The Art of Dreaming

[orbsycli]

Shall we pick up where we left off here?

[piper]

Hi, I'm in where did you leave off? SA

[Magnet Man]

orbsycli said:

Shall we pick up where we left off here?

All set. Let's see if we can paint new panaoramas in this infinite playground of childhood delight and scary monsters, which lies far beyond the boundaries of gravity-bound imaginations, and go to the very edge of that surreal plane of reality and take a peep into dimensions that hide beyond our dreams, in deep sleep.

[orbsycli]

You must be familiar with what some call our "Dream Emissary"

I find myself

in my dreams

listening to the weirdest things!!

My observer's gone mad

and someone's taken over,

someone O SO familiar . .

It's odd, I wake up
with the strangest concepts
that I try to document in my journal,
a habit I am just now getting used to
and I feel that when this rhythm picks up
My dream memory will amaze me.

I also think I shouldn't drink as much alcohol,
or smoke as much marijuana because I think
that's another one of the things that's holding me back
from absolute lucidity.

Didn't sleep at all last night . .

Tried, tho-

[orbsycli]

Last christmas I was scheduled to get on a plane,
which would take me to Florida,
to see my family.

I took one hit of acid 4 hours before the flight.

I won't get into any detail about how weird the waking life was at that point,
but I got on the plane, relaxed-
Ate a brownie infused with my ally, Mary Jane.
This soothed my wretched anxious lysergic soul,
and since I hadn't slept that night, either,
I went into a dream, that I will never forget.

I wake up,
in my dream,
sitting in the grass.
Instantly I realize I am dreaming,
and then I come to the realization that I am
tripping on acid in my lucid dream.

This was only the third time I'd ever dreamed so lucid,
so I was a bit weary on what to do.

I always find myself becoming aware
while I'm fixed on an object,

this time, the object happened to be a floating red balloon,
long, skinny, clown-like.

Up there in the bluest blue sky,
on the smallest green grassy planet,
was a red balloon that I was holding up with my mind.

Huh, I thought.
How weird.
I got distracted and started to think crazy acid understanding thoughts,
when the balloon started falling!

NO!
I focus on the balloon and it hovers, again.
(Analogy, keeping me alert, aware)

Here I am,
on my own amazing planet.
So small I could run around it in a few minutes,
and i did!

I forgot about that damned balloon
and for WHAT I OBSERVED TO BE DAYS
I just played,
and thought,
and tripped on acid
in the most amazing physicless place
I could imagine at the time.

After a very long time of tripping without having to worry about
food....or water.......or anything I would have to worry about here,
I go back to the balloon which is just sitting there
on the grass,
which isn't moving anymore.
Nothing is.
Everything's less vibrant
and there's a disturbence-
Noise, noise noise
somebody talking
the Stuardess wakes me up
I can't hear what she's saying
because my thoughts are too loud.
"ah, wow, I'm sober, on a plane . ."

So yeah,
had the craziest lucid dream 30,000 feet in the air . .
Is that weird or what?

I want to live higher,
closer to the cosmos!!!!!

With the clouds,
above all of this polluted
GUCK!

I love dreaming.

[Magnet Man]

orbsycli said:

You must be familiar with what some call our "Dream Emissary"

Only met my dream guide a few times. Unfortunately, each time did not obey a simple instruction. The first time was at puberty. My Emissary appeared nightly as a shining star and imprinted on me as an angel. I was told not to tell anybody about him/her. I did and never had the visit again. Twenty years later he visited again, behind my back. The instruction this time was not to turn around. Foolishly, I reached back and grabbed him and found myself looking at a lifeless puppet. Saw him again once, as a huge star - which magically transformed into the magnificent form of Pegasus!!

I find myself

in my dreams

listening to the weirdest things!!

My observer's gone mad

and someone's taken over,

someone O SO familiar . .

Be faithful to him/her/your higher self.

It's odd, I wake up
with the strangest concepts
that I try to document in my journal,
a habit I am just now getting used to
and I feel that when this rhythm picks up
My dream memory will amaze me.

Make a religion out of it. Dream memories fade and vital lessons with hidden meanings are forgot. Re-reading years later will certainly enrich you.
Out in the astral you own a page in the astral journal. It is called the Akashic Records. Everything you have ever done, thought, dreamed, is imprinted there, negative/positive.

I also think I shouldn't drink as much alcohol,
or smoke as much marijuana because I think
that's another one of the things that's holding me back
from absolute lucidity.

Hardest thing I ever did was quiting the weed. Habit lasted a quarter of a century. Still get an occasional yen. Yesterday for instance, out at the hot spring. Stark Dali landscape, sky and desert and mountains and my kids gambling in the water. The weed would have taken it higher I know, but sober is best, the kids know me as i am in the here and now, and not way out on cloud nine. I get so far out that all I can do is sob from holy loneliness - and God does not like cry-babies. Get sober Orby, I need a good friend.

Didn't sleep at all last night . .

Tried, tho-

Probably having withdrawal symptoms. Hypography was a familiar daily home for a long time. You made some good friends. I think you were wasted there. But do not stand too much on principle. Visit them now and again until you get yourself rehabilitated.

As for no sleep. Lived alone in a cave on an island in the Gulf of Siam once, for nine months. Massive withdrawal symptoms for the first five months, wondering what the hell I was doing there. Then made a huge indoctrinatiional breakthrough, let go of all worldly ambitions. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. Net result, Magic! Transcended the need for sleep and stayed fully awake for three full months before coming back to fulfill my karma yoga.
That cave experience taught me how to hover on the edge of sleep and dream and be awake at the same time.

[orbsycli]

That cave experience taught me how to hover on the edge of sleep and dream and be awake at the same time.

whoa!
I've never heard of such a weird experience.
Do you think you may of fell asleep and not realized it?

I believe you and everything,
but wow-

have there ever been any other reports of this occuring?

Never read it anywhere.

You must have had such a weird mindset,
out there.

[TarotDragon]

admin said:

As for no sleep. Lived alone in a cave on an island in the Gulf of Siam once, for nine months. Massive withdrawal symptoms for the first five months, wondering what the hell I was doing there. Then made a huge indoctrinatiional breakthrough, let go of all worldly ambitions. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. Net result, Magic! Transcended the need for sleep and stayed fully awake for three full months before coming back to fulfill my karma yoga.
That cave experience taught me how to hover on the edge of sleep and dream and be awake at the same time.

I agree with orbsycli on this. That had to be the wierdest! And the coolest. Its hard enough for me to stay awake for 12 hours with two cups of coffee.

Could you explain what that was like though? I mean, the state of your mind in that time span?

Some pretty interesting stuff their orbsycli. But I'm not sure what a dream emissary or guide is.

Also, do you guys do like dream interpretations?

TD

[Magnet Man]

The first few nights of sleeplessness nside the cave were a struggle of trying to go to sleep, fearing jumpy nerves the next day. But i felt perfectly fine. So too during the next two days, when I was certain I would feel the ill-effects of not sleeping. But I felt perfectly rested each day. I gave up wrestling by the fourth night and simply enjoyed the luxurious feeling of being relaxed with not a care on my mind.

Though I firmly believe that I was fully awake for more than three months, it is possible that I might have dropped in and out of sleep for a few minutes at a time and not realized it. If so, there was no sense of being heavy-lidded or any sense of feeling sleepy that preceded it, or any sense of waking up from sleep.

I kept an oil lamp burning all night and spent most of it writing in my journal.

There was an endless sequence of wild night life taking place in the cave. Bats flew in and out, and snakes came in to investigate. I slept on a raised wooden plank bed, covered by a monk's robe. Several large speckled geckos lived under the folds during the day and came out at night, catching all the insects that were attracted by my light.

The cave was situated under a huge 60 foot high rock roughly shaped like a pyramid. At first I believed that the pyramid shape had some kind of magical qualities that allowed me to remain sleepless. But over the years I have come to realize that the more probable cause was the complete release of the every-day cares and stresses that affect our waking life. My food was supplied by Thai Buddhist devotees who have an ancient tradition of feeding monks who choose a life of seclusion and meditation. There was a tiny monastery not far from the cave. It supplied water and a place to bathe. In return for their hospitality, I kept up the grounds of the monastery.

I feel that this total sense of freedom, of no ambition to go anywhere or do anything else, released all the stresses of thousands of generations of struggle from my system.

I left the cave after nine months, when a friend in Hong Kong asked for my assistance on a difficult film project. I remained sleepless every night in Hong Kong for about two weeks, before I started to sleep, for about an hour each night. To this day I sleep no more than three or four hours a night and spend most of that dreaming.

[orbsycli]

Amazing.

I've been sleeping 5 hours,
waking up,
and practicing the Wake Induced lucid dreaming method,
where i wake up,
take a piss, think
and then relax,
sit back and watch the movie in my head
and i start to fade.

I repeat a variable mantra in my head
that transports me into the lucid dreaming realm.

Quite spectacular!

[orbsycli]

My body starts to buzz
and I float off into the universe

[piper]

I have noticed that dreaming for me is really profound near to morning. I wake up usually 2 hours before I have to get up, go back to sleep and have most of realistic profound dreams. Thinking that maybe because I am out of deep slumber and nearer this world that I am percieving with more clarity the dream state I am actually in......can't imagine never sleeping for 3 months or 3 days for that matter, though I have noticed with meditation that the period of lucid awareness becomes intensified and extended. Though I cannot forgo my sleep I noticed with meditation that the period before I actually drop off to sleep is preempted by an out of body feeling with complete awareness. Though the room is dark I can see everything in it as if it is light. Not signifigant in its own right but validates that we have perception outside of out bodies.

[Trivium515]

Yes well having all these enlightened dreams is great and all, but I’m prone to nightmares, is there anything I can do to remedy this? It’s so frustrating, and when I wake up I don’t feel much rested.

[orbsycli]

I've found that people who face their fears do not have nightmares.

[TarotDragon]

That whole sleepless for three months thing had to be so surreal. And still being able to do it years afterward! Has anything else like you've done ever been reported by others?

On to what quicksilver and orbsycli said....

The thing about nightmares, most of mine are with me dying and the usual cause of this is some form of asphyxiation. I'm a claustrophobic so are my dreams just a manifistation of this fear?

Also, in almost every dream I've had (that I can remember) the dream centers on some sort of conflict, whether it be an argument or real physical violence, mostly the latter. Moslty its all in a medieval type of setting, this I believe due to my love for that time. Again, is this an influence from my internal self or outer influences, i.e. family and such?

What are your nightmares about usually, Quicksilver?

TD