I had a lucid dream the other night. It wasn’t the first time, but I hadn’t had them for years. I thought I had lost “the ability” to do so.
When I was young, lucid dreams weren’t considered as special and mystical as they are now. I had them far more often, and it was fun. It was so often and so fun that I would have a list of things that I wanted to do when having one. Like jumping off a tall building to fly because I knew I would not die!
As I grew older, lucid dreams became shorter and shallower and did not let me enjoy the freedom that defied all the rules of the 3D reality.
Today, people think lucid dreams are a very rare and spiritual experience. Some spiritual practitioners say you are “awakened” and possibly psychic if you manage to have one with intention.
“No, not really,” I thought, “it’s natural to have a lucid dream.”
Then I stopped having any. I even tried to induce it by meditation, sleep hypnosis, and frequency videos. None worked. So I decided that I had possessed the special ability to have lucid dreams in childhood but lost it as I became an adult.
Well, it came back! I was struck by a very vivid “double-layered lucid dream”, in which I was aware in a dream in which I was having in the dream that I was asleep and having a dream. That was cool. But it had a deeper meaning to it, which I haven’t discerned yet.