Originally posted by Smiter
Weirdest Lucid dream this morning, In my dream I floated out of the bed and went outside of the house and I went to a neighbors house. The people who lived inside ignored me but their pet cute dog looked at me eye2eye and barked at me. The woman said to the dog. "precious, (name of the dog) whats wrong what are you barking at" Then I immediately went back to bed. As if Im going back to my body.
Then woke up and I went outside near by the neighbors house and theres the chijuajua and the woman, who looked exactly as in my dream. The woman called the dog by the name of precious. Im quite convinced that its Spirit Walk.
Discuss.
For what it's worth...
Lucid dreaming has been a hobby of mine for many, many years, and it can be very tempting at times to consider that it may be more than a dream.
When I read your account and your questions, the first thing I asked myself was, "Did he already know these neighbors and their dog?" If not, if you had never spoken to them, never been in their house, did not know beforehand their dog's name, then that's pretty good evidence of your "trip" being more than a lucid dream.
On the other hand: If this information Was available to you beforehand (even in gentle passing, ie, you may've heard your neighbor call the dog from a distance--something you really weren't conscious of, but nonetheless it registered in your brain), then you've been witness to your mind's astounding capacity to create its own accurately detailed reality, even from the briefest of exposure.
Years ago, I dreamt I awakened in the middle of the night -- time and place were accurate -- got up and walked into my parents' bedroom, where I saw them sleeping, again with all things as they should be. Before walking back to my bed, I said hello to them, figuring the following: if they wake up the next morning and can recall a dream where I was in their room, well, again, that would pretty darn convincing.
The next morning, when I asked, they said they had no recollection of me in a dream, or any particular dream, for that matter.
So much for the single-trial approach.
Final word: I am Not convinced a "spirit walk" is impossible. However, given the power of wishful thinking, I would be extremely cautious about drawing conclusions / interpreting the experience you had.
lord xyz
I've had dreams which also struck me as precognitive, and so far I've been unable to come up with plausible, alternate explanations. If you also find that no other explanation is likely, again this increases the possibility that these dreams are more than just nocturnal business as usual.