what happened this time as well- a lucid
dream seamlessly turning into a dream- making it what I call - a recursive dream!
But I just wonder if this dream was indeed another dream or if it began as a conscious /semi-conscious thought (a lucid dream) that later turned into a dream because I couldn't really wake up to it even though I wanted to and almost did. It is a thin line between dream and wakefulness.
I hear it takes effort and practice to learn to have lucid dreams. I have managed to have them a couple of times but it has been more by chance than by practice. Perhaps everyone has had them but are just unaware. I had long known what they were and have always wanted to have them. The state has always lasted only for a very short time, after which I either wake up completely or fall asleep possibly thinking the whole state of my being aware of my dreams was a dream in itself. That I think is what happened this time as well- a lucid
dream seamlessly turning into a dream- making it what I call - a recursive dream!
PS:
Anyway, of the two times I woke up after saying lovely things, I found once that what I said was gibberish. Well, it was a combination of two strange words that didn't at all go together. The other time it was an advice to someone, which was nothing as great as it felt when I had said it in my dream.
8 comments:
Lots of times it has happened to me too..I talk poetically and beautifully in my dreams..it happens so effortlessly..
Dream journal would be a very good idea only if it were possible!
Dream with in a dream is an interesting facet but its funny we have no control over it. My grandma says that if you think something and go to sleep chances are you will dream about it. May be you thought about dream vefore you went to sleep ;)
@sandhya
added some more thought into the blog as i thought it wasn't clear enough - that the very thought that lots of times it has happened was in fact in a dream. it still probably isn't. thats ok.
hey, what do you mean by if only it were possible? you mean the effort?
@sabarish
what your grandma said is true. and might have been true even in this particular case. I had been reading about dreams, motifs and mythology just the evening before. :)
In general we have no control over dreams but in lucid dreaming, you could have some control or so I hear.
I dream of only food (lots of varieties but somehow I don't get to eat all that good food in my dreams), and when I wake up I find out that I am ravenously hungry... :-)
Mind putting up a Photo of yours? I would like to see the person behind the words. Please don't think that I am being egoistic/arrogant in taking for granted that you are going to upload your photo the moment I ask for it, but seriously I would like to see you, atleast in pixels if never in flesh and blood.
I guess you never felt what it is to have an aching heart, given your aversion for risks and forbidden? love... :-((
@anonymous1 guess thats what they call sweet dreams! i dream of food too. chocolates.
@anonymous2
Mind putting up a Photo of yours? I would like to see the person behind the words.
@anonymous3
where do all these judgments come from?
1, 2 and 3 are the same fool.
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