As I've mentioned before, to varying degrees all of my dreams are lucid in the sense that I'm actively thinking and consciously present such as to think about the reality behind the images. Very few of my dreams are lucid in the sense that I'm projecting an experience of being in a body, seeing through that body's eyes, and actively manipulating the environment. For me, those kinds of dreams are typically less lucid in a 'transcendent' sense, since I would be putting more effort into the movie aspect of the dream. If the bear's head were one of my dreams, you wouldn't be able to judge the degree of lucidity from the image. I might also have a greater degree of lucid depth while remembering the dream than while having it. For example, an experience I described of looking at an island in a river was more lucid later while thinking about it than while actually doing it, and I got more of the deep content while reviewing the memory. That memory wasn't from a dream, but the same dynamic applies in either case. Probably the most lucid transcendent experience I've had was while awake, a being-conscious(ness)-bliss sort of thing. It lasted about an hour. I didn't do any particular meditation to bring it on, I was thinking in that direction and it happened, as if the experience was created around me from something greater than myself. I haven't had that particular experience since, though it has remained with me in a much weaker form. Also, just like what I've said about out-of-body experiences (I hate acronyms), I've had other analogous experiences that emphasized other areas of awareness. |
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