Which was your most awesome lucid dream?
oh man. i need to smoke a bowl while i think about this one. so many to pick from, so i'll probably end up going a few of them.
male instincts push me to go with any number of sex dreams, but considering how overall awesome lucid dreaming is they're not really that spectacular in comparison. however i had one which sets its self way apart. the actions of the dream had nothing really to do with it; the interesting bit was my perception of it. i only had my sense of touch, but it was hyper-charged. so sensitive that i could 'see' out a certain distance within my mind based on heat fluctuations and the smallest impacts of sound waves. being able to feel the distance between myself and any object in the room was pretty mind blowing(huh huh huh, so punny).
my top sensory experience though, was that which my brain assigned to being hit by a nuclear blast wave. i'm going to get some strange looks, but it is the single greatest feeling i have ever felt. time slowed to a crawl as i was slowly pushed up and backward as i was gradually released of all my weight and dissipated into nothing. remaining conscious in this vast expanse of nothing. . . somehow it left me feeling restored; like it was my first rest in eons.
the most overall bad ass dream is hands down fighting a 30 story tall robot as a two story mech. everywhere around the giant machine was a giant sandstorm. as we were fighting the area kept getting more and more urban while the raging storm turned everything around the colossus to ruin. buildings just turned to dust; leaving nothing but steel skeletons in the wake.
biggest mind fuck. . . probably when i was just beginning to make my dreams tangible; i was experimenting with a few different methods. the one i was going with that night worked, but i failed to realize i was lucid. i stumble across my bed in some random hallway, and remember that i had wanted to lucid dream that night. i lay down and begin to use the same method i'd just used. in other words; i was attempting to lucid dream from within a lucid dream. after that works i look around and i am in my bed, in my room. everything is exactly as it would be in reality. blinking clock and all. there is one major difference though. my perception isn't a constant flow. i see my room, then a static gray washes over everything, and then back to seeing my room. my movements were also impeded by this pulsing. i get up to walk around, and remember thinking "fuck it. this is gay. i'm going back to sleep." then as i fall asleep i wake up.
if i keep going on that topic i'd be at it for another few days. i'm pretty damn familiar with how my mind works. i frequently play with putting myself in altered states of consciousness, and can filter my perceptions any number of different ways. i also have several different ways of dictating my thoughts to memory. i am also capable of inducting hypnagogia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia) at will, and am working on being able to do so while conscious/awake. additionally i can manipulate my senses of sight, hearing, and touch (non chemical senses) if i put myself into the right frame of mind.
i am a skeptic, but i am never afraid to entertain new ideas. my mind is something i've always striven to understand, and when some of these ideas that once stuck me as utterly insane started to yield repeatable results under any condition. . . well, i decided that i could manage the inevitable trip to crazy town without losing myself. the price of admission is steep, but the view is fantastic. we know more about quantum mechanics than we do about consciousness, and even less about perception. if you sit around and actually consider your perception and think about it for a few days you'll probably in the top 0.5% of experts. such an overlooked and fascinating facet of reality.
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you just had to go and ask about lucid dreams. there's a small handful of topics that will cause me to start spewing ridiculousness in every direction, and that is one of the bigger buttons. probably because it is the keystone and entry point for my study. . . *shrugs* just don't drag me into theory, lol.
