Just wondering if anyone ever had the thought cross thier mind... |
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Just wondering if anyone ever had the thought cross thier mind... |
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I've been so lazy - someone kick me.
I've seen similar ideas on the forums before (see "subconscious" and "Belief and willpower" threads under philosophy). |
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If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
Good questions! |
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Research: VAK (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic) Learning Modes, RCs and Lucid Dreaming
Research: Do Lucid Dreamers Have a Particular Personality Trait In Common?
When I say 'I see!' - I've opened not my eyes, but my mouth.
Gues what I'm trying to get at is wich came first? |
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I've been so lazy - someone kick me.
This is related to what you are saying but not quite in the same way. You mentioned the subconscious perhaps granting access to the lucid dream. I'm not sure about that, but what I've wondered more about is the situation within a lucid dream itself, i.e. once you are in there. What level of control do we really have over the content of the dream? We can add objects and people into the world in front of us, go flying, walk on water, make things catch on fire, whatever we happen to try out. But these things do not always work. Sometimes they fizz out in some weird way, and sometimes they just don't happen at all. - I wonder therefore what filtering the subconscious has over what we want to introduce to the dream. Obviously the vast majority of a lucid dream is generated by the subconscious. In many lucid dreams I have just observed what is happening around me and stared in wonder, thinking about where all this imagery is coming from as no part of my mind that I am 'aware' of is producing it. Obviously it must be my subconscious, but why then am I also able to modify the dream and add to it just by willing it to happen? Are there different levels of thoughts? Some thoughts that happen deep in our subconscious and some that happen at the conscious level? |
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Terms like "subconscious" or "collective unconscious" are mainly ways of recognizing that our identities are part of a dynamic system. There are no discrete boundaries between conscious and subconscious, or unconscious. Everything that happens in a dream is within the system of "you"; you're doing it all. If you think in terms of the subconscious acting against "you," then you're dividing yourself into parts and having them tug against each other. If we set the one activity of consciousness, or ego, apart from everything else the mind is doing, it is like a flea tugging against a dog: the flea will not hold its ground long. This is how I see "failed" actions in LDs: I'm not letting my whole self act in concert |
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If you have a sense of caring for others, you will manifest a kind of inner strength in spite of your own difficulties and problems. With this strength, your own problems will seem less significant and bothersome to you. By going beyond your own problems and taking care of others, you gain inner strength, self-confidence, courage, and a greater sense of calm.Dalai Lama
My subconcious.. i can sometimes talk to in a dream. I ask it sometimes if i am allowed to do certain things, and well many times it says no. It has taken many forms in my dreams. I've only begun to notice it recently.. but although i usually have total dream control.. their are situations where my subconscious limits it. (another interesting thing.. i had a conversation recently with it.. and i remembered a few things from my past) |
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I've been so lazy - someone kick me.
I think the more you seperate yourself from your subconcious the less in touch with it youll be. I hear people going on about the subconcious hating them, and subconcious getting in your way, or having power over you. That sounds like a split personality disorder or something. |
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