Becoming lucid: pain, drugs, or other? Thoughts?
I was in hospital last week for a routine but, it turned out, quite painful surgical procedure. The first night I was there (hours after the surgery) I was drifting in and out of sleep all night and I was achieving lucidity repeatedly and very easily. I haven't had that much success with lucid dreaming (yet), and I was really impressed by my consciousness in the dreams. I would look around and say, "Oh, I must be dreaming," and look at my hands or try to read something (all the usual "reality check" things) and confirm it. At one point that unfortunately I only partly remember, I was actually interacting with the dream environment (I was putting rainbows in the sky, very symbolic for me ).
Since that night, though, my dreams have all been decidedly non-lucid. I had achieved minor lucidity prior to last week, but they were limited and infrequent.
I suspect that the lucidity was brought on by being in a strange place and feeling that I had to stay at least partially conscious of my environment, but I also wonder if the light sleep due to the pain might have been part of it (during the dreams, I wasn't experiencing the pain, so that was good, at least). Or if the drugs (morphine and some other good stuff) had a hand in it...?
I would LIKE to believe that it was that I'm actually starting to develop more lucid dreaming ability and the "need to stay conscious" thing just helped it along, but I don't know if I should think that just yet.
Anyone have any experience with strong painkiller drugs and/or pain as a factor in achieving lucidity? Maybe the pain was keeping me partly awake and the drugs were keeping me mostly asleep? Or.... ?
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