The matrix and lucid dreaming part 6
Author: Tim Post
Date: April 17th, 2011
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Sunday already. The last few days I have been a bit more busy than the first days of Stephen LaBerge’s Dreaming and Awakening workshop.
I was invited to support Stephen at some point during the program, which is such an honor. And I have so many interesting conversations with other participants that I find myself chatting for a whole afternoon before realizing it is already time to prepare for dinner. Which surely is a good thing.
Cool conversations
Among the participants, two cool university graduates (or almost graduated; one seems to be a big Lucidipedia fan which is so encouraging) are interested in doing research in some way or another within the field of lucid dreaming. Most other participants have no academic background at all, so naturally, the three of us easily connected.
It is kind of weird to (finally) have full blown in-depth discussions and conceptual explorations on the subject. We are talking about big stuff. One educational psychologist (me), one philosopher (he) and one neuroscientist (she). Same age, same interest. I mean, we feel like the new bright young minds that are required to steward lucid dreaming (research) up to the next level. What we talk about is: “how to do just that”.
The matrix has me
At the same time, Stephen’s training program is progressing. He is so cool: at one time talking about the big question “What are dreams? What is consciousness?”, his subtitle on the screen was “What is the Matrix?” ;-)
The most I learned through listening to Stephen during his lectures on the science of lucid dreaming. Also during lunch, when we occasionally meet. Learning about recent studies on lucid dreaming, forthcoming ones and archived experiments from the old days. It is great to get a sense of Stephen’s history with regard to lucid dream research. The guy has over 25 years of personal and professional experience: he has tremendous deep understanding. He is the real thing.
We seem to be through with the basics and are currently practicing and applying the MILD technique. I have had 3 lucid dreams so far. Just merely thinking and talking about lucid dreaming each day is a great inducer for lucidity.
Cool trips
We went snorkeling yesterday at some place nearby Kalani. Made lots of underwater video’s and enjoyed myself quite a lot. We also visited a hot spring just in front of the ocean, which was awesome (and bizarre)(dreamsign!).
To me – and it seems that I will not get over this soon – the silliest thing was swimming with Stephen while listening to him talk about the underlying principles of psychopharmaceuticals :-). Never mind.
Today
We will be visiting the volcano soon and maybe spot some flowing lava. Would love to see that! Would also like to have some free time (again) to be by myself and just wander around, go to the beach, or sunbathe. After all, this is Hawaii.
After the program I have some additional days left to visit Stanford University and explore San Francisco. Seems so far away :-)
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