Cool, lenscaper. If you do check into any of them, I hope some will resonate with you. Oh, that's interesting you mention Donald Hoffman. I haven't checked into him yet, but he was referred to in my reading and I put him on my list. So this just gives me more reason to go ahead and look him up. Also, thanks for the link. I'll check it out soon, hopefully, anyway. |
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Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life? - Havelock Ellis
It was early in my training and I had been trying really hard to master WILD......spending very long periods of time in HI. These sessions were having mixed results. I remember this as a very strong session. By that I mean that I was able to put my body to sleep while staying very awake and aware. After a very long time the HI just stopped coming and I slipped into a blackness that was not quite sleep. This was the first time that happened. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
Yes, that sounds very much like the void described. Do you enjoy being in the void? In Buddhism, it is called the "radiant womb of emptiness." I have only experienced this for brief times before awakening from LDs. It seems there's a lot within this state. Clare Johnson wrote that when she first started experiencing this it was boring until she realized it was a thought-responsive environment, like an LD. Her account of creating music starting with a violin and adding more and more instruments on top of it is pretty interesting. But more than that, it seems as though you can use this state, the void, through intent to be able to have nondual experiences, or glimpse consciousness before conceptualizing occurs. It's purported that your sense of self can be found here, but also easily let go and dissolved. |
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Dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life? - Havelock Ellis
Thanks, your explanation totally makes everything clear, we are very similar in our approach, I'm also doing all kind of weird experiments all the time. My portals are also oval, but tend to differ in color, blue or red or yellow. Going through them and come out of them is a profound experience. If you ever run out of HI you can try only the long cycles of SSILD, repeating them several times, HI always appear for me. |
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I agree about SSILD bringing HI every time. I have been working a lot with that liminal (bardo) space between the two states and SSILD is always a great place to start. I go through cycles until I get HI and then stay with the HI. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
The dreams have come and gone in the night. I have captured them on paper and then I have let them go. For the last period of time I have sat on the couch in the dark studio draining all thoughts, all emotions.....everything. With my breath I have accessed Muladhara, the storehouse of dreams, or so I have heard, and now, as I sit in the dark, hypnagogic imagery is flooding my vision. Waves of yellow and purple light wash over me as I rise from the couch and move back to the bed. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
Good work lenscaper, when I was five that was my favourite exercise, lying on my back with closed eyes in a dark room, watching the tiny fireworks from phosphene's behind my closed eyelids, until only darkness remain. I can do that now even in very bright room and when I stop seeing the light of phosphenes and everything turns completely black with clear transition, then I know I no longer see with my physical eyes, the real show begin then. |
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I also finding it kind of boring to stay just in the void, but I also found it's thought related. The times not targeting lucid dreams purposely, I do Image Streaming and for direct line of communication with DC's and other supernatural activities that doesn't have a big ground around here. The Image streaming is thought based highly detailed series of images, I thought a word "volcano, green scenery, Past, Future, Space" and the void starting show me series of well crafted images in a slide show, frankly I wanted to be an artist and to be able to paint what I see, because I have a lot of materials so far, that are hard to be described in words. I also found that can show me parts of books with unknown origin, but requires a immersive focus to stay on a single page without changing, my line of thoughts must be steady as a water surface and my hearth pulse low as possible or everything just fall apart. Full conversations with DC's follow the same rules. Of course it can develope in full motion hallucination while still awake, like very deep meditation. |
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Last edited by michael79; 03-08-2020 at 02:17 AM.
Hi Lenscaper! How is your practice evolving? Miss seeing you around here. |
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Something important for every newbie: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...-read-imo.html
Listen while you work or before bed? http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-podcast/
More great audio: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-audio/
My lucid dreaming journey: http://www.dreamviews.com/members/fo...boutme#aboutme
Hey fogelbise....thanks for the shout out. I kind of got the message that perhaps I was saying too much and not listening enough for a newbie.....so I backed off to do more listening. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
I hope no member here made you feel that way! It is only through the help of both new and older serious practitioners that a forum like this will continue to be a place to come and discuss things for many years. I have not been visiting enough, but I hope to change that and hope others will too. |
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Something important for every newbie: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...-read-imo.html
Listen while you work or before bed? http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-podcast/
More great audio: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-audio/
My lucid dreaming journey: http://www.dreamviews.com/members/fo...boutme#aboutme
So...here is what I have been up to..... |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
Wow, you got covid and probably have the antibodies and hopefully a level of protection. |
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Something important for every newbie: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...-read-imo.html
Listen while you work or before bed? http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-podcast/
More great audio: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-audio/
My lucid dreaming journey: http://www.dreamviews.com/members/fo...boutme#aboutme
Yes, but we'll see about the antibodies. You may well have had it, especially if you were around anybody who may have been exposed. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
A happy ending for sure! |
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Something important for every newbie: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...-read-imo.html
Listen while you work or before bed? http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-podcast/
More great audio: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-audio/
My lucid dreaming journey: http://www.dreamviews.com/members/fo...boutme#aboutme
After 18 months of daily and nightly practice where I have immersed myself completely in the soup of conscious awareness and lucid dreaming, I have only now just had my first hour long fully lucid dream where I was able to do all of the things we read about here in these pages. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
Brilliant, you are a real inspiration! |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Congrats Lenscaper! That is inspiration for us all! |
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Last edited by Goldenspark; 09-07-2020 at 01:58 PM.
Thanks for checking this out and for your support and comments, Goldenspark. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
Interesting Lenscaper. |
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Those are very good points, Goldenspark. I truly think that intention to succeed paves a strong road to success.....and I did set a strong intention to succeed early on. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
Lenscaper, congratulation on reaching your first big milestone |
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Last edited by michael79; 09-07-2020 at 09:38 PM.
Hey michael79 ....chuckling at that. Actually the texts that I am working on all call for the mastery of clear light sleep before Dream Yoga (LD). My routine these days is 5 or 6 hours of good sleep with passive dreaming. When I get that right it leaves with the last sleep cycle for noctural meditation and lucid dreaming.....that's just right for an old guy who needs his sleep. In fact, good restful sleep is crucial for strong lucid dreaming, imo. |
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The more I gaze....the more I crave to see
When you next stand at cliff's edge....will you finally learn to fly?
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