tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post3088660745831248563..comments2023-10-25T05:30:54.507-04:00Comments on Oh Get A Grip!: In The Demi MondeAshe Barkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03390519279886657608noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-14975877694150525722013-11-02T20:22:28.401-04:002013-11-02T20:22:28.401-04:00Hi Susan!
LaBerge suggest reading text as one of ...Hi Susan!<br /><br />LaBerge suggest reading text as one of the reality checks to see if you;re dreaming. Text has a way of changing from moment to moment in a dream, so you check to see if it says the same thing it did a minute ago. I often see my parents in dreams too. Strange. Once my Dad gave me some profound life advice in a dream and I woke thinking I should write it down but it was so impressive I was sure I would never forget it. Forgot all of it. No wonder the dead never speak to us, they'd be wasting their time.<br /><br />I have a couple of Krishnamurti books on my shelf I need to get to some time. People thought he was the messiah once - but he refused the job.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-35214483959701165052013-11-02T20:18:14.834-04:002013-11-02T20:18:14.834-04:00Hi Lisabet!
Sex in dreams used to occur me often ...Hi Lisabet!<br /><br />Sex in dreams used to occur me often in the past. Now that I'm less testosterone challenged I don't dream abut sex that much. I do remember this one lucid dream I had many years ago and I woke up in the dream standing in Plaza Cinco de Mayo in downtown Panama City. A beautiful woman was walking by me and I grabbed her and kissed her passionately. She drew back and punched me in the face hard with her fist. It hurt! And then she yelled at me: "Just because you're dreaming doesn't mean you can do anything you want!"<br /><br />I HAVE Robert Monroes book "Journey's Out of the Body". Have you read it? I've snacked on it and experimented with it but nothing happened. I think it was his books that gave me the impression that Astral Projection and Lucid Dreaming are essentially the same thing.<br /><br />I'd never heard of Waking Life but after following your link it sounds like my kind of movie and I pegged it on Netflix. I just finished Homeland - my favoreite show of all time - amd I'm working my way through STARZ sword and sandal nonsense "Spartacus", which is my guilty pleasure.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-86503472508534281172013-11-02T20:08:16.883-04:002013-11-02T20:08:16.883-04:00Daddy X;
What it is, when you begin to examine, o...Daddy X;<br /><br />What it is, when you begin to examine, or at least attend your dreams, you begin to see patterns, what Laberge calls "dreamsigns", things that are common images in your dreams. That's how you learn the vocabulary of the unconscious. I've also noticed that in the moment after I've woken up and I'll blearily scribbling down teh fading details intuitive words and images come to mind as though there were an interior dialogue suggesting what certain details represent.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-76538225938227212272013-11-02T20:05:41.542-04:002013-11-02T20:05:41.542-04:00Hi Sacchi!
You were probably better off, falling ...Hi Sacchi!<br /><br />You were probably better off, falling with a two year kid on your back can be life changing. You could tell who climbed and who rode up by looking at their feet. The cable car people had flip flops or sandals. Anybody climbing with those would have twisted an ankle.<br /><br />I guess I understand if you don;t want to remember your dreams. I want to remember mine though. I write them down on a little PDA with a keypad I keep by the bed and sometimes the stuff I see there in the morning surprises me.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-11503042179238686122013-11-02T20:02:09.003-04:002013-11-02T20:02:09.003-04:00Hi Daddy X!
Its the closest thing you'll ever...Hi Daddy X!<br /><br />Its the closest thing you'll ever get to a holodex and its free and all self generated. The mountain and the notebook are all true by the way. That's a picture of me slogging along my kid took in the moment.<br /><br />I think someday they may be able to induce lucid dreams as a form of therapy, giving someone a chance to explore on deeper levels. It wasn;t long ago they had the movie "Inception" which is essentially a movie about lucid dreaming. The characters dream to deeper and deeper levels, the dream within the dream within the dream. In the movie they dreamed lucidly down to five levels, like five russian dolls inside eachother. My record is four.<br /><br />But as you say the challenge is to stay in the dream. Once you realise its a dream the excitement kind of blows you out of it.<br /><br />GarceGarceushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11160407485298015371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-29262919925409708332013-10-31T13:03:43.393-04:002013-10-31T13:03:43.393-04:00Garceus,
All of it, beautifully said.
It's f...Garceus,<br /><br />All of it, beautifully said.<br /><br />It's fun to challenge the believability of a lucid dream (Can you feel gravity? Can you read text?). Even more mysterious to challenge is the believability of "reality" (If you've never seen it before, it may be invisible to you, even if it's there).<br /><br />Just woke up from one of those flying dreams. This one a whopper. And I visited Mom and Dad, recently passed, who were watching a new TV show called "The Sound of Round and Up." I've decided to use it as the inspiration behind and the title of a new sci-fi short story.<br /><br />Thanks, again, for your combination philosophical/poetic approach to this mystery in the demi-monde between the two worlds Krishnamurti might call the "What Is" and the "What Is Behind What Is."<br /><br />SusanSusan Burnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15702244690723617799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-83585095284958419892013-10-31T09:03:49.972-04:002013-10-31T09:03:49.972-04:00Hello, Garce,
I never know where your posts will ...Hello, Garce,<br /><br />I never know where your posts will lead me. (Or your stories, for that matter.) That's part of the fun of reading your stuff.<br /><br />I have lucid dreams occasionally, though not deliberately. I fly. I move things with my mind. <br /><br />In those dreams, sex never occurs to me.<br /><br />Have you read Monroe's Journeys Out of the Body? <br /><br />Have you seen the movie Waking Life? <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waking_Life<br />Lisabet Saraihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05162514190572269660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-6997470794211700062013-10-30T14:35:20.893-04:002013-10-30T14:35:20.893-04:00I'm not sure we could determine the genesis or...I'm not sure we could determine the genesis or meaning of many of our dreams in the conscious state. In my guesswork, in our dreams we touch upon and satisfy human needs we may not be able to quantify in practical terms. These needs may not even be accessible to linear thought. Indeed, these unquantifiable thoughts may satisfy our need for chaos or some obscure necessity we're not aware of.<br />Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-41291105808970077832013-10-30T12:56:24.272-04:002013-10-30T12:56:24.272-04:00I remember going up Stone Mountain in a cable car....I remember going up Stone Mountain in a cable car. Cheating, I know. This was way, way back when I could actually climb the occasional smallish mountain, but I would have had to to this one with a two-year-old kid on my back, and I wasn't up to that. <br /><br />As to dreams, the book sounds very interesting, but most of my dreams aren't ones I want to experience any more fully. Even the ones where I wake up thinking I've had a brilliant insight into a plot for a story turn out to be nonsense, if i can remember them at all, and I doubt that the one I can't remember are any different. I do know where many of my dreams come from; past experiences that were either abysmal failures or really the best that anyone could have done under the circumstances. Maybe with lucid dreaming I could come to terms with them, but I doubt it.Sacchi Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10801164916418570059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9156334464585894857.post-61662439916246053112013-10-30T12:01:33.823-04:002013-10-30T12:01:33.823-04:00How clever of you to set this post on a mountain, ...How clever of you to set this post on a mountain, Garce. Hills and mountains have been symbolic of challenge and reaching a goal (or not). Sisyphus, Christ, ascetics mystics and mountain climbers, all looking for a goal. Goals seem to be all uphill.<br />I seldom remember dreams. Those I do remember stand out, but often don't make sense. Those I remember will wake me if I see these experiences as a dream while in the dream. To be able to control this "lucid dream" would be like having one's own Holodeck, like in Star Trek. Man, would I like one of those! But it certainly would be worthwhile to look into this book in lieu of Holodeck.Daddy Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12927663248424944119noreply@blogger.com