Adventures in Lucid Dreaming Space
May the 4th be with you. Today, I’ll describe a dream that involves space travel and knowledge sharing from another world.
Step by step, I climb stone stairs toward an ancient-looking building. Something isn’t quite right. The colors of the sky and surroundings glow with an otherworldly hue.
“Is this a dream?” I ask myself. I levitate in place to confirm.
Already airborne, I fly directly toward the building until I see dream figures. I stop to chat.
A normally-dressed woman tells me we are on Planet Ioota. I mention my physical body is back on Earth. She seems familiar with Earth and tells me about how she used to live on an Earth-like planet.
Like I’m at a cocktail party in space, I shuffle over to chat with another dream figure. He’s a clean-cut man that is eager to explain how he travels between galaxies. He casually tells me it involves the use of a “chronotrigger” and microwave technology. He sees this as a no-frills method for intergalactic travel. It surprises me how basic this notion is for him. It’s part of his daily life. Before I can ask more, the dream collapses.
I rush to my dream journal to capture what I hope are helpful hints for the future of space travel. In a fit of clumsy excitement, I knock over my nightstand lamp as I reach for my dream journal. While writing in the journal, I notice complicated math scribblings at the bottom of the page. Before I can inspect the equations, my surroundings collapse upon me.
It was a dream within a dream.
Upon waking for the second and final (I think) time, I assumed that dreaming about intergalactic travel with microwave technology was merely an odd mental connection between spacefaring and a lazy (i.e. efficient) man’s kitchen appliance. A quick online search revealed a deeper connection: the conversion of electricity into microwaves is actually being explored by NASA as a promising means of space propulsion. I mumbled, “Oh shit.” as I scrolled down the article.
Perhaps this information was previously absorbed by my brain and was forgotten before resurfacing in the dream. Alternatively, lucid dreaming could be a portal to communicate with nonlocal intelligence.
Future space explorations in lucid dreams may provide answers. To infinity and beyond!
