Hi, my name is Celeste Moonshine. I'm an oneironaut. Oneiros is the ancient Greek word for "dream". So an oneironaut is a voyager of dreams. I first got interested in lucid dreaming back in college, when I was majoring in psychology at UC Berkeley. I remember there were days when I'd pretty much just stay in bed, meditating, drinking mugwort tea, blue lotus, the whole works. And I started having pretty trippy experiences, both in sleeping and waking life (if one can tell the difference, right?) . My first few lucid dreams involved walking on walls and flying. Since then I've had a few others, but not many. It's not as easy lucid dreaming after college. The modern world isn't really built for having contemplative, introspective nights and mornings. You're supposed to wake up, grab your coffee, immediately head out to work or drop off your kid or both, and then go home at the end of a tiring, soul-sucking day and repeat.
So yeah, I haven't had much time to get back into it. But right now, I guess I'm in a weird phase of life again. I'm too sick to work, and I'm away from my husband, so I have a lot of time to myself, even if a lot of that time is spent in physical pain. And a whole lot has happened this past week. We didn't have time to put up the Christmas tree because we had to move out so that termite exterminators could come and do their extermination thing, and my physical condition deteriorated a lot while we had to move out, so that was a struggle, and then a distant aunt of mine died, so that right on Christmas day my mom and brother had to drive 6 hours to make it in time for the funeral happening the next morning. And tomorrow they're driving back already.
Anyway, I was sad that I couldn't go to the funeral. I didn't know that aunt very well, but the place where she's just been buried, you see, is also the place where a cousin I used to know in my childhood rests. And on Christmas Eve, he visited me, or rather, I got to visit him, in my dreams.
I'll post the dream itself in a later, separate post, but long story short, the dream inspired me to record my lucid dreaming voyages and thoughts surrounding the topic in a more cohesive, organized manner than I had been previously doing via dream journals. So yeah, here I am. Just one oneironaut.
