Lucid Dreaming #5 Beloved Lover

Original video by Stephen Berlin. Official website of Stephen Berlin's Lucid Dreaming Discourses: here, YouTube account here. The following text in this entry is a transcript.





Hi, everyone. I’m Stephen Berlin, and this is my last of four talks on transcendence in dreams. My previous one was kind of heavy, you know, the epic of man—and even Hitler, thrown in there… Now, this one is much lighter fare. And you could even call this a transcendent chick flick, so, uh, you guys might want to change the channel.

Ladies, don’t get upset by my use of those words. I mean it affectionately, and tongue-in-cheek—I mean, I’ve never been known for being Mr. Romance. I mean, I’m a gentleman, I open doors, and I act like gentleman when in public. It’s just that I don’t like to hold hands in public, I don’t like to kiss in public, and I don’t feel it necessary to say I love you fifty times a day to prove it, and Valentine’s Day is not my favorite holiday. Which makes it all the more startling that this transcendent dream came to me, of all people.

But anyway, before I get into the dream, I want to say that I had a plan that in my next lucid dream, that I was going to not treat my dream characters as dream characters, but I was going to pretend that the characters that appeared in my dreams were living, real, independent, sentient beings. In other words, that they were really real and had their own existence. So, anyway, I have this dream, and I become lucid in it, and I decide to put that plan into action. And I look, and I’m apparently present at the production of what appears to be a music video, and there’s cameras, and there’s a performing area, and there’s a girl standing in the performance area that I was really attracted to. So, I walked up to her…I just walked up to her…and we—she glanced at me, and I just embraced her.

Now, I would never walk up to a stranger and embrace them in public, believe me. But I did, in the dream, being lucid, I embraced her. And then—to see, to make sure if she was really real, as the plan was, I looked into her eyes. And as our gaze became interlocked, it was like I was looking into infinity, and—and I felt this love.

Now, when I say “love” it had that pure sense of like your first young childhood infatuation, you know, when you’re just like lovesick over somebody, they’re all you can think about, that excitement. Well, that’s what I felt, looking into her eyes. And then, after we were able to pull our gaze away—or, still gazing, anyway—we passionately kissed.

Now, when I say, “passionately kissed” I didn’t, you know, like, shove my tongue down her throat and obstruct her airway or anything. It was just a passionate kiss. Anyway, we began dancing. I don’t remember what the music was, but it was a slow dance, sort of like a waltz, you know, we were slow dancing around in this swoon we were feeling, and, as is common in my dreams, for those of you that listen to the other dreams, I tend to float up off the floor and raise up unexpectedly, and that’s what happened here. So, we’re now dancing off the floor.

So, we’re kind of like dancing in, like, circles and then we began to spiral up as we dance. So, now we’re going up and up and up and up—higher and higher and faster and faster and the emotions keep getting—more and more intense and the love greater and greater and greater—and then when we got to what you ‘d call the stratosphere of the dream—

(mimics a moderately slow explosive sound with accompanying arm gestures to demonstrate)

—the whole universe just blew out from us, as though we were the center, like The Big Bang—like an exploding firework, but more like The Big Bang, because it was in all directions.

And it—just like, you know, those pictures you see from the Hubble telescope of the beautiful, you know, nebula in all of this—We had the—We looked around in the darkness of space and we had the starts and the galaxies and the nebula and it was just stunning. Three-dimensional, astronomical beauty. And now we’re dancing in outer space, with no ceiling above, no floor below, and we’re in like a love rapture—and then echoing throughout the universe—now I can know what the music is that I’m hearing—and it’s echoing through the universe in this big beauitufl baritone voice.

Now, I’m kind of embarrassed to say this, because this isn’t, you know, my choice of music as a rule…to say the least…but anyway, it was Engelbert Humperdinck singing, “I danced the last waltz with you, two lonely people together / I fell in love with you, the last waltz will last forever…”

(laughs)

I could see me wanting to delete this in about a week, but, you know, oh, what the hell.

Anyway. Engelbert Humperdinck is singing, and anyway, and so then—As we’re dancing in this exquisite immensity of the cosmos, and listening to this music, she taps me and, like, looks up. And I look up to where she’s looking, and around us is this, like, Greek or Roman statue of a Goddess, like concrete-type statue, but it’s animated, and this statue is holding this, like, baton or stick—and it’s conducting the dance. So, as we’re dancing through space, this Greek statue is conducting our dance—orbiting around us as we dance through space. And it was just as though the entire cosmos, the music, the conductress—was created just for us.

And then everything in the dream turned into what I—I wrote in my dream journal, “autumn leaves” is what it seemed like, and we kind of like blended into the leaves, and I woke up. In love.

Now, whereis, who she is, out there, in here—the eternal love. I felt it. The love of the ages. It was there, and it was individual.

Now, this is a great dream for those of you that believe in soulmates, and twin flames, and twin rays, and all those things, this is the perfect dream for that. Now, being my age—(laughs)—and having some experience with—my experiences with women, pardon me if I'm a little cynical on that belief. But anyway, it was a great dream, and that’s—and so, we’re done with this subject and I’ll move on to some other things that will probably be more interesting to a larger cross-section of people. So, anyway, since I was waltzing in the dream, and since this is the last of these that you have to endure listening to…you can all now just start doing the polka!

(exits)

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