Thanks for all the positive feedback, I really appreciate it. It takes me so long to write out these posts (This measly post took almost 4 hours!).
Real World Applications
For the past month or so, I've been observing how these principles apply to the real world as much as they do to dreaming. But it comes with an extra layer of complexity in the waking world, namely other people. The potential each one of us has using these techniques is phenomenal, and when you consider there are billions of people influencing the world in this manner, the possibilities for conflict or resonance are mind boggling. It would seem that the waking world is just one big shared dream!
So lets start off simple, with an example that happened to me today. There was a dog chained up out back of the neighbour's place where I was working. It seemed friendly and curious, so I let it come up to me and sniff me, no problems, it didn't seem a threat. Then I noticed a sign in the window that said "Beware Guard dog". The moment that sign registered in my mind and I though "Guard dog? Oh oh..." it's demeanor completely changed. It became mean, growled, and tried to bite me. It's like that sign created a link or association to the dog's corresponding behavior. I've been seeing dozens of examples of this daily.
Now to recap my three basic rules in a RL context.
1. Everything in your dreams requires your attention to exist.
I've used this rule effectively in dreams in what I would call a "banishing". Simply ignore something in dreams, put it completely out of your mind, and it will cease to exist.
This type of banishing works in RL too, but people don't cease to exist, they just wander off. Completely ignoring someone is a little rude, but very effective. I've also been using this to ward off unwanted conversation topics, and it works like a charm.
2. The more attention you give to one element, the more detail it creates in relation to what you are focused on.
Carl Jung, the Anti-Freud, had a method where he would write a letter to someone and then not send it. This would invariably result in his target sending him a letter in response to what he had written, even though he never sent it. He was also the one to coin the term "synchronicity", which I believe is a fantastic example of this rule in action.
I have countless examples of this principle in action, as with the incident with the dog I detailed above. There are so many possibilities here, it's almost impossible to properly explain how it works.
Thus far, I've broken this section down into two schools of practice.
A) Achieving specific goals: This is basically what the movie "The Secret" is about. I can't really give specifics on how to do this, as each individual had their own set of associations created through a lifetime of experience. Learning what the main influential associations are to you through dreaming will help you apply this to the real world.
B)Eliminating negative thought patterns: This has been the main focus of my efforts lately. Instead of dwelling on the negative aspects of my life, I do my best to ignore them. According to the first rule, they disappear and cease to create bad situations in accordance with this second rule.
The old saying "The straw that broke the camel's back" applies here. By not dwelling on the things that get on your nerves, you don't get that build up of straw that weighs you down.
Basically, this involves gaining control of your random thoughts that arise during the day, by either consciously directing them, or just putting a stop to the negative ones (which is so hard to do!). Most people arrogantly assume they are in complete control of their thought process, but this couldn't be farther from the truth.
3. Strong emotions have a devastating effect on everything around you.
I've decided to include emotion as a separate rule. I'll come up with a better way to sum it up eventually, but that's pretty much the gist of it for now.
Just look at how you react in the presence of people exhibiting strong emotions, or how other people react to your own strong emotions. Do most people really have a choice in how they react to these emotions? It's like there are unwritten social rules on how we are supposed to react. Even when you think you're masking or hiding your emotions, they still influence people's behavior.
One might think that people are responding to subtle body language, but that's not the case. Now I'm a recovering rageaholic, and I've had a few instances where I was in a room alone and foul mood took ahold of me despite my best efforts. The people in other rooms invariably begin to curse loudly, as if in response to my foul mood. This is the kind of thing dream characters are prone to doing.
Overview
I've had about 6-7 months or so of exploring this in my dreams, but have only been working on the real world applications for about a month. The more I look into it, the more the real world behave like a dream. And of course you know the first thing most people do once they realize they are dreaming is to have lucid sex.
Well, I'm no different. I'm realizing the world is my oyster, or at least a bearded clam. I've been using these principles to get women like you wouldn't believe. The thing is, the type of women that are attracted into my life seem to be influenced by the porn that I watch (Not that I'm complaining!). The real test will come tomrrow when I ask out the girl I'm totally in love with. According to my theory, it should go well, since she's been constantly on my mind.
Now the RL applilcations open up a lot of possibilities for control, but with all the people in the world, there are bound to be people with a will opposed to yours. What happens when two people try to manifest opposing intents? Even in a RL scenario, this brings us into the realm of shared dreaming, which is where I learned all about this.
You don't think I came up with this all by myself do you? Nope, I discovered this after making a challenge in the "Night Stalkers, Dream Walker" thread here: http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=37621
The very reason I think these were shared dream was the mastery these visitors had over attention. A lot of those Night Stalker dreams never make it into my dream journal because they are so difficult to describe. I've been loathe to mention it thus far, lest it undermine the points I'm trying to get across. I do have much more to go into, I just need to find a way to broach the subject properly, plus I have so much to experiment with, I just don't have enough time.
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