^ Brainstorm sounds similar in some respects to Strange Days.
^ Brainstorm sounds similar in some respects to Strange Days.
I just Google "Strange Days", Dark Matter, and found this:
In December 1999,*Los Angeles
*has become a dangerous war zone. As a group of criminals rob a Chinese restaurant, the event is recorded by a robber wearing a 'SQUID
', or "Superconducting Quantum Interference Device", which records events directly from the wearer's*cerebral cortex
, and when played back through a*MiniDisc
-like device allow a user to experience the recorder's memory.
Maybe, should a gang of Dreamviewers do a nice, long, weekly, dream remote view, thingy, we might discover that we already have a "S.Q.I.D." on our heads (hehehehahahs)
Back in October of 1999, I dont remember the exact date but thats the time frame, I dreamed that I was in Turkey and there had been a really bad earthquake that sank a 3 story apartment building entirely underground. I was keeping a boy company who had survived, but he was trapped with his dead father and was scared. I still to this day remember the dream clearly as if it was last night. I touched him on the shoulder and told him he was going to be alright. He would be found safe, but that it would take rescuers three days to dig him out. I woke up just as the sun came up, filled my coffee cup, turned on the news to CNN, saw that over night there had been a bad earthquake in Turkey (it was late afternoon there). On the news they were showing a story of a boy who was trapped under the rubble in a sunken building, who had used a cellphone to call a local radio station, so he could let someone know where he was and that he was alright, but his father who he was with, had died when the building collapsed underground. The firefighters were telling him on the phone that it would take them three days to get to him.
I remember almost dropping the coffee cup. I got on my knees and asked God why He would use someone like me, a nobody, to help someone in a situation like that, on the other side of the world where I had no way of helping.
The answer I got was that I was listening.
I have seen so many fantastic Avatars on here.
Dream warriors, Demons, Fantasy characters.
All portraying their users in a messed up way.
I like to sleep. I avoid confrontations. I occasionaly pig out with lots of favourite foods.
I love fruit. I have lots of spontanious energy ( When not sleeping )
What better Avatar than a field mouse.
P.S. Love cheese too
This is a bit off topic, if its possible to be off topic in this thread. I'm posting it here because it relates more directly to this thread than to any other thread or forum theme.
In a dream last night I was surfing around a hilly lawn in a lawn chair, thinking something like 'Yeah this violates a couple of energy conservation laws, but its a dream. Simulating waking life physics even to this extent helps give the dream a kind of coherence, even though simulation isn't completely accurate." By the standard technical definition of lucid dreaming, this was a lucid dream, since I was aware I was dreaming. But it was just an ordinary dream, expressing my developing thoughts about dreaming, just as everybody's dreams express their developing thoughts about whatever it is that they are concerned with.
The definition of 'lucid' seems to reflect an underlying assumption that people dream about being awake, and that a person is lucid when they have the mental presence to recognize that they're not really awake, that its a "dream". But for the most part you don't dream about being awake if you're more concerned in life with thoughts and ideas, and not about what you're running around 'doing' with other parts of your body besides your brain. A thought is a thought whether you're awake or asleep.
Different parts of a person's mind work together in different ways at different times, and while asleep some parts of the mind are generally less active than when awake. The mix is different for different people. Why should being 'awake' while being asleep in some particular way be considered an accomplishment? By itself it doesn't mean you're more aware generally, and it doesn't mean you have better control over your mind either. If you're dreaming "I'm choosing to do this, and now I'm choosing to do that" that doesn't mean you have more control. You are controlling the virtual reality 'person' in your dream, but the you who is doing that is being controlled by a deeper you who decides what you are allowed to think of doing when you're doing that. And if you try to think about that deeper you, you're doing self-inquiry in a way that's easier for you when you're asleep. Can you count that, or make additional copies of the experience? Does a higher count mean your better at it or worse at it?
So in my lawn-surfing dream last night, a dog climbs onto my lap. Then I couldn't surf because the dog was too heavy. I thought "I'll add a button to my chair that sends electricity between the skids on my chair, then I'll be able to move with the added weight. I know that doesn't make sense, but I can pretend it makes sense because its a dream."
This dog is like almost any other dog: if there's an empty box or bag with an interesting smell it sticks its nose in to see what's in it. But the dog must be trained, disciplined! In my dream, a man gives the dog a lesson by closing it in a sack and frightening the trapped and blinded dog from outside. When the dog comes out it is shaking with anguish, and I try to comfort it. But what the man cares about is controlling the dog's behavior, not how the dog is feeling, or what psychological damage he may be causing.
I think that when you think of what is in your dream as being inside your 'own' mind, subject to your personal control, you are locking a part of yourself in a bag like that dog. Your spirit is more than that, more than just 'your' spirit. Maybe its good to train the dog, to develop it into more than a wild animal in a domestic setting. But the dog needs and deserves compassion. If you think that the dog needs to be treated like a 'straw dog' because it is imperfect or illusory, or just a tool, then I think that is not compassion, and you've somehow replaced your compassion with brutality in the form of a belief about mental accomplishment.
I'm not addressing any particular person or group of people, my use of the word 'you' is largely rhetorical.
Okay, I'll bite, EricinLA:
You've mentioned "free dreaming" several times now, always in quotes. What is that, exactly? Are you talking about being self-aware, but going with the flow of the dream without interfering, or are you simply talking about non-lucid dreams?
I think he means being self-aware but not doing anything and just going with the flow of his subconscious.
EricinLA
I'm bringing across from saltcube, the host's remarkable dream experiments. the names have been changed (to numbers) to protect the innocent. But I am sure the blow by blow accounts will interest you and others.
here is the link to my thread on saltcube:
*** http://www.dreamviews.com/senseless-...ml#post1998491 ***
saltcube is no longer open and hardly anyone posts any more so it is not worth going there if you don't already have an account.
but if anyone reading this has an account at saltcube here is a thread where I am collecting all 35 of saltcub's owner's dream experiments.
After I collect his 35 I will collect together, in one thread, "Eye's" 48.
If anyone on here has ever watched a modern Star Trek series, or movies, you will know about the 'Q'
A race of omnipitent ( Is that spelled rite ) beings with limitless powers.
They control time, life, and can readily manipulate the laws of physics.
Only one drawback - They are all bored to tears. Done that. Been there.
This is what happens when you give a person limitless power.
99% of members on here are aiming for control in dreams. They want to be a 'Q' in their dreams.
The others that have experienced full control, now try to let it go.
The road must be travelled in order to see this destination.
Knowing this from experience is the only way it can truly be understood.
I wish you all well on your journey.
Quote from some wise person - " It is not the destination that matters, but the journey "
EricInLA is on the same path as everyone else, just a little further along.
Hope this makes sense.
Phil
Oh My God (!!!)
YAD is back
This amazing dreamer can expand his nights dream to "years" in one night.
and cause ...
YAD once effected the future by doing something in a "recurring" PreCOGNITIVE dream.
and he fully documented it.
sync sync sync.
YAD is just the man (dreamer) you are hoping to meet, EricinLA.
Check him out! Here is his profile:
View Profile: YAD - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
YAD is back!!!
I just checked "Home" and saw his old Avatar. This is that post:
Look at Past #6
http://www.dreamviews.com/beyond-dre...ml#post1998616
Oh, Hi Phil
Hi gab
Ian Wilson (YAD)
Talking on a radio program. Very, very interesting.
August Special Edition 08/08 by Unraveling Secrets | Blog Talk Radio
Hahaha the weekly local rag just arrived and emblazoned on the front page is:
YOUR Tribe is Calling
YAD is a member of my tribe. I thought I'd lost my tribe years ago (on 11-11-10) perhaps they are coming here.
Hi. I am very interested in every ones views here. I have only read up to page two so I don't know every thing that was said on here but I too have experienced "dreaming the future" and I would like to help any way I can. I think it is a little weird because I am currently writing a book about dreams and in it the main character can control her dreams down to the very detail, but she also wonders about connecting dreams world wide. I think this is interesting because I only found this site today yet I had the story written up over three months ago. I don't really control my dreams all too often and have no clue any terminology that you guys are using but every once in a while right in the middle of the dream I will choose to do something different with it.
Hi, I don't know what exactly you mean by dream control, but all my dreams are lucid and I have full control of them. We are exploring dream sharing for some time now, in a small closed group. It is definitely possible. Time zone is not a problem here, you can observe the other person waking life events if he is not sleeping.
pm me if you are still up for it, we can try at any night.