Thread: Internal Struggle?

Bringing this back to the top, since nobody helped me or explained why my mind wanted to do two seperate things.

To speak as if you and your mind are not the same--is that rational? Problems are often complex and we have to shape decisions based upon that complexity. We are complex, actually having to do a great deal of parallel processing of information, however, that does not mean that we are different from ourselves, or that there are multiples 'us's'.

We all have to learn to walk and chew gum.

What you may be trying to express is that you are aware of what you desire, but you are aware of a second will in the dream, a will that is not your own. This is true. Dreams are a learning environment. One way to make the will stronger is to pit it against another will. It is exercise.

Part of being is having desires, often they conflict, but there is a wrong way and a right way to use our desires in effecting responses to the environment. One must first understand the good and the bad, the right and the wrong, and make judgments about our decisions--shaping our desires through right judgment.

The second will, the will that is not yours, is expressed through the dream environment--and through your own sensory abilities. Manifestly, what you are in a dream, the core, is the processing and judgment centers.

One learns to sense the other will in the dream then by paying attention to dream content and interaction. What one is allowed to do, what not allowed, how easy, how difficult, etc. One is actually learning. What is important is the asking of questions, the trying, the conclusions, the core of you, for that is being educated. The changes in our environment does not change what we are, what our responsibilities are.

One of the most primitive similarities between dream life and waking life is the fact that you decide how you respond to the environment, however, you do not control the environment in most cases.

Learning is a process of shaping your responses to the environment. At all times it boils down to the fact that no matter what situation we find ourselves, it is our responsibility to choose an appropriate response. Sometimes that response makes us look like a saint, others a sinner--to other people, but that does not matter, the point is, to choose to the best of our understanding.

Sorry, Philosopher, but that was no help. I never understand what you are saying. It probably is wise, but too wise for me. :/

Can anyone answer my question or explain what was happening in simpler terms?

I can't speak to how anyone else dreams, but mine are often very plot-focused. That is, there's a definite story to tell. I also frequently have the feeling that the "me in the dream" is a character in that story, and I exist as an outside observer. So you may have felt like it interested you to look at those things, but the plot demanded that you move on, or it could have been an instance where you knew that the character in the dream would want to do something but you were more interested in something else.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Unless you're having obvious anxiety dreams on a regular basis, there isn't a lot your dreams are likely to be attempting to communicate to you.

Thank you. I was wondering only because it was the first time that ever happened to me, so I was confused.

Originally Posted by bored2tears

Sorry, Philosopher, but that was no help. I never understand what you are saying. It probably is wise, but too wise for me. :/

There is no such thing as understanding his posts, for it can be interpreted in many ways.

Well as far as I could grasp the knowledge of his sharings,
This "subconsious" which wanted to move on was just part of one of the decisions you could make, and for you to learn not to watch everything it had to force you to the decision of walking past these things.
This way you do something new and learn the positive and negative sides of this so you could decide whether or not to use this in waking life.

Well this at least is what I think it was.