lucidity
If you’ve ever had a dream where you suddenly realize you are dreaming, you have had what is officially known as a “lucid” dream. There are a variety of good techniques for inducing the lucid state. Once lucid, the dreamer can then bend the dream world to his will, sort of like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, only with slightly less Hugo Weaving. For a skilled lucid dreamer the possibilities are limitless, but for a casual practioner such as myself, things are more difficult. Far from soaring over the Boston skyline or having intimate relations with a favorite porn star, the realization that I’ve become lucid is so thrilling to me that I feel an overwhelming urge to test my powers in any way I can. Do I teleport myself to an unimaginably opulent mansion? No. Do I solve the world energy crisis? No. My experiments are always pathetic. One time I used my lucid powers to change the color of my shoelaces and then tie them with my mind, and another time I made a nearby blanket fly up into the air.
Clearly, practice will have to make perfect, or at least make interesting.
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