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I always wonder why do we have to do as we are told to have a dream, have a job, do like everyone else and at the end, we all end the same way like everyone else. Are we conditioned to do like everyone else, have a job to pay bills and if you make enough money then work, work to pay high mortgages and pretend to live the great life. I always wonder. Last year, I took care of elders, some suffering dementia others different ailments and then did Uber to realize, why all this to end up in a misery life that nobody wants but we won't have control. Pretending living the moment having a blast whether you have money or no money, you pay the price of not taking care of yourself. Where is the ideal life? Does that exist?

It's easiest for most people to recognize the meaning of meditation when the body, speech, and mind are quiet. Otherwise, it is too subtle to notice and literally everything is a distraction. You can stand in one place or sit in any stable and comfortable position (floor, meditation cushion, chair, toilet, couch, bed, whatever)... There will be some aches and pains, it's not a gimme... It takes adjustment, tolerance, openness, and fortitude. Mind doesn't want to release control, body is not used to so much attention, inner voices are relentless... When you find the right way of resting the mind and body you will identify less with the currents and more with the underlying, stable presence.Then with practice, we can be stable with any activity. The teachings say to start practicing with supportive activity (prayer, mantra, circumambulation...), then progress to neutral activity (walking, eating), and finally challenging activity (extreme emotion, conflict...). Start easy when your ability to rest in authentic presence is like a small candle. Challenge yourself gradually and eventually your presence is like a campfire and ultimately a bonfire, fed by the challenges of life. You can even reach a point where practice continues in dream and deep sleep - eventually into death. Most important, start with an accessible and proven method and the support of a credible teacher and loving community. And remember, life is very short; we don't have too much time to fuck around.

haven't added to this in awhile. (https://www.cracked.com/blog/10-things-everyone-should-know-going-into-next-decade/) He's not always right but his questions and solutions are always thought provoking. 10 Things Everyone Should Know Going Into The Next Decade David Wong 12/19 Well that decade only got stupider as it went along. Maybe the next one will be better? Here are 10 things to keep in mind from now until 2030. If we all go in prepared, I'm confident this next batch of years will go off without a hitch. 1 The Technology That Will Utterly Dominate In 2030 Is Barely A Thing Right Now In early 2010, only the most obnoxious 20% of us had smartphones. Today, realizing that I've left the house without my phone induces the same panic as showing up at a party and suddenly realizing I've shown up at a party. What fringe nerd tech will totally control our lives 10 years from now? Cybernetic implants? Bitcoin? Don't bother trying to guess. Remember, it's not the tech itself that matters, but the horrible new uses we organically discover, as well as the way cultural norms respond and adapt. Looking at your phone in the middle of a real-life conversation used to be unthinkable. And if we stretch this idea out to 20 years, good god. In early 2000, the term "social media" didn't exist. Neither did "podcast" or "blog." Hell, only 43% of Americans had internet connections. So a time traveler from 2040 would at times sound like you trying to explain to a non-internet user in 2000 what the "Subscribe to PewDiePie" meme is or why a guy quoted it before committing a mass shooting that left 51 people dead. We're talking layers upon layers of change. Stupid, stupid change. 2 Go Right Ahead And Ignore Everyone's Predictions At this point a decade ago, headlines about Bill Cosby were all "Comedy legend delivers significant message" and "Comedian Bill Cosby leads parade." Donald Trump was preparing to shoot Season 10 of The Apprentice. "Disney buys Star Wars" would have sounded like the premise of a bad SNL sketch, and "Russians secretly interfere with U.S. election" would have sounded like the plot of a '70s Cold War potboiler starring Gene Hackman. The bestselling nonfiction book of 2010 was Why Prince Is An Immortal Being. Yeah, some stuff was easy to predict, like how China would continue its rise, mass shootings would still be a thing, or how Syria would blow up. But the biggest cultural shifts always come bursting out of the ground like in Tremors. Lots of what now exists only as rumbles and rumors (there were whispers about Bill Cosby's behavior going back decades) will seem glaringly obvious to everyone in 2030. Lots of what we assume to be true today will be referenced as crass jokes by our older, crankier selves. Related: 26 Hilariously Inaccurate Predictions About The Future 3 Trends Never Simply Continue On Their Present Course It's early 2010. "Obamacare" was just signed into law. Democrats are in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, and have a Supreme Court that will legalize gay marriage and let their new healthcare law stand. This is all after a wave of articles about the total collapse of the Republican Party, and how their only way back to relevance will be to purge the crazies and become reasonable adults. The thinking at the time was that they'd need their own Obama -- someone young, smart, optimistic, inspirational, focused on the future. After all, it's not like progress can go backward or something. Oh wait, it totally can. Yeah, the lines on the graph never keep going the same direction. The culture is a series of reactions and backlash that is impossible to project with any accuracy. Who out there guessed that young people would just ... stop having sex? Or that the biggest shows on TV would see much lower ratings than then-unknown video game streamers? Go back 10 more years, and things get confusing and darkly hilarious. The big worry in 1999 popular culture was that Clinton-era economic prosperity was robbing white male professionals of their innate need for meaning (Fight Club, American Beauty, The Matrix). "Sure, we all have good jobs, nice homes and plenty of money, but at what cost? Can't this much easy comfort be a bad thing?" No one could have known 9/11 was around the corner, of course. In the same way, you can't possibly guess the huge thing that's coming to fuck things up in a few years. Hell, even if someone came back and told us, we'd probably just be confused. (I'm imagining 2010 me trying and failing to wrap my head around "Gamergate" or "incels.") 4 The Future May Not Affect You As Much As You Think I spent the supposed economic boom of the late '90s working multiple minimum-wage jobs at once while living in an apartment with a cockroach problem. My biggest paydays, on the other hand, came a couple of years after the worldwide economy collapsed in late 2008. My career on the internet began right after the dot-com bubble burst and internet careers were declared impossible. It was only after reading endless headlines about how no one was buying books anymore that I got a book deal. That's how it works; your future and "the future" are two totally different things. No trend applies to everyone, or even most of the people, and that means every headline you read about where the world is headed might be nothing more than trivia to you. You'll fall in love while reading articles about how we're living in an age of loneliness, or lose your job in an industry everyone insists is thriving. Maybe you'll find a way to overcome your anxiety and depression a month after an asteroid has destroyed the East Coast. Who knows? In fact ... Related: 7 Insane Problems We'll Have To Deal With In The Future 5 None Of Your Current Plans Will Work Out How You Think How excited was 2010-era Nokia about owning 40% of the booming cellphone market? Or Blackberry, with their 20%? If gigantic corporations can get sucked out to sea by sudden shifting currents, so can you. But trust me, this can be a good thing. Sometimes the sharks are on the beach. The key is that it's not just that the world will thwart your plans. Sometimes it's the world showing you that your plan was horribly misguided from the start. Maybe the day-to-day of your dream career has nothing to do with what you loved about it (ask doctors how much time they spend actually healing sick people). Maybe you'll completely flip on what exactly you want out of life. Maybe ... 6 You Even Won't Be The Same Person 10 Years From Now You may think you know this on some level. You've been around old people; you know they weren't born grumbling about their lawn and eating at buffets and shambling around with a decorative cane that has a little sword hidden in it. But it's hard to look back at the child you were 10 years ago and really comprehend that you are the child to the 2030 edition of you. We kind of secretly think at all times that we've fully become the person we're going to be. But you are going to change in ways you wouldn't like if you knew about them ahead of time. There isn't much you can do to stop it. Maturing always feels less like change and more like learning about yourself, unearthing the person who was always there. You don't know how you'll react in a crisis until the crisis comes. You don't know what you'll do with power over another person until you have it. You don't know what kind of parent you'll be until you have kids. My friends, some of these answers will be startling. Related: 4 Signs Of Aging No One Warns You About 7 Some Of The Beliefs You Now Hold Dear Will Look Ridiculous This doesn't have to be a bad thing, and there's nothing sadder than someone who refuses to grow. But some of the truths you refuse to even question today will not only turn out to not be true, but will look horrifying in retrospect. You will find out some truths about your friends, parents, family, heroes, and enemies that will make you realize you never really knew them at all. You'll find that some of the causes you stood up for were corrupt, that you obsessed over minutia while ignoring what really mattered. You will do some of the things you used to harshly judge others for, and pray that the world is more lenient now than you were back then. 8 Oh, And You Will Sometimes Curse The Person You Are Now I assume some of you do this already, wishing you could go back in time and kick your own ass. Not just for what you did ("Why in the hell did you smoke that first cigarette? Did you think it would make you look cool???"), but what you failed to do -- the plans you didn't make, the crises you didn't prepare for. But it's hard to grasp that Future You will feel the exact same way. ("Why didn't you quit smoking while your lungs were still healthy enough to recover? What did you think would happen???") And having been through a few decades now, I can tell you that yeah, that never changes. The personality traits you like the most about yourself now will make Future You cringe. A whole lot of your present bravery will turn out to be youthful ignorance of consequences. You will someday groan at the thought of what 2020 you took for granted, all the chances you wasted. I mean, you will if you're lucky. Improving a thing means the past version now sucks in comparison. The worst outcome is a Future You who mourns the awesome person you once were. If you play your cards right, if you try to fix one tiny thing every day, your reward will be that Future You will scramble to erase all evidence that Current You ever existed. Related: 5 Things People Mistake For Being Grown-Up 9 It Will Go Much, Much Faster Than The Previous 10 Years I know this seems contradictory, considering this whole list is about how the entire geography of your life can and will change in just ten years. This is just the way your brain perceives time. This ten years will be a smaller portion of your life experience than the previous ten. That's why I can absolutely guarantee you that at some point, you'll have some version of this conversation: "Hey, I noticed that sweater I borrowed a little while back is still in my closet, do you want it?" "You borrowed it six years ago! What does it matter now, after a volcano has destroyed the entire American Southwest?" A decade sounds like forever. A 10-year prison sentence would sound like a lifetime. Yet problems that seem temporary now will still be hanging around then. The habits you're writing off to immaturity will still be going strong. Projects you're determined to complete soon will still be sitting there, mocking you. 10 The World Won't Have Ended (And May Not Even Be Worse) If you undid the past 10 years, you'd be reversing marriage equality in the USA (that ruling came in 2015), kicking 20 million Americans off their health insurance, throwing a few hundred million people worldwide back into extreme poverty, and trans rights would barely be in the conversation. Problems sneak up on us, but so do solutions. That's why the world is still here. It'll be the same for your own life. The thing that will wind up saving your ass seven years from now might just turn up randomly on your doorstep. The thing that caused your ass to need saving may have arrived the same way. There may be friends you haven't met yet, talents you haven't discovered yet. You may lose burdens you didn't even know you were carrying. Some things you're dreading may wind up being no big deal, and some of your deepest fears may turn out to be based on silly myths and childish misunderstandings. Who knows? But if you stick around long enough to find out, you've pretty much already won.

I'm surprised there isn't more interest in those Gaotang Dream ceramic pillows!

So.. if your group wins a 10 million dollar lottery, figure 35% goes to taxes. The rest 6.5 million goes to Sean to buy this site and create a win win situation of no more Mo Pai discussions here. A worthy dream. When that glorious day comes (& Sean gives me my 7.25% finders fee) What will you do with all the extra time you'll have? The new sense of lightness that comes with not having to answer stupid questions. What will you do?

I know. If there was, google would have delivered. The "backward finger" was offered as a version by Virtue up the thread, and he interpreted it as the thumb, a very interesting idea, but the word "dactyl" can refer to a lot more things than a finger. And the word "retro" may mean a lot more things than "backward." And the word "retrodactyl" meant something in my dream, though not on google. I'm guessing some kind of pterodactyl, but not a googlable one. Maybe a pterodactyl that could fly backward (like a dragonfly can)? Maybe it's about tracing the animal that preceded the pterodactyl, some pterosaur or other that evolved into a pterodactyl? Some of them had wings pointing backward when folded (see pic), so maybe it's about that?.. I don't have meaningless dreams. Ever. Sometimes the meaning becomes clear only much later. A retrodactyl means something. I just don't know what -- yet.

Yup, it could mean that. Interesting idea. I don't think it did in my dream though. A taoist aside: there's realms that have "form and substance," then the ones that have "substance but no form," and the ones with "form but no substance," and finally the ones with "no form and no substance" -- which are, however, part of the overall reality. So my retrodactyl is stuck somewhere in the "no substance and no form" realm. Yet it exists. I suspect it exists as an idea of an animal, and if that was determined, it would transport it into the "form but no substance" realm. And from there, maybe it would even graduate into our "form and substance" world -- as an experimental beast in some secret lab, or as a fossil yet to be dug up, who knows. But for now it has no substance and no form, like all forgotten dreams. Only a name. The retrodactyl that can be named... a fine example of tao not revealing much through just names.

I'll have to experiment with some dactyl poem now. I'll report on the findings if it proves worth reporting. But I think the dream thing was an animal.

Uh... I know Latin, I just don't know what the combination of retro and dactyl into one word in my dream referred to. I'm almost sure it was about some kind of animal -- related to the pterodactyl -- but what was it exactly?.. I think the dream may have been about some genetic experiments. But I'm not sure.

I woke up with this word in my head, and no memory of the dream it came from, just an understanding that it was explained in the dream. The word was "retrodactyl." What can it possibly be?..

Yes I thought about that ... could be a connection but its not something I've ever looked into seriously. "A strong Blue Lotus tea has an intense calming effect similar to taking a xanax. Consuming Blue Lotus Flower tea also promotes stronger likelihood of lucid dreams. Lucid dreaming is the ability to become conscious of the fact one is dreaming. Lucid dreaming typically also gives dreamers the ability to control some or all of their dream. People frequently combine Blue Lotus Flower Tea with a number of other drugs for a more intense high, including alcohol and kratom. Blue Lotus tea can provide wonderful pain relief."

at least for mortals who dare to dream of walking where physical form can't

For free you could stop 99% of all Mo Pai threads by stating your truth and going away. You create dozens, 100s, 1000s(?) of negative posts here. Are there other sites your on where you do the same thing? Go full MP bot on them? Spend hours posting over and over? Are we lucky enough to have this drama month after month? Imo its gotta be a crazed drinking game . No one could think generating so much negativity and bad press day after day could be a good thing. Unless ones a masochist. The new party line of 'We dream of forcing others to do Mo Pai', is not going to be a hit. You've repeated it, what, 6 or 7 times, not a winner or persuasive outside a cult. I'm back to repeating- if you talked about benefits and experiences of your art, like everyone else here does you wouldnt create long bot threads. No more of your crazy drinking games, having to take one shot for every page you generate. Forget the bad press you generate for your art think about your liver.

If that is the case, then you will never make progress beyond a wish and a dream.

Hi. After a few weeks/months exploring the forum as a guest, finally signed up to request access to the Flying Phoenix thread (and other interesting PPDs, when I'm finished going through the long read). I have been practicing Spring Forest QiGong for a few months and noticed some progress. Meanwhile I'm also practicing Tibetan Yoga of Dreams and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, and found practicing in the dream state very interesting. I am very curious to learn more about Terry Dunn's method on the dedicated thread, and from there switching to Flying Phoenix or keeping up with Spring Forest. As a fairly new practitioner I might read in silence for some time, before serious questions or remarks come up to be discussed. Thank you all for the knowledge you drop here.

Technophobes have weird dreams sometimes. Since nothing can be done to stop the abuse of technology, sometimes I dream of fighting fire with fire, of inventing technology that could counteract abuse of technology. E.g., I would make this feature available for forums: a mild, friendly zap to the fingers typing fifth spam post in a row, something like a slap on the wrist. Increase voltage after the tenth. And after the fifteenth, zap those fingers so they can't type for the next three days. No moderation required, no mod logs or anything like that. Total anonymity. Whoever tried to type their fifteenth fuck you all I'm on a roll post would know who they are. No one else needs to know. Of course I would make it a maximum of three spam posts per thread too. I.e. a spammer would be also automatically required to spam evenly, so that no one particular thread is singled out to suffer more than most. I envision them playing this little game with themselves, calculating how many threads they can spam how many more times before getting zapped. Like a roulette player, they would be agonizing over their best odds. Ten spread evenly, one per thread, or nine (3X3) but messing with three particular threads good? Snuffing them out so they can't recover? Which is the best strategy? Of course I'm kidding about zapping. I'm not electronically savvy, I'm steampunk. I'd install something like whack-a-mole instead if I knew how.

Hello my name is Marc, I am 30 years old and I reside in The Netherlands. I am a self realised person and I strife to complete myself in this embodyment From as early as I can remember i've always had a sense of purpose and a feeling of uniqueness. I was not brought up religiously yet the true nature of creation, God's Dream has found resonance within my Soul. Or as I understand most know it here as the Dantien. I have faced tremendous adversary and hardships in my life, some imposed upon me by society under guise of teaching how to 'be', by fellow man trying to manupulate me or even by self imposed wrongdoings. These experieces have thought me valuable life lessons. That in turn I can share with my friends, so that they might be spared the pain of wrongdoings and hard knock lessons of life. By no means am I perfect yet in my actions and thoughts, yet I strife to be perfect in every moment of the day. I have read and have studied most, if not al books of wisdom that have caught my attention. In my experience books, people or information in general are attracted into ones life to better make sense of creation and only serves as aide in our perception therof. Truth is ever evolving and never stagnant. By no means should we look external as mote of being. As God said unto Man: "Everything you need is allready within yourself. When you are balanced within, I am with you." Apart from my spiritual inclinations, I have a passion for growing plants, childrearing, animals and gathering and sharing wisdom. Currently I am doing dantien meditation by my own methode. It is similar to John Chang's level 1 and 2 methode and Japanese Hara meditation. I cannot assertain how full my dantien currently is. By my estimate I am near 15% of level 1. In my down time, I like to see movies and shows, do boardgames, go mountainbiking, and I play the ocasional videogame. I hope to connect with people with similar interests, I hope to learn and share and perhaps meet people. See you around! Marc

Hi Klinsly, I hope you're still around and haven't thrown in the towel after seeing how almost every thread unfolds haha. Plus, I hope I'm not writing to thin air, because I have a lot to dissect. Your first question...how do you know when it is full? You will know, my friend. And I can tell from your post that you have a lot of qi kicking about in that body of yours, but it's all over the place. Time to bring it all in, buddy. Your progress hasn't gone backwards. On the contrary. The sensations were really a part of you becoming aware, and it's exciting at first. It is then so easy to remain in this state and fall into disappointment though, so it is time to learn a bit more. That bit more is: what comes next, is something a bit more boring. Stick with the boredom though and then you realise that you no longer need to live with the emotion of expectation, curiosity and excitement. You will feel powerful in and out, and then your state of being will be permanently changed. Your dream was lovely. This brings me back to a long time ago now, when I had a long string of lucid dreams that brought me messages. Never forget that dream, but don't get caught up in it. The trouble is, you're activating upper dantien by staying in that realm...so it's time to bring it all down. It's like going to university/college. You take a lecture, get filled with wonderful ideas and feel inspired. Later down the line, you're going to need to hit the books, study and eventually refine you knowledge into a skill which eventually becomes your thing. So, advice time. Echoing everyone that's ever known anything about anything: find a good teacher. No hurry, no pressure. In the meantime, ask yourself why you're practicing in the first place. What is all this qi for? You're far from overflowing, so don't worry about that. Meditate 2x daily for 30+ minutes and breathe into the LDT, this time, allowing sensations to come and go. Then, go about daily life. Experience life from a different and more powerful place, and watch how different things become. Probably master some other skill as well; cooking, a musical instrument or something of that kind. That's all I can say because that's all I'm up to (bar mastering cooking/instrument...that's going to take a bit more time) But that should keep you busy for years while you find your teacher. Or your teacher finds you PS I love how at the end of your dream you were patted on the stomach. Reminds me of when I was staying at Dragongate and one kid came up to me one day and poked me in the belly with curiosity, maybe a few weeks into training. It's amazing how this stuff is noticable in each other and thus you can communicate without knowing each others' language

A scene from a dream drifts about like a balloon on wistful sea breeze

Hey. Hey. Flowing Hands. Hey. It is recorded all over the Daoist Canon in the stories of immortals from all the different lineages throughout all the different eras that they worked various marvels and miracles, and this is why people believed them when they made proclamations about cultivating the Dao that only a highly achieved master could make. In other words, none of them said, "I'm an immortal, take my word for it!" This is quite similar to the stories of saints in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity, actually. But you say, in as many words: "I am a fallen immortal holy man who talks to Laozi and the Monkey King. Take my word for it." Why should we take your word for it? Can you offer not one shred of evidence to lend credence to your grand claims? For instance, you could appear in my dreams as Wang Chongyang did with Ma Danyang, and then discuss with us in public what you said to me in the dream. I will be honest. If you can accurately describe the dream, I will not lie here. Or you could ask Laozi to which Daoist lineage to I belong, what my Daoist name and generation is, where I was formally inducted, and what other lineages I have been taught in. All-knowing Taishang Laojun, I am certain, could easily obtain this information, if not directly, then with the help of a secretarial immortal in the heavenly bureaucracy. Again, if you come up with accurate answers, I will admit as much publicly here. This will surely reduce the incidences of people writing you off as delusional and help you to offer immortal teachings to the board.

Waitamute! Oi! Zork, i get the gist and intention but stop insulting functionally varied people and their achievements by comparing them to Jim who, without intended offence to Jim, can only dream of qualifying for membership in such an illustrious fellowship.

A white winter beach, A lone bed: snow falls on it— A scene from a dream

I explain the infinite and eternal ever expanding nature of Dao in my new topic Understanding Dao That with you call non-physical is 99% of creation. You can find a higher dimension than 6 as you say, by mastering it. By raising your frequency. By feeling better emotionally. That is your unconditional ability and free will to do so as a consciousness. To master unconditional love. And then moving on from there. But there are FOR SURE INFINITE MORE DIMENSIONS EVER EXPANDING. By yearning, you will never find it. Allow it to be yielded to you. So inside and outside are still 2 dimensional elemental conscoiousness. 3 dimensional is animal dream. 4th is the shortest ego dimension where we learn about unconditional love. 5th dimension is unconditional love, it exists, here, when you free from your ego or mind. Most people when they die, they get into 5th. But if you live unconditional love, you can become quasi physical. Even while alife. In between 5th and 4th. And death will be like completely normal. Like walking from one door into another room. But if you try to understand and yearn, you are still exploring the 4th dimensiob, to learn about unconditional love. It can seem eternal never ending and difficult, but life is actually very extremely short. It's just temporary ego exploration. To learn true self = true freedom = unconditional love. Again, God is 7th dimension, in 5th dimension you can have personal joyful interactions with God. Maybe you are already 6th and you come here to master unconditional love to a higher degree. To express the 5th in the 4th can be the 6th dimension. So you are well on your way to becoming 7th dimension. Remember, words are irrelevant. Feel your emotions always. As all is one and one is all. You contain everything within your very heart, soul and being. Everything is interconnected. Fractal. Ever more expanding into higher resolution and knowing. Of evermore greater allowed realisation. Infinite dimensions being and becoming evermore here and now.

To answer your question about how to tell if the LDT is full, and what to do, depends on the lineage. Most lineages I've worked with don't concern themselves with such questions as the practice takes care of moving things from one stage to the next. Ie, there is wisdom in the practice that guides my development. If you are attempting to practice Mo Pai, I would strongly urge caution, as there are no western teaching teachers. And I've heard of people practicing that getting more injuries, over all other systems I've heard about combined. It is important to be clear on the intent of why you are practicing and of the practices, because mixing and matching can cause conflicting information in your body. Ideally a local teacher, and if not a non-local teacher. I've traveled to meet all my teachers, and I practice in between. Once your initiated into a quality lineage you will have a connection to your teacher, and can receive training in dream, meditation, etc. Getting initiated can be as simple as being a very diligent student. Good luck. John

Hi, first off I'm pretty new to practicing 7 months or so. My question is about how do you tell when the Lower Dantian is full and then what to do about it? I'm also going to include the sensation I had, as well as part of a extremely vivid dream where I also had the same sensation. Sadly this was months ago so perhaps my progress has gone backwards since then. I don't know why I didn't just come straight here.. So the feeling was of a pulsing/shaking sensation in my lower dantian area, kinda like a muscle spasm feeling. The dream I had was really cool and memorable. I had also read the Magus of Java twice so there was a John Chang like figure. Basically I was at some temple on a very small island surrounded by water somewhere in South East Asia and was sitting in a circle with several other students and they were doing a test to see if we were ready to advance. After awhile the master looked directly at me and put his palm up to his mouth and blew in my direction and all of a sudden that intense pulsing feeling happened in my Lower Dantian region. Afterward he walked over to me and said some joke to the rest of the guys about surfer's bodies and patted me in the stomach . Then I woke up. The guy who I had learned my basic movements from told me he wasn''t sure and that it probably just meant i actually had a LDT. Recently I opened up this thing from Dr. Yang and it described the exact feeling I had in regards to it being full but this was months after the feelings happened. And i haven't felt it since. https://ymaa.com/articles/2014/1/nei-dan-sitting-meditation Here's the quote from the end of the arcticle, "After you have practiced the abdominal exercises for about three to five weeks, you may feel your abdomen get warmer every time you practice. After continued practice, the abdomen will start to tremble and shake each time you start the fire. This means qi has accumulated at the lower dan tian and is about to overflow. At this time you should start to coordinate your breathing and abdominal movement with the movement of your huiyin (Co-1) (literally "meet the yin") cavity and perineum to lead the qi to the tailbone (weilu cavity)." Thanks so much for any advice!