Im crossposting this on /x/ and /sci/ to see if anyone can give me a good insight into dreaming and why its so fucking weird>the ability of your subconscious to create vivid, breathing worlds engaging all your senses and reacting to all of your conscious actions and thoughts is kind of frightening to me. goes to show you how immensely powerful our subconscious is and how much of our actual decision making happens without even processing why.>what is the evolutionary advantage of these resting hallucinations? is there even one to begin with? we know animals dream too, so it would suggest there IS some kind of benefit to this, but what could it possibly be>the nature of the dreams themselves. why do so many of them seem to involve our deep seated fears, anxieties, regrets, and hopes for the future?>lucid dreaming and partially lucid dreaming. I have a weird thing where I will generally suspect something is a dream, and I will worry that its not real (because my dreams are usually the life I WISH I had) but convince myself in the dream that its real. I also have an ability to consciously stop the dream once it gets uncomfortable and I want out. its like I dont know Im dreaming, but then once it gets scary I immediately know I can just end it anytime, then Ill close my eyes and wake up. fucking weird>what it says about the very nature of consciousness itself. why is there even a "me" consciousness seperate from the rest of our brain to begin with? why does this conscious retard need to be entertained in some imagined space?the more i think about it the more fucking weird it is.
>>41669873Dreams are basically another universe. We live in two overlapping universes, we just only acknowledge the existence of one while we are in it, whereas if we are in the other we can acknowledge both of their existences. But I have noticed a tendency for other 'dreamers' to not realize that the dream they are in isn't the only 'reality', its pretty strange. Its like the mind hypnotizes itself into believing in the reality it is presently observing. I have seen this effect on myself, and I just go along with 'what is normal', in the dream, and its like its a script made out of assumptions. I become lucid, and can have lucid interactions with people who are aware of the dual nature of my soul in both reality and in dreaming. Its like awareness can sense other awareness which is conscious in both realms, and it bridges the mind to the subconscious mind, and there begins a communication.I hear this mind voice talking to me all the time, and in the dream world I interact with her, and she is like an angel or lover. To her, this life I am living is temporary, and she perceives my death here before I do. In the dream world its always like I'm getting back with the 'real' community of souls. The living people are like the unconscious folk who don't have as much of a presence or awareness in the other world.Another aspect of dreaming, is that you can interact with the dream itself, as an expression of reality, and it will respond to your intentions towards it to create with you.I had a dream this morning, where I was using strong magic at a school to play with the professors there. I was making force fields, telekinetic effects, playing instruments of music, channeling the voice of that angel to sing and listen to the music she played.A did a lot of stuff in that dream and interacted with a lot of people. One in particular said they were merged into the awareness and seeing Shiva everywhere, and when they looked into the water they saw Sobek, as a consciousness.
>>41669873 Life is a dream.The transient self is an illusion.Through the practice of lucid dreaming, your dream reality may one day become as vivid and tangible as so-called waking life.
>>41669873Try this.The dreamworld can be a gate to the spiritual realm, when you learn how to handle it.
>>41670408 Or this.
>>41669873I usually detect the fakeness of dreams and i know how to wake up if its a nightmare without getting killed in the nightmare
>>41670504>If we do not know how to practice in our sleep, writes Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, if we fall into unconsciousness every night, what are our chances of maintaining awareness when death comes? Look at your experiences in dreams; you will see what your experience will be in death. Look at your experiences in sleep; and you will discover whether you are truly awake.
>>41670642I had an unusually boring and mundane dream last night. I was driving a big cabover truck, but I never actually made it to a road. Instead I was stuck in like some kind of courtyard surrounded by trees and apartment buildings. My whole dream was like a series of three point turns trying to slowly navigate my way around trees and meandering people and parked cars without hitting anyone or causing any damage.
