This article appeared in the on-line magazine, Lucid Dreaming Experience, at www.DreamingLucid.com The Lucid Dreaming Experience (LDE) seeks to educate, inform and inspire lucid dreamers. Robert Waggoner serves as co-editor of the LDE, and gives workshops, writes books and speaks internationally on this fascinating topic.
A Question from Leone Brown: I haven’t read much about lucid dreaming, but have a question to anyone who may have an idea/opinion. Do other people have dream places that don’t exist in the waking life but that they revisit and are very familiar with? I even have dreams that have their own history and…
By Tom Devine © 2012 On November 30th of 2011, I had to have a CAT scan to more closely inspect something seen on a chest X-ray. I didn’t know much more than what I was told: That these were 99% benign nothings; that chest X-rays really can’t see much; that this was precautionary and…
By Gary L. Zhang © 2012 As a writer, visual artist, passionate cook and, since Christmas, XBOX aficionado (I’ve read that gaming might help promote lucid dreaming, great excuse!) I spend a lot of time typing, using a mouse, chopping ingredients and pressing buttons, activities that all make rather excessive use of my right hand,…
By Gary L. Zhang © 2012 Disclaimer There are many similarities between SSILD and the other lucid dream induction methods such as WILD, MILD, etc. In fact, if you wish, you could label SSILD as a derivative of those methods, or you could simply write it off as an old method with a new name…
By Pilar Vallet © 2012 I joined Robert Waggoner‘s online workshop on ‘Lucid Dreaming and Living Lucidly‘ in February 2012, after reading his book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self. In the workshop, we discussed many things, including the idea of healing one’s physical body in the lucid dream state, and the experience of…
By Carolina Kampuries © 2012 In 2009, I was in extreme physical pain from an inoperable growth in a neck nerve root and stenosis in the spinal column of my neck. My waking life consisted of getting from one moment to the next. The pain rendered me unable to move or take care of myself…
By Ed Kellogg, Ph.D. © 2012 In the last issue of LDE, in the list of my “Top Ten” lucid dreams, I included one in which I flew to, and bathed in, “The Fountain of Youth.” In this dream I experienced one of the most breathtaking, beautiful, and multisensory dreamscapes I’ve ever encountered. As…
By kiddLúcid © 2012 1 Transformed my body into a dolphin‘s and explored a phantasmagorical ocean 2 Met my dream guide and his family 3 Proved I was dreaming to a bunch of dream characters by walking on water 4 Learned that my perception creates reality from John Lennon 5 Transformed a truck into a Ferrari…
By Lucy Gillis © 2012 “I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite And while I rise from my own globe to others And penetrate ever further through the eternal field, That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.” – Giordano Bruno The statue featured on the cover of this issue…
Photo by Ryan Brohm via Iowa State Daily A lucid dreamer since the age of 15, Naiya has perfected her lucid dreaming skills in the past decade. Though she frequents the lucid dream forum, MortalMist.com, her lucid dream forays have allowed her to develop relationships with recurring dream figures, encounter kundalinitype energy and explore…
By Ed Kellogg, Ph.D. © 2012 “The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.” Buddha On the night before Halloween in my sophomore year in college, I dreamed that a demon chased…
By Christoph Gassmann, Horgen, 2012 © 2012 I would like to tell you a story about my sometimes successful attempts to soar consciously through the skies of my dreams. It is a fictional story, but it is based on a compilation of my lucid flying dreams. For this I would like to introduce you Jacob,…