What happened to me this morning...

Quest for Lucidity
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I woke from a dream this morning and I still can’t get the grin off my face when I think about what happened i.e. a lesson in my own ‘stupidity’ :grin:
In my dream I was about to sit down in a giant gym for meditation practice with at least 40 or 50 other people. As I wanted to sit down inbetween to women I somehow recognize that my right arm is numb and tingling. But I only notice this because the woman on my right is asking me to move my arm in a proper way towards her and then starts to criticizing my inability to do so properly. Well, what do I do? I try to resort to all kinds of different explanations why my arm is unable to move freely…
and guess what…not enough…I turn to my left and my mum sits right next to me (and she has absolutely no interest in spiritual practices or whatsoever…but now she’s sitting here with me for a nice round of zazen…the most natural thing in the world… :eh: )
Just wanted to share this; shows again how much we run on autopilot most of the time…

Ooops…nearly forgot: whaddaya know? I woke up and my right arm was extremely numb and I couldn’t move it for at least 5 minutes LOL
I just need to figure out how I could turn this into a dream sign (NOT…way too painful :grin: )

morpheus

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I think that is PILD (pain induced LD), feeling a pain in one extremity and then recognicing the pain in the dream and looking at the extremity, then you should see something strange in your limb. Theres a topic of that here around, search for the word PILD.

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You were laying in an awkard position, and cut the blood flow off in your arm (which is why it was numb when you woke up).

Happens fairly often.

What’s really amusing though, is when your numb arm touched a part of your body. It feels like someone else is touching you (and trsut me - that’s always a scare :wink:).

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Used to happen to me all the time. I was eight or nine the first time it happened, and I freaked out because I didn’t know what was going on. Both my hands were numb, and I thought there was absolutely no blood left in them, and they would have to be amputated.

That could work in your favor, though, if you could get over the pain (really not all that painful, not for me anyway). The next time you feel numbness, anywhere–do a reality check. In fact, I’d do one right now to be sure. Hah…