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Hello, I am new to this group, and signed up for Tribe explicitly to join it! Browsing some old posts I found a few to reply to, but thought I'd go ahead and say a few things about myself as an introduction.
I grew up around people who were 100% science-oriented, and who ridiculed anyone who believed in things like aliens or God or channeling or astral projection. As the spiritual members of my family did not seem very intelligent, I guess I didn't take too much of a concern about it. I lived the first 20 years of my life becoming a pretty good engineer.
Yet shortly after that, I started lucid dreaming. My first lucid dream was actually a conversation with someone who looked like myself. He encouraged me to throw a bowling ball through a giant TV screen in the room we were in. It shattered the screen, but when he changed the channel the broken glass disappeared and the screen was whole again. I was so blown away from that conversation that when I woke up, I hopped out of bed and began reading everything I could on the web about lucid dreaming.
Over the past 10 years my duality has only become more intense and frequent. I can't say that I am anywhere near understanding the mechanisms or that I am able to read minds or that I've seen any tangible benefits. But I am able to execute detailed investigations of the dream world and bring back transcripts from them. Though I know very many people are able to become lucid in their dreams and learn to fly (or whatever), I am dogged about bridging the gap between worlds and take the attitude of an explorer/trader/scientist. I really try to suss out the physics of what is going on. My livejournal is "realityhandbook" so check it out if you want to see some dream accounts and essays I'm working on.
realityhandbook.livejournal.com
I spend a lot of time using laptops and the internet in lucid dreams...reading personal webpages and coming back with very detailed accounts of what I saw. But when I wake up, I rarely if ever find the information leads me to another person whose interests or persona seem like what I was looking at in the dream. Yet I am quite confident that the things I'm seeing and the people I'm talking to are (at some level) real. I just haven't met anyone with foot-in-two-worlds leanings who can convince me that we're...uh, on the same soul frequency.
So my investigations have been a lonely road, especially given how many people jump to rather quick conclusions that I must be crazy. I live in Hollywood at the moment, and I tend to use music videos and art as a way of pointing to the idea that other people "get it". It's my way of showing that the ideas I'm having aren't new, but the artists are generally not people I have access to, and it seems that I can never get any of my peers to see things the way I see them. I feel trapped between worlds—I don't know how many of you have seen the classic Peter Gabriel video "Shock the Monkey" but it's my sentiments exactly:
www.youtube.com/watch
So I hope to meet some people, locally and otherwise, who've got the same issues because it really drives me crazy to think I'm the only one. I do find that the actions I take (such as perhaps posting to this forum?) lead to various kinds of contact. It's sort of like: if you don't put yourself out there, no one will find you...and that's true in dreams as well as in real life. I also think, having seen the amount of filtering and spamming that goes on, that sometimes you have to communicate a map to yourself in code...
Peace,
BFD
5MIL687
I grew up around people who were 100% science-oriented, and who ridiculed anyone who believed in things like aliens or God or channeling or astral projection. As the spiritual members of my family did not seem very intelligent, I guess I didn't take too much of a concern about it. I lived the first 20 years of my life becoming a pretty good engineer.
Yet shortly after that, I started lucid dreaming. My first lucid dream was actually a conversation with someone who looked like myself. He encouraged me to throw a bowling ball through a giant TV screen in the room we were in. It shattered the screen, but when he changed the channel the broken glass disappeared and the screen was whole again. I was so blown away from that conversation that when I woke up, I hopped out of bed and began reading everything I could on the web about lucid dreaming.
Over the past 10 years my duality has only become more intense and frequent. I can't say that I am anywhere near understanding the mechanisms or that I am able to read minds or that I've seen any tangible benefits. But I am able to execute detailed investigations of the dream world and bring back transcripts from them. Though I know very many people are able to become lucid in their dreams and learn to fly (or whatever), I am dogged about bridging the gap between worlds and take the attitude of an explorer/trader/scientist. I really try to suss out the physics of what is going on. My livejournal is "realityhandbook" so check it out if you want to see some dream accounts and essays I'm working on.
realityhandbook.livejournal.com
I spend a lot of time using laptops and the internet in lucid dreams...reading personal webpages and coming back with very detailed accounts of what I saw. But when I wake up, I rarely if ever find the information leads me to another person whose interests or persona seem like what I was looking at in the dream. Yet I am quite confident that the things I'm seeing and the people I'm talking to are (at some level) real. I just haven't met anyone with foot-in-two-worlds leanings who can convince me that we're...uh, on the same soul frequency.
So my investigations have been a lonely road, especially given how many people jump to rather quick conclusions that I must be crazy. I live in Hollywood at the moment, and I tend to use music videos and art as a way of pointing to the idea that other people "get it". It's my way of showing that the ideas I'm having aren't new, but the artists are generally not people I have access to, and it seems that I can never get any of my peers to see things the way I see them. I feel trapped between worlds—I don't know how many of you have seen the classic Peter Gabriel video "Shock the Monkey" but it's my sentiments exactly:
www.youtube.com/watch
So I hope to meet some people, locally and otherwise, who've got the same issues because it really drives me crazy to think I'm the only one. I do find that the actions I take (such as perhaps posting to this forum?) lead to various kinds of contact. It's sort of like: if you don't put yourself out there, no one will find you...and that's true in dreams as well as in real life. I also think, having seen the amount of filtering and spamming that goes on, that sometimes you have to communicate a map to yourself in code...
Peace,
BFD
5MIL687
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