Hi Steve
No substance abuse the night before.
(which is rare for me! heheheh)
No need to feel you're being skeptical as I'm not claiming anything here. It's simply a dream... You pose a lot of interesting and thoughtful questions. I appreciate your rationale behind it. You're right, the inner world can be a tricky thing to understand.
I log my dreams here so as to reinfornce... I type way better then I write and if you don't mind I like to use your forum as an archive of sorts so I can go back and recall what I've written.
Being able to recall I think helps with those lucid dreams as well out of body experiences. In this case I would definitely say we're more in the dream side but even so there's something I'm sure that can be said and learned from all of this for my own well being.
Now there are dreams that feel more significant then others... In this dream, the feeling of floating up was beautiful... The person teaching me at the end was also very interesting...
My interest in sufism came to me in a dream as well. This is a nice outlet and escape from the every day life... So as long as ya'll don't mind I'll chime in every so often with my interest =) And I appreciate the feedback in return!
Cheers!
