lucid dream
Part of Speech: n
Definition: a dream state in which one is conscious enough to recognize that one is in the dream state and which stays in one's memory
I've had lucid dreams before. I'm not lucky enough to have them often. Actually, maybe it's a blessing that I don't have them all the time. I never search for them, only hope on random occasion. To me a lucid dream isn't about being in the middle of a bad dream and realizing it's a dream and then making yourself fly to get away from the bad guy. I mean, technically it is, but to me that's not the good kind. The good kind is when you are having a dream that you don't want to end and yet you fully know it's a dream and that if you act upon anything in it, it's okay. It's not really happening and no one will ever know. A lucid dream... a good one... is like a guilty pleasure... which is why I guess I'm glad I don't have them constantly. It could make living real life a lot harder.
Last weekend I watched the movie The Good Night. It was a movie I had never heard of, but I saw it at Target, read the back, and decided it sounded good... so I bought it. Fast forward to this last weekend when I watched it.
It's Saturday. I've nothing to do. I decided to have a late morning and snuggled into the couch with a blanket and pressed play.
I actually considered turning it off. It was slow moving, and so NOT what I had expected it to be like. But, I figured if I could sit through the ghastly Stranger Than Paradise, I could sit through this.
Without getting into too much detail, the movie is about lucid dreams and a man that pretty much gives up on his life to continue having them. In a way, I can relate. How many times have I woken up in the morning, only to wish I could go back to sleep to continue the fantastic dream I had been having. So in a way the movie was dull, but at the same time, captivating. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but I do own it, so I'm sure I'll watch it again. And I'm one of the people that absolutely LOVED the movie Vanilla Sky. It's the kind of movie where you're not sure of it as you're watching it, but when all is said and done, you sit there and ponder what you just watched and realize... ya know, that was pretty good.
So what's my reason to this blog? My reason is to say this... that night I had a dream, and in my dream I looked at my hands. I studied my hands. In my dream I recognized it was lucid. I did what the character in the movie was told to do. It was so completely surreal.
Of course if you haven't seen the movie, you have no idea about the reference to the studying of ones hands. Oh well. Your loss, not mine.
