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I once had a lucid dream where I was trying to reconcile Escherian boxes and pillars incongruent with waking reality. Became so disoriented in my dream state, that I woke myself up and promptly vomited. lmao. Escher will get a big wet kiss from me for that one, when I meet him on the other side.

Transformations require the mental perspective of ourselves as we were or will be , as opposed to just the reality of things just existing now. Being alive, is a now situation and only now exists . Now is the perspective of heaven ,no fear of death, no actual death , death and birth equally a mystery. there is no call to mourn a death which is just as likely a birth , and so he sheds no tear for the dead but is moved by the sorrow around him secondhand ,but sincerely so. The end of transformations is not then death, but a state of different perspective in which one sees themself as being ok in whatever capacity they are existing , at rest. More simply said, is to say that he has an inner level of peace because he understands flesh and blood reality to be a dream.

I dont see that character pairing elsewhere in the text, but not being able to read it , that might be misguided, anyway , from the context, the idea of the transformation includes the possibility of ones , death, birth ,or rebirth, or reincarnation, or new dream or return to the mystery from which mind is distilled. The usual idea of death is included in the story ,but a broader understanding or speculation ,is d delineated as the protagonists enlightened understanding.

We are constantly bombarded by evil thoughts in modern society -- t.v., online, etc. So that's why I have to sit in full lotus as much as possible. But still - like the MCO is for - even if you build up the chi - like if I don't cycle it - to refine it more into shen energy - then it can still be deconverted during sleep. ummm... If I am dreaming than usually I will wake myself up from a dream before it is too late and then my pc muscle is flexing and I just go into full lotus. Sometimes though the loss is from no dream that is remembered, etc. So yeah it's stated that lust and over eating can be neutralized through meditation but if there is drowsiness then that is the worst. So what I do is I go into full lotus and then I just fall asleep in full lotus. So I figure then that makes sure to purify the energy. But yeah that chapter 10 exercise is a great help -- cycling the eyes -- I can really feel that pulling up the energy and purifying it - with the mudra. You might want to try fasting - you are already vegetarian right? So it just depends on your age, how much you exercise, etc. but if you can meditate more and then maybe try fasting. I did a 8 day fast and that's when my energy was the strongest - real strong electromagnetic energy.

Dualistic or samsaric good behavior, such as our personal daily striving to show compassion or love gets a bad rap that it doesn't merit. From the point of view of ultimate absolute unconditional love of someone who is realized, its a bit tawdry or synthetic. But the bit by bit, situation by situation, thought by thought, impression by impression, dream by dream, posture, gesticulation, face, eye expressions, those slim little energy impressions that you have in your body moment to moment, all of this counts. Its not about karma, thats just a reductionist expression so we dont get lost in the complexity. Its about redoing your conditioning, and ridding your consciousness and body of those complexes, triggers, knots, of negativity so the love can shine through. Its about noticing the negative parts, stopping, and changing it. The good part of this is, if you are able to change the strong habit energy of one particular situation, there is a kind of elastic band snap effect that allows you to progress in a big way. What I mean is, it helps you more to have had a problem and undone it, than to have been neutral all along. This is why really messed up people are often the ones who can make the quickest progress. Meditation and energy practices do this slowly and thoroughly over the long term. The deeper state of meditation the more garbage gets resolved.

Last night I dreamt about bears -- I was hanging out with bears. It was because yesterday I had been thinking about bears when I was working in the woods. Once there was a bear up a tree just off our deck while we ate dinner. Only 20 feet from the house - a small bear. Essentially when the mind gets really focused then there's certain thoughts that have extra intensity to them. Often we don't notice this moment of extra mind force with a thought but it's subconscious emotional energy. So that passing thought will then manifest in our dream state. For me the bear was in a precognitive dream I had about this tree in my yard being cut down. The dream about the tree was no longer I had moved from the house but I still went past the yard on occasion. I went back after a few months and sure enough this old oak was no gone. I had dreamt of a white bear standing up against its trunk. Another time I dreamt of another tree in my yard of youth -- only this time with a rainbow aura around it. Recently I saw a bear special on cable -- how this guy trained orphan bears and he played with the bears. When I lived in Alaska there were bear tracks everywhere. I also just read the book BEING CARIBOU and the authors are constantly being tracked by bears and then chasing them off, etc. Bears are a spirit animal for the circumpolar cultures and when bears hibernate they stick some moss up their butt to retain the energy, just like in the end of Taoist Yoga when he sticks a wooden bun up his ass. haha.

Yeah last night I had this dream of my ex-girlfriend and she was staring into my eyes and I into hers. Suddenly my brain filled with light and my dream went lucid and then this amazing vision took place where the light changed from yellow to red, green, purple. All different forms where twisting and changing into each other. I was awake but was just watching the vision take place. Then I tried to sleep but the outside driveway light was too bright. Suddenly I realized it was the light of the full-moon way more bright than the street light. I remained wide awake for another hour or two and was able to figure out the subconscious influences behind the dream content but still the magnetic bliss in the brain was very strong and remains strong today.

So this one time there was this zen dude who was dreaming that he was a pony He wakes up all like, "AAAAAAAAAH!!!" Other dude walks up to him like, "The hell us wrong wit chu?" And he like, "If I can dream I'm a pony then can a pony dream that it's a brony?"

Heheheh...I don't travel a lot. If I do, usually in some nature parks. One time, few years ago, I went to the Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel NY. Supposedly, it hosts the world largest Vairocana buddha. Throughout the whole trip, I could hear my chakras vibrating. I could usually hear them when I am in a location with relatively more quieter. Then, I came to a 7ft tall Quan Yin statue. You see all the coins people left there on the statue. I began to photograph it. Through the viewfinder and looking at the statue's face, I was completely seized and frozen for few seconds...because I felt the statue was smiling at me and sensing massive energy was coming from it. I moved the camera from my face and staring at the statue's face some more and trying to make sense what had just happened. It was like the statue was alive and living. Then, the grasping and seizing sensation was gone. Now, the statue felt like a statue. Duh..... I believe back then I was trying to open my heart chakra and the center channels. Subsequently, maybe last year, I saw a vision (in my dream state) of a Quan Yin like face with golden hue and smiling at me the same way....

Yeah - you mean his new SciFi show? I tweeted him about having the qigong masters on it. haha. Joe still has his spirit energy stuck in his cavity of vitality -- it's a strong dopamine energy which is a good bliss -- but he tends to suck people's energy down -- like qigong master Jim Nance says he avoids swear words and sex - which, of course, is the exact opposite of Joe Rogan. haha. So I always have to empty out my Joe Rogan experience - I sit in full lotus while I listen of course but then I might have to wake myself up from a "evil" dream to then go back into more full lotus. But I am waiting - qigong master Jim Nance has a new website in the works for athletics -- and he is going to post his video testimonial from an IFC fighter that Jim Nance healed. haha. Qigong master Jim Nance is also working with some top volleyball athletes - like the national team, etc. hmmm...... So yeah his big interest is the initation process for athletes. Actually I had a dream last night where this dude was coming after me to "pump" me as the term used on JRE -- and so I stood the dude off in a martial arts fight and I ended up literally bashing the guys head in. umm -- I felt bad about it -you know that smashing watermelon sound of the skull smashing open. So anyway I do appreciate this aspect of the sublimation training that the JRE scene focuses on - and I know he definitely dabbles in the energy consciousness stuff - so I still think there is a possibility of this down the road. I do think Joe is a good guy - despite his $22 million net worth. hahaha. I mean -- the thing is that this energy training has such strict mind training standards -- it goes totally against JRE. I think words are one thing -but it's the electromagnetic intention behind them that is crucial - and I can read that about Joe.... he definitely activates the cavity of vitality that kind of sucks off people's energy.....

This is what the statue I saw in my dream looked like concerning some black priest and that temple.. Not to sure about the lady in the middle. Might be Isis? Any ways I found this pic last night and had another crazy dream. A lot of traveling. Found myself at a temple that read Rose de Crux when I tried go into the temple, but the door was blocked with a inscription and a heading of Rose De Crux. Twas interesting. Rose Croix. It was Rose something. Possibly Rosicrucianism.

Lust can be overcome by the six phases of alchemical sublimation and gluttony can be overcome by a vegetarian diet that also avoids garlic, leeks and onions as they produce generative fluid. Drowsiness is very difficult to overcome so the ancients devised sitting in meditation continuously to stop sleeping. A dream of nocturnal emission is always real while all other dreams are unreal. Consciousness when awake is in the eyes but when asleep consciousness is in the lower abdomen so it drains away at night even with no dream. So put the tongue against the roof of the mouth and take long breaths to get the spirit down to the lower tan t'ien. The other method is to sleep on the side of the body with one arm for a pillow and the other resting on the belly - one leg straight and the other bent. Squint the eyes together for pointed concentration so that the chi energy returns to the lower tan t'ien.

Who observes clocks in night dreams? Of all the waking dreams I've observed, no clocks or time has existed. Another observation, were all connected entering this day-dream/night-dream for the fact; I have witnessed my ex going to a Halloween party dressed up as a gay fellow the night before-Saturday. That next day-Sunday, had a hunch to call to apply my insight to him. Yes! This was so, with an amazement of Life's true nature is already fulfilled! Namaste ♥

Hello Tsunami! I have done some work on lucid dreaming and astral projection a few years back, which, coincidentally, was the time that led me to this forum before. However, nowadays I am just doing meditation and qigong for the health benefits. The most I got towards a lucid dream was sleep paralysis and there only a few times where I almost managed to get into a dream from a wake state. One of the things I've considered is that meditation gives me a clearer mind, and since I have beforehand knowledge on lucid dreaming, and astral projection, I'm inadvertently doing this.

Heard that one before. Before "self-awareness", chop wood, carry water. After "self-awareness", chop wood, carry water. That is still dreaming, like a dreamer with awareness that it is a dream. When it's just Awareness, and no one to be self-aware, there is no wood to be chopped, no water to be carried. That is Nirvana.

Would be interested in your definition of dream-like. often dreams seem to be more real to me than normal daily-life

Yes as long as the body exists the world exists. It just becomes dream-like

I would be careful with statements like this. Many people here have based their conclusions on personal experience, but that does not mean that you or they have in any way fully unveiled truth or come to the 'correct' conclusion in relationship to said personal experience. Really? what about traditions that see the divine as entirely inactive, sort of like being without mind, vs traditions that see the divine as having volition and intelligence? Not to mention the many subtle differences that can be found... Why? {or who's rule is that?} and how do you know that it isn't? Say 'unconscious' has been incorrectly named, and is not actually the opposite of consciousness. If consciousness was the screen everything happens on, could it be that 'unconsciousness' is really just a temporary experience of a 'lack of sensory and cognitive processes', mixed in with all the other experiences that are normally 'full of stuff' and thus normally called 'conscious'? Or what about dreams? Can you say with absolute certainty that you can remember every dream you ever had? Do you recollect a dream ever slipping from memory as you wake? How do you know that in an experience of 'unconsciousness' you are not perfectly awake and aware but just in such a grand or 'other' scale that your waking mind simply can not contain it and thus in memory gives you a 'blank'...? You sound so sure of yourself here... How do you know? And consider the fact that in these experiences, people generally describe the fact that they have stopped thinking, at least with conceptual reasoning and linguistic phrases... Mind thinking about mind... lol Why does a stone have to think? Could it exist as it exists, and we exist as we exist, in a way that is bigger than your narrow range of rules allow? Is there room for possibilities outside of your current conceptions? Does it? What about the possibility that it creates only a seeming separation? Is there a way ignorance could exist within awareness and not distort it? Your conclusions are too rigid, with too many unexamined assumptions hidden within them...

I hear you, you're talking about illegal drugs, drugs on society's naughty list. I'm talking about anything that has a cascading stimulus on my system. It's semantics, but for me, I can't divide them too far. Anything that impacts me, has a 'drug-like' quality as related to my system, as I perceive it. Anything, especially anything with a clear 'cascade effect' can boost or hinder experience. In the end, all experience is applied to practice as practice is all of my life. I just don't shut myself off to certain experiences because I was told to, or learned it in a book. I've been compelled to explore certain things that weren't and aren't sanctioned by my culture, because my system resonated positively to it. I used to think that a drug was a plant or chemical I had to ingest. I now perceive that every interaction is a drug of sorts. Side note: related to practice being all of life... I've been intending to run MCO in my dream state recently. Last night, after about a week of sending intention before I sleep, I became lucid during a dream in which I was part man, part tree, running MCO through a large transparent egg in my trunk. I woke up from that so high lol... pure awesome!

Small Dream, What I told you was the truth, John did teach that to make progress you need to be in "actual meditation", and that sitting and breathing was approximately 2% as effective as being in "actual meditation" and that meditating one hour per day and not in "actual meditation" would take 10 years to complete level 1. That is what John said, I didn't lie to you about it.

This perhaps ; "Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song" Love unrequited, robs me of me rest, Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers, Love, nightmare like, lies heavy of me chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers. When you're lying awake with a dismal headache and Repose is taboo'd by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to Indulge in, without impropriety; For your brain is on fire, the bed-clothes conspire of Usual slumber to plunder you: First your counter-pane goes, and uncovers your toes, And your sheet slips demurely from under you; Then the blanketing tickles, you feel like mixed Pickles, so terribly sharp is the pricking, And you're hot and you're cross, and you tumble and Toss 'til there's nothing 'twixt you and the ticking. Then the bed-clothes all creep to the ground in a heap And you pick 'em all up in a tangle; Next your pillow resigns and politely declines to Remain at it's usual angle! Well, you get some repose in the form of a dose, with Hot eye-balls and head ever aching, But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams That you'd very much better be waking; For you dream you are crossing the channel, and Tossing about in a steamer from harwich, Which is something between a large bathing machine and A very small second class carriage, And you're giving a treat (penny ice and cold meat) to A party of friends and relations, They're a ravenous horde, and they all come on board At sloane square and south kensington stations. And bound on that journey you find your attorney (who started this morning from devon); He's a bit undersiz'd and you don't feel surpris'd When he tells you he's only eleven. Well you're driving like mad with this singular lad (by the bye the ship's now a four wheeler), And you're playing round games, and he calls you bad Names when you tell him that "ties pay the dealer"; But this you can't stand so you throw up your hand, And you find you're as cold as an icicle; In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks) Crossing sal'sbury plain on a bicycle: And he and the crew are on bicycles too, which they've Somehow or other invested in, And he's telling the tars all the particulars of a Company he's interested in; It's a scheme of devices, to get at low prices, all Good from cough mixtures to cables (which tickled the sailors), by treating retailers as Though they were all vegetables; You get a good spadesman to plant a small tradesman (first take off his boots with a boot tree), And his legs will take root, and his fingers will Shoot, and they'll blossom and bud like a fruit tree; From the green grocer tree you get grapes and green Pea, cauliflower, pine apple and cranberries, While the pastry cook plant cherry brandy will grant, Apple puffs, and three corners, and banburys; The shares are a penny and ever so many are taken by Rothschild and baring, And just as a few are allotted to you, you awake And with a shudder despairing You're a regular wreck, with a crick in your neck, and No wonder you snore, for your head's on the floor And you've needles and pins from your soles to your Shins, and your flesh is acreep, for your left leg's asleep, And you've cramp in your toes, and a fly on your nose, And some fluff in your lung, and a feverish tongue, And a thirst that's intense, And a general sense that you haven't been sleeping in clover; But the darkness has pass'd, and it's daylight at Last, and the night has been long, ditto, ditto my song, And thank goodness they're both of them over! ?

That's former defense minister of Canada. Funny thing, I watched this yesterday and did some reading up on aliens and watched some videos by bashar. Last night what happens? I have this dream of being abducted, a ship appeared but I realised I didn't have to go in for something to happen, there was a drilling sound at the back of my head as though i was being adjusted. Then I woke up what i thought was my bed but instead was in another dream (inception? lol) with my pineal gland about to burst causing me to open my jaw very wide. Some other stuff happened but I don't know what to make of it.

I am more interested in how you can perceive chi outside of yourself and in another person's body. I can perceive chi within my body and can also see my own internal organs while in my own dreams. Apparently, my third eye becomes powerful enough in my dream state. And to do this while fully awakened, literally, is something....quite amazing. To grasp certain chi illness alignments through your third eye...meaning you can grasp it intuitively or you first visually see the alignments with your third eye???

Any body experiencing inner sounds while practicing? Which direction do you stand while practicing and do you have a practical reason for that? Do you also feel that practicing - and life- is like a game of tennis ?😄 You pray, conceptualise, believe, dream and always miss the ball. The wisdom of hitting the ball correctly only comes within your experiences with tested beliefs while practicing, and always in facing the ball thrower.

Dude, Solomon's Key is definitely sealed with SOMETHING. I was reading it last night on my phone and before I turned my phone off I saw a six pointed star on the screen. Fell asleep of course, saw a slew of beings of all kinds. Some creepy one's as well. Had some weird dreams as well. I find my self driving in a dirty brown river with my some relatives. We were using our car as a boat in the river and we came to this dead end. Strangely my brother blamed 'white people' for closing off the river, so he kicked the boards down and then this opening opened up and there were boats on the other side and we all got arrested? Then in another dream this African man looking preist had given me a goat that turned into a white lamb. Told me to get baptized with it apparently. I also saw some kind of temple, a miniature model. It kind of looked Egyptian. I was checking that out for a while. There was also a time in the dream where I was looking at something hat looked like the inside of watch. I want to say I was looking at some kind of subtle device, but it kept changing and made no sense really. Looked cool though.