I have a couple of stories to share that have personally made me believe that the dream worlds we visit every night ARE REAL.
The Aborigines of Australia call it the Dream Time and they say it’s more real than the waking world, that it’s the true reality. The stories I’ll share come from people I have met. Coupled with my own lucid dreaming experiences, I have given up my ‘rational’ attempts to dismiss these events and have finally just decided to believe.
The first comes from a childhood friend of my roommate. I met him one night at a beach party and heard his story. David had been studying with a spiritual teacher who, quite simply would visit him in his dreams and then quiz him on it the next day. Asking him specific questions about the lessons he’d been taught the night before. Obviously, his teacher astral traveled right into his dreams.
The next story came to me from a client. He unexpectedly starting talking about dreaming one day–this was hardly a person I was expecting to hear something this trippy from–and a place he called the Hall of Records.
Apparently, he learned in a dream that the Hall of Records is a place where all knowledge comes from. God’s library if you will. He didn’t describe the building, but said the architectural design is very majestic and can be very specifically described.
This rather straightforward fellow proceeded to tell me that his business partner ALSO dreamed of the same location a few months later and described it exactly–without ever being told what it looked like. Essentially, they had both visited the same place, separately, without aiding each other in the experience.
Hearing both stories convinced me that the realm of consciousness that we ascend to during sleep is real. Maybe it’s another dimension that we travel to astrally or simply slip in to through those unused portions of the brain… unlocking a door into inner space, to a place that the Aborigines describe as being more real than the waking world.
I believe it now, because these stories were too real to be ignored. And the experiences I’ve had with lucid dreaming–I’ve only just scratched the surface–make me think that anything and everything is possible there. Just have to develop the skill, is all.