From: eric@geoblue.gcn.uoknor.edu (Eric Pyle)
Newsgroups: alt.dreams
Subject: Re: flight
Date: 15 Nov 92 18:18:40 GMT
Organization: Geosciences Computing Network, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
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	I used to be a very lucid dreamer as a child. I would go
    to sleep concentrating on wanting to control my dreams. My
    first lucid dream that I can recall was when I was really
    little. I couldn't sleep so I went into the front room and
    tried to sleep on the couch. I don't remember closing my
    eyes, because I thought I was just looking down the hall.
    Then after a little bit I saw a gorilla walking down the
    hal. He was making faces at me seemingly trying to scare me.
    I was tired of things picking on me in my dreams so I got
    off the couch and walked up to it and punched it in the
    face. It startled me when I hit him in the face because I
    felt it. I don't recall pain but I felt solidness. The
    gorilla had a surprised look on its face and then he shrunk
    into a monkey. Satisfied with my courage I went back to the
    couch and watched the monkey. It licked its lips and then
    smiled at me. His parents then walked down the hall and
    gathered around him. They stood there smiling and looking at
    me. I smiled and woke up to find nothing in the front room.
	
	Every dream following that one in my early youth I would
    try to control. Dreams of flying and fighting monsters or
    bullies were common. 
	I think my flying dreams were stirred on by looking at
    night-light before I went to sleep. In staring at the light
     it felt as if my bed was slowly gliding across the room.
     This gliding motion often changed to rising and falling
     motions. I think I used this feeling to incorporate it into
     flying in my dreams. I loved to fly in my dreams.

	It has been years since I have truely lucid dreamed. I
    just seem to be going with the flow of the dreams anymore.
    My dreams have become more realistic. They consist of
    everyday events like being at school, or at the house,
    etc... I don't even notice I am dreaming anymore. 

	A curious thing has left my dreams since I stopped 
	concentrating on lucid dreaming: nightmares of monsters.
	I can't recall a monster being in my dreams for a long
	time. I just have a nightmare every nine months or so.

	Have I lost my imagination? Why don't I lucid dream
	anymore?

	I hated nightmares in dreams when I was little. I could
    just feel a nightmare coming. It never happened suddenly. My
    worst nightmares weren't of falling because I always fell
    like a feather and landed smoothly. My worst nightmares were
    of death. And that is a strange thing because I don't know
    many people who have said that they die in their dreams.
    They wake up before the event happens. Well I have died at
    least two times in my dreams. 

    One was in a horrible dream that all the planets in the
    heavens were exploding. I could hear the planets bursting.
    In looking around, there was a crowd around me all looking
    up at the sky. Suddenly everyone got really scared and
    started screing realizing what was happening. I lost control
    of my legs for some reason and landed face down on the
    ground and I felt the earth explode. And I was only
    conscious of total blackness in my dream. It was a wierd
    experience of not knowing what was happening to me.
    
    In the next dream I was shot in the head. And the same
    blackness feeling came over me.

    So I don't believe in the saying that if someone dies in
    their dream they die in real life.

					Eric
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