Waking State Coexist With REM
Everyone has a different relationship and experience with their cosmic awakening. Some people’s awakenings were questions that were never asked before; some were the stars and the universe. But mine was quite intriguing. Although I had many questions about the stars, the floating luminous rock that’s visible to our eyes at night (the moon), and human behavior, the one thing that really sparked conversations, research, and investigations for me was my lucid dreams.
They were way too intense to ignore their supernatural ability. I was genuinely so interested in the instant manifestation that I was able to produce while sleeping. You could be somewhere or do something in the blink of an eye. What’s even more interesting to me is that I have done a lot of Near Death Experience research, and almost 90% of the patients who spoke out about their experiences share similar intakes about the phenomenon: the white room they stand in, the conversations they have with a spiritual essence or a close relative, or someone who they claim “has been waiting for them.”
One person in particular spoke about the capability of being able to be anywhere at any time in the span of a thought process. This was very particularly relatable to the dreams that I have had before, where in a single thought process I will be wherever my mind has questions to.
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Lucid Dream 1:
I was looking out the airplane window, staring into the ocean floor. I had an intrusive instinct of questioning my whereabouts. I asked myself, “Was I not sleeping in my room two seconds ago? How did I get here?”
All of a sudden, I was in an airport. It felt like a hub of customer service counters. So then I found what, in my mind, I thought to be true — my airline of the airplane I was just in a nanosecond ago. I ran to customer service and asked the lady, “Hey! I don’t know what just happened. I was in an airplane two seconds ago, and now I am here talking to you. The same way you guys took me off the plane to get me here is the same way I need to go back on that plane.”
The lady looked at me like I had three eyes, but then proceeded to help. She looked up my flight number and pulled up a map of where my plane was going. I told her, “Yes! That’s it, and I need to be there.”
Suddenly, I was in an apartment hallway. I walked into the apartment. To my left, there was a kitchen; in front of me, a living room; and to my right, a hallway that led to two bedrooms — one with a bathroom/closet inside of it. I found myself inside the bedroom with the bathroom/closet set inside. It was like a doorway you walked through into a small hallway that fit both. To the right was the closet, and to the left was the bathroom.
I woke up.
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Later that morning, I had this lucid dream drilled into my head — every second of it. I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I wrote about it, I spoke about it to my mother, and I told myself I would go back. And so, I did.
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Lucid Dream 2:
I was standing in the middle of a dark road, a streetlight standing about 50 feet away from me. A man and a dog were standing under the streetlight. I ran to push the man who was physically abusing the dog, and the dog communicated with me through eye language: “RUN!”
And so I did. The man chased me. I hopped over the ledge that led me to run down a flight of stairs. At the end of the stairs, there was a door, which I went through, and suddenly I was in this HUMONGOUS art gallery. The art pieces were 10 times taller than me, and sunlight was shining through window gaps — no glass.
The art gallery was pure light grey cement. I went through these halls and suddenly found a huge room with no art pieces in it, just a small door towards the end of the room. The closer I got to that door, the bigger it got. Once I went through that door, I was BACK at the apartment I was once in, in Lucid Dream 1.
(I told myself before going to sleep that I wanted to see myself in the mirror and look at my fingers, which are crooked in my waking state. I wanted to see if they were crooked in REM as well.)
So I ran to the bathroom, which was still located in the same spot. Then I saw myself in the mirror. IT WAS ME — but not at the same time. It was me, but with NO BONE STRUCTURE, so I was able to push myself in (which a lot of Near Death Experiences mention — seeing themselves but almost unrecognizable).
Then I stepped back into the room and remembered, “Oh! My fingers.” I looked down and noticed I couldn’t put my fingers together. There was red and blue around my fingers.
And BOOM, I woke up.
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Years later, I talked to many people about this lucid dream until, at a random bar in New York City, I had a conversation with a spiritualist who told me that what I saw in between of my fingers were the colors of my aura — blue and red — which truly identify me.
Red: Groundedness, passion, vitality, courage, physical energy, love.
Blue: Calmness, spiritual connection, healing, truth, clarity, intuition, loyalty.
Blue and Red Together: You’re a powerful, energetic person (red) who also seeks peace and authentic expression (blue).
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Then I came to the conclusion that during the waking state, if I were to go up to someone and ask them if I was in a dream — or tell them I was randomly in an airplane and suddenly dropped and placed in front of them — they would have the same reaction as the lady at the airport gate.
Which led me to realize that both states of consciousness coexist.
The most mind-blowing part is that later on, I had the pleasure of reading the textbook Consciousness by J. Allan Hobson (the research in this textbook is based on decades of peer-reviewed studies). This proved to me that YES — the consciousness our brain produces to perceive the world during our waking state is the same consciousness it produces during REM, finalizing that YES, waking state and REM do coexist.
And this is something that has to be deeply studied due to the extensive abilities we can uncover — abilities that may be able to assist us during our waking-state living.
WorkCited Page:
Anna Stone’s Near Death Experience:
Aura Color Significance: https://science.howstuffworks.com/favorite-colors.htm
J Allan Hobson’s view in Consciousness : https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-07296-8_27