Sometimes it takes a dream to wake us up.
A dreamer’s reflections on ecology, activism, and becoming lucid
On Saturday night, during my stay at Rowe Conference Center for a weekend workshop to empower ecological activists led by Joanna Macy, I had what could be called a reverse lucid dream.
In a typical lucid dream, one becomes aware she is dreaming and can thus begin to exercise volition within the dream. In this case, during the dream I suddenly became aware that I was awake. The fact that I was, of course, incorrect, is not the point.
What is interesting however is that within the dream, when I (falsely) determined that I was awake, I had the same reaction I normally do when I’m dreaming and become lucid; I felt a rush of excitement and alertness. Whereas in a lucid dream I might announce joyously, “I’m dreaming, this is a dream!” In this case I called out in…
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October 1, 2014 at 3:10 pm
Gineen Lee Cooper
wow wow wow
i read this blog entry on the i’m awake i’m alive dream and got big bodily tingles all over my legs… a call to action! thank you for sharing your experience. greatly appreciated!!!!
October 11, 2014 at 9:03 pm
Tzivia
Hi Gineen,
Thank you for your comment. I love it when a blog post gives someone tingles! 🙂
May you dream and be well!
–Tz.