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Post by Lena on Sept 26, 2010 1:40:22 GMT -5
How come when you are asleep and dream that you are awake they call it lucid dreaming and think your marvelous but when awake and have dreams they call it hallucinations and have you committed? lol Ben, actually I think that people, who would have you committed for hallucinations would frown on lucid dreams as well. Robert Moss in Three Only Things talks both about dreams and imagination. He doesn't use the word hallucinations I don't think, which I much prefer to call visions ;D You just gotta hang out with the right crown. New Age people think visions totally rock As for that blackness, I was about to go post about emotional states and how they affect your dreams. I would say for me, I stop remembering dreams, when I don't want to face what they are going to tell me. Always, raising your energy helps, which can be done in a lot of different things, as you are probably well aware. I like yoga.
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Post by Lena on Sept 25, 2010 12:56:13 GMT -5
Yep, that's why a lot of dream teachers recommend not moving, when you first wake up and let your dreams come back to your mind. Once you start moving your body, it's like you are withdrawing yourself from the dream world. Wish I could follow this advice! I'm usually woken up by a baby, so moving right away. I kind of want to discipline my mind to wake up early, so I can work with my dreams better, while it's quiet. Oh, and if you get back into the same position in bed, that you were having that dream in, it will a lot of times reappear. Remembering dreams is a process, but it's really fun and rewarding.
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Post by Lena on Sept 25, 2010 12:10:51 GMT -5
Oh, I just wanted to mention, that I had great fun with my Slavic runes, but then because I only made them with a marker on stone, they faded quickly, so my intention is to create a set, engraved into stone or done with a more permanent paint. Really looking forward to playing with those once again. Oh, and wow, it seems like Druidcraft is a winner, as far as Tarot decks go! I'll have to look into Buckland Romani and Voyager. I bet getting a new deck would motivate me to use them once again.
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Post by Lena on Sept 25, 2010 12:07:35 GMT -5
Creating an all personal deck would be amazing! So much creative and intuitive work would be involved too. I don't feel like I know Tarot well enough for that, but wow, what an awesome project that would be. Of course, my drawing and painting skills would not be sufficient, so it'd be all Photoshop based. It might be expensive, but you could send to a professional printer, when all done and finished. I think you girls should do that. It'll be my pleasure to watch
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Post by Lena on Sept 25, 2010 10:30:52 GMT -5
Thank you, Derek! Well, I was prepared to photocopy Really looking forward to this study, although I'm glad I have another couple of weeks to prepare myself with more dream recall.
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Post by Lena on Sept 25, 2010 10:03:44 GMT -5
Hi DB, I knew you would pop in eventually ;D Hope you and family are doing well. And I miss talking with ya.
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Post by Lena on Sept 23, 2010 14:45:31 GMT -5
The myth that you go through several stages of sleep before having your first REM dream stage. Though this does happen it's not the rule. You can fall directly into the REM dream stage upon going to bed or falling to sleep. His an excerpt from this following link. "If a person’s REM sleep is disrupted, the next sleep cycle does not follow the normal order, but often goes directly to REM sleep until the previous night’s lost REM time is made up." longevity.about.com/od/sleep/a/sleep_stages.htmCool, Derek! There is polyphasic way of sleeping where you sleep for 20 minutes every 2 hours. From what I read about it you go straight into dreaming. Steve Pavlina did several months of it before he gave it up for social reasons. Some of the advantages he described were amazing, including increased dream recall, lucid dreams, and other psychic abilities. A lot of times I will sleep biphasically, where I will sleep 3-5 hours with a later shorter sleep period of around 2 hours. I had dream before in very short half an hour naps, pretty vivid ones too.
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Post by Lena on Sept 23, 2010 14:03:57 GMT -5
This is very confusing. I think it's more...finding more information about the dream from seeing it again. Like if you read a book again you notice more the second time than the first time you read it. Is it lucid though? That's one aspect of it, yes. The second aspect is interacting with dream characters and with the dream itself to find out more information that way. What Robert Moss meant was that if the dream is literal, it'll be difficult to change or manipulate it, but if it's symbolic, the regular variety of dream, then you can ask it questions and even change outcome. Ronni, why change the outcome? I think it can be very therapeutic myself. For example, instead of running away from your fear, you turn around and face it. You already had your original dream, so it wouldn't be like you change the original one to something else, obviously the one you had will always exist anyway.
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Post by Lena on Sept 23, 2010 1:22:19 GMT -5
Some great points, Ronni. I do agree with body being in the soul. Although I think for me it's more like I'm bringing my daily consciousness with me to another dimension of my soul. I might be too tired to articulate exactly what I want to express here. Derek, if you can't go through the front door, go through the back. Meaning, if you have block when it comes to direct projection, why don't you intend to go straight out of body from one of your lucid dreams? You have such incredible control already. I think it might take me another ten years of practice to get to that level Hopefully, sooner, with your help As for that one realization for myself, wow, it produced a lot of growth for me. I applied it to all kinds of different areas in my life and finally thought hey, that's exactly what my biggest challenge is, to RELAX! Then I told my husband and he said: "Well, I told you that when we first met". LOL He really likes to take credit for all my breakthroughs ;D
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Post by Lena on Sept 23, 2010 1:09:07 GMT -5
Better than being a Slavophobe. Or slavophiliac
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Post by Lena on Sept 23, 2010 1:07:48 GMT -5
I always wonder the same thing. Why Russian! Ya know, it's the most articulate language on this planet and I'm so glad it's my native language, but I wouldn't choose to learn it. I'm impressed by people, who do.
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Post by Lena on Sept 23, 2010 1:02:40 GMT -5
I took a day off from Internet today, coincidentally, I was thinking I needed a little break. Not from Other Worlds though, being on here is good for me ;D
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Post by Lena on Sept 23, 2010 0:39:31 GMT -5
Welcome, can't wait to read your dreams
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Post by Lena on Sept 22, 2010 2:05:52 GMT -5
We're not talking about having the same dream over right? More like continuing where you left off at in your dream? The way Robert Moss explains it, it's sort of like seeing it over again, yes. I'm sure it's never exactly the same. The purpose is to ask your dream character a question or to find out some details about a dream or even influence a different ending. One example stands out in my mind, where he had a dream about having a car accident and dying. When he went back in the dream, he noticed that he couldn't influence the ending, so to him that meant it was more of a literal dream. Second, he noticed more about his surrounding and where it was location, which led him to cancel an upcoming trip.
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Post by Lena on Sept 22, 2010 1:54:26 GMT -5
Is it because I've been spending the most amount of time here Thank you all ;D
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Post by Lena on Sept 21, 2010 0:46:20 GMT -5
Не за что. Я рада, что тебе понравились
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Post by Lena on Sept 21, 2010 0:08:54 GMT -5
Wow, so pretty!! Love it ;D
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Post by Lena on Sept 20, 2010 15:23:00 GMT -5
I can relate as I have studied this stuff forever and tried a few things myself without ever feeling like I got "tangible" results. Maybe you are looking for something explosive looking, while you are already experiencing subtle effects, like day to day intuition. I would follow Lilac's suggestion and start a dream journal. I'd say dreams are spiritual and anyone can have access to those! The reason they work so well for people who might be "blocked" during the day is because conscious mind goes to sleep and so then you are free from inhibitions, well, mostly
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Post by Lena on Sept 20, 2010 2:12:38 GMT -5
Here are my funky results. I took the test before many times and at first pretty consistently types as INTJ, but then started typing as other types, with NTJ all being under question Introverted (I) 54.55% Extroverted (E) 45.45% Intuitive (N) 59.46% Sensing (S) 40.54% Thinking (T) 50% Feeling (F) 50% Perceiving (P) 50% Judging (J) 50%
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Post by Lena on Sept 20, 2010 1:07:12 GMT -5
by William Buhlman ;D I'm rereading it right now and I think it has some absolutely brilliant ideas, such as how our state of mind to a large degree influences our efforts at astral projection. I think I completely overlooked that fact last time I was practicing. My life was chaotic at the time and probably influenced the kinds of experiences I was having in a major way. One example was the fact that even though I experienced vibrations many times I got way too excited and startled myself out of them.
Here's the direct quote from the book, describing step 1, which seems like a key for me: "The first step to a successful, self-controlled out-of-body experience is to remain mentally and emotionally calm as you begin to recognize any form of movement or shift in your awareness. Your ability to remain calm is essential for achieving and maintaining any degree of control when out-of-body. The initial sensations associated with out-of-body experiences can be startling to the beginner. This is especially true if you are unprepared for the experience. Many times this excitement is caused by the intense sensations and sounds that may occur just before and during separation. Some people become so excited or startled by these inner sounds and sensations that they immediately think of their physical body. This causes an instant “snap back” into the physical. The key is to welcome the unusual vibrations and sounds and to remain as calm as possible."
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