Lucid dreamers who have had Bodiless Lucid Experiences often report that these experiences confirm for them that consciousness can exist beyond the body and that life may continue after death. This seems to focus our conscious awareness more tightly, as there are fewer distractions. And less in the sense of existing in a state of relative sensory deprivation: although we still ‘see’, there is generally no representational imagery such as houses, mountains, or objects, and we have no sense of pain or the physical body. More in the sense of going beyond what we are used to: leaving our physical body and the laws of physics behind and expanding our conscious awareness into unfamiliar forms and spaces. This is a fascinating opportunity to be both more and less than we can be in waking life. What can exploring these spaces teach us about consciousness? In what I have termed ‘Bodiless Lucid Experiences’ (BLE), the lucid dreamer has an experience which goes beyond waking life experiences, yet remains consciously aware throughout. The transition into this new space may feel a bit like riding a rollercoaster or being sucked in spiralling winds. If the lucid dreamer decides to enter a portal, this may take her into a new dream scene or into a different space perhaps one of black light (the void) or zillions of dots. Lucid dreams often feature portals in the form of windows, plugholes, clouds and mirrors. We are physics itself gravitational pull and light particles and the energy-force that pulls everything together…Ĭlare R Johnson, ‘Surfing the Rainbow: Fearlessness and Creativity in the Out of Body Experience’, in Consciousness Beyond the Body (ed. It strikes me that in experiences like this there can be no doubt that we are more than just a physical body. I try flying as fast as I can and it’s so quick it’s impossible to describe – I could go around the circumference of the world in a second at this speed. I’m in whitish space, endless neutral light.
Lucid dreamers also report entering wormholes, spiralling through dots of light, and being spat out in vast, featureless spaces. The laws of time and physics which apply to waking reality do not apply in the lucid dream world. In lucid dreams, time can be slowed down or speeded up.
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