A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To My Lucid Dream

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[Daniel]

It started when I began rereading Dan Millmans "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior" which I had not picked up since I was 30 years old when my life was a wasteland and I thought it would help me with some wisdom on paper and ink. The first night after I read the beginning pages of the book I had an intense lengthly lucid dream with Eckhart Tolle in it.

Then, just tonight after going further into the book I had another lengthly lucid dream which was almost the extent of a full length motion picture (or so it seemed, you know how time compression can be!). Both dreams were incredible in content and beauty.

So my question is, is it possible that a book could actually be a psychoactive catalyst for stimulating conscious theta states? Or, it could be a coincidence. This book certainly has my interest now in more ways than one either way!  

Dan

[Nickeson]

...is it possible that a book could actually be a psychoactive catalyst...?

Dan,
Exactly!
About 30 years ago, after going months at a time without dreams, I read a couple of essays by Carl Jung which kicked off an 18-month stretch of about three or four "big" dreams a week. The first one featured a rather disreputable artist friend and me stripping away layer after layer of antique wall paper from a room in a whore house. At one point a teacher we had both once bedeviled looked in the door, smiled and shook his head in mock ruefulness. I was never the same after that; started doing analytical dream journals, still at it.
Steven

[Robin]

Lucid dreaming rocks!  Had a great flying one yesterday morning.   Yes, I was in a craft with a pilot hovering over the beautiful ocean.  The dream was sparked by a phone conversation with a good male friend. 

God bless Jung, he had it down when it comes to collective consciouness.

God bless Ken Wilber for bringing us all together again in this forum. 

[henry]

let's remember michaelD deserves credit also ...is robin also yb/hurrah?... ...henry

[Robin]

let's remember michaelD deserves credit also ...is robin also yb/hurrah?... ...henry

Yes Henry, used to post here under yb, then Hurrah.   No, I'm not an imposter, my Christian name is Robin.

[henry]

i thought it was you. we were the last two stragglers at the old in forum before the lights went out. i was reluctant to sign up for the new improved! exciting phase3(?) turbo charged in forum and you made the final 5 historic posts there in your yb persona ..henry

[Robin]

i thought it was you. we were the last two stragglers at the old in forum before the lights went out. i was reluctant to sign up for the new improved! exciting phase3(?) turbo charged in forum and you made the final 5 historic posts there in your yb persona ..henry

:curtsy:... Robin

The water dreams are normal, have something to do with being with my brother and friends sailing in Seattle next month.

[Daniel]

Robin,

 I think Edgar Allen Poe was right, our waking dream of normal consciousness is hazier and more dreamlike than some of our lucid dreams! In fact, when your lucid dreams become more real than waking reality, then you know your getting somewhere!

P.S. You might want to wear a wet suit!

To One in Paradise

       Thou wast all that to me, love,
         For which my soul did pine-
       A green isle in the sea, love,
         A fountain and a shrine,
       All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
         And all the flowers were mine.

       Ah, dream too bright to last!
         Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
       But to be overcast!
         A voice from out the Future cries,
       "On! on!"- but o'er the Past
         (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
       Mute, motionless, aghast!

       For, alas! alas! me
         The light of Life is o'er!
         "No more- no more- no more-"
       (Such language holds the solemn sea
         To the sands upon the shore)
       Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
         Or the stricken eagle soar!

       And all my days are trances,
         And all my nightly dreams
       Are where thy grey eye glances,
         And where thy footstep gleams-
       In what ethereal dances,
         By what eternal streams.

[Robin]

Robin,

 I think Edgar Allen Poe was right, our waking dream of normal consciousness is hazier and more dreamlike than some of our lucid dreams! In fact, when your lucid dreams become more real than waking reality, then you know your getting somewhere!

P.S. You might want to wear a wet suit!

To One in Paradise

       Thou wast all that to me, love,
         For which my soul did pine-
       A green isle in the sea, love,
         A fountain and a shrine,
       All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
         And all the flowers were mine.

       Ah, dream too bright to last!
         Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
       But to be overcast!
         A voice from out the Future cries,
       "On! on!"- but o'er the Past
         (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
       Mute, motionless, aghast!

       For, alas! alas! me
         The light of Life is o'er!
         "No more- no more- no more-"
       (Such language holds the solemn sea
         To the sands upon the shore)
       Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
         Or the stricken eagle soar!

       And all my days are trances,
         And all my nightly dreams
       Are where thy grey eye glances,
         And where thy footstep gleams-
       In what ethereal dances,
         By what eternal streams.

Thank you for the beautiful quote Daniel.  Poe's one of my favorite poets.  When I was taking yet another English class at Seattle U, got in a spirited debate about how Poe wrote "The Raven" from back to front.  Funny, usually have my found my leads for articles in the last paragraph. 

The dreamer in me dances, but never sleeps. 

[Daniel]

About 30 years ago, after going months at a time without dreams, I read a couple of essays by Carl Jung which kicked off an 18-month stretch of about three or four "big" dreams a week

Steven, I haven't read much Jung, but I am about to!    Do you recall the title of those essays? Sounds pretty interesting and had somewhat the same effect as LSD.

Daniel

[jimtzu]

speaking of dreams... this is interesting for those who choose to participate...

Gaia's Dreams is an experiment based on Carl Jung's concept of the collective unconscious. It is designed to gather and analyze collective dream quality and content, and to provide reports on emerging trends based on aspects of those dreams.

http://www.psiarcade.com/gaia/index.php

[Robin]

Yes, I believe books can be catalysts into our dreams.  Honestly, there have been times when I've been almost afraid to go to sleep because of my dreams.

What's enchanting is awaking and knowing the dream state is healing.