Deconstructive Lucid Dreaming

By Tristan Matlock

In this article I will outline a technique developed over several years while lucid dreaming every night. It is a technique to support lucid dreaming and deepen one’s connection with the cosmos as a living ground of being. It also constitutes a methodology to better study and understand the nature of consciousness and the building blocks of matter and fundamental fields. Dream research is especially useful for researching the intersection of subjective phenomena and objective noumena. It is a field of research which yields a rich and nearly unlimited range of topics, specializations, and valuable insights. A more complete premise and overview of the metaphysics and cosmology hinted at here can be found in a thesis I recently published, which can be found for free on my designated blog: realitytest.org

The DLD technique is founded on a working model of dreaming that addresses biological and nonlocal networks with which dreams participate, nourish, and exchange. Each dream carries within it a center of gravity; although this is relatively the same frame of reference used while awake, in dreams the center can be translated and relocated in interesting ways. We change our perspectives all the same and hardly notice how this corresponds with a change in sensation, perception, interoception, metacognitive properties, etc. In dreaming, this is akin to bilocation and/or timetravel, using nonlocal networks to interact with emergent forces and systems of information in ways we ordinarily cannot even imagine. 

This technique has two purposes: to increase the effectiveness and efficacy of lucid dreaming, and to support the research of a reality model experienced at the level of deeply deconstructed dreams. All dreams are deconstructive and translative in nature. On a subjective level, we might even say that the core function and purpose of dreams is to hunt for fixed points of memory, emotion, and identity in order to deconstruct and assimilate their properties. In doing so, dreams acquire therapeutic properties, including the rebalancing and optimization of autonomic physiological functioning and cognitive perception. DLD cooperates and empowers this naturally occurring process, taking it further to bridge gaps between self and other, self and time, self and cosmos, etc.

In short, deconstruction leads to more energy, changes in consciousness and biological functioning, and accumulates transpersonal knowledge about the cosmos. It is not necessary to understand the full context of this technique for it to work, as it is fundamental to dreaming and is already happening within every dream. However, after considering this theory, you may find it useful to revisit your past dreams or dream journals, to revisit articles and other theories and systems for dreaming–you will notice how the deconstructive, transitive nature of dreams has infinite application, but is essentially a psychophysiological quantum bridge function. There are parts of ourself, each other, and the cosmos we can only arrive at through the faculty of dreaming. And although they are natural, we could also say that dreams are radical, liberating, and threaten the status quo of modern identity, civilization, and science.

The Technique

1. In order to become lucid in dreams, one must cultivate mindfulness of reality as a fluid transcorporeal, transpersonal, transobjective spectrum.

2. In order to become lucid with sufficient duration and strength, one must free up, enrich, and refine one’s vital, somatic energies as much as possible.

3. In order to remember one’s dreams with precision, one must reorient their cosmology, ideology, identity, and cognitive functioning in order to be absolutely true to what one experiences: awake, asleep, always.

4. In dreams and while awake, reality is deconstructed with lucid felt sensation: an active movement defined by emotional rising, physical expansion, the pulling apart of particles, and contact with a superlucid, highly charged interior wave front.

This maneuver is performed both in dreams and while awake (more easily at first through meditative experiences or focused, interiorized activity). In the beginning, it is often accompanied by strong vibrating of the nerves and muscles, physical heating, highly polarized and coherent emotions (i.e. ecstasy or pain), involuntary out of body projection, and altered states of consciousness. In lucid dreaming, with practice, dreams can be fully deconstructed into primeval fields of energy, geometry, information, etc. with little or no subject personification and association.  

Lucid deconstruction is not an analysis or an intellectual exercise. It is a practice of entering into superposition with reality, then becoming/existing oneself on a more fundamental layer. It is a maneuver that can be practiced both awake and asleep, and eventually all the time. This is a visceral connection that can be cultivated to live on the skin and vibrate deep in the body, adding transdimensional force and variety to our, relatively, immobile and stagnant sensation and perception.

It would take volumes (read the full thesis and/or some of the articles on this site) to elaborate the nature of this technique, its theoretical premise, and sustained practice. It is not actually a “dream technique” at all, and is more accurately a transobjective cosmology which redefines the purpose, function, and potential of our species and the universe itself. For now, I will end this general introduction with a brief elaboration of each of the four components of DLD outlined above. 

In order to become lucid in dreams, one must cultivate mindfulness of reality as a fluid transcorporeal, transpersonal, transobjective spectrum.

Lucidity can be produced by triggering interconnectivity between hemispheres of the brain, between masculine and feminine associations and archetypes, between chronological time periods, between opposing perspectives, choices, memories, emotions, etc. Classically, lucidity arises from the juxtaposition of expectations in waking and dreaming. However, these flashes of lucidity are better understood at sudden, temporary, and brief movements of perception across spectrums of reality which include many transitional and parallel dimensions of reality we cannot ordinarily visit or experience. Lucidity is triggered when consciousness physically transitions or translates itself across nonlocal fields. Lucidity is essentially an experience of mobility. However, on a more profound layer, it is a temporary experience of reality permitted indirectly during the fluidity of a powerful dream movement. It is an experience of being able to move within and beyond ourselves, often accompanied by a sense of freedom, greater verisimilitude, and self-realization. When we are awake, we will experience this dynamic as well, and especially when we move through physical or temporal (i.e. reflective or developmental) spaces that are transitional, liminal, bridges, etc.

In order to become lucid with sufficient duration and strength, one must free up, enrich, and refine one’s vital, somatic energies as much as possible.

Dreaming is always an exercise of personal resource management within larger, transpersonal economies of energy. Sometimes we have nonlocal experiences within our own body or worldlines and other times beyond any known or conceivable reference point, but dreams always exchange: they take energy, they receive energy, and they synthesize energy. Lucidity can be sustained for a momentary blast, over the course of an entire night of well directed dreaming, for weeks on end both awake and asleep, and also permanently–even accompanying dreamers across many lifetimes. In order to sustain superlucidity beyond a temporary burst, tremendous energy must be acquired, sustained, contained, individuated, and invested. If we can enrich ourselves with a balance of healthy experiences, foods, friendships, communities, philosophies, art and music, etc., we will integrate complexity and grow very lucid over time. This also implies an effective inner organizing principle (love, acceptance, compassion, nonjudgement, etc.) which, on the one hand, weaves vital experiences with the myriad aspects of our inner personalities and deepest desires, and on the other hand removes the fragmentation and blocks inherited and self-perpetuated over the course of our lives (and those of our families and ancestors). From the perspective of dreaming, these blocks “leak” lucidity. Acquiring vitality and deeply investing in it with authenticity makes for “watertight” dreaming.

In order to remember one’s dreams with precision, one must reorient their cosmology, ideology, identity, and cognitive functioning in order to be absolutely true to what one experiences: awake, asleep, always.

Lucidity is both a byproduct of reality deconstruction and of its primeval individuation. To incarnate in a physical body, experience coherent moments, and live in a universe capable of producing mass and matter, lucidity is a fundamental element. This is because lucidity is an emergent dynamic sustained by movement, change, and relationship (transobjective relativity), which distorts consciousness and permits singularity to bind with itself, or drop out of phase with itself. This self-engendering property of the cosmos (dreaming), creates alternative dimensions, one of which is the physical universe we exist in and transit through as dreaming/dream emanations. At a nonlocal level, what we think of as “memory” is actually a phase coherence with this cosmological architecture. Dreams allow us to remember anything and everything as ourselves, permitted we are harmoniously organized and oriented to ourself.  

In dreams and while awake, reality is deconstructed with lucid felt sensation: an active movement defined by emotional rising, physical expansion, the pulling apart of particles, and contact with a superlucid, highly charged interior wave front.

At the core of DLD theory and practice is the idea that opportunities arrive to interpenetrate, transcend, experience, record, and return from the absolute limits of reality and self. In ordinary dreams, the people one experiences can be deconstructed, revealing a stable constellation of inner personalities–or collective, interdependent nodes of memory, vitality, and volition. The environments in dreams can also be deconstructed, leading to successive approximations of the “soul”–an interrotating, semi-temporal transpersonal memory complex. Various symbols and scenarios can also be deconstructed in dreams, leading to larger reservoirs of collective or transobjective energy, as well as thresholds of hyperspace defined by non-euclidian architecture terminating in other dimensions, universes, etc. At the farthest elastic limit of dreaming, deconstruction leads to a void space: an oscillating equilibrium/event horizon of extreme lucidity, coherence, and purity. This final threshold can also be crossed, folding into a dimensionless overvoid in which lucidity and energy are absent in the presence of infinite information (which includes consciousness, forces, everything). Deep deconstruction is often accompanied by meaningful, transcendental states of ecstasy and oneness. After being “memorized” in lucid journeys, this technique can be used while awake. The maximum expression of this technique leads to a field inversion of consciousness and, theoretically, a repolarization of mass. Strong interactions with field phenomena can also lead to volatility and dispersion, which accelerates deconstruction and can lead to psychosis and, theoretically, physical death. It is best to proceed slowly and carefully. 

A final note on Deconstructive Lucid Dreaming and Primeval Equivalency.

A final note on the lucid felt sensation of dreaming: from the perspective of dreaming, when we feel connected to ourselves, our emotions, the time and space around and inside us, etc. we are engaging a mechanism of equivalency with the conditions of reality. Ordinarily, we exist in a derivative state of existence, defined by reflexive properties and sedimentary field distortions. When the energy within and around our body establishes a level of complexity equivalent with the primeval nature of the cosmos, we enter reality through our own ground of being. We attempt this dream maneuver every night when we sleep, and often during the day through our own existential desires, which push and pull us through the cosmos. Engaging in a lucid dream practice, we begin the slow and methodical process of removing inhibitions and blocks we have inherited and sustained (perhaps over lifetimes), regaining a sense of profound completion and connection with ourselves–with self as cosmos. Lucid dreaming, therefore, is the art of accumulating complexity, deconstructing levels of reality, and regaining orientation and equilibrium with an ultimate, transobjective ground of being.