Robert,
I’ve been a lucid dreamer for most of my life since a child. Many of my lucid dreams are sequential and will reference each other over the course of many (waking) years. For example, when I enter a dream I will acknowledge the people I see and they will be excited that I am back and have returned to see them. They will also reference visits and events which may have happened 2 or 3 or more dreams previous and we will reminisce of the visits and the events which took place. There is a history to these relationships – Including some very deep friendships. In other sequential lucid dreams Ill be visiting friendS in another country, and Over the course of several sequential dreams I begin to pick up and remember the language- which is unknown to me. All my dreams are vivid, clear, with smell, color, taste, etc with little perceptive difference from waking reality in that many occasions I will have to stop and think if that event happened in waking or dream. Appreciate your thoughts on that the seemingly thin line between lucid dream stage and waking and the relationships which are developed in them. Thanks very much.
Hi,
Thanks for sharing your lucid dream experience!
In my books, I cover this more deeply — but yes, lucid dreaming can have such a vivid sensory and perceptive experience that it seems ‘little difference’ from waking reality. 😉 I have to imagine that this fact helps you and other lucid dreamers consider the nature of perception and the mind. And will someday push science to consider ‘what, if anything’ exists out there!
In my talks and workshops, I point out that we spend about 23% of our sleep state in dreaming. By age 11, we have spent an entire year in the dream state. By age 33, we have spent three years in the dream state. Because of this, it does not surprise me that someone would develop ‘dream memory’ (and recall past experiences in dreams and lucid dreams, and ‘knowledge’ or ‘language’ experienced within the dream state).
However, since science and culture largely devalue dreaming and mis-understand lucid dreaming, this too may take another generation to receive adequate attention. Like you, I see written words in my lucid dreams which I wake and take to Google Translate — only to discover that my inner awareness showed me a word from ancient latin or Greek or Spanish.
In my first book, Lucid Dreaming – Gateway to the Inner Self – I show others how to take lucid dreaming much deeper. If you haven’t had a chance, I hope you can check it out and read it.
Enormous potential exists in lucid dreaming for real understanding and insight! Lucid wishes!