Labels: Film, Stereoscopy

So how can one become proficient in transforming the dreamscape in one’s lucid dreams? Stephen LaBerge suggest the spinning method, probably all of us have heard of, others will say that it all depends on your attitude - the way you perceive and respond to the dream world that surrounds you. To tell the truth I myself still haven’t quite come up with the idea for the best method. For a long time I’ve been inspired by dark surrealist and fantasy writers whose stories abound with extraordinary imagery and who could acutely describe landscapes nearly unimaginable. One of the writers whom I greatly admire is Clark Ashton Smith. His poetic sensitivity can render even ordinary landscapes strange and wonderful. This is precisely what I want to do in my dreams: I would love to be transferred to those otherworldly places where color, shape, texture and distance blend into something that an average person can barely grasp and to become the creator of such grotesque kingdom.

Yeah, sounds awesome but how to do it?

This is a question that bothers all oneironauts when trying to do something they've never done in real life. Some time ago I announced that will be experimenting with the dreamscape by trying to liquify it, if you know what I mean. This was a way of finding out whether I will be able to reshape the environment and make out of it something wholly new. I have to admit that in one of the dreams I have become quite successful in doing this but I still find this method very tedious and difficult.

Last month I happened to discover something that may be the key to success. Having noticed through my experiments with lucid dreaming that that telekinetic powers in dreams are relatively easy to master (at least to me) I started to experiment with the sky. In one of the dreams the first thing that occurred to me upon becoming lucid was to change the position of the sun (previously I've done the same with the clouds and was very successful in producing thunderstorms or tornadoes). At the time I was looking from my bedroom window at the vast fields and forests outside. As soon as I started to lower the sun the landscape would automatically change to imitate what I usually could see at twilight. The more I manipulated with the sun the more colors and shades became very unusual, totally departing from anything I’ve every seen in my life. Here and there the bushes became white with morning frost which would soon shine with fiery-violet luminescence whilst ominous shadows would stretch into infinity. I think this is the best way I can describe it, for simply no words were conceived to do so. So beautiful all of it looked! At that point I felt that I was convinced that I’ve finally become independent from any preconceptions related to physical reality and could do whatever I wanted. Soon afterwards I started to turn the world beyond my window upside down and do some really weird things.

If you still haven’t tried moving the sun in your dreams then I encourage you to start tweaking with your dream sky. Some other ideas: trying to make ring/total eclipse, zooming on and out of the planets or sun, making astral bodies collide. Moreover, if you finally learn to attract/pull and push the sun, how about slipping into Copernicus’ mind and trying to do the opposite i.e. moving the Earth out of the Solar System or the Milky Way? That would be quite a treat!

Labels: literature, lucid dreaming