Very interesting experience...Whole life Dream

My whole life I knew this occured to some people but haven't actually experienced it till recently.

About a week ago I was in some dream or another....the experience was so huge for so short a time that I doubt I would have remembered it shortly after waking up even if I had written down what i could. Despite that, I wish I HAD written down what I could, so I could ask Cainam if he could pick out any details about the experience.

What I DO remember is that in the dream I was on a quest in an all-too familair world I had mentioned before. I will recap here in this quote taking out some small details that aren't dream related. In Italics I added in some notes.



First I have a long story in the shortest form I could make it. I write it to try to get it so you can understand the point of view of me back then, and it's hasty, so if it's very badly written and hard to understand please forgive. I might be a writer but.... I don't think going into the detail I usually do would work here. This happened when I was about 13-14 up to about 16-17 with the dream happening at about 16 and events before that leading up to it.

..............//........... much personal stuff cut out here, don't wish to dredge this up here as it's not important to the topic at hand.
(from here out I am using another point of view to clarify personal feeling)

You figure that out and things work most of the time, but sometimes not. One month after denial, you have a lucid dream. This dream lasts several nights, continuing from where you left off when you woke up. In this dream you are fighting to control a gate to another universe/world. Eventually you are the last one standing, and you enter the portal to another world. There are many details here which are missing and if wished I will write out the full dream sequence which took about 6-7 nights to complete.

At this point a voice and thought enter your mind, and you are given a choice. What are you going to do in/with this world. You think for several minutes just outside the gate. Finally, you decide to become a protector. You don't want to rule this world. You have no desire to. You simply want to protect. At this point you are now a dragon, a guardian, though you don't realize it.

from here you go straight into what you think is a second lucid dream. Several years later in life you realize it is the same dream. You are in the world, which means you have to protect against something. The two races currently existing are fighting each other. One side has apperently done something quite horrible to the other. Thinking you wish to keep peace and to abolish the evil you see, you join up with the side that had had the wrong done to. You fight with them, and because of your choice and that you are the guardian you have abilities the people in that world do not understand, and they know it. You eventually get to the center of the problem. After taking care of that you go to see to try to stop the fighting of a dragon, representative of the race you fought against, and a wolf, representing the race you fought for. They are spirit beings and you cannot fight them. Period. You watch. The dragon slays the wolf, and something snaps inside of you once again. You hear the familair voice that talked at the gate say the wolf was not getting things accomplished so the dragon took over.

You skip to several years ahead in the world, and you see dragon rep. people intermingling with wolf represented people secretely, but not doing any harm. Matter of fact they are doing much good. The "wolfs" don't understand what is happening. You do, and the thought often makes you smile. You leave the dream after seeing a dragon rep. lady caring for two wolf rep. children.

Introduction to my own personal dream world I had somehow created. This time, when waking up from this world, I remembered clearly the span of an entire lifetime.

Has anyone else had this happen and wish to share? I remember clearly I was doing something important: anything more than that I cannot remember.

[CFTraveler]

I've had this dream experience that spanned a big chunk of time, not sure if an entire lifetime, but a large part of it. It started when I was about 11 and stopped at about 12. At this time I was having multiple astral projections 'with escort', lucid dreams, and other phenomena that doesn't relate to this topic.
The 'serial dreams' as I have called them, were more mundane- but they were not mine, in the sense that they mirrored the kind of life I was living. Around 13 a lot of the phenomena kind of stopped, except the occasional OBE and lucid dream.

Finally!!! I remember what your dream reminds me of - not so much for content, but, the experience of having lived an entire lifetime in a dream.

Don't laugh, but, it reminds me of a Star Trek The Next Generation episode "The Inner Light". The captain is struck unconscious by a probe and lives out an entire lifetime while knocked out. He goes from being newly married to being an 85 year old grandfather. The probe was built by a civilization that no longer exists and it was their intention to have someone remember who they were. One of my fave episodes. :D


"Seize the time, Meribor. Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again."
-- Jean-Luc Picard "The Inner Light"

This episode first aired June 1, 1992, and won a well-deserved Hugo Award for best dramatic presentation in 1993 that helped build TNG's reputation as superior science-fiction.

The plot is rich, but not particularly convoluted. The Enterprise encounters a probe that attaches itself to Picard's mind and feeds him sped-up memories of a future on an alien world, Kataan. The rest of his future is spent, he believes, on an alien world. He has a wife, and children, and grandchildren and becomes a part of this world's culture and community. Only when he's eighty-five and watching this planet die from an endless drought is he told that actually this is all an illusion, a life courtesy of the alien probe, which was sent out a thousand years ago in search of someone who would live this life and know the people of Kataan and then tell their story to other worlds and other people. Picard is then awakened back on the bridge of his ship, and must get used to being Captain Picard of the Enterprise once more.

The storyline is certainly intriguing, but there are no huge twists or wild rides. We're puzzled, certainly, in the beginning, but there's no build-up of suspense about what's happening. Indeed, we learn along with the crew where the probe came from, and we can figure out the purpose for the probe as soon as Data says that Kataan is now dead.

The power of this episode is almost all characterization, and it all centers around Picard. TNG put at risk its most popular and well-developed character (with the possible exception of Data) by actually changing that character in quite fundamental ways -- and by following through on those changes in subsequent episodes. This adventure is incredible not for its originality or fantastical-ness, but for its wonderful appropriateness, for its everlasting impact on Picard as a man who made so many choices in his life which were overthrown in an instant to show him so many roads untraveled and leave him the caretaker of of those paths for an entire world.

Read the full review here (http://scifi.about.com/library/weekly/aa032000.htm).

(how exciting, I learned how to do that cool link thingy 8) )

btw - Patrick Stewart (who also plays Professor Xavier in X-Men) plays Picard in this series. :D