Myself and the other people in my dream were entering and leaving elevators. The room was purple (lilac neon lit) and other people were there (nobody spoke to me, they just glanced and walked by me). Two nights ago I had a dream (well, I think it was a dream) where I was flying through space at incredible speeds and it was kind of like how a time travel or vortex is depicted on TV and I could see space rock and planets whooshing past as I hurtled through this vortex until I started to descend at an equally as fast speed into some kind of room. I do however use Mirtazipine to promote sleep but only on occasion* *NOTE* I don’t smoke or take illegal drugs. I hope you can help me! This is going to sound like all kinds of twisted and you will probably think I’ve been smoking something but here goes… I hope this helps, sorry again that I didn’t see your message before. So when you encounter fear, examine it, go into it… and release it if you can. I think it’s actually something we can all benefit from – but fear is pretty pointless, as it paralyses us and prevents us from living our fullest life. This sounds simple (and it is) but it can be very effective.Īnother way of engaging with your fear is to follow your questions about life and death to their conclusions – it is good (in my view) to consider the nature of the universe, and wonder what happens after death. You could try lying down, relaxing, and imaginatively re-entering one of your childhood falling dreams, only this time the adult you is there to reassure and comfort your younger self, supporting her in your arms or telling her a funny story, whatever feels right. I think your fear could well be related to these childhood experiences, but the good thing is, there are ways of liberating yourself from this fear. It has to do with the transition between wake and sleep, hence the expression “falling asleep”, but it also elicits a cosmic awareness of the self as tiny and helpless, lost in infinity. Many children have the experience you relate here, of falling endlessly through space. I only saw this message now – sorry for the delay. In the void we are able to just ‘be’ in a way that is almost impossible in the crazy multi-sensory fiesta of dreams and waking life. It can be the most restful, beautiful experience just to hang out in the lucid void, free from physical aches and pains, free from sensory distractions. However bumpy the ride, once we arrive, we are lucid in this vast space – effortlessly lucid. There is nothing here, just millions of greyish dots and I am one of the dots… A feeling of great peace comes over me and a sense of gentle, infinite expansion… I am suspended in space – dream space, I think. I’m not frightened but it’s all I can do to hold onto my lucidity as I am sucked along into spirals of this color and light… I am propelled out of the bottom of it into a motionless space. I’m dreaming, I realize, and immediately the dreamscape bucks and swirls, tipping me over into a shooting flight, down and down at an incredible speed into a rainbow-colored vortex which seems to be made up of an infinite number of dots. People struggle to wake up and if they can’t, they panic.Īlso, a trip to the void can involve disorienting sensations of rocketing along, being tossed around or falling steeply, as in this example of my own from twenty years ago: It’s like floating bodiless in nothingness, so at first it feels nothing like regular lucid dreaming. Why do some people find the lucid void scary?īecause in the void, we have nothing familiar to cling to in terms of imagery and spatial sense. The crescendo was so loud that I woke up… to a silent bedroom. I hung there for a while wondering if this was an OBE or just a very boring lucid dream, before amusing myself by building up an invisible orchestra, instrument by instrument, to thunderous and realistic effect, despite the fact that the height of my waking-life musical ability amounted to playing ‘Three Blind Mice’ on the recorder when I was seven. I call it ‘the gap between dreams’ because this is dream space, there’s just no imagery.Īlthough some people might initially experience the void as a scary space, if you relax and give it a chance, the void is actually full of creative and meditative potential.īack in the days when the void was not a common experience for me, I once found myself floating in infinite black space. This experience of black space (or grey space, or countless dots of light) when you’re asleep is often known as the ‘void’. Have you ever found yourself floating in infinite space?
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