Integrating the dreamworld

Over the past few nights my dreamscape has been especially vivid. I attribute this to be the result of my focus on raising my awareness. I will try my best to describe the dream I had last night, and then I will describe a dream I had a few years ago which I feel is related in some way. Both of these, I believe, may also be connected to my use of psychedelics.

1). Last night my dream started as me walking down a hiking path I've hiked many times before as a young child, very close to home. It remained uneventful for some time, yet the trees lining the path were extremely vivid, they seemed to be parting away from the trail in anticipation of my approach. As I continued down the path, I looked off in to the distance and I saw Denali (Mt. McKinley), yet the path I was on did not give way to the treeless tundra which surrounds Alaska's greatest peak, instead the landscape was integrated in to the rocky new england path I was still on. I continued down the path, slightly perplexed by the strange beauty of this new and alien landscape, when I saw orange desert arch formations in the distance, these too integrated in to the increasingly strange landscape I was journeying through. Yet none of this seemed strange, and at this point the rate of integration sped up, I no longer was able to identify the new landscapes that were integrating in to the path I was on, until the path became made of nothing but light, and I awoke. I ran downstairs to my computer immediately to record this.

2). Almost three years ago I was living on a sailboat in the Virgin Islands and one night I dreamed that I was flying through a jungle, low above a curving dirt road, set deep in damp mountainous valleys. Yet it was not my physically body that was following this road so closey, it was pure energy, a ball of light. I continued to move at high speeds, following every curve in the road until I came upon a sharp 90 degree turn at the mouth of a gently ascending valley. Without slowing down I, or the ball of light, left the road and flew straight up through the valley as if it were the barrell of a cannon, and was launched from this jungle in to the sky, where the ball of light ceased to be seperate from the sky. I had integrated.

I love to travel, and I take solace in knowing that long after I'm healthy enough to roam around the world in my waking life, I'll be able to having fulfilling travel experiences in my dreams. I'd love to hear about all of your dreams of integration, and or interpretations of my dreams!