Dear Robert,
I’m having lucid dreams often (about four a month, with varying durations: some very short, lasting seconds; others long, lasting several minutes). However, some of these dreams have been a curious and strange experience.
It is very common during the hypnagogic phase that a kind of “window” or “portal” opens in front of my eyes. Inside, I can clearly see the scenes of a lucid dream, as if I was watching TV in dark room.
I have the impression that if I cross that window I will enter the dream and take part in it. But every time I try to do that the window dissolves. Interestingly, some of these windows are beautifully framed, like paintings in a gallery.
I have read in some books that in situations like this we have to “move our dream body into the dream,” but I don’t know how to do that, because every time I try to interact with the window, it dissolves. Any suggestion?
Kind regards,
Krishna
Hi Krishna,
In my books, I mention that in WILDs (wake initiated lucid dreams) where the person seeks to fall asleep while maintaining their awareness — and then become lucid in the dream scene that forms — it can seem like “moving into” the dream through a portal or doorway or bubble. Many others, like yourself, have also noticed this.
If you have a problem with the ‘frame’ or the doorway or the portal collapsing, then I think it may have to do with the approach.
First, a newly formed dream seems quite delicate, but if you focus within the action in it, then that automatically helps you ‘get there’. By contrast, to focus on the gate, the door, the ‘frame’ or the portal, makes the dividing line more powerful as a barrier to entry. So focus on ‘where you want to be’ — and as you focus on what is ‘inside’ the frame or the portal, then your awareness moves there naturally.
However, if you have already focused on the frame or gateway or portal, then you will need to use it. If you can, ‘grab it’ and pull yourself through it and “into the lucid dream”. It may literally feel like pulling yourself into something.
Finally, do not get too excited or too emotional, since that can cause the lucid dream to collapse.
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To practice this in the waking state, stand outside of an open door (maybe 5 feet from it) — and then focus on the space inside the ‘room’ (meaning, ‘focus’ pass the doorway and into sitting on the chair in the room). Cast your awareness into the room. Do not focus on the door or the division between you and where you want to be — instead, see yourself already in that space, sitting in the chair, observing the room from the chair perspective.
Best wishes!