“More dream stuff, which works because it’s pretty close to the reality of the book, and because the artwork is, as always, unmatched.
I tried lucid dreaming for a minute. There’s this book, Sleep, Death’s Brother, that’s meant to teach people how to lucid dream. Specifically, it’s meant for kids and prisoners because kids and prisoners don’t really have agency in life, but they can have it in their dreams.
At the risk of sounding like a kombucha-swilling hippie, it kinda works.
And it’s interesting. It’s a strange feeling to be in your dreams and figure out that you are, in fact, dreaming.
I’ll tell you the super basic method: You have to find something during the day that reminds you to ask, “Am I dreaming right now?” Every time you pass through a doorway, every time you see water, you’re supposed to ask, “Am I dreaming right now?” The idea here is that you get used to asking yourself that all the time, and that way, when you’re dreaming, you’ll ask in your dreams.
The other step is to come up with a method to check whether you are, in fact, dreaming. There are a few suggestions, like looking at written text, which is usually blurry in dreams, or, the one that works for me, to look for the source of light in dreams. Light in dreams is usually there, but when you look for a source, it can be hard to find.
I recommend checking this out. I mean, I know nobody cares about anyone’s dreams, but there’s this whole weird thing we all do every night, and none of us really knows why, and it just seems like people don’t really care to find out.
Maybe dreams are the next frontier. I mean, besides space. Which I can’t get to by asking myself, “Am I in space” every time I pass through a doorway.”