Meeting yourself

I was watching a video from a wise person recently, and he asked a question that stuck with me: “How frequently do you spend time with yourself?”

At first, the question didn’t make much sense. What does it even mean to spend time with yourself? Then he explained: every morning you wake up, you start using your phone. You start chatting with someone, or maybe you open an app. You are meeting other people first thing in the morning. You end up knowing so much more about other people than you know about yourself.

He suggested spending just a few minutes with yourself in the morning—doing nothing, no distractions, just trying to understand yourself better. I was quiet. I found the fact quite intriguing because, in the chaos of everyday life, we often forget to spend time with ourselves. We forget what drives us. Why do we do the things that we do?

It’s like you are just running on a track without much thought. You don’t know why you started, you just know that every day you get up and do certain things, but you never evaluate your choices or think about what is truly important to you. I thought it wasn’t a bad idea to start doing that.

Thanks to the “algorithm gods,” on that same day, I came across another set of videos related to something called Lucid Dreaming. Then I thought: isn’t lucid dreaming the best way to spend time with yourself? I used to practice lucid dreaming many years back when I was in university, but I hadn’t continued for a long time. I had an idea of what it was, but I wanted to reignite that fire and rediscover it.

That same night, I went to sleep with the idea in my mind that I was going to have a lucid dream. Of course, there was a lot of revision involved regarding the techniques, but I knew how it was done, so it wasn’t very difficult for me to experience it again.

Something surprising happened when I woke up. I could remember the dream vividly, but I also felt incredibly fresh—a feeling I haven’t had in a significant amount of time. My focus was sharper, my energy felt high, and I felt more creative than any other day.

If you don’t know what lucid dreaming is, I suggest you get onto the internet and begin your journey. It might just be the most profound way to reconnect with yourself.

Cheers!