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My question: Why does this dream still stick out for you after a year?

I believe it. Very possible in a dream like state. Seeing this in "real time" would be bewildering.

Hopefully, someone with a great degree of cultivation and meditation knowledge can enlighten us here. For me, I am more concern about the real meaning behind my 4am dreams and visions. They, somehow, clear my mind. We all know that we shouldn't dwell in dream forms.

I'm sorry to jack your thread, but this inspires me to share a dream I had that contained dragons, they were the western type dragons, the ones that knights fought: It began with a grand meeting, we were all in human form (we had the ability to shapeshift from dragons to humans, but the hall we were in contained a gem/diamond the suppressed us into human form) and the eldest dragon (who was covered in gems, even his eyes were gems and he was in dragon form) spoke he said:'up there, the stars is our home and we must return to our brothers'. In the meeting we had discovered a traitor, so me being a General, I had to take him and get him to come clean about being a traitor. The humans (cowboy era) built a gaint boat with wings that could shoot fire. I saw it and realised that the others were in danger. I tried to fly (still in human form) but was lacking/in need of power. I had the intention of drinking/consuming the blood of a human because that's our food. Then I woke up.

So I've been thinking about warriors a lot... have had a dream about it... and good old uncle Bob Wilson popped into my dream with some Tarot cards... they weren't the normal tarot cards, but ones that made sense 8-Circuit Model of Consciousness Having woken up, I thought to myself immediately - a Warrior (in the way that neimad describes it) is the transformed manifestation of the Second Circuit - the 'Anal Emotional-Territorial Circuit'... something that is part of our inherent psychological map. A non-transformed - Anal Territorial Warrior, shits on people (marks territory - whether mental, emotional, spiritual, sexual etc) and is a natural politician... when you transform the Circuit you get Leary's 6th circuit - 'The Metaprogramming Circuit' as Bob calls it... working on this circuit involves the ability to behave in total freedom... that is, the ability to 'metaprogram' your own persona... your own behaviour patterns etc. (like hacking into the matrix for all us nerds! ) So it seems that Neimad's path is taking him in that direction... I'm all for it! One must not forget that there are all the other Circuits to transform if you're looking for the level of 'enlightenment' that Taoists call Imortality. The Wiseman is an archetype of the next circuit (3rd and 6th), The Lover is a manifestation of the 4th (and 8th)... IMO Transforming them in sequence is the way to go... Because each transformed circuit releases energy to move onto the next one... makes me think of the spiral shape

Lucid dreaming or vision or astral projection...whatever you call it. In fact, my precognition ability came from my dream visions. No, I don't do drugs and losing my consciousness in my waking state. Do you take drugs? If so, our conversations would end immediately.

Hrmm. Yes I have seen Kuan Yuim as well. One's sense of consciousness is different in a dream though rather than waking consciousness, mind you.

Don't tell me you regularly converse with Christ and Buddha.... First, I had a dream of having sex with Kali and she told me something...instructions. That was it. I never saw her again. Second, I saw Tatra (in Buddhism she is Kuan yuim), Kali counter-part, who was cutting a blanket over my head in order for me to see. I was crying in the process because I was afraid to see but not sure what. That was it. I saw her no more. Third, a talking stature head in clear blue of Arminius burst out from some sand dune on the ground. The whole sky and the ground cracked open and turned red. I fell to the ground and in some sort of terror, looking up at this massive giant. Here, he smiled at me and give me a sword because he said that I deserved it because of my innate ability to grasp and gain knowledge without external aids. I saw it once and that was it. Here, I knew nothing of these deities until I saw them in my dreams and did some research on them. How can you even negotiate with these ancient, mythological spirit beings??? Talk to them for more than once? What's matter? You didn't get the message the first time?

It sounds as if the black dragon represents the unconscious, the reptile brain, fear of attack, fear of being tricked, fear of the unknown, and the occult shop the power of your subconscious to unleash its dragon of creativity filled with spiritual power of lightening, electron flow. Unconscious fear of this power taking on a life of its own and opening you up the Pandora's box of the unconscious worries, attackers, haters, sabotaging influences beneath the surface within you. Horus being the upper brain or super-conscious that rules the unconscious was able to put the snake back in its bamboo and protect you from any harm. So the dragon is really a gift, a sign that your unconscious wants to work with you, and that your super-conscious will protect you as you do, it's up to you to trim the dragon with super-conscious white and gold. Cool dream!!!!!!!!

So i had been abstaining from any type of orgasm for about a week into yesterday morning when suddenly i started getting a random nocturnal emission. Interestingly during my dream i could tell that i was about to have one. I think me reacting to it actually made it want to release itself more. The issue is that during the emission i actually tried to hold it in but it kept going as i was forcefully trying to hold it mid-ejaculation. (i was barely awake but knew i did not want my jing to spill and i believe not all of it fully came out) After, I knew that i had done the wrong thing by trying to unnaturally hold it in and then throughout the whole day i had a weird feeling in my abdominal/kidney area. This morning i woke up with an erection and also a strange feeling in my testicles, kinda like it still wants to fully finish the emission i guess? Now my question is should i just get myself to ejaculate again naturally and then start over the abstaining process or should i just not even bother as this is a "minor" injury? (Im not really sure if i actually injured my ejaculatory system or not, so now im just confused if i should do something about it or just let it be) I suspect i can do some sort of qiqong meditation to make the feeling in my testicles go away or it may even go away over time, although i am wondering if it is because im still sexually "charged" because i did not fully ejaculate or because i just messed up my ejaculatory system through that act. P.s. I am pretty much new here so hello to all and thank you for those whose reply to this!

Hello OldGreen, Thanks for the advice. Yes influence is a big deal if your a neophite. I stopped talking to said people once I realized that my very own free will was being manipulated, which I did not like at all, for the egotistical fantasies of others. If anything I learned to trust myself even more and that making mistakes can also be the best teacher as well. But I am not aware of the use of purple and gold around one's aura, I guess it is all in the intention. On good days I can sense if I am being read or possibly tampered with. If I am meditating I can sometimes catch glimpses of beings reading me who tend to flash in and out of my minds eye. It's rather interesting seeing these beings that people assiociate with. Some people can begin practicing magick and may not even realized who the entities they are working with or are possibly possessed by. Lack of awareness can be a grave danger, especially in the dark arts. Ive had a couple of dreams and third eye moments where I have literally seen psychics and mages in my field of vision. Unfortunately in the hispanic community, relying on psychics, mages, sorcerers, tarot card readers is a big phenomeon. Many people will come to these kind of people who are seeking 'help' with their desires and intentions, which are not always pure to say the least. The idea of dominance and taking advantage of lessed developed souls is what tends to happen. My entire journey of awakening began because I knew I was being tampered with spiritually but I did not have the eyes to see or the hears to hear at the time. I remember the first night I had stupidily let my guard down (to explore and understand) and I had felt someone shove their hand into my lower dan tian, it hurt! Constantly being hit with heavy energy and dealing with the lies of your own family is no fun. It takes a toll on your health and can give rise to psychological stress and paranoia. I know when a family member is up to something because they usually show up in my dream scape with a candle or an object of some kind or I find I am being attacked by some sorcerers spiritual slave or demon. I have seen the goat of mendes as well a few times. But I have also seen catholic saints, Jesus with a rainbow body, monks, Goddesses, disincarnate souls, etc.. Needless to say, in dealing with such crap, I found that sending whatever energy back into the earth is a great way to nuetralize whatever it may be coming at one's self. I also tend to send ghost to the post-mortal realm, since I don't believe in sorcery and would want someone to help me cross over if I was stuck in a rut on earth after death. I believe they are not suppose to be here and feeding them energy is like having a pet animal. Hence why I said that many who practice magick tend to be looking for power. We reap what we sow, and this I know. In developing this sense of self-defense I have realized that I missed a few things concerning cultivation just so I can be 'aware'. Which sucks. I am hoping to perfect and pursue better health for now and continuously work on learning and cultivating a sense of understanding, every trial being a blessing in disguise I believe.

I felt heat by my balls this morning. It felt like my youth was being restored. Rejuvenation. Lolz. I also find it interesting that i decided to search this very topic today and noticed all of these recent post. Interesting. I also woke up from a dream the other night. Someone had introduced themselves to me and offered to heal me at their clinic. Whoever this is, thank you for your humble generosity. I didnt get the name though, i woke up when i realized i was talking telapathically to some one.

You are in a way correct, that food and drinks you consume during the day would inhibit your chi cultivation process. I know because my night time meditation would often produce less meditation results (completing the microcosmic orbit with a good health of warm chi) than in the morning. At night, I could meditate for over an hour and could barely feel the chi. In the morning, after waking up, within 25 minutes, I would experience multiple microcosmic orbits. I guess, over the course of my sleep, my body is cleansing itself. In fact, I often felt a sense of extreme hunger in the morning. So great that I dream of being hungry in my dreams.

The following book: There is a River: The Story of Edgar Cayce by Thomas J. Sugrue, Edgar Cayce is an excellent book and an interesting read from the standpoint of understanding that the so called science community simply cannot and will not tolerate this sort of "non-sense".Even what appears to be toleration - is dis-ingenuous in the sense of any real push to incorporate it or treat it in a way that is not something like a parent tolerates adolescent experimentation. I have great hope for the Eastern Medical practices - because over there - East does meet West - they have centuries old medicine and they have heart transplants. You have arthritis - you go on a fast and get rid of it. Lack vitality - take up Tai Chi or Qi Gong. They have hospitals using Qi. Spirit is a part of medicine in the East - here at best - God - may be invoked but the doctors here for the most part see it as a placebo effect that cannot hurt and "can give them some comfort" (even if it is a pipe dream).

Well, don't get too caught up by the colors of the light because that's not the real essence of the third eye. The essence of the third eye is to allow you to see, feel, dream, and think beyond yourself. In both good and bad situations. One night you may be encountering some spiritual being and the next night you may find yourself dealing with a whole new moral issue. Issues that you haven't thought or encountered before. For an example, witnessing yourself killed in a battlefield (possibility how you died with your past life self). Or locked up in a prison with some inmates calling you "brother." Like, how did you end up in a prison? You need a proper grounding to deal with what the third eye can reveal to you. Otherwise, you will lose it. Mime was opened the same night I had my Kundalini energy rising, at 18. In my late 30s right now. The color hasn't changed much, white/bluish. This light is the color of the Chi energy. The light itself isn't the actual third eye. 99% of the time I see this light only when my chi is circulating in my body. The only thing I am regretting is that my third eye does not exhibit its power when I am awakened. Shame... Only during meditation (seeing flashes of beings--people faces, monks, and recently female faces--and animal eyes in the past too). And in my dreams.

Brain damage? Check. Just because I am intelligent and aware does not mean I am not brain damaged. It is an affliction not an insult. Permanent tinnitus is one symptom of an acute strike to the base of my skull. But the fluoride came earlier in life and I've only recently learned that it could have a negative impact on spiritual sight. And it is the only explanation that i have come across that might explain why i am so perpetually unable to see clearly, or dream lucidly... Unless i am expected to starve myself and freeze my nuts off in the wild, doing nothing but meditate, in which case, keep your astral world to yourselves. its not worth suffering over.

Mmmhm. Recently in my dreaming I am in great huge libraries. These places are like labyrinths often with other occupants sometimes not. I open books and step into different layers of dreaming and they often contain images that leave impressions in my mind. The library always looks different but I wonder if it is simply the "akashic records" of which so many talk about. The other interesting thing that happens to me is that I often astral project or move into higher realms of dreaming while dreaming. After my experience in this "higher realm" (which is often more vivid that the previous) I will "wake up" into my previous dream and recollect my experience. Here is an example from a couple nights ago: My perspective is in 3 parts. One observing, the other two acting. There is an androidbeside me, face and body the same shape as my own but the texture of his skin is filled with blinking lights and coils of computer-chip jargon. As I move the android moves, trapped in an endless cycle. The third observing perspective moves into my organic one. The android must be fooled. We lie down, and I send a visualization, a wave of perception that peels apart my vision and opens into the androids own mine. Suddenly birds eye, the android is walking on a endless shore. The tide comes in, starting at the ankles but slowly moving up and up. The android continues walking but is quickly becoming submerged in water. Eventually the ocean brinks the androids head. As soon as the head is breached my awareness shoots upward, into pulsating blue rings of light and color. The feeling is indescribable. There is no "I" no body, only the awareness of this realm of light and sound. Eventually I feeling a downward sensation, my awareness plummets through the rings and back into my sleeping body, the android lays beside me.

My my what an active soul! Hello! I am new here as well. I would first like to saw that my experience is similar to yours. Different, but similar. The active dreaming, interacting with Spirits and other humans in the dream state. Sensitivity to energy, violet rings around the third eye etc. I also se eshifting patterns of violet, blue, and sometimes green and yellow especially on blank surfaces when I am calm. I see rings of white energy around people that pulse with faint colors lke red yellow blue etc. Somtimes everything around me is one solid color, usually pink or violet. What does this mean? Is my third eye opening? When will it open fully? I really wonder. Maybe I will post about it. I am wondering also how old you are? I just turned 20 last month (pisces) I would love to talk about our journey more!

Oh yea I forgot to mention. I also had dreams with some catholic preist. The preist wanted me to become a catholic preist as well. This preist seemed to have spiritual powers as well. I felt him push his energy on me in a playful way in the dream. I found myself in a cathedral with this preist I have never seen in my life. I also think this preist had a minion because he had a little helper with him who was wearing the same clothes the clergy men wear. Pretty trippy. But I am no longer a catholic. So becoming a preist was out of the question.

And your point about the tao is.....? Anyway, what do you think is happening in a dream? Are there no parallels to your dream life and your waking life? T

A couple of points I would like to add: Do not interfere with your breathing. This is quite easily done in all meditations that build on (at least) stable visualizations. Problem is that you may not notice that you are disturbing your normal breathing pattern. Have a check now and then. Also, I've talked with Bill Bodri in the past about this meditation: the white skeleton meditation is not a feeling meditation; other traditions, such as the Daoist water meditation, may feel the bones, but in the WSM this is not the main technique. You can use all kinds of tricks in order to get a stable, and lustruous visualization of the skeleton, such as rotating lights, brushing lights, flashing, feeling etc. but in the end, you produce a complete skeleton in dazzling white light. When you increase stability, you will feel sensations and pranas moving and shifting, but do not cling or reject. The method brought you there and you should continuing focusing on the method. Regarding visualization: I started with just one bone, held it in a relaxed fashion. I used all time I could - watching movies, listening to music, subway etc. - for holding the visualization. Of course, formal practice also with sole focus on the meditation. As an aid, sometimes movies of bright lights, and of course, pictures of skeleton bones. At first, you just visualize in the same way as you would recall mentally your girl-/boyfriend, for example. In the beginning it may just be a quite vague shape, or even a shape of space. The longer you cultivate and train, the more the light will increase, the visualization abilities heighten, until you attain a samadhi on an unwavering picture of a skeleton. The more your channels open and your qi builds, the more dazzling you can imagine the bones. In the end it approaches the experience of an increadibly vivid lucid dream. It takes time, so patience. I was not a master at visualization either. And also, don't tense the eyes. Some people asked about why you start with the feet. Some excellent answers were given. I could add that Mark Griffin (hardlight) also mentions the importance of clearing the legs. It's only until that happens that you unleash the full power of the kundalini forces. Before that, you just have a trinkle flowing. There are tons of reasons, some doing with the complete opening (extremely, extremely hard to accomplish) of chakras in the chest requiring specific channels through the legs to have opened, there are karmic benefits and several others. I hope this may be of some help. Good luck to all you practitioners. Mandrake (edit: typo)

Over the years I've done far too much reading and procrastinating. At 28 and after more than 10 years of theoretical study of metaphysics and mysticism I am steadily reaching breaking point, where I have to start a serious practice. I cannot tolerate all the planning and hypothesizing any more, and I really believe that an ounce of practice would be worth far more. A big obstacle for me is that I care about how my life-choices will influence my family, and they cannot support my choices because of their associations. I know that an earnest, deep practice that sacrifices a conventional lifestyle and income will reward with a calibre of benefits that simply cannot be matched by a worldly life. From the few experiences I have had I thrill to think that it was just the beginning. During extraordinarily deep practice, for me, my dream life becomes so profound. It cannot be explained in a linear way, but the feelings that accompany those states give me such a deep satisfaction. And I know that my living conditions are far from optimal for spiritual growth. I am removed from nature. I can only imagine how much it would benefit me to balance myself in the heart of nature, and to change my diet in accordance with best practices. I have realized in the past couple of days that my first aim should be to break my body into an almost austere practice where I can tolerate sitting unmoving in meditation for at least an hour. In the fashion that Wang Liping was broken into a 4 hour full-lotus session by his masters in Opening the Dragon gate. Many might not agree, and this might not be the best approach for everyone. I have simply arrived at this point where I know my weaknesses and how they might be resolved. For many it might be no problem to sit unmoving for 1 hour, yet it is something I have yet to master. I believe that something very beneficial takes place if one breaks through barriers of discomfort like that. I am reminded of how Chunyi Lin sat for something like 8 hours during a seminar given by a Qi Gong master in a park, and how his body went through extremes and was significantly healed of severe physical injury. I myself am struggling with a sports injury in my back, and after about 20 minutes my back flares up. However, I have found that struggling through 40 minutes numbs the whole body and my mind approaches an altered state. I fully believe that by practicing Nei Gong that my body will fully heal itself, but at the moment I am just a beginner. Now I am avoiding cold food and drinks, and I can really feel energetic movements in my belly since then. I am also abstaining from draining Jing. I am not sure that I am feeling the lower dan tien, per se, but there is a change occurring in my body. Now that I am paying attention to energy in my body, I can feel that I am getting periodic flashes of heat circulating around my body and skin. A big problem I have had during meditation at night and early morning is what I think is too much Yang energy, almost like acid reflux, even when I know it isn't likely to be acid reflux. It is like an imbalance and keeping the body and mind still seems to aggravate the condition so much so that it feels like heat is building up in my torso and neck. Another problem in the evening is that I get so sleepy during practice that I just cannot stand it any longer and I have to go lie down. A problem with meditating while waking up is that it is like my mind is in a numbed state that does not promote a successful meditation experience. But I think that if I change my goals from having a good meditation to breaking my body into submission then I will make better progress. I know at least that until now the former goal made me prone to give up prematurely due to aforementioned difficulties. I am reading Daoist Nei Gong by Damo Mitchell at the moment, and I really like it because it divulges the expected progression and explanation of underlying mechanisms. I do like knowing what to look out for and what to expect during practice. I hope to at least feel my lower dan tien clearly, as a next step of progression. When I raise energy by leg bouncing into the root chakra I can really feel the area heat up, so I have felt that before, but I really am an amateur. I would not normally write like this, lest I reduce motivative pressure, but I think that some of the readers might have advice for me.

I dream in the void I live with integrity I accept what is

with lucidity I engage my daily life. I dream in the void.

haha. Sitting in full lotus is not a prescription for someone to do to solve a problem but rather it is an ontological truth. The truth is the yin yang resonance into the Emptiness. So yeah there's other techniques that rely on the yin-yang dynamics into the Emptiness but for those out there claiming to preach the truth -- then they need to demonstrate the direct approach to the yin-yang dynamics to the Emptiness. So there's no point in trying to convince anyone of anything -- be it the middle class or the elite, etc. Zero population growth will happen - no matter what. We can say -- ah but if we consciously try to plan things right then we can lessen the suffering, blah blah. Each individual will do what it wants so what we can do is give them information - share information - but realize that they will reject it -- get mad -- and do probably the opposite of the information. So that reaction has to be taken into account. Basically my goal in life is to stay out of prison and not get butt raped. I know -- I dream big. haha. So on a practical level that means I'm going to have to build up my muscles, get in better shape, learn fighting, etc. But you see that is only the very practical level - it's not the foundation of reality! So that goal is not at the top of my list. The foundation of reality is the Emptiness - so that should be the top of the list. Deep dreamless sleep therefore is my top priority. haha. If I can be consciously aware of my deep dreamless sleep then all the better! People define reality in terms of people and that's the problem -- so John Michael Greer is still trying to "save the planet." Umm - even George Carlin got it better -- and I know you say - no JMG understands how humans need to save themselves and the planet can take care of itself. But this whole "transition to an oil-free world" -- or whatever -- I mean Sweden plans to be oil free by 2020 -- so there you go -- JMG writ large. But face it - 2 billion people already live in an apocalyptic culture that is the outcome of the supposed middle class that gets to decide how best to deal with running out of oil. So no matter how radical JMG thinks he is - it's still a bourgeois humanistic mentality that is Western and dependent on genocidal imperialism. As the middle class disappears -- already everyone is dependent on going to McDonalds because it's the "cheapest" way to get the most calories -- but of course it's not cheap - it's just adjusting the cost to high taxes and the tax money is then given to big Ag which as private corporations then take the tax money to destroy the planet and sell crap food at "cheap" prices. haha. Yeah it's a big scam -- but the whole civilized Mall culture -- drive thrus, etc. -- flying on airplanes. Like my sister actually badgered me when I dropped her at the airport - she wanted to know why I wasn't flying. I said - you know that TSA is really invasive and its against civil liberties - and she says - but that's not going to stop me from flying! As if flying is someone's personal right -- but for me I would want to fly the least possible because of the environmental cost. haha. Humans are not some special animal that can rationally control their future - rational planning is a total joke. The truth of reality is rape and pillage - and "civilization" is a smoke screen. So this whole - "intelligent" planning to a post-oil future - it's a joke because ecology by definition is beyond rational planning. A person needs to take DMT and just merge into Nature and just let go and then they can come back and go - wow I'm just glad to be alive just in the here and now -- because the here and now is really all that exists. I appreciate JMG saying how alternative energy can not replace oil -- that is important to point out. But the idea that there is some rational solution is a joke. Sure there can be some crazy survivalist tribal solution -- like the Berber culture I visited that has existed like that for thousands of years. I know the whole primativist technology thing is cool. For me - I dumpster dived - not as just some individual solution thing but I did it to make it less painful for people to do in the future. I mean - my goal was to make it more socially acceptable because I knew that more and more people would have to rely on dumpster diving. I did dumpster diving to make it a new norm for society. Sure enough that's what happened - I biked out of the city and the crisis got worse and homelessness got worse. My coworker got fired and I saw him on the street and he said he had founded "Homeless Against Homelessness" and they got a new law passed to provide free bus passes to the homeless - available through shelters. So he got fired from some bourgeois middle class "activist" nonprofit which was really dependent on Wall St. Rockefeller environmental.