Originally posted by voidofform
My whole life seems to have been a persuit of \"the nothingness\". *a spiritual ascent into ZERO. *i think for this reason it would be a whole lot healthier for me to get more visceral and personalised in my dreams.

So, not my cup of tea, *I'm dissolved enough in real life thanks.
Wow, that was fast. I wasn't going to bring that up in the original essay, so as not to sound too pendantic, hoping somebody else would elude to the subject. And you did. But your angle was just the opposite of what I anticipated -- you are too detached, too liberated, too enlightened. Oh well, I can answer that one too, I suppose.

The way the athletic coaches insist that muscles must be broke down before they can be built up; the way Military Drill Sergeants insist that personalities must be broke down before they can be built up, I suspect in the same way the psyche could probably benefit from being reduced to nothing -- as you say, to get to something higher and better, go through the Zero Point.

Does this sound familiar, to see in one's dreams a multiplicity of ideal Dream Characters with our own character being somewhat the Sidekick, if at that? Now, in dreams where I started out as a disembodied consciousness -- a sort of 'fly on the wall' -- it often happened that once such an ideal character would appear, I would then inhabit that Body. So we should consider just what that might do to us, that is, for our structural personality. We went asleep as purely ourselves, but, shaking off the body's personal persona, in a dream suddenly saw, heard, willed and acted as an entirely different 'Character'.

As the farmer in New Hampshire says, "you cannot get there from here". While you still persist in your materially assigned body within your dreams, you will be in something of a concrete and immutable matrix. It is only by going through the 'zero point' of being disembodied that you can finally be able to be free to lam into one of the more Ideal Dream Characters, and then subsequently awake to have pulled some of that nobility into your what had been your own flat existence.