Dreaming

I had a fun experience today, or rather yesterday as of the time I'm posting this. I woke up briefly as is my norm and On my way back to bed, I had the thought of something I heard about lucid dreaming. More specifically that if you get into the habit of doing "reality checks" you can cause yourself to have lucid dreams.

For those who don't know, a lucid dream is a dream where you have an abnormal amount of control over it. Your conscious mind becomes aware of the dream state and you can exert your will on it.

So I went back to sleep, as I'm want to do and I find I dream more easily when I go -back- to sleep. I'm not really sure why that's the case, but I fall back into dreaming more easily! Anyway, I'm in the middle of a dream and I was just wandering around a museum, following a floating brain that was I guess... a tour guide? Anyway, I asked myself, mid dream, if it was in fact a dream and everything just stopped, as if it just froze. I was able to check things out, pull the brain out of the air and examine it. Pull artifacts from the exhibits and look at them, so on and so forth. I tried to influence the world and force things to appear in the dream, but for my first time lucid dreaming, I wasn't able to do so.

It was weird because during the whole thing, nothing felt.. odd, then I just felt the pause as I broke into the dream-scape. Absolute silence fell through the dream as the people around me just went absolutely still and it was almost eerie but I just had no issue as it were.

I dunno, I think I wanna try it again if I can get to that sort of awareness during a dream. I would love to experiment with it more!