Lucid Valentine’s Day Dream

Brian Gilan
2 min readFeb 14, 2023

❤️ Happy Valentine’s Day! Beyond greeting cards and flowers, it’s an annual reminder to show love in our daily lives. Love goes beyond romantic love. This Valentine’s Day, let’s seek to experience deep, true love for ourselves in a lucid dream. After all, it’s challenging to express love for others if we don’t first fully embody love for ourselves. ❤️‍🔥

In your next lucid dream, I propose a loving mission. Upon becoming aware that you are dreaming, call out this request to the dream itself: “Allow me to experience true self-love.” See what happens. Immerse yourself in the experience without expectations. 💖

If you are able to retain lucidity for long enough, go for a bonus request: “Remove the barriers that are preventing me from fully loving myself.” Again, see what happens next without expectation. 💓

When we show up in the world as whole and act from a position of love, we have more capacity to give love in our lives. Love for our family. Love for our friends. Love for the stranger you pass on the street. Love for the stranger across the world you can’t see.

This is the type of love that is better experienced and that cannot be described within the constraints of a greeting card. May you have lucid, loving dreams tonight. ❤️

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Brian Gilan

Interests: digital health, wearables, sleep & dreams; upgrading health, intelligence, and consciousness; understanding the nature of reality.