I am walking through a backyard
in the late evening. It reminds me of our old neighbors the Sperlings. Near
the entrance to the alley are 4 dogs, but they all have comically grotesque
faces. Suddenly it occurs to me that I am dreaming. I fly around a bit.
I talk to someone. Other things happen but I feel I am losing lucidity so
I decide to write it down before I forget.
false awaken into a scene of writing down the dream into a journal in
a big room. I am very intent, but stop for a moment, and my hands fly up
to eye level, and I realize again, hey I'm dreaming. The dream scene is
like a big stage area for a band and a dance floor. There are instruments
all round, a drummer behind his drums, chairs, etc. I think what should
I do? Should I send energy to disabled people I know? No, that doesn't interest
me.
Then I think, Linda Magallón wants people to precognate in dreams.
But as I think about it, I can't think of how to precognate!! It seems absurd
-- how do you precognate when it takes all the attention to just cognate!
It just seems impossible -- like you need another brain/mind.
I walk over to a clarinet, and decide to see if it makes a normal sound.
As I look at it, I realize I've never played reed instruments, but I go
ahead and blow, making a low guttural sound. |
So Linda, upon awakening, I was happy to have remembered your idea, but
I was extremely frustrated that I wasn't able to capitalize on it. I think
my problem was that I had read your idea and didn't even think about any
strategies to make it a dream event. So when I was in the dream, I had no
strategies to pull it off. On awakening I though I could have asked the
drummer, or turned my head up and asked the cosmos a specific question (where
I've always found very instructive and energetic responses).
I think that so many lucid goals are easy to do because they are activities
like write your name, talk to strangers, fly, taste something, etc. It seems
that when a lucid goal is a type of thinking, one has to be pre-loaded with
a method to achieve it. And since I hadn't incubated this dream or really
thought about your idea I was caught flat footed. My apologies.
Follow-Up
On April 25, 1996, I had a lucid dream -- flew around -- realized that
Greek and Roman columns had a carved out section in the middle in which
something else was inserted for the column's stability -- hey, it's amazing
what you can see and learn when you're flying. It's a very long lucid dream,
and finally I think, "Well, what should I do?" When the issue
of precognition comes to mind, I see my brother Edmund, and I ask him to
predict two things. I ask, "A year from now, where will you be living?";
he says "London." I then ask him, "A year from now, will
you be married?"; he says "No, I don't think so." Suddenly,
behind him, I see another Edmund looking skeptically at me -- I wonder if
that is a probable Edmund.
So the background is that months before the dream, Edmund had been telling
me how he was going to leave London and move somewhere else, basically due
to immigration problems -- he was being told (at that time) that he could
only spend 180 days a year in the country -- so he thought he would move
to the Caribbean. He talked to tax advisors, immigration attorneys, etc.
and it looked like he was going to move. BUT as things turned out the British
immigration people relented a few months ago, and he is now back in London.
Similarly, as an eligible bachelor with serial relationships, marriage
is something that he faces on occasion, and it seemed like a legitimate
question. As of today, he isn't married. But I bet he is about 6 months
from now. I dreamt of his new love, Toni, as a female mountain lion on two
successive nights -- I knew that animal was her! Interestingly, talking
to Edmund yesterday, he said she had been hiking on Mount Tamalpias a few
months ago and stumbled upon a mountain lion! They are pretty rare and shy
creatures -- on some "psychic" level, this woman is a mountain
lion. |
