Telepathy in Lucid Dreams: Stories of Incredible Connection
The Telepathy Tapes podcast by Ky Dickens has skyrocketed in popularity during the past year, casting a brighter and wider light on the nature of consciousness, telepathy and psychic abilities.
In the podcast series, Dickens investigates a very specific group of people, “non-speaking individuals with autism”, some of whom appear to possess profound abilities to communicate telepathically – not only in the waking state, but also in the lucid dreaming state.
In Episode 8, Dickens hears from a mother in Cornwall (UK) who reports that her autistic and non-verbal son helps her become lucidly aware in the dream state, so they can consciously and intentionally converse. Upon waking, her son would provide evidence that their lucid dream discussion occurred.
In Lucid Dreams, a Mother Converses with Her Non-Speaking Autistic Son
[The mother recalls] “So the first time he came he must have been about eight. I was in a dream. I wasn’t lucid. I was just kind of hanging out in this dream and then Kyle was there. And he seemed really like your average guy and he kept looking at me, as if to say, “Come on mom wake up [and realize we are dreaming].”
And I was still unconscious in this dream. I still wasn’t lucid. And then he handed me the Ace of Spades playing card.”
Kyle just a boy at the time had to find a way to get his mom out of a deep dream and into a lucid dream so they could communicate.
“He sort of looked at me as if to say, “Right, wake up.” And I just didn’t. And then he took the card off me and folded it up. And then he started to rip the corners, a bit like how children make the little snowflakes that you put in the window. And he held this little cut, this card up with all the holes in it and then he put it up against my eye and he said, “Now wake up.”
And at that point I went into a lucid dream. And then he started talking to me and then I was saying to Carl, “You’re talking to me Carl! You can talk.” And he said, “In dreaming Mom, I can talk but you have to wake up.”
The next morning at breakfast Kyle took an ace of spades out of a deck of cards and held it to his eye like he did in the dream, validating for his mom that what happened in the dream was intentional.
“That dream enabled me and Kyle to create a bridge between the dream world where we can have conversations and I can understand Kyle in that world you know where I can’t always in the physical world” (Episode 8 around the 20 minute mark). You can listen to the full podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTelepathyTapes.
Lucid Dreaming with Another Dreamer
In my first book, Lucid Dreaming – Gateway to the Inner Self, you will find an entire chapter on mutual lucid dreams where a lucid dreamer communicates with someone else within a lucid dream. Later in the waking state, the other person often has evidence of receiving the message and sharing the dream space.
A striking example happened one night, as I became lucid in a restaurant setting. Suddenly, my friend Moe, who lives more than a thousand miles away in the Bay area and with whom I had shared some personal telepathy experiments, walks into the restaurant.
I ran up to her and said, “Moe, this is a lucid dream! We are dreaming this!” Oddly, I could see her eyes moving in a rapid-eye-movement or REM manner. I realized that she was caught up in her own dream, and not lucidly aware like me.
At that moment, I felt inspired to help her become lucid. So, I grabbed her around the waist and began to levitate. I announced, “Look Moe, we are floating. This is a dream!” Still, her eyes continued to move in a REM-like manner.
A bit frustrated, I tried to think of something else I could do to help her become lucidly aware. Suddenly, I made a ‘peace sign’ with my right hand and shoved it into her face, saying, “Moe, you can use this ‘peace sign’ as a symbol to help you become lucidly aware whenever you wish.”
In the morning, I thought Moe might send me a text, or an email. But nothing came. So, I kept this strange lucid dream to myself and went about life.
A few months later, I found myself in the Bay area on a business trip. Realizing I had some free time one day, I called Moe and asked her to lunch. She replied where she would meet me in downtown Burlingame.
Now, standing on the sidewalk outside the restaurant, I see Moe walking up the sidewalk toward me. Before I can even say ‘Hello’, she puts her fingers in a ‘peace sign’ and shoves it into my face!
Amazed, I ask, “Moe, why are you doing that?” She replied, “I don’t know why. I just felt like it.” Later, I tell her of ‘our’ dream encounter, where I try to make her lucid, and even shove a ‘peace sign’ into her face. By all appearances, she received the message at subconscious levels.
Lucid dream examples like this (and those in The Telepathy Tapes) suggest that the dream state allows for an inner dimensional exchange of information and energy in some cases. By being lucidly aware, the person can explore and experiment within the dream state and investigate this possibility. If the person has an open belief system or mindset which does not resist or preclude this possibility, then it enhances the likely success of the experiment.
As you interact with open-minded lucid dreamers who have explored broadly, you will often discover instances of psychic phenomenon, such as the following:
- Mutual lucid dreams,
- Lucid dream telepathy,
- Survival of consciousness including interacting lucidly with deceased relatives or loved ones
- Obtaining precognitive information,
- Sending energy healing for emotional or physical issues,
- Influencing waking events,
- And directly engaging with a creative and knowledgeable inner awareness.
This last point comes up in The Telepathy Tapes, as non-speakers mention tapping into deeper knowledge at an inner place which they call “the Hill”.
Non-speakers Meeting in an Inner Dimension
Dickens interviews a student teacher who mentions how autistic students invited him to “the Hill” – their name for an inner place where they commonly meet to share thoughts and ideas in both waking and lucid dreaming.
Intrigued, the student teacher falls asleep and becomes lucidly aware in a dream. Following his intuitional sense, he finds “the Hill.” There, he converses and shares information with some of the students (who are non-speakers in waking life). In the morning, they confirm the information he shared in the lucid dream and explain how they use the Hill to communicate with others in their group and from around the globe. Interestingly the Hill also serves as a place to seek out precognitive information, teach others, access spiritual knowledge, guidance and more.
Could it be that most everyone has access to inner information within their own version of the Hill?
In the lucid dreaming workshops that I teach for IONS, along with my colleagues Ed Kellogg and Gillian Thetford, we propose that any lucid dreamer can simply ignore the dream setting and dream figures and ask a question of their unconscious mind or inner awareness. This often results in a non-visible voice providing a verbal response, or a visual response which changes the dream scene.
In one of our previous IONS workshops, an attendee became lucid and asked the inner awareness how to deal with a difficult personal situation (note: the person had never engaged their inner awareness directly before in a lucid dream). Upon hearing an answer in the lucid dream, the attendee became upset since the response seemed unappealing to her. She asked for and received additional information which explained the wisdom of the response.
The attendee then challenged the inner voice in the lucid dream, saying something like, ‘How do I know that this isn’t my imagination? If this is true, then show me something that happens tomorrow!’ At that point, the lucidly aware attendee sees in her lucid dream a smashed up silver SUV laying in a ditch. What does that mean?
After waking and having breakfast, the person turns on the television only to see the exact image of the smashed up silver SUV in a ditch! Every news channel is showing the damaged vehicle of a well-known celebrity, who crashed his SUV.
Like the Hill, does lucid dreaming naturally provide a person an inner platform from which to access ‘inner knowing’? And how deep does this knowledge go?
Return of an Ancient Spiritual Practice?
For thousands of years, many spiritual and native wisdom traditions have utilized lucid dreaming to investigate the deeper nature of reality and consciousness.
In the Western world, lucid dreaming has received general scientific acceptance during the past forty-plus years through the work of Stephen LaBerge, Keith Hearne and other researchers. However, the full acceptance and beauty of lucid dreaming’s potential seems much broader than many can imagine and remains relatively unexplored.
Besides exploring psychic phenomenon, lucid dreaming provides crucial insights into ‘how the mind creates’ personal experience – both in the dreaming state and the waking state. Additionally lucid dreaming begins to show the broader outlines of the Self, as one engages this larger awareness and its knowing, while also seeing the limiting beliefs and fears of the ego/waking self. Finally, it suggests how to bring these insights into one’s waking life to achieve more ‘lucid living’.
Lucid dreaming has encouraged me to see psychic abilities as universal attributes that everyone inherently possesses. The trick involves creating easier access to realizing that potential. For some, becoming lucidly aware in dreaming provides that opening to infinity.
Robert Waggoner is the author of two books on lucid dreaming, and will be teaching the upcoming 4-week online Lucid Dreaming IONS workshop kicking off May 12th with first live Q&A on May 21st.
