Once again I have to thank Robert for the wonderful book I picked up. I am up to page 367 and man, I will have to write him a personal letter one day soon as there are so many things he writes about that I have experienced first hand that I have to digest and contemplate over now. I wrote it off as fanciful events in the past, now I am seeing a more definate pattern I want to explore further.
With that said, I have had waking lucid dreaming while at work or in public places like on a bus or such. Sometimes I have startled myself when 'snapping to' for I didn't realize I was going out so far into the dream.
The most odd coincidental one was one that occurred on Sept 10th, 2001.
You probably know where this is going...
I was sitting at my desk at work. I work for the largest phone company in the tri-state area. It was 1:30 pm. I have always had the habit of zoning out into a trance, (I think the book says this is a bad thing?), and coming up with some wild scenarios. Every now and then the zoning would easily becoming daydream and then finally lucid, with sound and smell, etc. On this day I found myself sitting on train going from Newark into NYC. It was real, could feel the motion of the train etc. As we were going into the city, this guy asks me, "Want to see something neat?" as he opens a laptop on his lap. I reply to him, "Sure, whatdya got?" He proceeds to pull out a cellphone with an antennae as well and says, "With this I can control any plane in the sky..."
I begin to laugh and say, "Oh really?" and he smiles and laughingly says, "Oh yes, it's very simple...I show you." And the next thing I know, and reality distorts here for if you've ever taken the train or path into the city to Penn station, you know it goes underground, I see a plane heading for NYC. Then I project from the train to the city street about 10 blocks from the World Trade Center and witness a 747 or whatever crash into it.
Now, whether you believe me or not, I couldn't care less. The fact is it happened in real life unfortunately and I do have a witness to my statement above. He was sitting in front of me and as I was having this Lucid episode, at the EXACT moment that I saw the plane crashing into the building, he made a whistling noise that had a double whistle to it and the pitch and rise was the sound that you hear when a plane (decelerate?) for landing. The rising, high pitch sound. I jumped in my seat, literally, and the girl next to me said, "ARE YOU OK? What'd you see now?" (She knew about other events similar to this and more). I told her that I had a very weird daydream and startled myself. I then went to the desk ahead of me and said to him, "Hey Ron, what made you whistle like that? How'd you do that?" He laughed and said when he was a kid, he was always whistling, and got good when he went to ballgames and such. I asked how he double whistled and he did it again and I tapped him on the arm and said, "Dude, you scared the crap out of me, I was imagining a plane crashing over NYC and you made that sound at the same time...it made it SO REAL!" He laughed and said, "Sorry, thought you were working, not daydreaming..." and we laughed it off.
Until the next day... We watched in horror the entire day on multiple big screen televisions. Our work center looks like Nasa actually, exactly like you see on TV. Called a N.O.C. (Network Operation Center) that survails many states at once. As we were watching he comes up to me and says, "Remember what you told me?" and I said, "Unfortunately I do..."
Had to share this one because it was that real. However, the experience of thinking about and then seeing or hearing something I was thinking about the same or very next day is not uncommon to me. I get it on a regular basis when I take a long meditative shower in the morning. That's more precog however.
Thanks for letting me share...
Oahn
With that said, I have had waking lucid dreaming while at work or in public places like on a bus or such. Sometimes I have startled myself when 'snapping to' for I didn't realize I was going out so far into the dream.
The most odd coincidental one was one that occurred on Sept 10th, 2001.
You probably know where this is going...
I was sitting at my desk at work. I work for the largest phone company in the tri-state area. It was 1:30 pm. I have always had the habit of zoning out into a trance, (I think the book says this is a bad thing?), and coming up with some wild scenarios. Every now and then the zoning would easily becoming daydream and then finally lucid, with sound and smell, etc. On this day I found myself sitting on train going from Newark into NYC. It was real, could feel the motion of the train etc. As we were going into the city, this guy asks me, "Want to see something neat?" as he opens a laptop on his lap. I reply to him, "Sure, whatdya got?" He proceeds to pull out a cellphone with an antennae as well and says, "With this I can control any plane in the sky..."
I begin to laugh and say, "Oh really?" and he smiles and laughingly says, "Oh yes, it's very simple...I show you." And the next thing I know, and reality distorts here for if you've ever taken the train or path into the city to Penn station, you know it goes underground, I see a plane heading for NYC. Then I project from the train to the city street about 10 blocks from the World Trade Center and witness a 747 or whatever crash into it.
Now, whether you believe me or not, I couldn't care less. The fact is it happened in real life unfortunately and I do have a witness to my statement above. He was sitting in front of me and as I was having this Lucid episode, at the EXACT moment that I saw the plane crashing into the building, he made a whistling noise that had a double whistle to it and the pitch and rise was the sound that you hear when a plane (decelerate?) for landing. The rising, high pitch sound. I jumped in my seat, literally, and the girl next to me said, "ARE YOU OK? What'd you see now?" (She knew about other events similar to this and more). I told her that I had a very weird daydream and startled myself. I then went to the desk ahead of me and said to him, "Hey Ron, what made you whistle like that? How'd you do that?" He laughed and said when he was a kid, he was always whistling, and got good when he went to ballgames and such. I asked how he double whistled and he did it again and I tapped him on the arm and said, "Dude, you scared the crap out of me, I was imagining a plane crashing over NYC and you made that sound at the same time...it made it SO REAL!" He laughed and said, "Sorry, thought you were working, not daydreaming..." and we laughed it off.
Until the next day... We watched in horror the entire day on multiple big screen televisions. Our work center looks like Nasa actually, exactly like you see on TV. Called a N.O.C. (Network Operation Center) that survails many states at once. As we were watching he comes up to me and says, "Remember what you told me?" and I said, "Unfortunately I do..."
Had to share this one because it was that real. However, the experience of thinking about and then seeing or hearing something I was thinking about the same or very next day is not uncommon to me. I get it on a regular basis when I take a long meditative shower in the morning. That's more precog however.
Thanks for letting me share...
Oahn