lucid dreaming

**thymeoperator** · August 6th, 2009

i should have used the quote feature on that last post of mine, it got out of order when they all got posted in the end.

Originally Posted by BlackThorn

I doubt it was 'only the people who dreamed lucidly' who survived the flu. It was only that the dreams came, after everyone had died. It was a sign of the coming war, and an influence on your psyche, to help you decide which side you should be on. =oD

actually it said in the book numerous times when introducing each character that they'd had ultra vivid dreams all their lives, so it was definitely the ones who dreamt lucidly long before the flu outbreak who managed to survive. i like The Outsider's suggestion for what that could mean, it makes sense.

my whole life i've had lucid dreams. before i had a job and had to wake up so early all the time and got into a natural rhythm, i used to have a minimum 4 ludicrously complicated dreams every night for years upon years. they were always nightmares, and after a while i started being able to stop them just before the bad thing would happen, then rewind them like movies and replay them over and over, changing them, trying to prevent the inevitible from happening. then i'd realise i was thinking about it, planning it, and realise i was conscious, and then just wake myself up. they were recurring dreams too, for years.

one day i talked about them with someone who suggested what they could metaphorically mean...and what do you know, i stopped having those dreams. when they came back several months later, they progressed. it was cool because they no longer scared me once i understood them, and they always involved this strange house, and the more time went by the more i'd explore it and get to different levels - always thought i must have been exploring myself.

haven't had anything that interesting in a long time, apart from during holidays, like at christmas when i get 2 weeks off from work and have time to sleep more relaxedly, then i'll have those kinds of dreams again. i like them these days, though, feel quite powerful in them. although i must say i always wake up feeling like i've been up all night thinking, rather than rested, which isn't much fun.

**K4driver** · August 6th, 2009

oh no....the end is coming. I have been really dreaming lately, like one is of me playing Born To Run onstage in front of thousands of fans, saying I didn't write this, but .

**The Outsider** · August 6th, 2009

Thanks, thymeoperator! Just as an afterthought, and I think someone else said this, but maybe the lucid dreaming had to do with maybe a higher stage in evolution? Maybe those with the vivid dreaming had evolved a little bit mentally beyond others, and this tiny evolution made it where the flu couldn't harm them?

I don't know, just another random thought from the mind of yours truly.

**ShootDaSquirrells** · August 10th, 2009

How about it is another illogical act of God which seems to occur throughout the book?

**K4driver** · August 11th, 2009

I have been having those for the past week, Uhoh

**thymeoperator** · August 11th, 2009

Originally Posted by The Outsider

Thanks, thymeoperator! Just as an afterthought, and I think someone else said this, but maybe the lucid dreaming had to do with maybe a higher stage in evolution? Maybe those with the vivid dreaming had evolved a little bit mentally beyond others, and this tiny evolution made it where the flu couldn't harm them?

I don't know, just another random thought from the mind of yours truly.

hey i like that too! gosh, i'm turning into The Outsider Fanclub, it seems!

**tammydee5** · August 16th, 2009

I had awful lucid fight or flight dreams the entire time I read The Stand...I had some dreams while reading SK's other books but unless i had a couple drinks to knock me out...I had some weird dream usually with a cameo of Flagg in them almost every night I read that book....did anyone else have dreams inspired by The Stand while reading it?