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kdcaboy · 09-04-2008, 06:26 PM

It's been amazing for me to read some of Steve's articles and everyone's posts on Lucid dreaming -- I've been able to make sense of my experiences when I was much younger!

When I was a kid I used to lie in bed and just imagine that I was spinning around like a top, and once I got going I would start moving on another axis... really *feeling* the movement, but consciously not letting any of my muscles tense or flex... and before you know it I was flying! I could go from awake in bed to flying just like that!

I've always known and remembered that, although for some reason there has been a block or something in place and I've never had the patience to do it successfully since.

It wasn't until about a year ago when I read an article about Lucid Dreaming, and found people explicitly describing the "spinning" method, that I realized that's what I had been doing! And I wondered how had I known how to to this intuitively? It's a method that certainly works, I can vouch for that!

I'm now 30 and hope to be able to repeat this again soon :-) Every now and then I suddenly become lucid in my dreams (one of them was even... um... X-rated...) or have what may be considered more "astral travel?" These are times where I have decided I wanted to wake up, but I've had the sensation that I don't know where my body is and it takes me some time to find my way back.

I am working on gaining better control of this, I suppose practice makes perfect :-)

09-04-2008, 06:26 PM	#58 (permalink)
kdcaboy Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 9	Lucid dreaming when I was a kid It's been amazing for me to read some of Steve's articles and everyone's posts on Lucid dreaming -- I've been able to make sense of my experiences when I was much younger! When I was a kid I used to lie in bed and just imagine that I was spinning around like a top, and once I got going I would start moving on another axis... really feeling the movement, but consciously not letting any of my muscles tense or flex... and before you know it I was flying! I could go from awake in bed to flying just like that! I've always known and remembered that, although for some reason there has been a block or something in place and I've never had the patience to do it successfully since. It wasn't until about a year ago when I read an article about Lucid Dreaming, and found people explicitly describing the "spinning" method, that I realized that's what I had been doing! And I wondered how had I known how to to this intuitively? It's a method that certainly works, I can vouch for that! I'm now 30 and hope to be able to repeat this again soon :-) Every now and then I suddenly become lucid in my dreams (one of them was even... um... X-rated...) or have what may be considered more "astral travel?" These are times where I have decided I wanted to wake up, but I've had the sensation that I don't know where my body is and it takes me some time to find my way back. I am working on gaining better control of this, I suppose practice makes perfect :-)