I have a couple of stories to share that have personally made me believe that the dream worlds we visit every night ARE REAL.

The Aborigines of Australia call it the Dream Time and they say it’s more real than the waking world, that it’s the true reality. The stories I’ll share come directly from people I have met. Coupled with my own lucid dreaming experiences, I have given up my “rational” attempts to dismiss these events and have finally just decided to believe.

The first comes from a childhood friend of my roommate. I met him one night at a beach party and heard his story.

David had been studying with a spiritual teacher who, quite simply would visit him in his dreams and then quiz him on it the next day, asking him specific questions about the lessons he’d been taught the night before. The only logical interpretation being that his teacher astral traveled right into his dreams.

The next story came to me from a client, who quite unexpectedly starting talking about dreaming one day. This was hardly a person I was expecting to hear something this trippy from, so this conversation was quite out of the blue. What he described about the dream was a place he called the “Hall of Records”.

Apparently, he learned in a dream that the Hall of Records is a place where all knowledge comes from. God’s library if you will. He didn’t describe the building, but said the architectural design is very majestic and can be very specifically described.

This rather straightforward fellow then proceeded to tell me that his business partner ALSO dreamed of the same location a few months later and described it exactly – without ever being told what it looked like. Essentially, they had both visited the same place, separately, without one suggesting to the other about this mysterious place.

Hearing both stories convinced me that the realm of consciousness that we ascend to during sleep is real. Maybe it’s another dimension that we travel to in the so-called astral body or simply slip in to through those untapped regions of the brain… unlocking a door into inner space, to a place that the Aborigines describe as being more real than the waking world.

Not too soon after this I had my first experience having an Akashic Records reading with someone who claimed to be able to access beings in that space and I realized that this was the same place my client and his business partner were describing.

I believe it all now, because these stories were simply too real to be ignored.

So far the closest I’ve gotten to with this kind of experience was one of my first lucid dreams. After “waking up in the dream” (where you consciously realize that you’re asleep and dreaming) I started looking around, seeing people in a large hall, most who seemed to be walking around in a trance, similar to how most dreams feel.

But then I caught sight of someone who was looking right at me, grinning from ear to ear. The look on his face was so real, direct and intense that I instantly woke up, believing instantly that this was a real person who had seen someone else awake in the dream world.

Now decades later, as I reformat this story for the Akantu blog and I can still feel the “reality” of that moment.

A moment of lucidity in another dimension that, as the Aborigines believe, may be more real than the realm of solid matter we cling to so desperately.