The Dreamrealm
Everyone dreams, even if they don’t remember the experience when they wakeup. I believe there is a barrier we pass between the waking world and the dream world. This barrier tends to blur and mystify the dream so that it becomes ethereal and foggy the more time passes since you wake. When you awaken (in the “real world”) what you remember about your recent trip to another realm can seem like…well, a dream…something fabricated or fantasy, like you didn’t really experience it.
In fact the dream world is as REAL is this one. By that I mean it is every bit as vivid (sometimes more) as this reality—you can taste, touch, smell, hear. The difference is that the “real world” or this “waking reality” starts off where you left off, you are in the same bed, with the same life—it has a continuous timeline, and the dream realm is disjointed, different times and places. This is perhaps why dreams are often written off as just a clearing function of your brain, like defragmenting a hardrive.
Lucid dreaming helps break that myth. There is another dimension your mind and body goes when you sleep, although it is different in some ways from the waking realm it does have some rules and some common characteristics. I have been exploring this realm for quite some time and there are too many questions raised for me to believe “its only a dream”. Because I lucid dream I continue to question my surroundings, my reality in this world...what is REAL anyway? It helps to expand my mind and know that things can be altered and improved. I believe the two realms aren’t very different from each other after all, but our minds have put up constructs which restrict full potential. Lucid dreaming helps break down some of those barriers.
