Ego death/lucid dreaming/dream guide

[Prince_RIP]

Ok well i've lucid dreamed my whole life, and have learned how to, if I have already been asleep for a while, enter into a dream without ever losing my consciousness. Basically, ever since I had my awakening of sorts, my dreams have been very...different. They seem SO real, and I often learn from them. In most of them there's this...person type thing that accompanies me. It's genderless. Male or female doesn't apply to it, but i'll refer to "it" as he. I've had a lot of experiences with him, and he just always seems to be guiding me and he seems so unbelievably wise. When I try to be sure about things and ask him he always is just so happy and care-free. He doesn't tell me the answer, but helps guide me to come up with my own answer. He stresses that the answer isn't really all that important. This morning I was having a few dreams and my dream guide was present and I had a few interesting experiences. First he appeared to me as a bird. He said "i'm representing someone in your life right now. Can you tell who I am?" I said "no I can't." He said "Really? You should be able to tell." And then I said who I thought it was. He said I was right. He told me that she was helping me in my life and that I should keep talking to her. I asked if I should do anything different with her, and he told me not to, just to keep going with the flow. Then he took me to this huge, absolutely amazing room. It was full of crazy looking things, like clocks and mirrors and paintings and all sorts of awesome looking stuff. He said "this room represents god and the living universe." The whole thing just overwhelmed me. He said "It's hard for this to be as spiritual of an experience as it could be if you're scared" and I knew he was right and it was just amazing. Then he sent me flying in the sky, and he flew next to me. In that moment I experienced absolute ego death. It was so unbelievable. I was just absolutely filled with the oneness of the universe and I felt incredibly happy. I told him how at one I felt and happy. He said "It's a pretty amazing feeling, isn't it?" I asked him if I would continue to feel this way once I woke up. He said "no, it's really hard to get to a point where you feel like this all the time awake." So anyways yea, just thought i'd share.

[Autumnal]

Wow, thank you for sharing this. I was going to post a thread asking if anyone has experienced ego death in a dream but this answers my question. I find the bit about your dream guide fascinating. What happened with that person he told you to keep talking to?

[Prince_RIP]

The dreams I detailed just happened this morning, actually. And, CRAZILY enough, that girl texted me and told me she loved me which we had never said before. On the same day as the dream. Crazy.

[Prince_RIP]

ok something weird is going on and I don't understand what is happening. In these dreams i've been having, basically a common theme is that i've been trying to figure out the universe. Just like when I had my awakening. Earlier, shortly after these dreams started, I dreamed that I conquered the universe and that I had finally figured everything out. Ever since then these...dream people have been testing me. That's what these dreams have been I think. Tests. And in my dreams, after I conquered the universe, i've been trying to figure out a way to ensure that everyone else in the universe would do the same thing. In a dream I just had I thought I figured out a way. After I figured it out, I entered this...facility. I know i've been there before. I can't remember the details very well, but everyone in there knew me and I knew I was going to be tested again. I told one of the people that I couldn't do it. She said "no, I know you're ready now. It's so easy." Then I was taken to the spot where I formulated the plan to make sure everyone else would...idk figure the universe out. I had failed and done it wrong the previous time I tried. I tried again. Then after I set in motion the plan that I thought would do it I was zoomed into this new place. I was laying on the ground, weak. There was food and stuff surrounding me, and a lot of people. They were testing me again, I could tell. The details are really fuzzy about all this. I think I asked if I had passed, or was going to pass. They told me to relax and to...do something. I felt as if time was running out. I had to act fast. Anyways, I don't think I did it. And then I got in a conversation with some of the people. I don't remember all of it, but I remember they were telling me that it was ok that I failed again and that they knew I would do it eventually. I was getting angry. I said something along the lines of "Let's just stop screwing around and say what we're all really thinking. You all got excited that I was going to do it and i'm not as good as you thought i'd be." This really intense vibe came over the room like I had said something terrible. Then I woke up. I was mad. I wanted to try again. So I tried to force myself back into the dream. As I said, i've learned how to do this whenever I want. The people were surprised to see me. "What are you doing back here so fast." Then one of the people walked up to me. "Oh no, it doesn't work like that. You can't force your way here like that." and then I woke up and typed this. This is so weird. I have no idea what's going on. I've been getting all these signs and I just know deep down inside that I have some great purpose in this world. I don't know what it is, though. This all confirms it, I guess. I'm kind of freaking out.

[pandanese]

sounds like your ego got resurrected pretty fast after dying :p to be not smartass-ing only: i guess you should work with your emotions, not giving in to them and not keeping them down either. soberness as don juan suggested.

[Autumnal]

I once head a dream where the universe ended and was then reborn. There were other people with me, and they told me that I was personally responsible for carrying out the rebirth of the new universe. My consciousness and the universal consciousness were the same, that is, while I experienced ego death the universe experienced ego death, and now as I was experiencing rebirth the universe was also being reborn. I basically had meditate. While I meditated the universe unraveled, the more concentrated my meditation the faster it happened. At the very end of it, when I had finished my task, I felt that I had reached enlightenment--Nirvana. By having seen and carried out the reconstruction of everything I now understood it and thus was no longer a part of it. I had escaped suffering. It was like this life, Samsara, was a dream, a dream that I had rebuilt and while others were living in it unaware, I was lucid. I felt an enormous sense of relief, of bliss...Then I woke up. Everything was the same, just another day. The world hadn't ended, I had not reached Nirvana, it was only a dream. The reason I tell you this is because it taught me an important lesson. While it may seem like we have reached some profound understanding in the dream state, notice how upon waking the content of the realization is curiously absent from our memory. The experience of enlightenment, the understanding of everything, is now suddenly missing. Also notice the feeling of self importance. I felt that I alone was responsible for carrying out the rebirth of the entire universe. Why me? There's nothing particularly special about me. This was just ego, conceit, delusion. The feeling that you have a special purpose in the world is still part of the delusion of self and is therefore no closer to ego death. This is just my opinion though..

[saltyseedog]

I believe we all have purpose, and that everything is happening for a reason.

[MindGames]

One of my close friends has experienced ego death time and time again. She says it is extremely beautiful. I, of course, could give less of a crap. Even so, what I inferred from our conversations was that everybody has the duty to preach consciousness and ego death. So you may not be egotistical after all for feeling that you have a great responsibility to help everybody achieve ego death. I find the whole topic to be sticky icky since I almost went insane when I tried to achieve what I thought was ego death. I did gain a great deal of wisdom from the experience, though, and I figured life and society out.

[SKA]

Amazing indeed. I too have found this inner peace and connectedness lately. A true transformation of consciousness. Mine was brought about by the audiobook of Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now", your's came in a dream. But I have found this inner peace in waking life. And it lasts. It grows deeper and deeper as I gradually disidentify from my Mind and my emotional Painbody. It reduces me back to my essence; inner peace. If you have trouble reaching and/or sustaining this inner peace throughout waking life I strongly suggest you to check out Eckhart Tolle's audiobooks: "The power of now" and "a new earth" I cannot stress enough how much better the audiobook is ithan just the book. This really helped a dear friend of mine, me and my girlfriend to achieve and sustain a deep inner peace. I intend to spread this teaching as far and wide to as many people as I can.

[Autumnal]

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 29 Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it? I do not believe it can be done. The universe is sacred. You cannot improve it. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it, you will lose it. So sometimes things are ahead and sometimes they are behind; Sometimes breathing is hard, sometimes it comes easily; Sometimes there is strength and sometimes weakness; Sometimes one is up and sometimes down. Therefore the sage avoids extremes, excesses, and complacency.

[Tranquil Toad]

Perhaps you should take the load off of yourself. The universe is infinite, and there will always be people in it who don't know what is going on (even "god" will never know all that can be.) However, you can do your best in every situation with every person you meet to help them on their path. So instead of putting the weight of the universe on your shoulders, just do what you can at any given moment. Therefore, you will be doing all that you can; as nothing more can really be asked of you. No one person is a savior messiah who will transform the world. Messiah's are just examples of what everyone can be. So be your own example without bearing the responsibility of waking everyone up. Because they can really only wake themselves up.

[Irken]

I felt at peace with myself and the world a year or two ago. I was dreaming, the dream was with me at my old school, we were all outside for some reason and then I felt something awful about to begin. A bunch of japanese fighters and bombers from like WWII era were coming to attack us. I told all my DC's thinking they were real to get to cover by the tree line where we wouldn't be seen by the planes. I distinctly remember sliding up against a tree as this treeline was a very steep hill. And then with the planes flying over head a meteor struck the earth near me. I thought, this is the end, I must accept my death. So I did accept my death and the meteor btw did not explode. It just turned into a sort of pool of molten lava. I felt completely at peace with myself and the world and jumped into the lava. I had an OBE in my dream slowly hovering upwards. I was apprehensive at first after dying, thinking, perhaps this is the end for all eternity. But then peace came over me again and I decided that this was the end but that it was a new beginning. I'm not sure if that's ego death but that's the most at peace I think I've ever felt. Aside from another time that I had a realization about my life. I was sad but when I realized something I was instantly happier and felt better.