Lucid – In case you haven’t read it, I want to remind you of some rules and principles of dreaming.
If you imagine for a moment that you live alone in a world, and you people it with your imagination, fuelled by what you feel, fear, despise, love and fear; and all those people in your dream world become real and interact with you. Then you build surroundings out of the same things, animals too. But you do not realise what you are doing, and you take it to be really independent people and animals. The things that frighten you like falling and being shot to are made of the same stuff and are harmless. What you do not realise also is that this is your own inner world brought to life. It is not an imaginative fantasy, but a real representation of the world you live in ‘inside you’ a mirror in which usually unacceptable or unconscious truths are shown.
Dreams are virtual realities that we create in our sleep. Even the wonderful dreams of God and angels are an external virtual reality, and mirror of our own inner immensity and our enormous variety. In life and sleep we have two powerful actions working in us. The first is our waking experience based on having a body, its limitations, vulnerabilities and a particular gender. Our second is the power that gave us life and continues to express as dreams – our core self. While we sleep our conscious self is largely or totally unconscious, and while we sleep our voluntary muscles are paralysed – so another will or motivating force moves our body. So we have a Conscious Will and what I will call a Life Will. The first one we have experience of as we can move our arm or speak; but the second will takes over when we sleep.
This Life will can move us to speak, to move our body, and in fact do things that we cannot do with our Conscious Will. Life Will created your body and pre-existed you as a person you know today. It was working in you prior to your ability to speak or know in the way you do now. But of course it has fantastic wisdom and skills, as can be seen in animals.
So coming at last to your dream, through your fears you were reacting to the situation out of fear, not realising that nothing can hurt you in a dream. So you were acting on deeply seated habits.
Then the pilot – just a voice – told you that control had been lost. What is that voice except your core self putting you through a little exercise. You lost control as soon as your dream started, when all your voluntary muscles were paralysed - the fact is that voluntary movements are inhibited during periods of the dream process. All brain signals to the voluntary muscles are stopped. This was because our ancient ancestors lived in trees, and if the impulses in dreams to move had been acted upon it could have been fatal.
You were in a virtual reality, like a very real computer game, except you were wired into it life, and so any thing you feel emotionally or believe becomes real – thus the g-force. See Dream Yoga as it may help you avoid a lot of fears in your dream world -
http://dreamhawk.com/dream-encyclopedia/dream-yoga/Tony
