Getting Sick In Dreams, Again
Soon after I graduated elementary school, my Mom forbade me to tell her what I dreamt of the night before. She claims it’s because she never had nightmares until I told her mine. (What can I say? I like to share). But now I have reached a new level of weirdness in even my dreams.
Not only did I have a lucid dream early this morning, but I sick got sick during the lucid dream. I felt fine when I went to sleep. Then I got a migraine in my dream and woke up and still felt like crap. What up? I’ve approached the phenomenon of getting migraines in dreams before, but you usually feel better an hour or so after waking up. This was different in it’s intensity.
What’s a Lucid Dream?
A luicd dream is where you realize you are dreaming. Once you realize you are actually dreaming, that’s when the fun begins. Although you can manipulate your background and events in your lucid dream to a point, mostly you just get the complete freedom to be yourself without any repercussions.
Tibetan monks learn to lucid dream in order to help them on their path to enlightenment. Ancinet shamans used lucid dreams in order to ask spirits for healing rituals. I use lucid dreams (sometimes) in a high-brow way, but mostly I use them to get my rocks off. Lucid dreams are better than sex and drugs combined.
Except when you get sick in the dream. Usually, when I dreamt of getting ill, I didn’t realize during the dream that I ws dreaming. This morning, I knew I was dreaming, and yet was vomiting becuase of a migraine that couldn’t possibly be happening, anyway. Perhaps throwing up shows that I’ve reached the next stage in my spiritual development.
Next Time
The next time I get sick in a lucid dream, I’m going to ask to see the dream doctor that must be lurking about in the lucid dream universe. Of course, then I’d be asked what kind of lucid dream universe health insurance to carry, and I’d be in a bit of a pickle there. I really don’t want to spend my time lucid dreaming having to fill out application forms and comparing quotes.
Or maybe I should just go back to being an insomniac.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
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