Lucid Dreams
Jimmy Akin takes on an interesting question in this post: Sinful Activity In Lucid Dreams?
As a teenager, I trained myself to dream lucidly after reading an article in Omni magazine. The technique involved asking yourself during your waking hours if you were dreaming. You'd look at something, a clock for example, then after looking away, check if it was still a clock. It it was, you could be assured that you were not dreaming.
Doing this several times a day, it becomes a habit that is carried over into dreaming. Then, when you look at a tree, look away, and look back to notice the tree is now your third-grade math teacher, you know you're dreaming.
After a few nights, I became aware that I was dreaming, and did what the article suggested: I flew around in my dream body. When I felt I was waking up from the dream, I also did what the article suggested: I spun around in my dream body. The dream continued.
I realized very quickly what an utter waste of time all this was, and decided to sleep through the night and spend more time focusing on reality.
Jimmy Akin takes on an interesting question in this post: Sinful Activity In Lucid Dreams?
As a teenager, I trained myself to dream lucidly after reading an article in Omni magazine. The technique involved asking yourself during your waking hours if you were dreaming. You'd look at something, a clock for example, then after looking away, check if it was still a clock. It it was, you could be assured that you were not dreaming.
Doing this several times a day, it becomes a habit that is carried over into dreaming. Then, when you look at a tree, look away, and look back to notice the tree is now your third-grade math teacher, you know you're dreaming.
After a few nights, I became aware that I was dreaming, and did what the article suggested: I flew around in my dream body. When I felt I was waking up from the dream, I also did what the article suggested: I spun around in my dream body. The dream continued.
I realized very quickly what an utter waste of time all this was, and decided to sleep through the night and spend more time focusing on reality.
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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