I went to bed one night and soon found myself in a line of young passengers waiting to board a train.
I had been experimenting with dream control at the time, after realizing that we spend a third of our lives unconscious, and I’d had some success, but it was an on-going learning process. For example, the hardest part was finding a way to realize I was dreaming. In time, I found that if I felt like I had to urinate, but there were no bathrooms to be found, it was a dream. Also, once I did realize I was dreaming, there was a tendency to immediately wake up, which I learned to overcome by focusing on the dream’s surroundings. I began to have flying dreams and such, but this one took it to a new level.
There were four or five boys in the line ahead of me, and I asked them if they wanted to see some magic. They looked at me like I was some kind of crack-pot, of course, and I found myself saying, “Watch this!” And then I woke myself up.
I know that dreams don’t extend beyond the confines of our own minds, but there’s a little part of me that wonders if there are some boys somewhere, in some other realm, standing around and scratching their heads after witnessing a crazy old man vanish before their eyes.
–Image by AI
michaeljordahl 
That’s a terrific image, Michael. Dreaming lucid – a rare skill. I’ve had a go at it, but lack the discipline. Love the dreaming otherwise though.
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Thank you, Michael. Years ago, I worked midnight shifts, and that seemed to make it easier. Haven’t had a lucid dream now for a while.
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Dream control, that’s new to me. Sounds interesting though.
Pat
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It’s very interesting, Pat, but hard to do. I remember the first time realizing I was dreaming and saying, “I can do whatever I want!”
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That’s amazing, am thinking the moment you started “doing whatever you wanted”, you would wake up.😊
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It’s hard not to, but if you focus on the surroundings, it helps.
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Wow! Interesting!
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Fascinating post and AI image. Lucid dreaming is always exciting. A while back I read a book about a man who did such dreaming in what he called The Imaginal Realm in which he had many adventures with others. Perhaps I’m wrong but I think some may call it The Astral Realm. The Mind is a rich Mine to explore.
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It’s a unique realm in that there are no consequences for what you do. Maybe that in itself would be “unhealthy” for the psyche, however.
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