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This is a point that is often overlooked. In this case, either one has a narrow view of the world, or the world is in fact narrow. In a narrow world, there is only a certain set of facts that can be true, and must be true for everyone. This is the source of much conflict and suffering. In the Mahayana Buddhist worldview, there is no objective, underlying reality. The world is a dream or a magical display, and what we call reality is really a group dream. Accordingly, the world is much more fluid, and many things may be true depending on one's karmic view. For example, a day at the beach to a human is often relaxing, but would be fire and molten metal to a hell being. How the world is experienced depends on one's karmic propensities. Our world becomes more heavenly or hell-like in harmony with our view. Which is not to say that any dream is entirely subjective: each dream has its own set of rules. Personally, I have noticed that people on the more awakened side of the spectrum have a wider view all around. So I would say the right answer is the one that works for you and delivers authentic results, given your current karmic makeup. Not everyone has the ability to progress with hard core jhanas, and not everyone has the ability to make use of sudden awakening techniques. This is why we have so many teachers and teachings--- it is the generosity of the divine. A narrow view in that sense denies such generosity.

That's indeed the case, most are junk actually. The ones with solid messages are connected to our unconscious. It's usually how lucidity appears, you realise something is off from reality and then maintain awareness in the dream state.

As OP made no claims of an alien divination, what makes you wonder? Without remembering dreams and a dream journal how can you know the tendency though ?

Yes, I also have to say something to cap the experience and let me partner know that it is nothing to worry about and that she can go back to sleep. I'd love to hear about your experiences, feel free to PM me. I have only met 2 other people who have extensive dream/visions with this kind of reality. I can share a bit about them too.

I think these journeys can tell us about both the conscious and unconscious. Anything occupying a substantial part of our conscious activity will spill over into the dream world and imagination. Sometimes it is obvious, other times disguised, but very much a part of, or influenced by, our daily conscious activity, whatever is alive in us in positive and negative ways. Unconscious content - suppressed, repressed, or latent - will also be expressed and I find the two are often inter-mixed thus giving rise to complex and unexpected images and stories.

I am down at the river at the swimming beach and a an alien couple is there , they have a very pale blue tone in their silver skins , silver head hair , no other hair , blue silver eyes , naked , sexually differentiated but no sexual organs . Some talk between us happened , cant remember it . Thats it , sorry . Curious I found this this morning as last night I had an 'epic' dream - down the 'tunnel' here and swoosh ! (It 'quantum jumps' from the back ridge on the property to ....... but no aliens .

His book on the psychology of encounters, whether real or perceived. His work applies independently of whether an encounter is real or not, he definitely did not bear a judgement against physical sightings with accompanied verified radar readings etc. Though in a dream where it is all psychological, his work is an even better fit for purpose.

Imo, The yoga sutras were written during times where those who took up that practice had less distractions, therefore, less mental/physical gunk. Lives were simpler, and people had less overall blockages. Conditions then for applying the principles of the sutras were therefore more conducive. In this age, more is required in terms of ground-clearing to first establish a firm and proper foundation for siddhis to manifest. One of the simplest ascertainment is the question: Are you able to consciously control and direct your dreams? Its important, because if you cannot consciously and lucidly develop the strength of an elephant in the dream world at will, it is infinitely more difficult to cause fruition in physical reality. So incorporating dream yoga, in some sense, is logical, and an essential prerequisite to siddhi development. However, its important to note that ultimately thats not the primary service of dream yoga. But its a good foundation to prepare one for siddhi cultivation in this current age. For example, your goal is to tap into the potentiality of super memory. Odds are you're finding it challenging in this current bodily realm, otherwise you wouldn't have started this thread. Dream yoga provides an optimal training ground whereby you can launch a systematic and concerted program to become omniscient (as the ultimate fruition in that dimension). By the time you fully master this in the dream dimension, you will know with conviction whats essential to attain a similar mastery in the physical realm. (Btw, super memory is just an off-shoot of the power of omniscience. Therefore in the dream dimension, its best to aim for the highest, and be as free and adventurous as possible. Even if you miss the ultimate fruit, you will still come away with consolation prizes.)

It's never easy to say something about the lived experience of someone else. It could be a bit different though, When a person starts to do energy work, whether that be Daoist or yoga or something else, sometimes that energy starts really moving into your body. Those unaccustomed feelings are interpreted (by the body) as sexual arousal. The feeling of sexual arousal will then create imagery in the mind and someone that you have a little crush on sounds like a perfect person to center these unaccustomed feelings on. (and this btw could attract the guy you were thinking of, so the whole thing would be turned around) as it was in a dream you may think you have no influence on what happened, yet you might try to bend your sexual attraction to another person, preferably one who is not playing with chi or anything. Think of that other person before you fall asleep can change what happens during sleep. These sort of things can and do happen, but of course I cannot know what is happening to you. (But whatever it was, if you covertly enjoyed it it will very probably repeat itself.)

' The wheel of negative karma stops RIGHT HERE ! ' Thats what I say about bringing up kids . Because if you bring up your kids right, no matter what you suffered , then they will pass good upbringing on to their kids ... and so on . I seem to have a lot to do with damaged people , or maybe that is just the stats 'out there ? Some feel helpless about the effects their abuse has had / is having on them . And then some of them have kids and mess that up due to this . I have been trying to help a young guy ( son of a female friend ) that had a bad childhood, he recently had his own son , unfortunately it is NOT a family unit and already beset with troubles . Its going to be a long journey here . I had a good talk to him about it recently , about what happened to him and the people that abused him and stifled his development , and his issues with his own infant son , that he rarely sees . I explained my above ideas to him and how kids can feel and develop well with good input . "Let's (ie us ) take the little guy on an adventure in nature one day , fishing or something, he will love it ." But its going to take time and patience .... small steps , treading on thin ice . He actually talked to his mother the other week (after some very subtle communication with me ) after several years of either ignoring her or abusing her as they passed in the street . She was overjoyed . Mum tells me one of her daughters ( who seems a bit prophetic ) had a dream about all of them , including him, sitting down to a meal together , that made mum very happy . - I'm working on it . Good onya mate ! You watch that boy grow and spread the good to others who will then do the same themselves .

Ink blooms on paper. A dream of Japan dissolves. California dreams.

For me, it's a bit about a belief many tribal people used to share -- every photo takes away some of one's soul. An indirect confirmation that there's something to it I see in the tragic or at least controversial predicament of many (oh so many) celebrities for whom having their images on public display is part of their job description -- actors/actresses, rock stars, politicians, etc.. Many of those who had "everything" an "ordinary person" might dream of -- fame and fortune and even love of millions -- wound up dying young, screwing up their lives with all kinds of toxic excesses, getting publicly eviscerated over this or that, or becoming grotesque caricatures of their own earlier selves. Does it have something to do with their incessant picture-posing? I don't know, but I definitely feel a certain truth to that. Would you believe that I only took one selfie in my entire life so far? And even that, by accident -- I was aiming for something else and snapped a pic of my reflection in the mirror instead, in a winery. I liked the accidental composition -- it looked sort of like a painting on the wall, so I kept it.

I am still trying to make sense and explore implications of a phenomenon I had ever since I had a profound ayahuasca experience. Whenever I wake up from a troubled dream, which means one from which, for one reason or another but usually due to being weirded out / scared, I try hard to wake up and eventually do, for a minute or so after that I see flickering light patterns when I close my eyes. They're not really complex, just some movement of bright dots in a distinct texture pattern, which made me call this phenomenon "holodeck matrix". It is always the same pattern, and the perception gradually fades the longer I lie awake. (It's quite intense light at first, but in the context of the whole phenomenon being kinda subtle.) I don't know whether the specific pattern has any relevance or familiarity (maybe related to the way that light-receptors are arranged on the retina or at least how the brain manages them?), and it is hard to describe, but I tried to draw a crude approximation/guess. (They are slightly more colorful, I think, with some elements of yellow and green, but last time I had this I remembered a red-dominance once I noticed it was occuring again.) I think there might also be a connection between the occurence of such dreams and how much energy is still active in my head before entering sleep. (I usually do some nei gong in bed.) I had this type of dream a couple times after my ayahuasca experience, in a more intense way, but even years later this still ocurs in a milder version if I don't ground myself thoroughly after the nei gong. (But I usually don't do that because I am not that worried about these effects. It is part of a process anyway, and results are so subtle that I decide to emphasize more on keeping the energy active as much as possible. Once one reaches a state where there is always activity, you cannot say you moved energy out of the head anyway, and one has to distinguish between energy being constantly active and it being stuck up there. I don't think I have an issue with the latter. I've had energy pulsing around a bit between third eye and crown ever since my Kunlun Nei Gung seminar, and it is active at various times of the day, usually during states of relaxation.)

Earlier I mentioned we are talking past each other without any real communication occurring. They way I understand the words and they way you understand them seems to be different. The fact is our experience is all a dream, and none of it is real, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't drive sober or be good people. There may in fact be an external reality out there which our simulated dream like experience is a representation of, and operating under the assumption there is we should behavior morally, and ethically. I am saying don't mistake a painting of a pipe for an actual pipe. What you see and experience isn't the same thing that is happening outside of your skull. It is something different from it. Yet most people live their lives operating under the assumption it is actual reality. It is a holographic simulation, and nothing more.

This sort of nullification, I'm sure would be very comforting for the drunk driver who has killed or hurt someone. Or is comforting for anyone who has regrets. "It's all a dream, it's all a dream, none of this is real..."

Yes there is the long form Zhunti, which is the complete. Then the short, which is the last few lines of the long starting with Om If i remember correct. You either do enough reps of the long, or get some kind of vision/dream to be able to do the short. There's also a complete ritual/sadhana one can do with the Zhunti but its best done after receiving transmission/empowerment apparently, the monk who inherited it from Master Nan at least mentioned this

Lucid dreaming and dream interpretation is a part of many of the spiritual traditions of the past and is mentioned in many of the world religions. A good meditation and statement of realization/affirmation/mantra/whatever you do, to do at night before bed is to silently affirm to yourself, "I remember my dreams and am conscious while dreaming." It is also more healthy to gradually drift into sleep, than to pass out immediately. Another one to do in the daytime is, "My concentration is becoming perfect." And, "My concentration is perfect." Do not phrase an affirmation like "I will remember my dreams tonight", because your mind will then think that it is something that always will happen in the future, but not now in the present time, which is what time it always is. To mentally realize the statement to yourself is also more powerful than repeating a mantra over and over. You should also get in the habit of writing down your dreams when you wake up if you can, anything you can remember, even if it's just fragments or bits, immediately upon waking up. After several weeks or months you can look over the info over time and see if there are any patterns or recurring themes Here is a cool article about dreams and their meaning according to the readings of Edgar Cayce Edgar Cayce on dreams The Edgar Cayce Dream Dictionary. This page explains what the symbolic meaning of something in a dream is- Edgar Cayce Readings Dream Dictionary

Tao says: From this time forward Zhou Ziliang was remote from me in both voice and form—he appeared to me in neither vision nor dream. Such is the gulf of separation between humans and the spirits. But should I not await the proper moment to meet with him again? The means by which Ziliang achieved the Dao as well as his present rank and style in the spirit world are all layed out in his records. Here I have simply summarized some of his earthly activities as well as what I observed of him to form a preface to his own records. At the end of the preface there is a note (I’m not sure if it’s by Tao or a later copyist) which tells readers to treat Ziliang’s records like scripture, with the appropriate reverence and ritual preparation.

Enjoy!

My personal experience with ( lucid ) dream progressions has been that the progressed from the extraordinary/sci-fi movie material to the very ordinary. In that during a long period of lucidity they started off with all the fantasy movie type of stuff ( daemons, flying ) and the progression was ..they begun to resemble real life more and more. Like each "level" in this "game" had a "puzzle" to solve ( ie let the daemons kill you instead of fighting ). Then the next "level" was a little closer to reality, etc etc to the point I dropped dreamwork because there was nothing untypical there anymore, it was like reality. I don't know if this can be generalised or if it's just how it happened to work out for for me. Just thought of sharing, as if that guy was a lucid dreamer, maybe he had a similar type of progression and this is why his dreams were resembling reality. Of course it could well be something entirely different for him. The above progression is btw entirely unrelated to therapeutic dreamwork progression, ie unrelated to meeting the shadow, the anima etc, so it's not a proxy for something that's better understood.

Well, my hometown is supposed to become quite nice when "it all goes down". Of course, currently, we can swing between extremes of +40c and -40c annually with 1-3 feet of snow per winter, so it might be worthwhile waiting until we're deep into climate change. Incidentally, we get colder than Mars at least a few nights per winter, so if that is what you fancy, might be cheaper to live out that dream here than trust your life on something elon musk built just to find out anything colder than -40c is deeply unpleasant. I remember one year we had snow so high we could ski over the fence. In that spring we had a huge flood. I'm with @silent thunder - BC Coast is the retirement plan. I'll miss the summers, but man, to not be here for the winter... 🥰

Hello everyone! I'm Jewish. I'm new here in the forum I wanted to consult about spiritual work. In my tradition, studying the Holy Scriptures is a very significant part of the spiritual work. I have studied for several years in the Holy Scriptures and in various Jewish streams, and in recent years I have been studying Aristotelian philosophy - the writings of Ibn Sina, and this so that I can delve deeper and learn from the teachings of Maimonides. So far so good. The problem is that since my childhood, I have a strong attraction to mysticism. I feel like this world is calling me, no matter how much I try to put it aside I am drawn there again and again. Because this need floats with great intensity, I sometimes look for shortcuts (like the gateway experience), read about them, understand that this is not a significant spiritual path that will develop me as a human being and in the end do nothing. I do practice a little qi gong in an amateur way, I want to work on monkey squatting for half an hour to an hour a day to activate my Dan Tien. Recently I also started writing a dream journal. I'm just restless all the time. I have a burning need to open my chakras, especially the third eye, and I feel lost. Sometimes I feel tingling in the third eye area, but I don't do any work and I don't know what to do about the tingling, they are not too strong but appear from time to time. I have felt for years that I belong to these worlds and in practice I have no part in them and this gap hurts me. Seeing auras, telepathy, lucid dreaming, astral travel, energy work and other spiritual experiences are things that I feel knock on my door every once in a while, calling me to work. Although I am relatively young (27), I am married with two daughters. I am a student and work at the same time, and so is my wife, so our routine is very busy and I don't have much time for long practices. Every practice costs me a huge sacrifice. On a deep level, I feel that I am moving in a good direction and becoming a better person who is more connected to the environment and the world. At the same time, on a personal level, I feel a huge lack and a tremendous attraction to engage in the occult. I feel like I don't have a teacher who can guide me and teach me what I should do about my chakras for example. I don't even know how good or problematic my system is and I'm afraid to go to any medium because I think the market is flooded with imposters. Do you have any advice for me? Thank you very much!

Here's a quotation from Jung's Red Book which provides some necessary nuance to this very general statement: The knowledge of the heart is in no book and is not to be found in the mouth of any teacher, but grows out of you like the green seed from the dark earth. Scholarliness belongs to the spirit of this time, but this spirit in no way grasps the dream, since the soul is everywhere that scholarly knowledge is not. But how can I attain the knowledge of the heart? You can attain this knowledge only by living your life to the full. You live your life fully if you also live what you have never yet lived, but have left for others to live or to think. You will say: "But I cannot live or think everything that others live or think." But you should say: "The life that I could still live, I should live, and the thoughts that I could still think, I should think." It appears as though you want to flee from yourself so as not to have to live what remains unlived until now. But you cannot flee from yourself. It is with you all the time and demands fulfillment. If you pretend to be blind and dumb to this demand, you feign being blind and deaf to yourself This way you will never reach the knowledge of the heart. The knowledge of your heart is how your heart is. From a cunning heart you will know cunning. From a good heart you will know goodness. So that your understanding becomes perfect, consider that your heart is both good and evil. You ask, "What? Should I also live evil?" The spirit of the depths demands: "The life that you could still live, you should live. Well-being decides, not your well-being, not the well-being of the others, but only well-being." Well-being is between me and others, in society. I, too, lived — which I had not done before, and which I could still do. I lived into the depths, and the depths began to speak. The depths taught me the other truth. It thus united sense and nonsense in me. I had to recognize that I am only the expression and symbol of the soul. In the sense of the spirit of the depths, I am as I am in this visible world a symbol of my soul, and I am thoroughly a serf, completely subjugated, utterly obedient. The spirit of the depths taught me to say: "I am the servant of a child." Through this dictum I learn above all the most extreme humility, as what I most need. The spirit of this time of course allowed me to believe in my reason. He let me see myself in the image of a leader with ripe thoughts. But the spirit of the depths teaches me that I am a servant, in fact the servant of a child. This dictum was repugnant to me and I hated it. But I had to recognize and accept that my soul is a child and that my God in my soul is a child.

Honesty at the conscious level is good but not sufficient. Most people at the conscious level want to be good actually, more often than not, it's their unconscious that acts differently. The difficulty is recognising and accepting what's unconscious as it's not always pretty. Eg when people first "meet" their shadow self they're like, no way this thing is part of me. The shadow is by definition the nasty part of our Psyche. If this work is done through dreamwork, they literally do meet their shadow, in a dream ofc. Without acceptance though there's no integration and integrating our shadow is linked even to our creativity. Integration doesn't mean being taken over by our shadow of course. After integrating our shadow we're also not triggered by the personality of others, which allows more effective interactions, including setting better boundaries. Which goes back to why these sort of integrations are so important. If they're not done they "rule someone from the unconscious and she or he calls it fate" even if their conscious intentions are different. Conscious intent is the start but it's not enough.