Lucid Dream Inspiration:
The Gateway to Conscious Dreams

There are some brilliant fantasy themes in the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - space travel, phantom aliens, precognitive dreams, the future, even the spirit of the planet (Gaia). Loosely based on the video game series, Final Fantasy offers some stunning scenery for your next lucid dream.

The movie also conveys different kinds of living matter being "less solid" than others. See how the phantom alien creatures move through the planet and even into human beings. This is how you can travel inside a lucid dream.

Think of your form as spiritual or ghost-like, and you will find it easier to pass through solid objects and travel at the speed of thought.

There is a breathtaking scene in The HitchHiker's Guide to The Galaxy movie where we discover that God is really an intergalactic corporation that builds custom planets. The befuddled Arthur Dent learns that planets are literally constructed block by block and entirely man-made (or alien-made), right down to the red painting of Ayres rock.

If you have a God complex, now's the time to properly air it. In conscious dreams, people have reported building entire planetary systems and controlling the advanced civilizations that live on them. You can exist as a formless entity floating in space - an overseer - with focused awareness on the task at hand.

The general rule is: anything goes. Too broad? Yes, but it's true. You can literally do anything in lucid dreams, although don't rely too heavily on electrical appliances. So it's easier to say "anything goes" than draw up an infinite list of all the possibilities.

In The Matrix, Morpheus teaches Neo how to "free your mind". This is also your quest inside lucid dreams.

With experience, you'll learn that the physical laws of reality don't apply; that you can jump off a cliff, slow down time, make a soft landing, then instantly teleport back to the top of the cliff again. Just like Neo in The Matrix.

Back to The Future is a great lucid dream inspiration. When it comes to time travel, there are infinite ideas to play with... Why not travel back to the earliest civilizations, discover how they really built the Great Pyramids of Egypt, or see if the Lost City of Atlantis really existed.

If you're not a history fan, then why not leap into the future - say about 1,000 years or so? Imagine the technological advancements mankind will make, and what kind of utopia we might live in. Then go visit it.

Remember, you don't have to be in complete control of your conscious dreams - in fact, it's way better to let your subconscious provide the details. Then you get to enjoy a imagination-filled landscape that can completely baffle you!

In case you're not familiar with Sliders, it's an inspired TV show from the 90s about a boy genius who crosses the "Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky" bridge. In short, he creates wormholes that allow him to slide between parallel worlds, where every outcome of every event actually exists.

Here's how to slide in a lucid dream: first, open your inter-dimensional portal with a timer device. Nothing fancy, just a little remote with a red button. You'll probably find one in your dream pocket (if you're looking for it).

Next, jump into the portal and slide! It's good to have a general destination in mind, otherwise you may not travel anywhere at all - or accidentally wake yourself up.