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Dream Logic
We are talking about dreams. Not dream interpretation, though I can touch on that some also, but about dreams and the dreaming state. Anyone care to share what they understand to be the state of being we call dreaming? I think in some form or another, we don’t leave the dream state. Excellent, and yes.…
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Collective Dream
Are you awake now friends? I think I’m awake. I tend to think silly thoughts so my dreams come back as silly. Dreams are meant to be cryptic? Sometimes they seem so off the wall. They are as cryptic as your own thinking is. That’s kind of scary considering there are some odd images in…
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Domain Of Experience
How do you experience keeping secrets from yourself or the wider “conscious”, if I may call it that? Freud spoke of the irrationality of a part of the mind he called the ID. Well… Rationality is a joke, but that’s beside my point. There is a domain of human experience that goes on all the…
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The Real World
About this “not real” nonsense. Shall we explore reality? The only thing you or anyone else knows, or can know of reality, is the personal or the interpersonal. But even the interpersonal will have your personal adaptation inevitably, and does it do any good to label anything “unreal”? What action does it let you take?…
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Field Of Experience
An example of dreams opening us up for what the world is saying: I was on holiday with my best friend who I trusted completely. When one night I dreamed that she was communicating behind my back with an ex-lover, and I became so angry in the dream that during the next day I was…
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Dream Domains
The dream world has as much reality as the waking world. What gets tricky is seeing the connections or “roads” that connect the dream world to ours, of which there are three. Dreams are more than just symbolic stories about your day or state of being. They are a collection of images and symbols of…
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Divination Using Dreams
Ever notice you don’t choose the patterns in your dreams, but you can pretty much always recognize them? Somehow, the structure always seems familiar? They don’t reflect your thinking any more than your waking vision reflects how you think, or any less. As your thinking does determine how you pay attention to and notice things,…
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Practice of Oneiromancy
There are three basic styles of oneiromancy, just as there are three different fields of dream. There is the theurgic, where through contemplation of divinity and adoration of the presences of the God/Goddess, your dreams begin to take on the nature of that divine wisdom. Then there is the hermetic, which is through an immersion…
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First Dreams
Today, we are talking about dreams. Not so much as experiences we have, as a process that is ongoing throughout our lives. A message from the world to our deepest selves, even if the signal is perhaps often too full of noise to be very clear. Your first period of sleeping consciousness occurred in the…
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First Spark of Consciousness
We have two basic domains of dream, what we might consider peaceful or sweet dreams, and disturbing dreams or nightmares, and each of them are as ingrained as our own DNA. They form the fundamental basis of our consciousness. How we dream affects how the fetus develops. It can develop snoring, low birth weight, attention…
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Positive and Negative Dreaming Face
So in general, both the nightmare dreamer and the peaceful dreamer can have positive as well as negative growth outcomes. Shall I speak to the growth outcomes of the peaceful or nightmare dreamer first? Nightmare. Ok, nightmare it is. Nightmare Dreamer Nightmares aren’t always blatantly scary, right? They can just simply be confusing you. In the…
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Dream Shapes Your Thinking
Now we get to thinking. The end of the line in the couriers route from the world to our waking minds. You think that everything you have been taught, everything that has ever been said or done to you, has to be kept in mind at all costs. We must not ever forget the hurts…
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Maybe So
What would be the most real facet of human experience? Dying? Ah, it can be made more useful by making your conscious thinking more open ended, sort of like mindfulness meditation, but it doesn’t even have to be that formal. If you just keep an attitude of “maybe so” in your day to day life,…
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The World as You Experience It
As you go about your waking day, your mind is immersed in a constant sensory register, and your subconscious doesn’t distinguish between information it gets from your outwardly directed senses, and your internal sense of your physical and emotion well being and state of mind. While you go about your day, the world as you…
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Dream Picture
Though you do not consciously perceive the associations your dreaming mind uses to make sense of your world, they are still present and active while you are awake. You encounter them in the experience that is sometimes called projection. Any meaning something seems to have for you, those first impressions you get on meeting anyone…
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People’s Dreaming World
Shall I describe most peoples dreaming world? The people in those dreams are generally very bland, and always doing something very important, seemingly anxious though it’s always hard to determine or understand the cause. The places in those dreams are always overblown, too full of objects and noise, and the emotional reactions always wind up…
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Dream Light
Shall we go into dream shaping? Actually, dream lighting. Let’s do that first. Dream light is psychic energy. The more vivid a dream seems, the more of your personal psychic energy is invested in that part of your mind, and you don’t have much control of how this energy is distributed. The conscious use of…
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Dream Shaping
How many people here care about ketchup bottles? Not especially. No. Intensely. Have you ever had an odd moment when, though you don’t normally care, the presence or absence of a ketchup bottle registered on your awareness and mood more so than usual? Sure. That was a dream event. The ketchup bottle mattering in that…
Category: Dreams
Dream logic is your personal logic. All the metaphors that show up in dreams, they are in your dream world because they govern your waking attention habits. For dream space, it does have forms and geography, but they aren’t dictated by what most people would see as the obvious. This is the same reason your brain won’t let you see everything. It has to “keep up with the real”. The real is just your belief pattern.
Dreams form memories in the brain as easily and tangibly as physical experience does. You can’t convince yourself your dreams are meaningless and have meaning in your waking experience.
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“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.” Anais Nin (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903-1977)
“When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?” Rene Descartes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Scientist, 1596-1650)