The Path of Iapetos

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

This night I went to bed 00:00 :roll:

[COLOR="royalblue"]I don't remember much dreams, I do remember that I kept waking up because I was very uncomfortable, it was very hot... The only dreams I remember are from the late morning.

I was inside my room and saw a huge white flare outside my window, I went down my kitchen and talked to my mom for a bit and then went to my room again. I got to the computer and I remember that I thought to myself even though I wasn't aware "Ok I am in a vivid daydream and I am going to imagine typing and see how it feels". I dreamed that I was DEILDING without being aware o. O I imagined that I typed something in google and my dreaming me was amazed of how real it felt. But the two girls appeared behind me, I turned around and the girls started to kiss each other!

Then I woke up... At least I thought I woke up. I noticed that my awareness was different and[/COLOR]
[COLOR="blue"]I realized that I was dreaming I gazed at my pillow, but then remembered that my plan was to look at my hands, they looked fairly normal, but it was a dark room so I could not see them completely.
Then I gazed at the hands and switched to the pillow, but then it was like everything faded dark and I then woke up for real. When I fell asleep I had some dream where I walked around with my friend in a mall, I have more details but it was such a boring dream that I don't feel that I want to write it down.[/COLOR]
[I]
1st Gate of Dreaming (stabilization of the dreaming body): Arrived at when one perceives one's hands in a dream. Solved when one is able to shift the focus from the hands to another dream object and return it to the hands, all repeated a few times.[/I]

So I have now successfully arrived at the first gate with the help of my intention. In my upcoming dreams I am going to find the hands again and then practice gazing on dream objects.

I am going to pretend that Don Juan is my mentor and use his comments from the book to help me progress.

I can almost look steadily at the items of my dreams but they dissipate too quickly...

[I]"This is precisely what I am trying to tell you. In order to offset the evanescent quality of dreams, sorcerers have devised the use of the starting point item. Every time you isolate it and look at it, you get a surge of energy, so at he beginning don't look at too many things in your dreams. Four items will suffice. Later on you may enlarge the scope until you can cover all you want, but as soon as the images begin to shit and you feel that you are losing control, go back to your starting point item and start all over again."[/I]

Do you believe that I really reached the first gate of dreaming, Don Juan?

[I]"You did and that's a lot. You'll find out as you go along, how easy it'll be to do dreaming now."[/I]