Hello again, LD’ers.
Last night was a really messed up night of dreaming for me. I went to bed at about 1am and woke up at 4am sweating bullets and scared shitless. I had this intense ND where I was on a plane with my family and it was going to crash and everyone was crying and screaming and wondering what death is going to be like. I took charge and tryed to calm everyone down but it was too late… We crashed into the pavement and it was lights-out. The next thing I know I’m running across grass with my brother (who was on the plane next to me) and laughing about how beautiful the after-life is… somehow I had this strong intuition that when you die, you experience something a lot like an LD. This is when I woke up.
Next dream I had involved me getting repeatedly smashed into the ground by a gang of hostile aliens with huge knives and swords. They were super-powerful and apparently I pissed them off badly. Every time I hit the ground my limbs flew off my body and I “respawned” like in Quake 3 only to be killed again by them.
Several hours later, I dreamt again that I was skiing down a very steep hill. That was fun.
Next I had an LD. This wasn’t an ordinary LD, however - It was the most beautiful LD I’ve ever had. Once lucid, I screamed “optimize visuals!” (picked that up here somewhere). The dream quickly turned very sharp and was just like, if not more vivid, than waking reality. I was right next to the water and the beauty was just overwhelming. I experimented with flying, and discovered that the verbal commands “gain altitude!”, “increase speed!” and “fly over there (while looking at a destination” work quite well.
So, I first want to ask: Has anyone experienced a night of near-death experiences and has anything to comment on what it might mean to me?
Second, I wanted to write about my successes with verbal commands. They work, try them.
For me they work better than other means for gaining dream stability, or when teleporting things.
