Tactile Sensations and Dissolving Dream Characters
By Eugene Raphael · Night Report · Liminal Light Lab
Technique: waking with intent after 1:45 am, then reaching out to feel the room. Outcome: a tactile entry, a busy dream scene, and a lesson about dream plots.
Feeling the carpet
I woke at 1:45 am and set my intent. I then woke about every 15 minutes, falling back asleep the first two or three times.
On the third waking, I reached out for the room and felt the grain of the carpet. Then I felt my arms, my torso, and my whole body lying prone on the carpet, as if naked. I stayed prone so the tactile sensation would anchor my awareness.
I slithered to the bedroom door and slid down the stairs on my belly, feeling the nosing of each stair, to the front door. There I intended myself upright, looked at my hands, rubbed them vigorously, and stepped outside.
A busy street
The scene was busy and clear, with people and an odd carousel in the road. People are rare in my dreams, so I judged this a phantom, non-energy-generating dream.
I was looking for an inorganic being, so I pointed my right pinky, then my left, at dream characters. They froze, stared at me, and vanished.
The plot
One character lured me into a building, up a ladder, where people were inflating rafts. I recognized it as a dream plot, self-important baggage, but I followed out of curiosity. It consumed my clarity, and I woke up.
Dream plots as a trap
Interacting with dream characters can pull you into a fabricated plot, like a memory implant of a dream world that doesn't exist. These plots are born of self-importance. Indulging them costs energy and awareness, and for me it's a sign that more recapitulation is needed. Keep your intent focused the whole time you're in dreaming.
I'm too used to my dreams being empty of people. Do other dreamers struggle with dream plots?
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