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[Jana]

First night using my magnetic pillow that I made, I slept till 9.30 seemly dreaming all night. They were low level egoic dreams about jobs, living space, men who weren't mine etc... Last scene I was rollarblading down an unknown street looking for my new apartment which I didn't like, with a facepack on, not sure if I was late for work or didn't have to go in that day.
I figure they are low level dreams cause I ate cheese the day before, and I have zippo novelty or interest going on in my life.

I did not want to lift my head off the pillow however and my head feels pretty good and clear this morning.

[Jana]

Hmm, this magnetic pillow is magic. I lay down around 2pm to listen to “Mindful Brain” by Daniel Siegel and promptly went to sleep. In one of the dreams I was in a therapists office with two therapists. The tall long-haired one was holding me tight, he had a big dong which he wanted to use on me. I could hear the “lecture” of the Mindfulness CD coming through in my dream. I woke up at 7pm having missed the movie I was going to go to. I am now going to listen to the CD again to see what it was I was hearing in my dream…a tutorial supposedly given by the other gray haired therapist.

[jimtzu]

hmmmmm how did you make your pillow magnetic?

[Jana]

http://www.amazon.com/Magcraft-NSN0601-10-Inch-Magnets-50-Count/dp/B000E63O08/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=hi&qid=1269782633&sr=8-1

You buy these magnets.
You get some 2" thick foam about the same size as a pillow.
And you map out a grid on it...I did 5X9 for placing 45 of the magnets.
Then using the felt tip pen with lid on you poke down into the cross over points of the grid to make flat depressions to fit the magnets.

For sexing the magnet...you need a compass. Place all the magnets in a line forming a rod. Then put a compass on the middle of the rod. The direction that the red (south) end of the magnet points to is the north end of your magnets. Mark the north end of each with a green dot as you work your way down the rod placing magnets on your grid--south side down.
Use double sided sticky tape in small pieces to hold the magnets into the foam depressions. I also put lines of normal sticky tape over the lines of magnets.
(I haven't checked yet to see if my method maintains the magnets in place.)

Then on top of this I placed a feather pillow and put both foam and feather into a zip up pillow case, and normal pillow case. The  extra structure makes the feather pillow even better. I seem to notice a relaxing vibe when I put my head on the pillow...and I go under real fast.

[Jana]

The magnetic pillow may be the ultimate in excapism.
Although my dreams are still at the egoic level, they are super imaginative, complex and seem to be nonstop all night. This leaves me with the sense of having actually lived and provides my brain with experiencial chemicals and a sense of being alive. Since my lived life is so lacking in all respects in the experiential domain...this night life provides satisfying compensation. I actually feel more like I am living a life; like I am myself...it being hard to maintain myself in the midst of such ignorance and hostility.
I am hoping that my rich dream life, may carry over and stimulate my waking life to be more satisfying also.

[jimtzu]

i'm glad the magnetic pillow is working out for you. nothing wrong with having mundane, egoic dreams.  get that out of the way and it leaves more time to be creative in the "waking" hours. 

[Jana]

Nope my waking life is even more hellish than my dreams...and terminally boring.
I am not meant for this world
My writing is all I have of value.
It will be interesting to see if my dreams "improve" over time. I have the feeling that the higher level dreams only occur at certain months of the year with regards to kundalini and psi.

[Jana]

As far as we presently know the north pole is more condusive to life...

So it is the "north pole" that faces up on the magnets...

Sofar after 4 nights sleep, the double sided tape, plus the normal tape over the entire grid of magnets works to hold them in place...in fact the magnetism of the magnets holds them in place also. The beauty of this is that it also makes feather pillows far more user friendly to have the solid foam foundation.
For some reason that Keppe might know (have yet to purchase his books from amazon)...the North pole is more calming and friendly to life.

"Because opposite poles attract, the Earth's North Magnetic Pole is therefore, by this definition, physically a magnetic field south pole. Conversely, the Earth's South Magnetic Pole is physically a magnetic field north pole."

The white (North) of the compass needle aligns with the south of the magnet...so that means North on my rare earth discs is where the red side of the compass needle points to.


Be ready for lift off folks, this is potent medicine.

[Jana]

The pillow may be a temporary catalyst, but unless we live a life practice conducive to dreaming, I imagine the extra stimulus it provides will garner less effects over time. Can't fool nature with cheap tricks so to speak.
Towards this end I will mention a few other things that we can add to our dream friendly lifestyle.

Increasing Dream Life:
• Raw Diet—Conductivity and energy (enzymes-sprouts), increase %
• Green—Regeneration with raw chlorophyll with plants grown on remineralized soil
• Sungazing—Dawn and Dusk, brain charging with photons
• Nature—Soul recharging, negative ions
• Novelty—New experience, neurogenesis
• Visual Stimulation—Art, movies, Mind'sEye Videos, sacred geometry
• Vision Quest—Questioning, surrender, exposure to the elements
• Relationships—Stimulating, meaningful, purposeful, creative
• Herbs—Valerian, Chamomile, Calea sacatechichi, Mugwort, Syrian rue, African dream herb, Blue vervain
• Melatonin
• 10-20 minute stretching/rolling on the floor, spinal rolling
• Hanging from the hips over a bar for 5 minutes in passive stretch
• Deep breathing prior to sleep
• Toning—huuu, hmmm, Ommm etc...cleans brain
• Theta wave CD by Jeffery Thompson
• Drumming, dancing, gardening, mud/clay baths, mineral pools
• Living a virtuous, abundant and giving life, regenerating the earth

[Nickeson]

Dreams have been my drug of choice and unimpeachable guides for over thirty three years. And I have to agree with Jana that variously charged pillows are at best temporary catalysts.

One can manipulate the physical aspects of dreaming with whatever strikes the dreamer as authentic whether it is diet or ritual. Jana like valerian; but fine Carupano rum works the same for me. Authenticity is the key. I'm not big on raw beets or artichokes, either regular or Jerusalem, but I like my beef a little bloody. Green is always good except when it comes to chicken, green chicken should be avoided. I have found that sleep aides, herbs, and things like melatonin tend to skew the dream toward their own essences and away from my source. Like green chicken, I avoid them. I have had profoundly effective dreams without ever having manipulated my lifestyle...ritual is as ritual does and so it goes with all compulsions. Ritual for me does nothing.

But, the one thing that creates the ultimate environment for dreams that guide one into a fulfilling, sovereign and fully authentic life is the unconditioned trust in and surrender to the supremacy of one's own often beyond conscious source and the gleeful willingness to follow it wherever it might lead, even into insanity. It is good to have something like that at the bottom of a dream-kicker list, it needs to be honored out loud...early...often. All the rest is ritual--could be hollow, or maybe not. Trust in the source will get one through times without mineral baths better than mineral baths will get one through times without trust.

[Jana]

The visionary dreamer's life is one of surrender.

The belief that one knows what is going on beforehand goes along with the need to be right, so that there is a lack of inquiry, spontaneity and “live” reassessment. If you think you know things prior their unfolding then you are not engaged in the play of life but living a limited personal abstraction, and consequently unable to learn and grow. When we are projecting our own lens and can’t see past our glasses, we cannot touch and receive reality, we are not really awake to the moment, and we polarize against other people’s realities in order to hold onto our own. Consequently we burn a lot of nervous energy in the wasted effort to try and reinforce our myopia and we “fail to receive pleasure” or recharge, or be filled with our own quota of cosmic genius, vital energy and joy in unification. This “leaking and lack of filling” keeps us in the low energy, separated state that perpetuates the rigid personality. Basically with rigidity the impulse to life gets shut down and we lose our Yes to the evolutionary flow. This veil of separation is not even our own Self, it is prepersonal delusion…composed of unskillful coping mechanisms defending against a world that doesn’t value soul and love above all things. The way out of the trap of loss and deprivation therefore is to value soul and love above all things.

[Nickeson]

Jana wrote: "If you think you know things prior their unfolding then you are not engaged in the play of life but living a limited personal abstraction,.."

Excellent observation!

[jimtzu]

interesting adjunct to your magnetic pillow:


To make moral judgments about other people, we often need to infer their intentions — an ability known as “theory of mind.” For example, if one hunter shoots another while on a hunting trip, we need to know what the shooter was thinking: Was he secretly jealous, or did he mistake his fellow hunter for an animal?

MIT neuroscientists have now shown they can influence those judgments by interfering with activity in a specific brain region — a finding that helps reveal how the brain constructs morality.

Previous studies have shown that a brain region known as the right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) is highly active when we think about other people’s intentions, thoughts and beliefs. In the new study, the researchers disrupted activity in the right TPJ by inducing a current in the brain using a magnetic field applied to the scalp. They found that the subjects’ ability to make moral judgments that require an understanding of other people’s intentions — for example, a failed murder attempt — was impaired.

The researchers, led by Rebecca Saxe, MIT assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences, report their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of March 29. Funding for the research came from The National Center for Research Resources, the MIND Institute, the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, the Simons Foundation and the David and Lucille Packard Foundation.

The study offers “striking evidence” that the right TPJ, located at the brain’s surface above and behind the right ear, is critical for making moral judgments, says Liane Young, lead author of the paper. It’s also startling, since under normal circumstances people are very confident and consistent in these kinds of moral judgments, says Young, a postdoctoral associate in MIT’s Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

“You think of morality as being a really high-level behavior,” she says. “To be able to apply (a magnetic field) to a specific brain region and change people’s moral judgments is really astonishing.”

Thinking of others

Saxe first identified the right TPJ’s role in theory of mind a decade ago — a discovery that was the subject of her MIT PhD thesis in 2003. Since then, she has used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show that the right TPJ is active when people are asked to make judgments that require thinking about other people’s intentions.

In the new study, the researchers wanted to go beyond fMRI experiments to observe what would happen if they could actually disrupt activity in the right TPJ. Their success marks a major step forward for the field of moral neuroscience, says Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, professor of philosophy at Duke University.

“Recent fMRI studies of moral judgment find fascinating correlations, but Young et al usher in a new era by moving beyond correlation to causation,” says Sinnott-Armstrong, who was not involved in this research.

The researchers used a noninvasive technique known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to selectively interfere with brain activity in the right TPJ. A magnetic field applied to a small area of the skull creates weak electric currents that impede nearby brain cells’ ability to fire normally, but the effect is only temporary.

In one experiment, volunteers were exposed to TMS for 25 minutes before taking a test in which they read a series of scenarios and made moral judgments of characters’ actions on a scale of one (absolutely forbidden) to seven (absolutely permissible).

In a second experiment, TMS was applied in 500-milisecond bursts at the moment when the subject was asked to make a moral judgment. For example, subjects were asked to judge how permissible it is for a man to let his girlfriend walk across a bridge he knows to be unsafe, even if she ends up making it across safely. In such cases, a judgment based solely on the outcome would hold the perpetrator morally blameless, even though it appears he intended to do harm.

In both experiments, the researchers found that when the right TPJ was disrupted, subjects were more likely to judge failed attempts to harm as morally permissible. Therefore, the researchers believe that TMS interfered with subjects’ ability to interpret others’ intentions, forcing them to rely more on outcome information to make their judgments.

“It doesn’t completely reverse people’s moral judgments, it just biases them,” says Saxe.

When subjects received TMS to a brain region near the right TPJ, their judgments were nearly identical to those of people who received no TMS at all.

While understanding other people’s intentions is critical to judging them, it is just one piece of the puzzle. We also take into account the person’s desires, previous record and any external constraints, guided by our own concepts of loyalty, fairness and integrity, says Saxe.

“Our moral judgments are not the result of a single process, even though they feel like one uniform thing,” she says. “It’s actually a hodgepodge of competing and conflicting judgments, all of which get jumbled into what we call moral judgment.”

Saxe’s lab is now studying the role of theory of mind in judging situations where the attempted harm was not a physical threat. The researchers are also doing a study on the role of the right TPJ in judgments of people who are morally lucky or unlucky. For example, a drunk driver who hits and kills a pedestrian is unlucky, compared to an equally drunk driver who makes it home safely, but the unlucky homicidal driver tends to be judged more morally blameworthy.

[Jana]

Dreams
Ah, yes but you are putting conditions on the ineffable...conditions on a dream. Don't box yourself in. Let a billion dreams flow through you unhampered by clinging and fear. We are played by the dreamer of the universe like a music box.

The universe is so much greater than our rational minds can know, and our perception is so much greater. To speed our evolution our dream life is becoming more complex…as one of the few outlets for the human spirit left within the prison culture of fear. Learning to navigate the symbolic world that is so much deeper and impactful than our contracted daily experience as slave or doer…requires massive relearning and the kind of objectivity that is not the careless disregard of the hardened and narcoleptic, but a poetry and art born from a lover of the human experience itself. Within the seeds of being pulled out of ourselves by desire lies our greatest gifts, not to be laid waste through dropping the golden ball…but continued on in the thrill and exaltation of the trickery of Self discovery. The supermind is at play…we must simply learn to play with it, rather than against it in order to remain sane and to not indulge in the valleys of self implosion. Fall only to rise still further in the heart of good.
 

[Jana]

Dream Morning 10/8/10
I was at a workshop with a bunch of people in a big building complex. The event was ending and I was moving around rapping things up. I offered to carry a guys protein powder then proceeded to lose it in the messy rubbish (chaos) that was lying around. I  had broken a cell phone in half and an organizer girl was upset with me…I realized I would have to pay for it and said, “what am I doing with a cell phone anyway I don’t need one.” I got back to where more of the group was including the teacher and I guy came up behind me and grabbed me around the rib cage. Bolts of lightning went through me and I yelled “Ah don’t touch me.” He said he couldn’t be around me for 3 days without touching me.

This dream answers the question of how we quicken the process of opening ourselves to the light so that we can transform our flesh to embody the new humanity. The protein powder in the dream is most likely enzymes, for they do all the work in the body, breaking down and rebuilding and providing the energy for change. It is enzymes that would reconstruct the protein and DNA to convey more biophotons and generate more bliss (magnetic geneto-glandular implosion). The cell phone represents cellular communication…it is through unbroken cellular communication that we commune or enter into coherent communication with the cosmos and community. We inherent this potential for cellular communication from 3.5 billion years of evolution and so it is not really “ours” persay, but we just borrow it from the continuum of life. If we break it, then we get to pay for the consequences. The guy grabbing me around the back of my ribcage is pointing to the pain of separation, loss of spirit (breath) and lack of social touch. I have been feeling somewhat dead in the bottle of my lungs due to the sadness of my isolation. Enzymes provide the energy (ATP) on the microscopic level for cellular movement and then on the macroscopic level emotions are emotivation for mobilizing towards greater humanization. Thus evolution is facilitated by joyous movement…be it sex, dance, rebounding, running, yoga or touch.