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.

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

the Gaian Dragon

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

---

The Gaian Dragon

---

---

Lucid Dreaming Exercises

---

The easiest way to begin working consciously on the Astral Plane, is through Lucid Dreaming. If you have had difficulty learning how to do Astral Projection, these exercises may be of great value to you. These experiments in lucid dreaming are intended to be used in combination with my Occult/Mental Yoga Exercises.Click here to read the whole article.

---

These animated Moving Mandalas are very large files. Please click on the pic, and wait for it to load. The Contemplation will be very enabling, carrying your Mind beyond the mundane world.Oscillator

34, 611K

---

The I Ching The Metaphysical Pages Massage & Healing The Moving Mandalas The Ding Dong Show

---

Wake Within Worlds of Imagination

We are a team of dream travelers
dream weaving, reality unravelers

We are guides of lucidity to purge the infinite manifestations of self will merge while we allow access to worlds stalked by the Standford labs of Stephen Laberge

We are mutual dreamers that infiltrate, rape and pilage your walls and insecurities, for we seek to bleed you and cleanse these impurities

We are creatures of the night
We walk among you sleeping cattle having our way with your ignorance and sabotaging your fears and hate with mindless acts of love – like “free hugs”

“…we are the dreamers we dream the dreams”

We stumbled drunk upon Castaneda’s Gates of Dreaming
We sat at the feet of inorganic beings
We are Gods and Goddesses in embryo
Princes and princesses of universes unseen, expanding with infinite involution

Our dream journals speak of countless deaths, burials and resurrections in
the perfect consciousness that is now

We die nigthly and wake within worlds of pure imagination

to some lucid dreams I know…

Advice from on Lucid Dreaming

thanks jordan @ zaadz

my question:
I’ve been into lucid dreaming for years. but have had trouble doing it consistently. Any advice? I noticed that keeping a journal and Laberge’s “reality checking” works.

Answer from jordan
Hey there-It´s good to hear about your practice. I have a few things to say that will perhaps help you out. At my best, I was averaging about 2 lucid dreams per week. At the moment, I´m averaging about one or so per week. What I´ve noticed is that if I am sleep deprived, I dont have lucid dreams.

So perhaps you need to look at your sleeping schedule first. In
this way, you need to analyze your life from the perspective of whether having lucid dreams is worth devoting some more time to your sleep schedule. In my opinion, it is, but it´s hard to keep this in
perspective.

Secondly, the frame mind from which you approach your practice is very important. If you are merely looking to your lucid dreams for fantasy or pleasure, you won´t have as many as if you recognize their importance in helping you solve problems, meditate, or evolve spiritually. Lucid dreams have tremendous potential from this perspective, and we can talk about that more if you´re interested.

Last but not least, you need to let your unconscious mind do the work. Your only job is to keep reminding it to do the work. You accomplish this just like you have been, by using a dream journal and performing reality checks. However, you can´t look at your reality checks as the actual¨”thing” that is causing you to lucid dream. Rather, it´s just a reminder to your brain to put in the REAL unconscious effort which actually creates the lucid dream. Your conscoius effort plays a VERY small role in the process, and if you just trust in your unconscious to do its job, you´ll be better off for it. You can´t get frustrated for not having lucid dreams, you need to view every nights sleep, regardless of lucidity, as a step towards lucidity. Every time you remember a dream, write it down, do a reality check, etc., you need to reward yourself for reminding the unconscious. The more positive associations you make with
such little actions, the more weight they´ll carry to your unconscious
mind.

Good luck and look forward to hearing back from you,

jordan