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Right, I guess I'm just looking for a little more exactness on what you mean by dissociation (a term often used in psychiatry). For example, are daydreams dissociated consciousness? What about psychotic hallucinations? These may not seem relevant at first, but WILDing can seem eerily like the two. [/b]
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I feel 100% confident if I can step out of a lucid dream into the astral plain where I know its not a construct of my imagination. If they are one and the same maybe I should give it another go in the waking state because it wasnt that hard to get to the door, I could start to see myself in front of my body but then everything got really black around me unlike my lucid dream transition [/b]
I dont think anyone here is giving the mind or imagination enough credit. the ones who want astral projection to be real are offended at the thought of the imaginations involvement. those who believe astral projection should be lucid dreaming and that it should be seen as the imagination are not giving it enough credit either they believe the imagination is some creation from the brain. i dont think its either. I believe the entire brain creates consciousness paradigm should be tossed and wont get us anywhere. i think reductionist science serves a huge purpose, but in the case of consciousness it will get us nowhere and we need to reopen philosophy and dreaming,which has died.