If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you’ll know that I spend a good amount of time having lucid dreams and/or astral projecting.
For those new to the concept of lucid dreaming, it simply means that you become aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming, and from there you can shape the dream to your will.
In a lucid dream, you can do anything you can imagine with the snap of your fingers. It’s like a holodeck or a virtual reality experience tailored exactly to your whims.
One of the more interesting lucid dream experiences I’ve had was dreaming entire episodes of the TV show Supernatural, complete with commercials and even scenes from “next week’s” episodes. I also learned I could rewind a dream and play it again, pause the dream, or change the outcome of a scene.
But recently, I had a brand-new experience in Dreamland that I want to share.
The dream itself was nothing remarkable. I was walking from the outside of my house to the inside. When I opened the door and began to cross the threshold, my dream went completely gray, and the spinning wheel of death appeared on my mental dream screen—the same spinning wheel that happens when a page is loading slowly on the internet or when your computer stops functioning.
I waited for the lag to disappear, but it didn’t. Then, all of a sudden, my dream started all over again. It was like the dream reloaded from scratch. I went through the entire dream again and got to the threshold of my house, but this time I was able to cross over with ease.
This was not a lucid dream. It was just a regular dream I was not in control of. It made me feel like someone or something had programmed my dream, and then their system went down for a bit and they restarted the program. For that portion of my night, I really felt like I was in a simulation, my actions controlled by an outside force.
When I woke up, it made me wonder if we are currently in a simulation, being controlled by programs designed by someone or something else. And maybe the feeling of déjà vu is the program restarting from an earlier point in time and progressing again past the glitch or lag.
I’ve never experienced dream lag before. It was a little unnerving. Has this ever happened to you?
