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Robert Waggoner 1/3/2011 11:08:53 AM
Xai, Often when we become curious about some aspect of lucid dreaming (or dreaming) like weather in dreams, we find that we dream about the weather in the next night. In your case, you became lucid (perhaps by seeing an unexpected snowfall). Congratulations! Sometimes weather prompts lucidity for me. For example, I may see a flowering tree when there is snow on the ground, and think, "Wait a minute. This must be a dream!" So the incongruity sparks my lucid awareness. One thing I mention in my book is that I often became lucid on nights when we had approaching thunderstorms in physical reality. It may be the change in electronic ionization of the atmosphere. Best wishes on your dreams of weather, Robert Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

xai 12/25/2010 3:34:50 PM
One night I found myself going thru my dream journal, and I have an interesting thought. Although atmosphere is a huge part of the dream realm, weather is somewhat of an unknown aspect in dreams in my experience. That night, I have a lucid dream in which I walk up from a beach to a forest and it starts to snow. My question is, what is your experience with weather in dreams? Have you experimented with this? Submitted By: xai

Robert Waggoner 12/13/2010 10:40:39 AM
Dorothy, The Question, "Who Is the Dreamer Who Dreams the Dream?" seems quite complex. In dreams, we sometimes view our self acting in the dream. When lucidly aware, we can consciously cast our perception into another dream figure and view the dream from their perspective. And often, the self in the dream bares little resemblance to the persona of the waking self. In my book, I suggest that lucid dreaming allows us to see consciously the great variety of dream figures. Moreover, we can access the non-visible "Awareness Behind the Dream" and ask it questions, etc., to probe the incalculable depth of the subconscious mind and its unique knowing. So as you have discovered, dreaming leads to an acknowledgement of the larger self. Best wishes. Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

Dorothy Jones 12/13/2010 7:32:10 AM
I hope you can shed some light on what is going when I dream. Sometimes I am not my self when I dream, and when I wake up I am confused for a few seconds as to who I am and where I am at. So if I am not me, who is the sub-conscious? I have had some lucid dreams, but not when I am someone else, in the dream it never dons on me that I am in reality not that person. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Submitted By: Dorothy Jones

Robert Waggoner 11/15/2010 10:38:20 AM
Michal, Glad you enjoyed the book! Almost every lucid dreamer has dealt with this issue of "Gosh, this seems kind of dreamy" - but then decides it must be real (and fails to become lucid!). So this is what I recommend: suggest to yourself and imaginatively see yourself at those questioning moments performing a "reality check" by trying to levitate. Really tell yourself (inwardly) to check those wierd, cracker-eating situations by testing them. When in doubt, test. Best wishes! Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

Robert Waggoner 11/15/2010 10:31:12 AM
Alissa, Many people write to tell me that reading my book resulted in numerous lucid dreams - so congratulations! And thanks for submitting a lucid dream to the e-zine I co-edit at www.dreaminglucid.com To your questions: First, one should always ask someone's permission to be sure it is 'okay' with them, and to gain their cooperation when you try to verify the lucid dream answer's vailidity. By doing experiments like this, you learn whether information seems accessible in the lucid dream state. So give it a try (after you get permission) and report your success or failure in the LDE. Good luck! Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

Michal 11/12/2010 10:09:40 PM
Dear Mr. Waggoner, I finished reading your book a few days ago and am very pleased with it. I've been lucid dreaming since summer of '09 and it seems it used to come more naturally but lately I find that in my dreams I am in a state of sub-awareness. In one dream I was under our kitchen table picking up crackers when I thought "this is odd, it might be a dream" but decided the environment felt too real for me to be dreaming. Now, I do reality checks every day multiple times, and feel that I prepare adequately before sleeping, but I find that lately my awareness doesn't pass thinking: "I usually do this in my dreams" but then doing nothing of it. What do you recommend I should do? Submitted By: Michal

Alissa 11/10/2010 1:12:57 PM
Hi Robert, I finished reading your book and what would you know... I started having lucid dreams again. *Amazing* ones as well. I actually submitted one to the lucid dream exchange, I hope to hear something back. I have asked questions about me, than I came up with the idea to pose a question for somebody else. So I had him give me a question to ask.. Is this something you have ever done?? What is your opinion on asking other peoples questions?? I haven't tried any healings one yet, I have read about your experiences with those. I am wondering if I can take this farther and hopefully help people by posing questions to their inner selves.. but only if they ask. :) Submitted By: Alissa

Robert Waggoner 11/6/2010 9:54:48 AM
An to your question of whether lucid dreaming and OBEs seem different states of awareness, I feel the answer is "yes." Even though they both contain "awareness of non-physical surroundings," they differ neurologically and phenomenolgically. For an example, think of your "awareness" when driving down the street in a normal state versus when you drive down the street legally drunk. When drunk, your reaction time differs, your perception differs and your relation to reality differs (even though you are awake and aware). So too lucid dreams and OBEs differ, though they both occur in an altered state of awareness. Submitted By: Robert Waggoner

Nick 11/5/2010 12:39:50 PM
Yea im aware of this, i finished reading your book in about 2 days last week, and ive been still reading it every day since. but the questions im asking still arent answered clearly. Im asking are they just different levels of awareness. Submitted By: Nick