Lucid

[poliphilo]

I had a lucid dream last night. They're the ones where you realize you're dreaming and are able to take control of the action. I don't think I've ever had one before.

I dreamed that I woke and it was a bright summer's morning. Only I knew somewhere at the back of my mind that it was really December. Then, as I was off bicycling through the woods, it came to me- hey, I'm dreaming. What fun.

I won't bother you with the details. Dreams are always more fun to have than to hear about. But the two kids with unicorn horns on their foreheads were kinda neat....

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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It was while I was stapling the path that I became fully aware that I was in a dream.

I like this theory of peripheral vision. I once asked my grandmother if she'd ever seen a ghost and she said she'd once, out of the corner of her eye, seen a ghostly dog (I assume it was a much-loved pet) go trotting past the kitchen door.

[mokie]

My mother has a story like that.

She was in the kitchen one day and caught sight of a shadowy movement out of the corner of her eye by the front door. She thought it might have been a mouse and turned back to the stove. Over the course of half an hour she continued to catch these little glimpses of movement and shadow, at one point clearly too large to be a mouse.

She finally turned and saw a fullgrown cat that wasn't a cat--she describes it as a clearly formed shadow of a cat. Suddenly a kid was banging on the door, yelling that my cousin was hurt at the park--he'd broken his leg playing softball. She never saw the phantom cat again.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough I was watching a documentary about the ghost story writer M.R. James last night, and the interviewees were pointing out how James gets his effects in just this way- by giving us a succession of hints and glimpses before suddenly, briefly, shockingly, unveiling the Thing itself.

[mokie]

This being the second time I've heard James mentioned this week, I think I'll take that as a sign to go to the library tomorrow and look him up. Thanks! :)

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

my brother's oldest stepdaughter told me that when you see a shadow such as you describe, it's a guardian angel. Her mother told her that everyone who cared about her who no longer dwells in this world is a guardian angel of hers.

I've had flying dreams, and been extremely disappointed when I woke up and couldn't remember how I did it.