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I have been lucid dreaming for a long time, over 50 years, since I was a child. My experience of dreaming has changed, but moreso, my awareness of awakeness. |
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to be aware that I'm dead and not see it as some kind of dream would best. |
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Last edited by Psionik; 02-20-2014 at 09:15 PM.
Death itself, in my opinion, is not connected to lucidity anymore than you allow it to be. I also feel "close" to death, and have so for, in consideration of my short life thus far, a long time. I learned how to conquer fear years ago, and since it has been difficult to ever become emotionally riled up in anything anymore. If it happens, it runs its course and is very short lived, a result of knowing it is illogical but as a human I still suffer my fair share of shortcomings. If you try and ignore the giant pink elephant sitting next to you in the room, you give it control over you. You allow it to shape your perceptions around it, and even if you feel as though it has disappeared, it manifests itself in other ways. Now you can never know if the elephant will be back, you are always expecting it in the back of your mind, it eats at you and thrives on your anxiety. However, if you acknowledge the elephant, and ask yourself, "what is the elephant doing here?", "does it make me feel bad, scared, or mad?", "is it wrong or bad to feel scared, mad, or bad?". The resounding answer to the last question, once you have investigated enough within yourself, is "no". Then, the giant pink elephant is free to come and go, and if it causes you an grief (which more often than not it doesn't), you can handle it right then and there, with a clear mind and without hesitation born from fear. Eventually, anxiety and fear begin to dissipate as is the brain's natural reaction. When we recognize the pattern before us, when we are not presented with unfamiliar things, unknown factors, anxiety vanishes. The quest to distance yourself from that which made you feel bad in the end made you feel worse. |
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Psionik, |
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Validus, |
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That's because you have died while living. It could be "achieved" by different paths, of course lucid dreaming is one, but there are many others. It happened to me when I realized how I've been living in the common ego-state. Everything changed from drama to comedy exactly as you mention, but LDing started later without looking for it. Now I look at it backwards and I assume that being in the present moment during waking life helped to LD. I believe that at some point everything that raises awareness just blend together. |
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Thanks, Kilham. |
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Last edited by JJFrank; 02-21-2014 at 03:33 AM. Reason: spelling
Oh we are in the land of living, but it is like it is not as important as it used to be. There is self preservance, but there is also different point of view on life, much more relaxed. When I'm trying to explain this to some people they don't understand. I'm seemingly normal, and yet my view of this is for them as if I'm close to end my life. |
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Yes, I agree. There is something in between being alive as most people experience and whatever is next. I don't know what it is that I am experiencing. But I am not being completely in this world and not being completely in whatever else there is. I found this painful and alienating at first. Now I find it blissfully peaceful and comforting. |
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Hi JJ Frank |
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Havago I do understand where you're going, living your ego, isn't a bad thing, fooling youself that all of this is real is part of what life is about. The thing is some people end up having a very limited and non versatile personalities because they believe they know who they are, that being "like" this is who they are, and that's a falacy, their personality and ego can change in any given moment and it's up to them how it changes, limiting their ownselves isn't a good desition. |
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Robert Monroe collaborated with Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, MD, world-famous authority on death and dying, and Charles Tart, PhD, renowned researcher of altered states of consciousness, to create guided audio tracks for this very purpose: the "Going Home" album. |
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Havago, |
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Havago, |
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I have never had a lucid dream, as I am still trying to get my very first one. But I am an avid follower and user of the techniques given to us by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. I am a meditater. Google him if you do not know who he is. |
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Last edited by Mirai; 02-23-2014 at 05:40 PM.
Ok, JJ |
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