Dream of the Week: The Duffle Bag

⚡️I’m having trouble going back to sleep so I am lying awake thinking about how it's a good opportunity to practice WILD techniques with this sense of wakefulness. I think to myself that I want to remember my intent to ask for help with my website and repeat it a few times.

At some point my consciousness drifts away and I am aware in a dream scene. Things are still hazy and forming as I stand in a house or an apartment hallway. Knowing I was just seeing nothing and now I am seeing something, I say — "this is a dream" and become lucid. I’m with Sam and an older woman in this hallway. At first I ignore them and see three mirrors leaned up against the wall. "Oooh! Mirrors!" I recall stories from forums on mirror as doors into other places and I try to crawl into the mirror… but it's solid. I try again, and it's solid it again. I try a third time and for a moment it seems malleable but soon is hard yet again, and this time I crack it. I'm amazed that it actually kind of hurts this time!

I turn back to the hallway and somehow gain possession of a small, black duffle bag. Inside the bag is a yellow winter coat and a blue winter coat. Astounded, I think to myself, "Wow! These are the exact jackets I lost on my trip!" I am amazed that I’ve found them here.

Even though I know it's a dream I think that I can put them in a specific place in a specific time in the past, that will allow me to find them in the real world. I spend the next part of the dream in a "lame lucid" state continuing to look for the jackets (the same ones I just found) and looking for the right place to put the coats so that I change time and reality so that I will be able to find the bag in my apartment when I wake up. I recruit Sam and the old woman to help me with my task, so excited to make it happen. The dream fades.

Quick Reflection:

• These jackets don’t exist in real life!

• I am amazed at how absolutely true I thought these jackets were and how convinced I was that I could actually bring them back through the dream somehow, even though they never were real in the first place! Hilarious.

Note: Not all lucid dream have the same level of quality. Some are super-charged with vividness and influence, while others are weak in fleeting.