Chuang Tzu was a philosopher in ancient China, who, one night went to sleep and dreamed that he was a butterfly. He dreamt that he was flying around from flower to flower and while he was dreaming he felt free, blown about by the breeze hither and thither. He was quite sure that he was a butterfly. But when he awoke he realised that he had just been dreaming, and that he was really Chuang Tzu dreaming he was a butterfly.
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Nyuk nyuk nyuk…But here’s my 2¢:
Carl jung’s active imagination technique is like what you’re describing, letting your mind wonder, but still staying conscious enough to be lucid, speak to beings you encounter, etc. I do this sometimes before going to sleep at night. You can go into these liminal states, where, you get up to pee or something and think you’ve been laying there for hours but you discover it’s only been a few minutes and vice versa.
The kind of meditation I do, I learned at the Shambala meditation center. When a thought Comes into your mind, you just say “thinking” and do that over and over until you’re thinking nothing, just breathing. It’s very healing, imho.
Not sure. I’ve lucid-dreamt before, but if you’re talking about astral projection, when i was younger i tried to do that a lot.. only once did i start to feel the separation and got scared. Felt like two magnets rattling together, but all over.
There’s this timelife book on astral projection that had some instructions. You imagine this parallel line just above your head about six inches and you try to jump/float up it. Lots of relaxing into a state, then a deeper state… dunno what I did, really, it was kind of like when you “jump” as you fall asleep, except my body didn’t move. It was sort of like sleep paralysis, but then i got up and can’t remember if i ever tried it again. It was about the 10th time or so i had tried it, maybe it takes practice.
Have you? If so, how did you achieve it? I've read that you have to focus on your hands and imagine the world around you while your eyes are closed and you're drifting. This leads to lucid dreaming with much practice. A friend told me years ago that lucid dreaming isn't a "step toward OBEs, but...it kinda is." Fucker was usually equally vague about everything, so I couldn't fault him for.bwing himself, but God damn. Gimme something I can work with. "It is, but it isn't." WTF??
TO EVERYONE WHO COMMENTED ON THIS THREAD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHT ON THIS EVER INTERESTING MATTER. IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. I LOVE THIS SUBJECT.
This is the plot of r/detrans
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Nyuk nyuk nyuk…But here’s my 2¢:
Carl jung’s active imagination technique is like what you’re describing, letting your mind wonder, but still staying conscious enough to be lucid, speak to beings you encounter, etc. I do this sometimes before going to sleep at night. You can go into these liminal states, where, you get up to pee or something and think you’ve been laying there for hours but you discover it’s only been a few minutes and vice versa.
The kind of meditation I do, I learned at the Shambala meditation center. When a thought Comes into your mind, you just say “thinking” and do that over and over until you’re thinking nothing, just breathing. It’s very healing, imho.
Not sure. I’ve lucid-dreamt before, but if you’re talking about astral projection, when i was younger i tried to do that a lot.. only once did i start to feel the separation and got scared. Felt like two magnets rattling together, but all over.
What,.if.anything, did you do differently that one time? (You know, if you can put your finger on it, that is...)
There’s this timelife book on astral projection that had some instructions. You imagine this parallel line just above your head about six inches and you try to jump/float up it. Lots of relaxing into a state, then a deeper state… dunno what I did, really, it was kind of like when you “jump” as you fall asleep, except my body didn’t move. It was sort of like sleep paralysis, but then i got up and can’t remember if i ever tried it again. It was about the 10th time or so i had tried it, maybe it takes practice.
Have you? If so, how did you achieve it? I've read that you have to focus on your hands and imagine the world around you while your eyes are closed and you're drifting. This leads to lucid dreaming with much practice. A friend told me years ago that lucid dreaming isn't a "step toward OBEs, but...it kinda is." Fucker was usually equally vague about everything, so I couldn't fault him for.bwing himself, but God damn. Gimme something I can work with. "It is, but it isn't." WTF??
TO EVERYONE WHO COMMENTED ON THIS THREAD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHT ON THIS EVER INTERESTING MATTER. IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. I LOVE THIS SUBJECT.