Passort. It looks like I've been missing out on all the fun.
 Originally Posted by Passort
I am basing this on the theory that all of life is a dream. That nothing is "so called" real. This would certainly fit the descriptions that I have found in my research. The brain cannot tell the difference which is which. Memory is required in each of them.
I recently found this article about visual perception that really made me think about the ability our minds have to generate a world based on expectation:
http://www.livescience.com/strangene...ee-future.html
Have you had much experience with dream memory? I have been fascinated with it recently. Mainly the false memories that just appear in our minds to explain a dream. It is especially frightening in lucid dreams, when you can explore the memories while they are being created. It is like we provide ourselves with false memories just by asking for them.
I immediately began to experience a change in just about everything. Especially past experiences that were so painful and long held and had become a repeating pattern.
Are you Buddhist? Have you read much about Tibetan Dream Yoga?
 Originally Posted by Passort
I am not trying to difficult when I say that everyone of those things is possible in your "waking" state.
I think that this is an important point about waking and dreaming. The world may be an illusion, but that does not mean we are just watching it unfold. We participate in our life constantly and change it through our actions. We can do anything we want. It may take a lot of work to do it, but it is possible if you free yourself from the limitations of laziness and fear of the unknown.
 Originally Posted by Passort
We all have had a feeling in a dream that it is so real; there can be no
doubt that we are awake. But then we wake up and say, "It wasn't real. It
was a dream."
It is frustrating that we naturally forget and dismiss dreams as soon as we wake. I don't think it is because we ignore them. I think it is just the way our memory works. We keep dream memories separate from waking memories. Even with years of dedicated practice, it is difficult to hold onto the memory of a dream minutes after waking from it. I think this is, again, telling of the illusory world we are trapped in. We can have an amazing dream where we are fascinated by how real everything seems. Then, minutes after waking from it, it seems like a hazy distant memory.
For example, I will wake from a dream, and ask myself, "Did it truly feel that real? I remember marveling at the realism, but it surely was not as real as this world?" Then I will realize I am still in a dream! A false awakening! I will wake for real, and ask myself the same question.
Any way I look at it, I come to the same conclusion. Memories can't be trusted.
 Originally Posted by abazur
Sorry, don't understand. If we are always dreaming from where do we get our experience to experience the past?
When we are dreaming, (in the conventional sense) where do we get our experiences? Even in a lucid dream, there are events going on in the dream that are outside our control. There is a part of our mind that we are not in control of. I have vivid lucid dreams where surprises still pop up. How can I surprise myself? Where do the false history and false memories come from in dreams?
 Originally Posted by Passort
Could it be that we are a law unto ourself? Is it possible that we are limited only because we believe that we are? Is anything possible?
Again, lucid dreaming supports this. Even with the knowledge that anything is possible in a dream, it is hard to accomplish some things. Expectation plays a huge role in dreams, lucid or not. If I expect something to fail, it will. No matter how much I affirm to myself that it is possible, there still will be some part of myself that will still limit my abilities. It is difficult to overcome these expectations.
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