A woman recently shared an extraordinary story about spending three weeks in a medically induced coma. During that time, she reported experiencing what felt like seven years of another life. She described getting married, raising children, experiencing profound loss, and waking up with memories from a reality that felt just as vivid and real as this one.

Whether you interpret her experience as a dream, an altered state of consciousness, or something beyond our current understanding, it raises fascinating questions. How can an experience feel so real while the physical body is asleep? What happens to our awareness when we dream? And what might lucid dreaming reveal about consciousness itself?

At the Boulder Psychic Institute, we explore these questions from the perspective that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. Dreams can become an incredible doorway into understanding our awareness beyond the physical world.

In the latest Psychics Gone Live, Miwa and Three dive into this story and explore what experiences like this can teach us about dreaming, consciousness, and the nature of reality.

What Is Lucid Dreaming?

Lucid dreaming happens when you become aware that you are dreaming while you are still inside the dream experience. Some people experience this once or twice by accident. They suddenly realize, “Wait a minute, I’m dreaming,” and become conscious inside the dream.

Others turn lucid dreaming into a spiritual practice. They begin exploring what happens when their awareness stays active while the physical body sleeps.

From a psychic perspective, these experiences can show us something important. We are more than just our physical bodies.

Lucid Dreaming & the Astral Plane

At the BPI, we teach that during sleep, the body rests, repairs, and recharges. Meanwhile, the spirit can leave the body and explore what many spiritual traditions call the astral plane. Many people describe this experience as astral travel or an out-of-body experience.

The astral plane works differently from everyday physical life. Time, space, and physical limitations shift, which is why some dream experiences can feel incredibly expansive.

This gives us one way to look at the woman who experienced years of another life during her coma. From a psychic perspective, her spirit was exploring and processing an experience beyond ordinary waking consciousness.

Why Do Some Dreams Feel Real?

Many people experience dreams that feel real. You wake up and still carry the emotions from what happened.

You might feel joyful, unsettled, or strangely attached to something that only happened in the dream. Sometimes dream-you has a whole disagreement with someone, and awake-you needs a moment to remember everything is actually fine.

From a spiritual perspective, some vivid dreams reflect experiences your spirit has while your body sleeps. You might be processing emotions, learning lessons, creating new possibilities, or gaining insight into yourself as a spiritual being.

Can Dreams Connect to Past Lives?

When Miwa and Three looked at the coma story from a psychic perspective, they read the experience as a past life that her spirit was revisiting. Rather than seeing it as an entirely new reality, they described it as a lifetime her spirit had already lived and was reconnecting with while her physical body was in a medically induced coma.

At the BPI, we teach that the spirit carries experiences, memories, pictures, and unresolved energy from many lifetimes. Although our conscious mind may not remember those experiences, they can still influence how we move through life today. Sometimes they appear as unexplained fears, recurring relationship patterns, emotional reactions that seem larger than the situation, or even physical discomfort that doesn’t have an obvious origin.

For example, someone might have a lifelong fear of heights even though nothing in their current life explains it. Through psychic tools, they may discover that the fear connects to a past-life experience involving a significant fall. Bringing awareness to that experience doesn’t change history, but it can help release the picture and energy they’ve continued carrying into this lifetime.

From this perspective, the woman wasn’t simply having an unusually vivid dream. She was reconnecting with memories and experiences that already existed within her spirit. That’s one reason the emotions, relationships, and sense of loss felt so complete and real when she woke up.

The purpose of exploring past lives isn’t to become fascinated with who you might have been. At the BPI, we look at past lives because they can help explain what’s happening now. As old pictures and energy are understood and released, they create more freedom, choice, and presence in your current life.

Can You Create During Lucid Dreaming & Astral Travel?

Lucid dreaming and astral travel are not only about exploring or processing experiences. From a psychic perspective, the dream space can also become a place where the spirit creates.

The astral plane can serve as a creative space where the spirit explores possibilities, practices future experiences, and begins creating before anything appears in the physical world. Think of it like a spiritual dress rehearsal.

Have you ever practiced a conversation in your mind before having it in real life? On a spiritual level, you can do something similar. You can work through energy, explore different possibilities, and create more clarity before bringing something into the physical world.

The more conscious you become of your spiritual abilities, the more you can begin to understand what you are already creating.

Lucid Dreaming, Near-Death Experiences & Consciousness

One of the most fascinating ideas Miwa shared is that lucid dreaming, astral travel, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and even stories like this coma experience may all be different ways of describing the same spiritual phenomenon.

The experience often begins in different ways. One person becomes aware while dreaming. Another has an out-of-body experience during meditation or after an accident. Someone else has a near-death experience or, as in this story, spends weeks in a medically induced coma. While the circumstances are different, the underlying experience is similar: the spirit continues to experience and perceive beyond ordinary waking awareness.

At the BPI, we teach that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. From that perspective, awareness isn’t limited to the physical body. When the body is asleep, unconscious, or deeply relaxed, the spirit may continue learning, exploring, and experiencing in ways that can feel just as vivid and real as everyday life.

That’s one reason stories like this capture so much attention. They encourage us to ask bigger questions about who we are and what consciousness really is. Rather than seeing dreams, lucid dreaming, astral travel, and near-death experiences as completely separate events, the BPI teaches that they exist along the same spectrum of spiritual awareness. The way we enter the experience may be different, but the consciousness behind it is the same.

Why Doesn’t Everyone Remember Their Dreams?

Many people have spiritual experiences during sleep but do not clearly remember them upon waking. From a psychic development perspective, remembering is a skill. As you develop your awareness, you can begin bringing back more information from your dream experiences.

However, learning how to work with these abilities matters too. Becoming more aware of dreams, energy, and spiritual experiences can feel exciting, and having tools helps you navigate that awareness.

Why Grounding Matters With Lucid Dreaming

Lucid dreaming and spiritual exploration can open up amazing experiences, but grounding plays an important role in the process.

Grounding helps you explore spiritual experiences while staying connected to your everyday life. The goal is not to escape the physical world. The goal is to bring more of your awareness, intuition, and spirit into your human experience.

After all, you still have a body. You still have responsibilities. You still have dishes waiting in the sink. Spiritual growth is not about leaving your human experience behind. It is about becoming more present for it.

Developing Your Spiritual Abilities

Lucid dreaming reminds us that consciousness is much bigger than many of us realize.

Your dreams can help you process energy, explore possibilities, and become curious about who you are beyond the physical body. These experiences become even more powerful when you have tools to understand them.

One of the core ideas behind the BPI’s training is that spiritual abilities can be practiced, strengthened, and developed over time. Think about any other skill in life. A musician practices music. An athlete practices their sport. You probably would not choose a surgeon who said, “I’ve never practiced before, but I feel naturally gifted.”

Your spiritual abilities work the same way.

Practice builds confidence, clarity, and trust in your own awareness. With the right tools and training, you can learn how to understand your energy, intuition, and experiences as a spiritual being.

In our Self Healing 101 class, students learn foundational psychic tools like grounding, clearing energy, and working with their own spiritual awareness. These tools create the foundation for exploring dreams, intuition, energy, and expanded states of consciousness with more clarity.

If you are ready to understand yourself as a spiritual being and begin developing your own abilities, Self Healing 101 is the perfect place to start.

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