Let’s imagine you go to sleep as you usually do and at some point, during the night you have a dream. Now in the realm of wild imagination, I’m going to speculate that this dream includes you flying way above the clouds on the back of a pink elephant. You’re having the time of your life, and you look to your right, and you see a flying pig who cheerfully looks your way. The pig gives you a smile before continuing on his journey in the opposite direction.

The sun is shining, and you haven’t a care in the world. This scenario is, of course, a dream. A random collection of thoughts that have accumulated together to form some narrative. Influenced perhaps by past hours, days, weeks or months events.

Now imagine your back on that pink elephant having the time of your life. Then suddenly you realise you’re dreaming. Imagine what your face would look like as it suddenly dawns on you the realisation that this isn’t real. This is a dream, and you know it is a dream. From this point onward you have a level of control over what you do next. If it is a powerful Lucid dream, then at this moment you could impact the dream in any way you see fit.

The flying pig is smiling at you. You could respond by turning it into a flying frog by just thinking it. You could convert the pink elephant into a plane or change the entire landscape from the sky and clouds to grass and hills only by thinking about it. The critical distinction here is your awake in the dream environment. Your body is fast asleep, but your consciousness is awake. This phenomenon baffles science and perhaps gives us some insight into what we are beyond our flesh and bone.