*3 min read * I've only had a handful of lucid dreams but last night was easily the weirdest experience I've had in years. In case you don't know, having a lucid dream means being aware that you are dreaming. [
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](http://ift.tt/2hfkcvR) I had an intensely vivid (not lucid) dream in which Donald Trump was my roommate. I stole his laptop for some reason and he sent his goons after me. They were trying to kill me because there was secret information on the laptop (his tax returns?). There were car chases, gun fights, and some climbing involved. It was, on its own, a strange and epic dream. Then I woke up. # **It was still night and what followed, I don't know if I'll ever forget.** After falling back asleep, I woke up in a dream, floating in a room. I thought "Hey, I'm flying in my dream!" I had decided after my last lucid dream that if this were to happen again, I'd try to fly up into space because why the hell not. I want to see the planets, damnit. So I flew up, through the ceiling. Surprisingly, there was no sky or space. You know in video games when you glitch through a wall and it's just black and below you can see the architecture of the level? This was like that except I was radiating energy. [
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](http://ift.tt/2iHF560) I accelerated up and could feel energy in my body. At first it felt like when I'm excited but then grew more intense. My body vibrated with electricity so much that it became frightening. Add to that the black abyss that surrounded me and it was really not pleasant. This whole time I was aware I was dreaming, but for some reason I became more and more afraid. I knew I was moving faster and faster even though there was no reference point, just blackness. My head felt like it would pop and the fear began to envelop me. Faster and faster . . . The energy became so strong it felt as though my body would disintegrate. With a sudden jerk, I woke up. My heart was thumping and I could still feel the remnants of that odd energy. "What the hell was that?" It was how it felt that makes it so memorable. I knew I was in a dream and I could feel intense, electrical energy in my body. And that blackness . . . never have I experienced that in a dream before. I couldn't stop thinking about it all day. Today I felt better than usual. I texted the story to my dad and he responded, "That is very weird. I was looking at an app on astral projection and psi right when your text arrived." I'm not making this up, although it's not like that's something he would never look at on his phone. Still, the coincedence added to the strangeness. Neurochemistry or astral projection? Why do the two have to be mutually exclusive? Was it real or am I mentally ill? Probably a little of both, but if I can learn something about myself from an experience does it matter if it's a hallucination or not? Of course it was just a dream and only what we can imagine is possible exists, right? As long as scientific consensus says it's possible, it's ok to believe in it. No, I don't buy that. A true scientist knows that there is no certainty. Historically, there is always the possibility that what we believe to be certain could be proven wrong by new discoveries at any moment. I think it's possible that everything that can be imagined exists somewhere, and everything that _can't_ be imagined also exists somewhere, possibly. After all, the universe is, for all intents and purposes, infinite. And if it is infinite, then how can we be certain that anything is impossible? Perception is part of a limited spectrum. At the boundaries of that spectrum we label an experience as weird, unnatural, paranormal, or impossible as if once we label something we understand it. Sometimes we want to escape the truth that, even after all our amazing progress in scientific knowledge, our existence is still profoundly mysterious. It can be joyfully astonishing but also overwhelming at times. Have you had a strange or awesome lucid dream? I'd love to hear about it. --- --- # I, @skypal, vow to post weekly or bi-weekly on subjects that interest me, which usually include markets, psychology, and true life stories. All earnings from this post will go towards funding my crypto trading experiments. http://ift.tt/eA8V8J http://ift.tt/2jacMtT
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