I decided to go to sleep a bit earlier than my usual rhythm earlier today and was surprised I managed to get sleep, unfortunately for me my roommate didn't realize, nor did I mention it to him, so he came barging in to ask me about something before he realized I was sleeping. This woke me up, I thought, I do remember hearing him coming in and then closing the door after himself straight after but then the strangest thing started to happen.
I'm no stranger to lucid dreaming, back in my collage days I used to sport it, literally. I had found the subreddit r/luciddreaming and since I already had the habit of taking a nap after school it was the perfect opportunity and ease of going lucid so I dived deep into its practices. This meant what to do to get into the lucid stage easier and more importantly how to remain lucid once you realize you're dreaming. Needless to say I learned a lot, spent a lot of dream time exploring and doing crazy shit I wasn't able to do IRL and had a lot of fun doing it - while it took no toll on my sleep and rest (at least I don't think so). Luciddreaming is also something for the small percentage of people that can manage to use it to help themselves with issues such as social behaviors or other psychological stuff. I've read people who have anxiety and are introverts have had a lot of use of this practice to overcome their shyness and other social problems they may face in their daily life by practicing it without fear in their lucid state until they felt confident enough to do it in the real world. Me? I was just a kid who wanted to get laid more often and lucid dreaming feeling almost 90% like real life sure was tempting.
So back to what happened today and the reason it was something that had never happened before during my many times of lucid dreaming. First off since it hadn't happened in so long it didn't hit me instantly that that is what was happening so I was quite confused for a bit thinking I had just woken up because of my roommate. I have this habit of when I wake up in the middle of the night to go take a leak or need to put the light on or check my phone I only use one of my eyes for it because I want the other one to still be able to see something when it gets dark again. For instance if you get up from bed and walk to the door to put the light on you'll see even though its dark cause your eyesight is used to it, but after your eyes have adjusted to the light and you shut it off to get back to bed you may not be able to see shit - I'm sure you all have experienced this. So I decided to pick up the phone cause I noticed Steem was pumping a bit earlier but I had no liquids to dump anyway so just wanted to check if it moved any further and kind of hoping it'll get higher and stay there until my next powerdown. I grab my phone with my right eye open and guess what. I can't see it. Like, my literal phone, which I am hodling, is literally invisible to me. Confused as fuck I decide to place it back on the nightstand and touch for it again and grab it again, STILL INVISIBLE. Instead of opening both my eyes I blame it on it being dark so I scratch my right eye a little bit in case there's a lot of Rheum there (new word I learned last week, it's basically that shit you have in your eye after you sleep). Still nothing, I mean it's dark in my room but not that dark so I reach for the blinds in the window and pull em up (it's daytime here, 2 pm currently, was 3h ago this occurred (don't ask about my sleep pattern)) and I can't believe what I'm seeing.
It's not that my phone was invisible, it was a literal piece of glass. Kinda like this one I just found on google by searching for "futuristic glass phone":
Now I am definitely even more confused and as I look around the room I'm starting to notice almost everything is in different locations and there's a bunch of new shit everywhere I've never seen before. Okay that's it, I'm dreaming. At this point I realize I'm dreaming at least but not yet that I'm lucid, meaning I can do whatever I want and not having the dream lead me to do things and me just being the passanger. I open my other eye and guess what; I can see my real phone with it. Like what in the fuck is going on? I'm literally staring at this futuristic piece of glass with my right eye and my shitty huawei with my left eye. After closing my eyes a few more times and opening them again with it having no effect I get up, walk towards my PC and sit down. Except you know, with one eye it's not my fucking PC but another futuristic glass screen and mouse (why is everything made out of glass in the future, did they run out of other materials or what). Okay well this is cool I think to myself, in one eye I'm looking at discord and a bunch of randoms tagging me in OCD chat in the other eye I'm looking at an interface I've never seen before and as I go for the keyboard my muscle memory instantly goes for "coinmarket..." and I think to myself: "wait a fucking minute, just by the offchance that this is a glitch in the matrix right now, I wouldn't mind taking a peek at the prices on this unknown date in the future" so I close my left eye and sure enough there I am on coinmarketcap with Binance colors everywhere and stuff while I think to myself that this some high-end lucid dreaming right here, they've even put effort into the small details like Binance acquiring coinmarketcap. So the list comes up (now obviously don't take this as financial advice) and I see ethereum in first place and some others in the top 5. One is called "light", "deep" and I can't remember the other names but they had some cool logos. As I glance on the right side for the prices of course that shit is blurred out, like come the fuck on. At this point my annoyance at not being able to see the price of Ethereum wakes me up from my dream and I lay there for a bit questioning what the fuck that was and why it happened now after such a long non-lucid time. Maybe cause of the sudden door open and half waking me up I was in some weird dream state I usually don't enter but anyway, was kind of a fun experience and unique. Unique enough I decided to write about it.
Had any strange lucid/dreams lately that you remember?
Yo. Didn't know you were experienced in the lucid dreaming realm; I have a somewhat similar story to you. When in college got really into it, and had some of the most insane adventures imaginable — I mean, 10x more vivid and intense than anything that happens in "real life" aka waking life... some being literal subjective months-or-years long while you're in the experience.
The trajectory I remember was first learning to know I was dreaming and not waking up, then learning how to control flight without moving too rapidly into parts of the dreamworld that were not yet rendered... all strange void and pixellated forms, which would usually abort the experience.
Once mastered flying and moving, then learned to control the elements i.e. fire, ice, storms, lighting; ability to morph other entities and structures into other things at will, etc. The landscapes I explored were just... insane. I remember flying over expansive planets and going through different biomes, exploring weird cities with impossible geometries, and lots of other stuff that's so bizarre I won't mention right now lol.
What happened for me is that the experiences became so unimaginably real that I would get depressed to be in "normal life" — I mean, in my dreams, all my friends were there, I could literally manifest anything with mind alone, and then you wake up and have to put on your shoes slowly, manually, painstakingly...
Anyway, I ended up deciding to consciously try to not lucid dream anymore as it began to disturb me. I will always maintain that lucid vs. nonlucid is not a black-or-white thing; there are depths and degrees of lucidity. I still tend to become quite lucid when I get to have a really long, deep sleep — but don't try to intensify it or remember them, specifically.
Still, I occasionally have experiences of a stunning level of lucidity, and when the memories of them do linger, they are fairly impossible to forget! Anyway, I thought it was cool that you wrote about this one. Wonder how long it will be until we have those transparent, super-hi-tech devices you used there? And Ethereum at #1? Too bad you didn't spot where HIVE might end up... ;) Guess we'll have to wait and see!
damn lol, you were deeper than I was
tell me about it, thankfully I stopped due to other circumstances of breaking my sleep during the day habit and it didn't happen as much during regular nighttime sleep.
Yeah, especially when you haven't had the pleasure for some time it got me really confused. The whole thing with not seeing my phone felt surreal, cause I could feel it and see everything else (so it wasn't my eyesight) so I really thought I was losing it since I was so sure I was awake.
Dude. I was holding my breath for the whole last paragraph. Don't do that to me.
It's happening - so you saw it real 😀 , JS is doing everything to pump it and sale everything at the end of 100 days ( in fact 91 days - 13 weeks of powering down) may be !!
Ah yeah but I saw that before going to sleep so the reason I picked up my phone was to just check if it continued or no. ^^
Eth at no 1 lol, that would be hard to believe though not impossible. Lightcoin LTC has had its day already. Deepcoin sounds promising, when it comes one day. Lucid dreaming is the doorway to the unconscious and our inner world, which is the doorway to full consciousness. You are very fortunate to be a natural.
I'm going deep into deepcoin whenever it launches! xD
I envy you. Every night I get vivid dreams but none of them I became lucid. I’m always the passenger. I have to rely to what I do unconsciously in the dream and hope I don’t do weird shit that would embarrass me. Even when there’s shit ton of clues that I’m dreaming sometimes and even when I desire to lucid, it’s just not working lol. It’s almost like I’m being blocked with it.
Oh no, your subconsciousness is judging your for being embarrassing! :P
Yes, cause you know, I feel the emotions intensely since these are vivid dreams. 😂 so even though it didn’t happen irl, still the feelings were real.
Haha very interesting story to read. And I also ever dreamed almost the same as you. Every night I dream about the crypto market and woke me up middle of the night to see the market directly through my phone.
And I almost divorced with my wife, because before I sleep I always think about that dream that made my wife think that I think of other women.
Cool :)
Not had any lately and they were never as bizarre as that. I never really practiced and so when it did happen, it freaked me out and woke me up.
One for another post maybe? :)
lol I guess, if people wanna hear me lose my dreamvirginity.
Dreamginity ?
This has never happened to me. The main thing is not to tell the doctors:)
P.s. Will you buy ether?
I am already but mainly due to debt, but will try to hodl some for eth2.0
In the future it will be easier to make your porn invisible on your phone
I remember every if my dream as a young child and even as an adult and sometimes it looks like I see scenes I might have seen in my dreams even days after dreaming of it. I think people can be different dreamers
I came to ask for help as I cannot post (suddenly), but saw your article about lucid dreaming and I was hooked.
I spent 18 years writing a book (13 books long at this time) and as I spent most of my waking hours writing, it helped open me to experiencing lucid dreams.
In some I would see the characters, even the interior of their shaceship-world, without them sensing me, and in others, I would interact with them. The feel of being touched carried over into my awake life!!! Then there were those where I shared an adventure of theirs...and would write it into the book the next day.
I loved my lucid dreams....but for some reason they stopped and have never happened again (last 4years). I miss them as I grew to love my characters and it was like a miracle being with them.
I've never had one about this world, but I did take some lessons (donkeys years ago in London) and Iearnt to see things of other places or times. I was even able to heal myself (once). Information I gathered about people I have never met who live in other countries was verified as being true, so it was an exciting time to live through.
What I am saying is that I know that life is NOT only what we directly experience while awake and maybe you did share this time with the future in a lucid dream (know it was some kind of dream you were having because it is not possible to read while dreaming, wrong side of our brain is in control). It sounds like the open/close eye was the way you split the present and future life you were spying on.
I don't want to spoil this comment with my request for advice, so I'll leave it for the time being :)
Had non of late or that I can remember atm. However I thought the next advancement in tech was not even transparent glasses but these types
Lol crazy story. I once had a lucid dream where I would leave my body, like I was dead and I was living on in a ghost. I walked to watch myself sleep, which was fucking weird. Me looking at me sleeping. Then I started spitting at myself (the one in sleep) multiple times. It was fucking weird.
Lmao why would you spit at yourself. XD
I've experimented with lucid dreaming quite a bit, along with the related subject: dream interpretation. I had dream that was amazing to me. It was just a few nights ago, after learning this incredible song in Cherokee, related to the star nation. I practiced the song several times throughout the day. And then in my sleep, I’m practicing the song, and also connecting with the feeling of the song. Supreme resonation. So in the dream, I decide to write it down, in order to study it further, and then suddenly I hiccup and swallow the song! That's when I woke up. The message in this dream seems to be telling me to learn the song orally, which is the traditional way these songs are learned, instead of trying to wrap my head around it logically, with words. Cool topic, thanks!
I never bothered to look into it, but I was always told as a kid the reason pirates wore an eyepatch was to retain their nightvision for when they had to descend below to get items in the relative darkness of the boat interior.
Surely there is truth to this, because I can verify from experience the one-eye-closed technique does help to retain nightvision.