Have you ever had a conscious dream? A dream where you could take decisions, could influence the flow and most importantly, you knew that you were dreaming? If that sounds utterly impossible and confusing, you are not one of those kind, the people who experience 'lucid dreams'.
I found it quite perplexing when one of my roommates last year talked about it. I thought either he was exaggerating or just trying to trick us with an outright lie. There were occasions where I had realized that I was dreaming but those were experiences of split seconds before I actually woke up. I thought it would never be possible to go through a full-fledged dream like that. But I have to change my mind now. Last night I actually had a lucid dream. I remember quite a few details of it which I do not for a normal dream. We were a group of friends riding bikes on a road and I took decisions on what to talk about or which route to take. Similar things happen in a normal dream too but there we experience it as a helpless watcher just looking at what is happening and when it turns into a nightmare, we suddenly wake up and get relieved realizing it was just a dream. But this time I remember chanting to myself 'you are dreaming, wake up' and I woke up. It sounds like myth, like sci-fi movies and I wouldn't have believed it till today. But I do now. It's a bit funny and a bit scary at the same time. Tricky game of our mysterious mind.
2 comments:
Lucid dreaming is a scientifically accepted phenomenon. There are techniques to induce it, and people have been doing scientific experiments on it for quite some time now.wiki it:)
no wonder I heard strange noises from ur room.
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