Author: Napoléon Dûheme
http://grimerica.caEver since I was a kid, I’ve had nightmares that pretty much kicked my ass. I don’t know why. My childhood wasn’t really any more traumatic than the usual. Where things take a turn for the weird here is that unlike seemingly everyone else in the world, I can’t wake up from them. Yeah, it’s pretty much as bad as it sounds. It’s not all wet sheets and sobs though! As a result of this little glitch, I stumbled upon lucid dreaming pretty early on. Basically, a lucid dream happens when you become conscious of dreaming. When you catch on, you can start to pull the strings from within…kind of, it doesn’t always work out perfectly.Lucid dreamers usually have what’s called a dreamsign, or something that signals you to the fact that you are dreaming. For whatever reason, my dream sign is Meg Ryan, the beloved rom com queen of the 90′s. I don’t know why, but I suspect it has to do with compulsive viewings of Top Gun as a child. My young mind heard:“Take me to bed or lose me forever!”And damned if I didn’t do just that!I suppose I’m lucky that Tom Cruise doesn’t saunter around in my dreamscape, (shirtless, with a volleyball in hand and a beckoning smile.)Anyway, I’ve decided to try and illustrate some of my dreams here for your amusement. You’re welcome.- Napoléon Dûheme
Top Gun? That was Kelly McGillis, not Meg Ryan.
Actual they are both in it. Kelly McGillis plays Charlotte Blackwood (Charlie) the flight instructor. Meg Ryan however plays Carole, Goose’s girlfriend, and is the one to utter the line “Take me to bed or lose me forever.” Hopefully this link to the scene in question will clear things up.
https://youtu.be/DKgcThjYBHs
I see. I stand corrected.
I don’t even understand why somoene would need to ask this. It all depends upon your point of view. What precisely would be sinful about lucid dreaming? When you say sin I think of the biblical sin and the only thing I can think of is the in-dream fulfillment of a lustful whim, although that too is debatable as to whether or not it counts as it was all in your mind. You must ask yourself why it is considered sin. Is it because it hurts people around you? Or is that incorrect and it is sin because it impurifies you [your mind(soul?)]? You’ve got to decide what it is that you consider sin to be and then decide whether or not the actions that take place in your mind are run by the same definitions. (BTW I have yet to fully lucid dream and by god I WILL do it be it a sin or not)
I hope you do go lucid, it’s fantastic. As for it being sinful, I think there are some people who believe that the immediate gratification that can be had by lucid dreaming or even simply fantasizing would cause people do turn away from the toils of the waking world and live entirely in their heads.I’d have to say that I find this kind of silly. If we don’t dream and fantasize about the world as we would like to see it, then there would be no flow of new ideas, no change for better or worse and humanity would essentially stagnate.
-N.