Existenceisadreams Art Of Dreaming Journal 2

[existenceisadream]

8/04/06
Been lacking with lucidity lately but I had to wake to take my bro's girl to rent a car and then I went back to sleep so basically I did the wake back to sleep technique (very powerful, I have like 95% chance of LD'ing with this technique)
I lie back down with the intent of after becoming lucid that I'm going to yell out for a scout to show itself. I get lucid quickly and first I just work with my flying with intent (seems to be a new interest of mine in LD). I couldn't believe the control I had. I could fly faster than ever before without the dreamscape faltering or blurring. Well it didn't take too long and I remember my intent and think "I want to find a scout". This thought alone brings about some interesting characters but I'm not interested in them. So I then yell as loud as I can "I want to find a scout and have it take me away". Right away a huge white dragon (I never dream of dragons) comes swooping down and flys past me. I again voice my intent to have it take me with it and I"m pulled towards it. I'm actually flying behind it for a little and I feel that I have to use strong intent to make sure I keep up with the dragon. I manage to reach it and I ride the rest of the way on its back. I realize here that this is Falcor (spelling) the "luck" dragon from the movie "The Never Ending Story". I feel ecstatic. We're flying so fast it's unbelievable. Faster than ever before in a LD. I'm a little worried that the dreamscape will blur from this but I look down I can see the trees very well.
Here it shifts and now we're flying over a vast ocean and the dragon takes me down for a landing. I'm left on a small platform maybe 15x15 feet. I'm not quite sure of what to do. I jump try to fly away but end up just jumping into the ocean. Here I close my eyes a bunch and everytime I open them the dreamscape is still as it was (normally shutting my eyes will make the Ld end) I manage to get back onto the platform. I again try to fly away and end up in the ocean but this time the ocean is taking me away and just past the platform I see there is a huge wall. As in the ocean is all headed towards this wall. As I"m heading directly towards this wall I'm swept with a feeling of anger cause I realize that I'm going to be pulled under the wall and the dream will end. I feel no fear at all cause I know it's a dream and I can't be hurt or drown. I then come up with a plan and as I get to the wall my put my legs out and sort of stand against it letting the ocean hold me up. I then think of a huge wave or more like a Geyser pushing me high into the air and it works. I'm basically balancing on this wave or Geyser (I can't see it behind me so I'm not quite sure which one).
From here I can't remember. After waking from the dream I went right back to sleep without recording so this made it hard to remember all of this dream. I went on to have so really good dreaming and some more LD's but lower level with less intent.
Not sure what to think of this one. The fact a "luck" dragon came to me when I yelled out for a scout is one aspect. Then the luck dragon takes out into the middle of the ocean to a platform with a dead end wall and I was about to drown but instead I found a way to keep myself up.
I am starting school for the first time in 7 years and I've been stressing on a few things dealing with this so it could represent some of that but I'm not quite sure.
Anyways that's my first entry to the AOD 2.
My journal entries might be sort of random though cause I've read the book now twice so this will be my third time. I'll be working on different parts of the book.

[osiris]

Thats a very cool dream. There are a lot of techniques and things to work on at the third gate that might help you out the next time around. Let me dig back through it a bit and ill post umm up. I wanted to be here more but my family and i got very sick after travelling. If and when you do dig back through re-read the area about the 3rd gate it begins to incorporate how to tell a dream from a real place...By seeing the energy/aura. If there is no aura it is just a dreamscape made up by you. If you see the energy these are the "real" areas to try and get in touch with. I knew the energy training would be handy at some point.

[crazycat]

Do inorganics have auras? Does anyone one have any farther knowledge on what those inorganics are? Does it tell more about them in some of CC's other books? I sure would like to know.

[firefly]

Does anyone one have any farther knowledge on what those inorganics are?

To talk about what the inorganics are, is a tricky matter. I think you can only talk about them indirectly. Carlitos does an awesome job talking about them. His words, in every book, are a secret, they are a riddle to discover. Awareness is kind of like a riddle, that is alway gaining depth. To stop at a solid answer, is to stop your progress with knowledge.

Inorganics are around us in this world, but since the average person does not have awareness of them, they are simply unaware to them. They appear from beneath the surface. Just like the birds in the sky, awareness of them is what brings them. All you have to do is be ready, or willing to see them, they are there waiting to be observed, which is to set your intent to find them.

I find their eyes are a giveaway, as well as their gestures, words, or reactions. They will watch you, though they can see you without 'watching', and they can take form of many things you know. They can hear your every thought, before it becomes a thought, they are consciousness. They are slow in the way of becoming obvious, they begin by mostly watching, then they gesture to you in many ways, progressing as we become aware of them. To say that they are slow, is not right, because they are just slow at becoming obvious, which is to say we are slow to become aware of how obvious they are. The level of awareness, while in their pressence, rises incredibly, and they can begin teaching their different shapes, or configurations. They respond from your bodies energy, and you from theirs, but in a different way. One begins to observe the reactions to the different energies, learning control in this way. It can become an intense energetic game of tennis, with a snowball effect. They clearly show you many things, through the awareness they give, and what they show must be greeted openly. You must 'grab ahold' of the being, and not let go. The intensity of awareness can almost become unbearable, though it is highly addictive. The fear that they can cause, must not be the morbid kind, and lets just say one can find this difficult at times.. DJM said it best, they are best used with abandon, and wonder, free from doubt. Doubt is a very stinky energy, even in its smallest intensity. But as said, abandon counter-acts doubt. It is always a choice to stay in a world they offer, or to vanish instantly from it, this is made apparent in the intitial encounters with them.

I will, at a later time, post some of my meaningful experiences with them.

Does it tell more about them in some of CC's other books?

Inorganics exist in a sorceror's world, and Carlitos' books offer views into the sorceror's world. The words offer a direction for precieving the sorceror's world. The energy given, or redeployed, through reading his books, by awareness placed within the sorceror's world, will attract inorganics, undoubtedly..

[osiris]

Thank you Somnium, In the AOD there is a time where he is introduced to the shadow realm. While there he encounters these beings that look to be pure energy. He explained that i f he could move one in his dream that it would be huge progress towards moving inanimate objects in the "awake" world. This was the zone the other sorcerers were so surprised about because not even Don Juan had been there. I would really like to know your thoughts on this if you remember enough.

[crazycat]

Thanks Somnium! ;D Very mysterious.... I wonder if the gnostics teach anything about them?

[firefly]

osiris said:

He explained that i f he could move one in his dream that it would be huge progress towards moving inanimate objects in the "awake" world.

Absolutely. It is the same process of the body, whether in the sleeping dream, or the waking dream, only our rationality tends to be stronger within the 'waking dream'(hA, I love that!). The trick is bridgeing the gap.

It is to attain the awareness of our 'lines' of will, that we extend out of us, to 'attach' to the world around us. By watching the movements of beings/objects within any dream, we can observe the energetic 'feelings' or 'happenings' within us, that we 'feel' or observe within our body, as the 'beings', or objects move. It is to attain the awareness that our lines of will, and how we 'carry them' or precieve them, is what actually influences, shapes, and creates every object in our dream. We can use these lines, or shape them into any 'meaning' we give them. It is how we precieve, and our personal power that is the key. All we need to do is observe how everything moves, and how everything responds to different forms of stimulus, and belief. It is the shaping, and redeploying of our energy that is key.

I love using a magical pass, to sweep my hand through the air, and have something move, though this is simply an expression of my abandon, and my joy, no gesture is really needed at all. All that I find that is needed, is a 'projection' from the body.

The downside to this, is control. The trick is to have the power to move in, and out, of these worlds, freely. It takes accumulative knowledge to attain freedom.

This all may sound complicated, but it is really the simplest thing in the world. It is accumulated knowledge, through observation, that leads to an energetic reprograming of our body, that leads to 'knowing that it can be done', through experience.

If a being, say a dog, comes to us, and our configuration says it is merely a dog, then nothing can be gained from observing 'just a dog'. We already know what a dog is, and what can be gained. But if we change how we observe, realising we know nothing of the unknown worlds, then undoubtedly knowledge will be gained. It is, in a way, reprogramming ourselves that changes the world.