The Impact of External Factors on Lucid Dreaming
In one instance, the individual experienced sleep paralysis accompanied by a vivid sensation of an external presence as if directly within their mind. This presence was perceived as a dark, demonic entity, emitting a loud, hissing sound, seemingly attempting to consume their consciousness. It appeared that the entity and the associated fear were the paralyzing factors. Upon attempting to scream, the individual woke up.
A while later, a similar awakening occurred, yet without the entity, though a hissing sound was still present. Due to the abrupt awakening, they identified the sound as coming from a faulty car outside their window, frequently active during the night. Similar distressing awakenings due to sudden real-world noises happened repeatedly afterward.
Research Findings on Lucid Dreaming
Overall, it’s difficult to determine what facilitates or hinders entry into such states and their varying experiences. Health and physical activity seem to influence the quality of entry. None of these experiences provided new insights about the future or previously unknown real-world details, with one possible exception. In a chance lucid dream, the dreamer saw an empty room when wondering if furniture had been moved; this turned out to match reality.
These experiences suggest that sustaining such a state demands energy, either resulting in longer, less vivid sessions or shorter, more vivid ones. The most lucid states achieved felt more intense than regular wakefulness, similar to states induced by extreme situations or euphoria.
Perception of Telepathy
During these experiments, a recurring problem arose: upon reaching heightened awareness, systematic auditory disruptions—such as noises from others in the household—caused inevitable awakenings. A conclusive instance involved the author’s spouse, whose physical or vocal reactions aligned with the author’s heightened awareness. Strikingly, no tangible physical stimuli triggered such reactions, yet his wife consistently reacted when his internal noise intensified. This was not due to external factors, as real sounds didn’t evoke similar reactions.
To this day, the spouse occasionally responds to the author’s mental activity, sometimes prompting him to stop thinking altogether. In one instance, the author received a response in the form of his wife uttering “no” and “yes” in her sleep, though it seemed more an emotional response than a specific answer.
This responsiveness to the author’s mental activity was also noted in other individuals, even in different rooms, ruling out physical cues like heart rate changes. However, only certain individuals responded, and not always predictably; some days, the response was continuous, while on others, it was absent. However, this response was consistently observable, ceasing with the author’s mental quiet and resuming when he restarted his thought process.
A single occasion involved the author experiencing strong emotional distress in an extreme situation. At that moment, his wife, who normally called at different times, unexpectedly phoned to check if he was okay. Efforts to intentionally transmit specific information or locations through extrasensory means, however, were unsuccessful.
It seems clear that emotional intensity, rather than logical thoughts, likely triggers these responses. Such reactions typically occurred during emotionally significant or existentially important reflections, suggesting that emotions, not structured information, might be perceivable through extrasensory channels. Further exploration of extrasensory abilities should focus on detecting emotional transmission.
Lucid Dreams and Out-of-Body Experiences Using Psychoactive Substances
Experiments involved plants such as Datura and Atropa belladonna, both consumed with extreme caution due to their potentially lethal effects. Datura provided negative results, causing a blurring of reality and dream states that felt mundane. The dreamer seemed to repeatedly “wake up” in the same spot after performing various tasks, creating a loop.
Belladonna yielded a more favorable outcome but with substantial side effects. Consumed in small, tracked doses, it led to an excited yet clear-headed state. Upon falling asleep, a heightened state of awareness was easily achieved but accompanied by intense and realistic auditory and visual effects that disrupted sleep. These effects included voices, surreal roof distortions, and object transformations, creating an overwhelming sense of madness. Consequently, the author had to stay awake until the effects wore off. The next day, mild effects persisted, with one experience involving a clear view of a starry sky through a closed roof, despite cloudy weather.
These experiments concluded that lucid dream control is best achieved without psychoactive substances, though belladonna provided notable effects. No new information was obtained aside from a peculiar red-lettered message seen under Datura’s influence, which later matched a red-lettered note the author noticed upon waking.
Dreams and Symbolic Associations for Predicting the Future
With the start of these experiments, recurring dreams emerged, involving the author ascending various buildings. At the time, his job was related to construction, and he later experienced dreams where buildings rose skyward like spiraling crystals before appearing as drawings, mirroring his rekindled interest in drawing. Art soon became his primary occupation.
Another recurring dream involved subway travel, symbolizing his monotonous work routine and infrequent subway commutes. When this job ended, the subway dreams ceased, but a motorcycle dream soon preceded a better job opportunity. This led the author to hypothesize that modes of transportation in dreams could symbolize material standing, social status, and financial pace, with car ownership being a point of personal pride.
Dreams of climbing buildings paralleled the acquisition of knowledge, skill enhancement, and worldview expansion. The author linked buildings to social hierarchies, given that elite apartments often occupy upper floors. These dreams coincided with his transition to art, a field requiring higher qualifications than construction work. Conversely, descending or falling in dreams symbolized regression or moral decline, with some troubling life phases preceded by such dreams. Horizontal movement represented material success, while vertical movement symbolized intangible growth.
