Whether or not that was really God or a god I think it's an interesting thing. You should talk with it and try to learn from it. I'd love to hear if you have anymore dreams about him. |
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So, I have had 3 dreams so far of a recurring DC who claims to be "God in disguise" and and was wondering if anyone has had an experience similar to this. I'll just explain a bit about the dreams. |
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Whether or not that was really God or a god I think it's an interesting thing. You should talk with it and try to learn from it. I'd love to hear if you have anymore dreams about him. |
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Very interesting dreams. Conversations are the hardest thing to remember for me from lucid dreams for some reason. |
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Last edited by Valis1; 08-07-2016 at 02:22 PM.
"Parable.- Those thinkers in whom all stars move in cyclic orbits are not the most profound: whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself also knows how irregular all galaxies are; they lead into the chaos and labyrinth of existence."- Friedrich Nietzsche, the gay science, First published in 1882 revised in 1887, translated by Walter Kaufmann [/SIGPIC]
Grimpanda This dude seems to show up when he wants to, and dreams he's in are more vivid than regular dreams and even regular lucids. That said, I did manage to "call" him in the last one, so who knows? On the aspect of talking to it, hopefully, on the "learning" side- I don't know. He seemed offended when I asked for lessons so I'm wondering if I should really |
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Last edited by OddFish; 08-09-2016 at 07:14 AM.
Over thousands of years the real world has been filled with self-proclaimed prophets and deities. Why should the dream world be any different? |
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Well, it's one thing when other people tell you stories like that. It's a bit of a stranger experience when part of your brain (the thought processes of which you are not aware of) decides the tell it to another part of your brain (the part whose thoughts you are aware of). Especially when you're an agnostic. It just creeps me out a bit, tbh, I'm thinking "why is part of my mind doing this?" "Why is is pretending to be God and talking to my conscious mind in a deliberately annoying way?". |
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Sometimes I think most of our dreams resemble our dreaming minds "talking" to our consciousness (lucid or not) in ways that seem deliberately annoying. |
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I actually talked about whether or not I really had the conversation in dream #2 with a friend. The only thing that makes me doubt it is that I think I remembered some of the stuff when I woke up, felt it slipping away and it had gone by the time I reached my pen. On the other hand I think that's also likely to be a "fake memory". By "archetypical symbology" do you mean the stories of God wiping people out with floods in various religious texts? In the dream I actually got the impression that I'd done that, or at least contributed to it via a negative mental state. |
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No, I meant that the use of water as a "purge," or cleansing agent, to cleanly sweep you from the current dream plot (and line of questioning), and direct you toward another. Water seems the most perfect choice for that reset to me... and yes, the symbology of the flood is drawn from the same archetype of water as an agent of purge, but I wasn't blaming God for the wave in your case. |
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I had a dream like this before when I was five years old. It was memorable the old man told me that I was "gifted" or something. I didn't exactly believe that I was gifted or anything. I almost ran into the house but, I somehow stayed and listened to him. He was very hypnotic, probably because he was someone who my subconscious made up when I was little. I recall that it happened late at night. However, unlike your dream, It was only one time I saw this DC and everything. |
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If the subconscious mind can create a highly detailed sensory expanse, one would think it could come up with a reasonably complex philosophic or religious sermon of some sort. |
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"Parable.- Those thinkers in whom all stars move in cyclic orbits are not the most profound: whoever looks into himself as into vast space and carries galaxies in himself also knows how irregular all galaxies are; they lead into the chaos and labyrinth of existence."- Friedrich Nietzsche, the gay science, First published in 1882 revised in 1887, translated by Walter Kaufmann [/SIGPIC]
Haha, very true. I still think it would probably be hard to offend a God, though, even if it did care about the actions of humans. I mean, imagine if you made fun of Usain Bolt for being a slow runner. He probably would just think it was funny or ignore you, since he knows he's ridiculously fast. I think a super-powerful entity's reaction to being insulted by a much less-powerful being might be like that. (that theme sort of existed in my dream: I was worried about something, but it was dismissed as unimportant: of course to an eternal being finite events would seem unimportant, but that's not much comfort to the finite being! I think that is yet more indication that this is my subconcious mind at work. Fascinating what the mind can create, though. |
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Oddfish: I'm going to give you a piece of advice, and I hope you will not be offended. Dreams...and the characters that inhabit them - they don't exist in objective reality. They're virtual realities - "hallucinations" if you will - complex, detailed creations of your subconscious mind which is isolated from the input of the physical world. Nothing more, nothing less. |
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Not offended. Why should I be? I am aware, however, that people of a more religious stripe may have different interpretations of what dreams can be. As for myself, I tend to think that my dreams are a creation of my subconscious mind, but it's a fun discussion. I am a little uncomfortable about the idea that my subconsciousness would pretend to be a deity though. But then, this is the same subconsciousness that served up a dream about watching a tennis match on the Starship Enterprise whilst seated next to Richard Dawkins, so I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised. |
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Last edited by OddFish; 08-16-2016 at 05:31 PM.
I'd argue that they are influenced by the input of the physical world which is why people who are sci-fi fans often dream of sci-fi-like scenarios and characters. He did mention this DC as being "similar to a magician-like sci-fi character". Sometimes a movie or even a TV commercial I watched will influence my dreams days or weeks later. |
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Of course, I could make the argument that dreams are part of objective physical reality due to being a result of electrical activity in the brain, but that would just be pedantic of me. |
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The idea of meeting God is a fascinating one whether you are religious or not, so why wouldn't your subconscious conjure up this image and scenario? |
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