What Is Lucid Dreaming?

Earth School, episode five — and the boys reach for what Lee calls the easiest door into the whole mystery: dreaming. It opens on a beer pulled “out of thin air” and a video Grayson sent about a fish vanishing down a drain faster than the speed of sound, and from there Tyzen and The Legend of Lee never really come down. They build the conversation’s central image together — the dream mandala, a unique lens that each point of consciousness projects its reality through — then trace it through short-term memory as RAM, the Tibetan yogis who practiced lucid dreaming to avoid reincarnation, and Robert Waggoner’s lucid dream where he realized some invisible “stage builder” was filling in details he never consciously authored. It’s raw, young, unedited, and genuinely electric: two friends innerstanding out loud, in real time.

The back half turns personal and a little uncanny. Lee gives away the actual MILD technique — wake near the end of your sleep cycle, hold the intention I am awake in my dream, go back under — and then opens the vault: dreams that came true years later, the grandmother who teleported her granddaughter across the void to return a stolen family brooch, the molecule DMT theorized to flood the brain at birth, at death, and in dreaming. Underneath all of it runs one frequency the whole episode keeps returning to: that this waking life may itself be a dream we forgot we were having — and that the work is simply to wake up inside it and take the wheel. Our perception is reality, after all.

Moments

• “I’ve had some lucid dreams that seemed way more real than waking reality. I’d wake up in this physical reality and it would seem dull in comparison — a few shades duller, a little more gray.” — The Legend of Lee

• “If there’s not a conscious action to recollect it, then it just simply wipes — it’s like clearing the cache in your browser, clearing your search history before you’re able to bookmark or save those files.” — The Legend of Lee

• “We all have our own unique version of this mandala. Maybe you could consider our 3D version self as that projection of this mandala — and to discover details of this, you can piece together pieces of your own mandala through exploring your own dreams.” — The Legend of Lee

• “There’s something else projecting this additional detail that I’m not handling — he calls out, and something calls back. It calls from the void.” — The Legend of Lee

• “Out of all the material you might speak about, dreaming is the easiest level-one introductory topic you can research in depth to start opening up your eyes to what life is about — or the magic of what it could be.” — The Legend of Lee

• “Our perception is reality, after all. I am at the center of the universe because this is the center of all the senses that experience the universe.” — Tyler (Tyzen) Drake

Recorded 2020 under Roots To The Fruits — the origin series. Co-created with The Legend of Lee & Grayson.