I neeed a dream warrior as teacher.

I was reading the Vasistha Yoga for a long time (Valmiki's second book) from cover to cover, and it continues by repeating the same that point over and over ( that there is no essential difference between"reality" and dreams).

I took it to Spain in my second trip there, and I would read it in the airports and in the planes. I have bought it about five times, since it falls apart from reading it too much, because it's big and the covers are soft.

Although the personalists would call it a Mayavadi philosophy, I think it has the most important point, and in no way it can interfere with Bakti. Or...does it?

I get a good high from the Bhagavatam also, but kind of different feeling altogether.

 

I would suggest you try Conscious Dreaming by Robert Moss. His views on dreaming are someone different and he believes we can go back into dreams using shamanic techiniques.

 

I did a search on the name, and I 'll be reading some of the things he has written, a retreat wouldn't be a bad idea.

 

i whole heartedly aggree, although perhapse not entirely with the "product of our conciousness" totally. i do suspect there is or sometimes is, or can be, a connectedness in/with them, beyond our individual selves and perceptions.

i won't go all the way over to the other way as some people seem to want to and suggest that there always is or that this is always what is going on.

no. most of the time, it's just the kind of simulations our minds run when their allowed to freewheel as we must do for a time ever diurnal cycle to allow them their houskeeping and self maintainence.

but i think sometimes these simulations interact beyond themselves. like a massively multi-participant nontangable internet.

i mean our manor of perceiving, it's like a client software running in our own personal systems, how we see and experince in our dreams whatever it is that they might pick up from outside of ourselves, so in that sense, even when some sort of interaction beyond ourselves is invoulved in them, it is indeed our own ways of seeing that are making what and how we experience of them.

a lot of people seem to like to make "seperate mystifying nonsense" out of everything. that's probably the basis for the popularity of more chauvanistic beliefs. and for my two cents, i don't see how they could possibly have the slightest idea what they are talking about.

when you say "vast reality" of "our conscousness" i'm guessing you are encompassing within that, at least the possibility of some sort of nontangable connectedness, without all the kinds of mumbo jumbo that are usualy attatched by popular assumptions to that.

not that any of this has to matter as much as some people seem to want to attatch to it either. i think for the most part our dreams are just for us to enjoy. like watching a movie or reading a book.

like a movie or a book also, sometimes perhapse there are inspirations or even hints at useful understanding between the lines of them.

all these ARE perhapses and sometimesis though, because my own nature is imperfect, like everyone's, and for this reason we, or at least i, can never completely and certainly know.

just infer inductively from how accumulated data 'add up'. or seem to.

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The first thing you may want to do is to try to get 9 to 10 hours of sleep a night.

Get off of junk foods, alcohol, transfats, MSG, soda, sweets, hydrogenated oils. Drink plenty of water, get exercise, a warm shower before retiring. Next remove most of the furniture (TVs, bookcases, paintings) from your bedroom. Basically you want to make it a santuary. Make your bed every day in the morning.

Do not watch TV for 1 hour prior to going to sleep. Watch what you read. Meditate while falling asleep and as you wake up.

 

your dream is your own reality. I mean it's awsome because you have complete control over the dreams, I haven't fully mastered like controlling the "topic" (i guess that'd be a good word) of the dream, but I can control the flow and every once in a while I use the ole "hand o god" (ringing my conscious self to affect the dream) to switch something around. I guess what I'm trying to say is that it isnt just a dream, it's your dream, maybe try saying that to yourself efore falling asleep (couldn't hurt i guess).
also it could be the stress and whatnot from your waking time that's affecting you, meditation and yoga, or centering yourself before sleep.

h umm also, if you want lucid dreams you have find your own path there. it's like okay for example, if I have a hard day at work i tend to zone in to certain things that I know would calm my mind. I like rain, the sound, not the wetness, so I make sure to focus my inner eye on the sound. I'm a pretty spartan person (i don't have anything but a bed and a poster in my room) so I sit in a white but gloomy area, so I may sit on a rock and watch my thughts go by (people I'm thinking about walking by or acting out a thought i'm having) and I can talk to them, and using my reality of them i can think of possible scenarios and choose a reasonable path. I'm being rushed so feel free to pm me. Peace and love and may chaos guide you to inner order.