I had a semi-lucid experience sometime before full awakening today. What I remember is seeing from the viewpoint of being inside of a cave (?) looking outward through a very large opening. Outside of the cave was a nice soft blue color. It could have been the sky. It could have been anything. The entire viewpoint was soft, like watercolor. I was drawn toward the light there, in the soft blue entrance/exit of the cave.

A spontaneous healing commenced. I recall speaking in my mind to accept a wonderful healing which was taking place somewhere below my conscious awareness. I was fully accepting a great healing energy. I don't really know how else to explain it except that it was spontaneous and felt very positive in a soft, nice way.

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I keep using the same words. It is because it was not a "cave" in actuality. That was simply my interpretation upon awakening. There were no visible specific features. Only the dark area I felt around me and the opening before me.

I am puzzled by the lengthy consent process. It seemed to go on and on. It was a very resounding yes and kind of a subtly happy thing. It was the kind of feeling you don't want to end.

Perhaps something very good happened there that I don't remember. There is so much that we don't remember.

Thanks for sharing your experience.

I am wondering if further exploring the primary metaphors within the experience might be helpful ... taking time to write that out (delineated) in a journal or even 'clustering' about individual metaphors within the experience.

I will mention an impression that I had just now with one of the primary metaphors of the experience ... "wide blue yonder". You seemed to be "looking out into the blue yonder" from the contrasting darkness of the perceived cave setting. And while I share this ... it may or may not apply to your experience (e.g., it may not resonate ... which is most important).

Emerging from the cave (into the blue) may be about awakening consciousness (and it may not). This experience could simply be about something new coming your way.

Your experience does not seem like strictly a dream to me. I might suggest it as a "dream plus". It seems loaded with undiscovered meaning. This experience also has "preparatory feeling" (e.g., preparing you) because the vision was simple (e.g., surrounding darkness with blue at a distance). So ... watch for songs or other signs to pop up in your day to day physical life. These complimentary clues or manifestations may arrive over the next days or weeks.

Thanks again for sharing your experience.

seagullresting
From my viewpoint the blue color could represent freedom, return to a place we call home, recall of what you were till you decided to drop down into this darkness like cave. The feeling of healing could be perhaps a process where we remember something that bring us closer home. But i think also that we never left fully from home, just a part of us is here now. This also could be a hint for Baroness about the multiple person merging into one.

Baroness
I had very similar dream in which i was fully lucid as an observer looking into beautiful landscape and seeing two beings. One of them was 'me' and he spoke to a wiser 'me' as if learning or trying to understand something. The whole time i was just silent and observing them. No one entered me here in this dream, but in another dream i experienced merging with a child 'me' and there was acceptance, peace, joy and love.

Hi Vicky,

The merging that I experience when awake is nothing like parts of me joining, but you may be right about the dream state.  I too think there is lots more of us than the one here on Earth.   My first merging experience while awake was with a very good friend when I found him (for a lack of a better term) cuddled around my heart.  We both knew he had entered.  I was so surprised I didn't know how to react.  The feelings I received were all loving.  I was surprised I could read his emotions as if they were mine.  This took place over a thousand miles apart.  We were having a nonverbal conversation at the time via computer.  Up to then I had never experienced that kind of joining and had lived a fairly long time without it.  Not even with my husband when he was alive.  Since then I have talked to a couple of people who have said they are capable of that kind of contact with a very special loved one but only for short periods before their deaths. 

Knowing what that feels like to share a space with another, I took a spiritual journey out west a while ago.  I was joined for brief moments by spirits along the way.  The most thrilling were the spirits of the Sequoya.  I think because they are living and are so old.  I have known bliss in my lifetime but pure bliss has got to be what we feel in heaven.  I know my body couldn't contain it all and leaked tears for while they were with me.  This all occurred while I was wide awake and with others on my trip.  Our driver always knew when I took a spirit in and would slow or stop for the exchange, but the spirits of the trees are wonderful.  I wish I could give a little bit to each and everyone of you.  I was just thinking "As if it is mine to give".

Thank you for being there.  What a treat to talk about some of this.
T'ressa

I am more than happy reading responses from all of you. I thank you for taking me seriously. It does make my head spin a little when I try to comprehend the many layers to our reality. Of course, I am not really expected to do that.

But, yes, there is a difference between merely a dream remembered and a real experience with a flavor, an emotion to it. I can say that a frightening dream would certainly leave a person with an emotional memory. But the memory which is left after an experience that I find meaningful such as this is different. It is an imprint. There is almost a deja vu quality to it. It is a specific feeling that I have learned to recognize.

I don't really know what the "healing" was all about. But, I do find myself consciously releasing many beliefs about myself these days. When thinking about the "entrance to the cave" view that I supposed I was seeing I wonder if that was even what it was.

It could be an exit or an entrance. It could even be an entrance/exit to myself! For all I know I have squeaky hinges and something happened to get that door a little wider.

The particular color of blue is simply soothing. I would say it was on the turquoise side of blue but only just a tiny bit. I believe it is the source of the positive vibes I was feeling. Such a simple thing.

But I enjoy hearing all the other ideas that spring from others' interpretations. Understanding that we are not just one being, set in stone, comes when we have the sort of experiences described here, in which we observe. The ability to observe oneself, and to realize there are many aspects to ourselves as an individual, is hard to understand or put into words.

But it makes sense. We are always evolving, as is the natural world around us. There are many layers. We can surprise ourselves!

semi lucid? wow how cool

( hey someone show me how 2 change my pic here?