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black. I shut my door, but somehow the dark dog came through my

door and got into my bedroom. It looked menacing, like a panther,

but when it climbed onto my bed I embraced it, and we lay

embracing, sleeping.”

The dark dog represents the unconscious, the mysterious dark side of the psyche. It

might also represent death. The door symbolizes the gateway into the unknown, something

always frightening. Ever the hero, Autet confronts the dark dog on his own. The yellow dog

represents the fear that is kept outside.

Lucid Dreams

Lucid dreams are radically different from other types of dreams. In fact, they aren’t a

type of dream in the sense that the previous dreams are. A lucid dream can occur in any type of

dream. It happens when the dreamer becomes aware of the fact that he or she is dreaming.

There are varying levels of consiousness one can reach within a dream, but if one is able to

revive his or her consious mind fully without waking up, it can be a truly interesting experience.

In most cases, you will reach a level of consiousness where you are able to use rational thought,

but can not readily distinguish between people and places you know. When I had a lucid dream

recently, I made a consious decision to find someone I knew from my church within the “dream

world” my mind had created. (Even though I had no idea where they lived, I knew I could pick

any building at random and “decide” that they would be inside.) It wasn’t difficult to find the

person, but upon awakening I discovered that the person I had found was in fact someone I used

to work with. Even though I felt equally “conscious” before I woke up, I had not been able to

distinguish between two people I would never confuse in real life.

There are two reasons you would want to achieve a lucid dream. For one thing, the laws

of physics are optional. You can fly, run up walls, and do all that other cool stuff they did on

The Matrix. The second reason is that you can learn a great deal about yourself. Characters in

dreams can tell you quite a bit, if you ask the right questions.

Dream types aside, there are many myths about dreams and many facts about dreams.

Many people believe they don’t dream. That is not true. Everyone has about four dreams a night;

they just don’t remember them. Many people also believe we dream in black and white. That is