Chiram: I’d be interested to hear more of yours if you can remember it. I’m pretty sure the bear, and the crow have some special spiritual significance. I know the crow is supposed to bring news of death.
ChosenOne: Judging by the way you tell it, I for one very much doubt it was a personal nightmare. I think visions like these are ‘possible futures’. The most important thing is that we have the opportunity to try and change them. About four months ago, I had a very shocking lucid dream. I wasn’t expecting it - it just happened.
I become lucid, and at first I think of this girl I really like, and try to meet her in dreaming. However, my attempts are in vain, and I get the feeling there is something much more important that I should be paying attention to. Soon enough, I feel someone approaching. For a second, I think I it may be the girl i like, but then I recognise it is another spirit / formless but knowable.
This spirit seem powerful, and seems to know exactly where they are taking me. Instantly, I am in a plane of some sort. It is dark, and I can see the ground below me, but can not identify where the place is. I can hear the sounds of gunfire. At first I think I am playing a game. For a second, I pause – I don’t really care that much for shooting, but if it is a game, then maybe I should. As I am thinking about this, I get the impression that I am here to watch something. I hear more shots, and soon I look down at the ground. Below me there is a huge explosion, and a mushroom cloud rises up. After this, the dream scene becomes very dark, but I see perhaps three deeply symbolic lightning strokes. It reminds me of a story of the forked lighting, and I think about the different ways the lightning can go. This is the scariest part of the entire dream, because I am not sure if I am ever gonna come back from this.
Now I am looking, at the land to the right. I see another realted explosion or fire spread quickly over the plains of the land. The land has a couple of trees, but does not seem all that full of people. I remember seeing some animals (perhaps sheep) running from the fire). As I watch this horrible devastation take place, I wonder where this place is. The view changes, as I move from the explosion scene to the area nearby. I am watching the view of the coastline, and I stay here for a while to get a look at the place. At the same time, I wonder why it is that that the place looks like bitmapped 3-dimensional imagery or a computer game. However, I understand that this vision seems awfully urgent. I soon began to fade, and am worried that I am losing lucidity. I try to radiate energy from my heart chakra, to maintain my state.
It is at this point that I am back in my room. I am walking around my room, and where my bookshelf normally is there is now a staircase. I know I am in my dreaming body, and am surprised when I managed to put my feet on the first step. This feels amazing – dual awareness is definitely an important aspect of this experience. I am a little worried that my dad will be able to hear me walking around in my room and wonder what all the noise is about. So I stepped back, and now I have my cat in my hands. I hold her for a little while, but want to climb into bed as there seems to be nowhere else to go. I clamber in, and apologising to her for my behaviour, drop her on my bed. She scuttles away, and soon enough I am awake.
(This was the most intensely real lucid dream I have ever felt myself to be in. It took place in a deserted sandy place. I don’t remember seeing any people either, but I only looked at the ground when i saw the explosion)
