The Flo Manifesto

Yesterday at around 4 or 5pm, I fell asleep for about 15mins while trying to learn songs for tonight’s show.. so tired from a weekend full of gigs. Anyway, 5minutes into it, I once again found myself in a lucid dream!

It’s happened a couple of times before.  I remember freaking out 7 years ago when I had a lucid dream. It was strange. I knew I was in bed lying down but I felt that I couldn’t move. My mind fought hard to get out of that state. Since I couldn’t move, I thought that my body was already dead but I was still conscious. The feeling was pretty scary. 

It happened again a few months later but that time I knew that I was lucid dreaming but before I could even think of what to do next, I snapped out of it.  Didn’t think much of it afterwards. 5-6 years later, it happened again… yesterday.

I dreamed that I was just outside of a flat that’s supposed to be mine… I opened the door and entered the kitchen. Then I stopped when I realised I was lucid dreaming. I looked at the room, it was a small kitchen (freshly painted with off-white coloured paint) with the same colour benches, chairs, etc. Everything was that shade of white.  The cupboards were old school - not the new laminate type. Just plain wooden painted cupboard.  I wondered what would happen if I tried to open one of them.. I wondered if I touched the handle, would I feel it? And what was inside?  So I bent down and reached for the nearest one to my right under the bench. Sure enough I did feel the handle. I didn’t see anything inside though -  just black space. I closed it and looked at the whole kitchen again. I didn’t know what else I wanted to do there so I decided to leave and wake up. I instantly woke up and my body felt kind of a mild electric current through it for a split second.. The feeling was as if my soul came back inside my body the same way it might have left (but I don’t remember it actually leaving).

I felt fine when I woke up. I didn’t feel freaked out or anything. Next time it happens, I’ll definitely try flying.