inception

I saw Inception and I thought it was pretty good. If you are obsessed with dreams and love to question reality, then you will be in heaven for about 2 hours… it’s a long movie.

A good analogy that would explain the concept behind the movie is a technology behind virtual machines. A virtual machine or VM as we call it in IT is a simulation of an operating system that can run on top of another operating system.

The main idea of “Inception”: if you run a VM inside a VM inside a VM inside a VM, everything will be very slow –
myzt

For example, Window XP could run inside of Windows 7 or even in Red Hat linux. In the movie Inception, a dream is happening within a dream within a dream. So it is like, Windows 7, within Windows XP, within Linux within Windows Vista. Each time you run another VM inside another it runs slower and slower. In Inception, each time the characters go deeper (dream with a dream) time slows down.

The interesting thing about this is that I can recall having 3 – 4 dreams at a time similar to the movie. The coolest concept in the movie is the idea of “mutual dreaming” or two people participating in the same dream. I have never had a mutual dream (or at least not that I am aware of). And you don’t find much about it online. What surprises me is that more people are not obsessed with lucid dreams and reality.

some game on wooden board

I dream about some game. I recall the game board was made of some smooth mahogany looking wood and I was playing with strangers. Thats all I can remember right now. The mood of the dream didn’t feel like anything in particular. Just friends having a nice game.

Internetworking Japan

My Japanese pen pal was instructing me on how to secure a Cisco internetworking device. I remember another part of the dreams (or perhaps the same one) where I am looking through the configuration and wondering who helped me set the password. Then I remember my pen pal.

Meaning Behind Dreams

I’ve been studying my dreams for 20 years. I’ve identified three types of meanings in my dreams:

- Synaptic Bursts - Completely meaningless dreams; an Rapid Eye Movement brain fart; generated by repetive body behaviors or just the random noise of life.
- Subconscious Dreams – Message from the dormant, wise and highly perceptive part of the mind that sees and factors the other 90% of life that happens just at our peripheral; often catches cues that our narrow conscious selves do not then gives hints, warnings or information
- Spiritual Dreams – From the hire self; waken in tears of joy or laughing; followed by day of smiling euphoria; difficult to remember sometimes impossible to understand if we are not ready
*there is some overlap – the over all effect of the dream is very telling.

Like Tibetan Dream Yogas of Sleep and Dreams says, I believe it is more important to be awakened in dreams than to interpret the content of the dreams. Like staring at a piece of Art, I believe that the meaning behind the dream can ultimately only be determined by the one who created it, everyone else will see something completely different.

When trying to determine the meaning, it is important to remember that YOU are every part of the dream. All elements in the dream represent some part of you. Even the bad parts. So if you are getting chased by a ghoul, remember that the ghoul is some latent part of you or situation, person, place or thing in your life. You must look inside yourself to determine what part of you that ghoul represents.

To determine what objects in the dream represent what parts of you, it is important to “follow the feeling”. So it is imperative that you be very truthful with yourself. If you can not face how you truly feel about something in ‘waking’ life, it will often manifest itself in your dream. If the dream is important, it will sometimes be a recurring dream.

When I am really wrapped up in the “worldliness”, stresses, distractions of life, work, family, friends I’ve noticed that I often do not remember my dreams. When I am focused and calm in the morning the dreams come to me easily. Sometimes there is more than I have time to write down.

Writing down dreams is a great way to begin to recall the dreams.

YOUR OWN DREAM SYMBOLS
You are the best interpreter of your dream symbols. Dream sites and books can be a good guide. But the dream master is within you. Water to a professional scuba diver is going to mean something entirely different to a hypochondriac.

Bridging Heaven & Earth #4: Chocmools of Carlos Castaneda

Dream: Neighbor in my backyard

My neighbor was in my backyard reconfiguring the drainage tubes that extend from my roof to my yard. This neighbor, Tom, was born in Germany and actually lives two houses over. He has the best yard (front and back) in the neighborhood. In my dream, I was prompted to go outside in the middle of the day. I’d heard a noise. When I went outside there was Tom and an accomplis. They’d propped up the tubes closer to the house to about half the height of the roof. Then they’d connected the tubes to a gutter tube that went to the street adjacent to the next tract of houses.

Now that I’m awake, I wonder why they propped up the tube.

Dream Sharing Web 2.0 site

Found a cool dream sharing site: http://www.dreamcrowd.com/

You share your dreams with others. The site also interprets some key dream words on the fly. Although, I’m not really big on someone else interpreting my dreams, I must admit it is a cool feature.

Of course the mother of all dream sites is still the Dreamviews forum

Dream of Prison (questioning reality)

I dreamt that I was in prison.

I was in prison for a terrible crime which I did not commit (reminiscent of a real life situation that has happened to my cousin). The emotions in this dream were absolutely real. When I woke up in my comfortable bed, I was very relieved that it was not real, but then I started to ask myself: how do I know that this bed is real? How do I know that my so called “waking life” is real?

Why do we so willingly accept our present situation as absolutely real? In my dream, I didn’t question the reality of my situation just as I do not typically question my waking life. How do any of us know what we see as “real” is not a dream?

Perhaps our minds makes this place real and conveniently misses the discrepancies of our reality such that we have no need to question it.

Neo: I thought you said it wasn’t real
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real
- the matrix

I’ve been reading a Padre Pio book. Padre Pio was a great Catholic Friar with remarkable dedication. At his level of dedication and devotion, he would pray for Jesus let him to help bear his cross. In essence we was asking for unimaginable suffering.

I am perplexed at the positive light given toward suffering. Catholic saints such as St. Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross and Mother Teresa revered suffering as it was an emulation of christ’s suffering on the cross (his suffering is considered a sacrafice to save the souls of all mankind – John 3:16 KJV Bible, for those who what more info). But if this world is illusion, what good is suffering? Why not just pass through never to return? Or come and go as one pleases and collect knowledge to become like a god. In the Bible the Devil “tempts” Jesus with something like this, to which Jesus replies, “Get behind me Satan.” No matter how good it looks, its still illusion.

In his book, The Yogas of Dreams and Sleep, Tenzin Wangyal mentions rising above both pleasure and suffering as they are each of Samsara, part of the great illusion of this world. In Hinduism, this is called Maya, the illusion of our self being separate from everything else.

The word Islam actually means “submission to God” in Arabic. All these religions address suffering as something that should be submitted to or allowed to happen not resisted but observed and in some cases even honored.

SUFFERING SUCKS
I don’t know about you but Suffering really, really pisses me off and I suppose that is not very holy of me. I am just saying how I truly feel at times. I hate seeing people around the world suffering (especially children). It makes me mad at humanity and mad at god. Sometimes I can’t help but think that a lot of it is just not necessary.

We don’t really have to suffer…

SUFFERING = GOOD/EVIL
But the more I learn about what science has discovered about physical reality, the more I realize that suffering really is apart of this reality. The duality of this reality (good/evil, light/darkness, valley/mountain) is why there must be suffering. It is in the fabric of everything here and there is nothing we can do about it but suffer. And I suppose that is why the saints embrace it and why sages of the east don’t resist it any more than they praise pleasure. Because it is an illusion (as a dream) compared to a truer more holistic place that is not afflicted with duality. These saints and sages see all physical reality as a type of dream for preparation of a greater here and now.

I attribute all suffering to ignorance (not knowing our true nature not so much stupidity). I believe it is the greatest atrocity humanity will ever have. Ignorance of our physical, subtle and spiritual true selves. Perhaps that is why we are here, to graduate from ignorance.

… YEAH BUT
Why doesn’t an omniscient/omnipotent God simply instantly give us a deliverance from ignorance and its symptom, suffering, rather than growing into some greater realization?

A: If a rose never blooms, can it still be considered a rose? Perhaps, we are here to experience the blooming of humanity.

the Gaian Dragon

James Clair Lewis Date: Dec 1 2006 9:07 AM

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Feminine Guide Dream

Bliss and I were in a white van that was controlled by a keyboard.  I somehow managed to move it without use of the keyboard, but then we got stuck as we were moving on to an overpass.  

Bliss told my to use the keyboard.  I hit the arrow keys, but it didn’t work.  A truck was coming from the freeway and behind us.  Bliss hit a coulpe of keys (”s” “f” I think) and we started moving.  So I used those keys too.  Then I woke up.

This was an exceptionally beautiful blonde woman who looked a lot like Bliss from zaadz but it may have been someone else because she had a norwegian accent.
Analysis:

I think this dream is telling me to listen to my feminine (intuitive, right-brained & creative) side more for life directions.
not sure what the norwegian accent was all about though.  I have always wanted to go to Amsterdam.

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