Lucid Dreaming
LUCID DREAMING
// What is it and is it Biblical to lucid dream? //
By definition, a
Lucid dream is where you are fully conscious and aware that you are dreaming. Many times you will even have full emotions, senses, and consciousness to where you can change the characters, narrative, and environment of a dream. There are varying degrees of lucidity at times but as a rule of thumb, at minimum, you will be aware you are dreaming. I’ve had God encounters, bad encounters, and everything in-between in this state. I say that because I don’t want you to attach good or evil to your impression of this phenomenon.
If you research dream interpretation, at all, you will most likely run across the term, Lucid Dreaming. So at the very least I want to discuss it and open the topic up for discussion. In particular, I want to touch on the topic should you lucid dream and is it okay to practice? Is it permissible or not by God to make yourself lucid dream? Is it no different than training any other muscle to perform a task within physical limitations or is it something more? Is it any different than practicing the prophetic?
To help frame this I want to discuss a similar type of encounter that helped me resolve this topic in my heart. For several years, I was an intercessor so usually when I came before God I would be praying for someone or something. But as I began to learn the power of rest it started to change the way I interceded. I would just come to God and rest. I would just sit there, not praying a thing, but rather rest in the fact that He would fight for me even when I was silent and still.
It was really confusing at first because it felt like I had nothing to offer Him. But, as I finally submitted to full surrender I started slipping into open visions. They were different than an open-eyed vision, in this season, these more felt like having a dream while being fully awake. I could literally feel, hear, and sense my surroundings as if awake, but in the same instance be dreaming. The dream would overlay itself over my normal
vision. It was really unusual and odd at times. Most times the visions would be random, just like dreams, but other times I would actually have encounters with God and get Words of Knowledge for the people sitting around me.
I bring this up because I actually felt like I was supposed to stop activating these encounters. I believe to this day that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing, but personally I felt like God wanted me to stop for a season. In a similar vein, I have a friend that can see in the spirit 24/7, since he was a child. At any time of the day he can see demons, angels and spiritual visions, but as he grew in his gifting he chose to turn it off for most of the day. After years of seeing in the spirit, what he found was that the experiences led by Holy Spirit always bore amazing fruit and great revelation. But when he would go into the spirit on his own initiative it would sometimes leave him a bit confused and restless. Now, he only enters the spirit realm when led by Holy Spirit.
In ways this is how I felt about being able to force myself into a vision. I felt like I was going into territory that I had permission to access, but with no guide. It was like I was accessing the spirit realm with my spirit alone. After each encounter I would usually feel exhausted, almost bone tired. Similarly, the same thing would happen when I had extremely lucid dreams. But, when Holy Spirit has guided me into dreams or open visions, afterwards, I feel exhilarated and full of energy and life.
Another issue I have with forcing yourself into a lucid dream is that in order to practice lucid dreaming you have to physically wake yourself up multiple times a night. Quite simply, the night and our dreams was made for rest, so anything counter to it’s intended design I begin to have issues with.
As I believe practicing prophesy and Words of Knowledge is not wrong, I could not say that practicing visions and lucid dreaming is inherently wrong. However, I would suggest doing it among people you trust and in a safe environment. Go to a mentor or accountability partner for an ongoing discussion on this topic and even if they approve, stop if you don’t feel peace or the power giving presence of Holy Spirit. The important thing is to open yourself up to others. If this phenomenon happens to you naturally, just know you haven’t done anything wrong, and know that God is waiting to turn this into a wildly fun and amazing journey.
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