Welcome to Dreamviews! I agree, I can't believe people aren't interested in being able to do ANYTHING you want inside of their dreams. |
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Hey there everybody. I've been a Lucid Dreamer for quite some time but finally got tired of having to keep it to myself all the time. Isn't it so strange how many people are unenthusiastic towards the phenomenon of the lucid dream? If you ask me, it's one of the most amazing experiences that life has to offer. |
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Welcome to Dreamviews! I agree, I can't believe people aren't interested in being able to do ANYTHING you want inside of their dreams. |
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Other than being god like in dreams where you can have ultimate control, religion has as much to do with this as it does with balloon animals. |
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Hi, welcome. |
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Hello and welcome! |
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Just by reading it he dosen't seem like a "GOD HATES F*GS" Christian, to me he sounded reasonable enough and I can't see why that question is necessary. |
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Lucid Dreaming since 3/30/10
Hi Felix! When I started out as a LDer, I was also a Christian. My dreams have always reflected my spirituality, or vice versa, rather. My dreams were a big reason I finally deconverted, and I've been doing a lot of exploring since then. I think that dreaming helps you understand yourself and what your deepest beliefs and values are. |
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DV Buddy: BlueKat
Part of the reason of this forum is introducing yourself. I see this to be a personal aspect attributed to the forum and my question was meant towards that. It's okay to learn more about someone in a introductory thread about themselves, is it not? Although someone may seem reasonable as a whole, they can have drastically negative views, which I have learned from my own experience. It was a simple question. If you take a look at the question in a neutral perspective, without stigma or annotations, it's not aggressive like you may initially perceive. |
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Welcome in Felix, I hope you find everything you need in here for your future journeys through your subcoinsciousness I believe that ones faith can have a big impact on ones dreams. Not that all of your dreams have to revolve around god and angels and such, but it is likely that you will have another picture and perspective of them in your dreams than us atheists do |
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Slip inside my head
Watch how my dreams unfold, watch my fantasy in work
Watch the beauty, watch the details. Isn't it amazing?
I love you, and I welcome you into my world
If you are lucky, there will be music playing.
As long as people are reasonable and don't try to push their beliefs down each others throats its all good. |
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Thanks everyone for the feedback. It's been a few days since I've checked my messages so it might take a while to go point by point and respond to every thread. So just a big thank you to everyone for taking the time to reply. A few things stood out in my mind after reading all the responses though. First off, unlike many who profess my faith, I don't presume to know the answers to all of life's mysteries. There's only one mystery that I claim to have any comprehension of and it's the paradox of strength through weakness and progress through grace. |
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Last edited by FelixLucid; 09-27-2011 at 06:05 PM. Reason: typo
I have to disagree with this fear about the dream realm, or any other realm. My faith clearly states that all planes of existence exists in the domain of God's kingdom, and that He Himself holds all things together. And apart from that, as heirs and children of God, all things belong to us (including the dream realm). Plus there's never any justification for fear when you profess to believe the Book: |
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Kinda starting to preach a little bit now. |
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The purpose of this thread wasn't to preach or influence anyone's beliefs; I do hope that your beliefs are secure enough to not be threatened by contrary rules. This thread is meant to discuss the interesting relationship between the beliefs we carry about life beyond the natural realm in waking life, and our experiences in dream life. Certainly we're dealing with a field of consciousness that finds it's very root and being in belief. All things in dream emanate from belief, from my perspective of course. |
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Last edited by FelixLucid; 09-27-2011 at 06:45 PM.
Uh, no, sorry. I didn't say (or intend to say) that this was simply a preaching thread and all you wanted to do was convert everyone here! That would be absurd. |
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Fair enough. Thank you for elaborating. Since this is the section of the forum where people introduce themselves to one another, I believe that I've done that adequately and gave the DreamViews community some insights into my personal life, spiritual life, and most importantly my dream life. Now that these foundations have been laid down, I'll explore the "religion section" that you recommended and hopefully continue discussions over there. My greatest hope is to learn new things and to share what I've learned. Freely I've received, and freely I will give. Thank you for the direction and hope to see you around the forum. |
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I don't mean you have to go to the religious forum just because I said so! If it's lucid dreaming you are talking about, then post anywhere. If it mainly about god and religion and how it affects your attempts, then I would suggest post in there. You don't see many religion related topic in attaining lucidity or general discussion because they in a way don't belong there, but discussion of lucid related topics such as faith count and can be posted there. |
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Hi, and welcome to DV! |
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I find your faith-based approach to lucid dreaming interesting. It makes since that this would work for you since lucid dreaming is primarily effected by ones belief, positive or negative. |
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Hey Felix! And welcome. I must say, you have me intrigued. I also happen to be a Christian, but I'm pretty inexperienced with lucid dreaming so far (granted I haven't been working at it lately, just because I have a lot going on, but at least now I know I can lucid dream). I'm glad to see that other believers are also lucid dreaming enthusiasts - you and some others above. I really enjoyed your scripture-based tips. Perhaps we can exchange PMs about the subject sometime. |
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Lucid Goals: (My LD count is from January 20, 2011)
[ ] Stabilize & explore; [X] Fly; [ ] Change the scenery; [ ] Talk with a DC; [ ] Revisit a favorite dream; [/] Sex; [ ] Create an epic ongoing adventure; [ ] Participate in the mayhem in the movie Clue;
[ ] Be in The Phantom of the Opera (original cast); [ ] Revenge on childhood nightmare DC, the Big Bad Wolf (he was 8 feet tall!), by yanking his ass out of my closet & putting him in a SAW trap!
Welcome. I too believe in god but many here don't. |
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"You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop"Lucid Goals: [Ask a DC: "Am I dreaming?"] [Ask a DC: "What are you?"]
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