Comments on: How well can you read in your dreams? http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/ a blog exploring lucid dreaming, entheogens, metaphysics, & the conscious experience Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:17:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: yellowish haze http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/#comment-439 yellowish haze Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:50:25 +0000 http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/#comment-439 In fact my first lucid dream was triggered by reading a book in a dream. I can perfectly remember that I really COULD read and make sense of the text. At one point, in the dream I read a cool paragraph which I want to read it once again. This is when the strange things start happening. I suddenly realize that the text has somehow changed because I can't find the lines I'm looking for. I put my finger on the text and see that when I slide it sideways the text changes as if my finger has some magical properties. This is when I become lucid. In another dream I couldn't read at all. In it, I'm in a restaurant with my friend Sara. (Sara and I used to go to the same high school in Seville, Spain. When I left Spain and came back to Poland, I totally lost contact with her). I become lucid and I tell her that it's great to see her in a dream. I also ask her if she can give me her e-mail address so that we can stay in touch in real life. She agrees. I tell her to hurry because I feel like I'm about to wake up. She takes out a pen and writes the e-mail address on a napkin. When she hands it to me I realize that this whole idea is absurd because I can't read it. The address looks quite real - it even has the @ sign somewhere in the middle and .com at the end - but the letters shift places and are sometimes replaced by incomprehensible signs. At one point I decide to stuff the napkin into a pocket and read it after I wake up - but then I realize that this is even more absurd! In fact my first lucid dream was triggered by reading a book in a dream. I can perfectly remember that I really COULD read and make sense of the text. At one point, in the dream I read a cool paragraph which I want to read it once again. This is when the strange things start happening. I suddenly realize that the text has somehow changed because I can’t find the lines I’m looking for. I put my finger on the text and see that when I slide it sideways the text changes as if my finger has some magical properties. This is when I become lucid.

In another dream I couldn’t read at all. In it, I’m in a restaurant with my friend Sara. (Sara and I used to go to the same high school in Seville, Spain. When I left Spain and came back to Poland, I totally lost contact with her). I become lucid and I tell her that it’s great to see her in a dream. I also ask her if she can give me her e-mail address so that we can stay in touch in real life. She agrees. I tell her to hurry because I feel like I’m about to wake up. She takes out a pen and writes the e-mail address on a napkin. When she hands it to me I realize that this whole idea is absurd because I can’t read it. The address looks quite real - it even has the @ sign somewhere in the middle and .com at the end - but the letters shift places and are sometimes replaced by incomprehensible signs. At one point I decide to stuff the napkin into a pocket and read it after I wake up - but then I realize that this is even more absurd!

]]> By: David http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/#comment-444 David Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:02:34 +0000 http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/#comment-444 i have heard alot about literature becoming the jumping point into a lucid dream...i have just started trying to attain lucidity so i am keeping a dream journal at http://oneironautlog.wordpress.com/ if you think you can help me out or give me advie let me know thanks i have heard alot about literature becoming the jumping point into a lucid dream…i have just started trying to attain lucidity so i am keeping a dream journal at
http://oneironautlog.wordpress.com/
if you think you can help me out or give me advie let me know thanks

]]> By: Michelle http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/#comment-472 Michelle Sun, 06 May 2007 00:40:06 +0000 http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/#comment-472 I have read in my dreams numerous times before, it's been getting better each time, at first, only a few words, then a few sentences, and now I'm trying to keep focus long enough in dreams to read more than a 'few' of anything. The first time I truly became aware of reading text in dreams, it made no sense [once lucid]. It was a book on herbs and their uses, as well as some background data on them. I was stuck in a library for the night and my buddy wasn't so extroversive, so I read. I understood everything up until the part where I became lucid. The name of the leafy green pond/forest plant was forgotten. I tried to re-read it, now fully aware of the dream. The words began to change as I read! I struggled to keep reading the test until it became German [which I have a limited understanding of]. I awoke my friend and showed him the moving text, amazed as ever. He brushed it off. I would have really liked to have remembered it's name to see if it was real... But, aside from that time, reading hasn't made me lucid for now text doesn't change or move on me, whatever I can't read is due to a loss of interest/focus. I have read in my dreams numerous times before, it’s been getting better each time, at first, only a few words, then a few sentences, and now I’m trying to keep focus long enough in dreams to read more than a ‘few’ of anything.
The first time I truly became aware of reading text in dreams, it made no sense [once lucid]. It was a book on herbs and their uses, as well as some background data on them. I was stuck in a library for the night and my buddy wasn’t so extroversive, so I read. I understood everything up until the part where I became lucid. The name of the leafy green pond/forest plant was forgotten. I tried to re-read it, now fully aware of the dream. The words began to change as I read! I struggled to keep reading the test until it became German [which I have a limited understanding of]. I awoke my friend and showed him the moving text, amazed as ever. He brushed it off. I would have really liked to have remembered it’s name to see if it was real… But, aside from that time, reading hasn’t made me lucid for now text doesn’t change or move on me, whatever I can’t read is due to a loss of interest/focus.

]]> By: Ben http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/#comment-473 Ben Sun, 06 May 2007 15:59:22 +0000 http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/#comment-473 Michelle I find it really interesting how you say you "understood everything up until the part where I became lucid." It makes me wonder...what's really happening (pre-lucid) when someone is reading in a dream? Are we really reading in the same sense as we read in waking life? If so, why does conscious awareness that one is dreaming sometimes lead to not being able to read anymore? All this reminds me of a dream I had many years ago. I was hiking in the woods listening to a tape on my walkman (whoa, sounds dated :) and I was listening to an album of music that someone had made that I know. In my dream I was really getting into the music and was amazed that my friend had written it. When I woke up, I desperately wanted to remember what all the music sounded like, but I could only remember it in the vaguest of ways. As someone who plays guitar, it intrigued me that maybe my subconscious mind had written this awesome music that I liked and played it in a dream.... ...or did it? Did I really hear it in the dream? If I became lucid would it become all jumbled and weird? Maybe the music sounding good - the experience of it, maybe it's not a linear experience like we think it is in memory, and when we interrupt it live with lucidity, that's why it becomes messed up. I'm having a hard time putting this into words! Michelle I find it really interesting how you say you “understood everything up until the part where I became lucid.”

It makes me wonder…what’s really happening (pre-lucid) when someone is reading in a dream? Are we really reading in the same sense as we read in waking life? If so, why does conscious awareness that one is dreaming sometimes lead to not being able to read anymore?

All this reminds me of a dream I had many years ago. I was hiking in the woods listening to a tape on my walkman (whoa, sounds dated :) and I was listening to an album of music that someone had made that I know. In my dream I was really getting into the music and was amazed that my friend had written it.

When I woke up, I desperately wanted to remember what all the music sounded like, but I could only remember it in the vaguest of ways. As someone who plays guitar, it intrigued me that maybe my subconscious mind had written this awesome music that I liked and played it in a dream….

…or did it? Did I really hear it in the dream? If I became lucid would it become all jumbled and weird? Maybe the music sounding good - the experience of it, maybe it’s not a linear experience like we think it is in memory, and when we interrupt it live with lucidity, that’s why it becomes messed up.

I’m having a hard time putting this into words!

]]> By: Sophia http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/#comment-479 Sophia Mon, 07 May 2007 17:38:34 +0000 http://dreaminglife.org/2007/04/23/how-well-can-you-read-in-your-dreams/#comment-479 Funny, I too had a lucid dream triggered by reading in a dream. I remember I came-up to a sign that was upside down. I remember telling myself that in order to read it I had to turn myself upside down. So, I did and therefore I was able to read it! Funny, I too had a lucid dream triggered by reading in a dream. I remember I came-up to a sign that was upside down. I remember telling myself that in order to read it I had to turn myself upside down. So, I did and therefore I was able to read it!

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