lucid dreaming — Posty McPostface
How do you know that you are not simply experiencing disciplined meditation during the process of lucid dreams? — Marcus de Brun
At the risk of being laughed off the forum, I'd say that it suggests that the real world is less than we make it out to be. — Noble Dust
I have a lot of vivid dreams. I had a dream awhile ago that my brother was standing about a stone's throw away from me. But he was unreachable. Why? — Noble Dust
It was just a dream. But was it? — Noble Dust
Whatever the psychological explanation is is fine, but it won't satisfy the emotions that accompanied the dream. When I think back to that dream, it's twilight setting, and the love that my brother was sending, and yet his inaccessibility...it's a feeling more powerful than any feeling I've felt in waking life in years. So what does that mean? — Noble Dust
When there is more than one person in the therapy, psychoanalysis generally begins to fail. — Marcus de Brun
I can relate. I feel as though the mind is much more compartmentalized during waking reality, whereas during a dream everything has the chance to emerge into one's conscious aspect of the mind. — Posty McPostface
I have a certain amount of reverence for dreams. I had a profound dream a long time ago about getting lost on the trip to the peak of the "mountain", whatever that may mean to you. In my opinion this mountain, from which I got separated from my family was a sort of journey in life. I found myself wandering in a forest filled with strange ghosts, plants, and whatnot.
What I gathered from that dream was that the shortest way around the mountain was through it, actually tunneling through it. I still have no idea what that could possibly mean. Quantum tunneling? — Posty McPostface
At risk of misinterpreting you here, and that's just a given, I think it's maybe your dream telling you that you're growing distant from him? — Posty McPostface
No, it wasn't *just* a dream. That's what I hate about reality. It demeans and treats these almost lifelike experiences into something trite or illusory, which they aren't. Dreams are magical. — Posty McPostface
Yup. I haven't done hallucinogens, but what friends have told me about the experience sounds similar to an experience of clear-mindedness that also corresponds to the lucidity of a dream that feels very real. — Noble Dust
These personal dreams are so precious and interesting. When I read your account, I'm interested, but I know that the account you're describing is something so deeply personal and almost weird; even to you yourself. This is the thing that gives such an elegant beauty to dreams; this embarrassing quality. — Noble Dust
It's true that we've grown distant in terms of physical space; but we remain essentially best friends; or, he remains my best friend. He's married, though, so she's his best friend now, I guess. But the emotion of the dream had nothing to do with that at all. It was way, way deeper than that. It was something foundational. — Noble Dust
I agree. Dreams feel more real than waking life. — Noble Dust
Being "aware" that one is dreaming is interesting in the sense that it is an example of meta-thought, thought upon thought. — Marcus de Brun
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