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Topic: Which is the "dream," and which is the "reality"? Linda Goodman Excerpt~
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SilverStone Moderator Posts: 415 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted December 02, 2009 03:33 AM
Excerpt from Linda Goodman's Star Signs: When you fall asleep at night, leaving behind the so called world of "reality" for the world of dreams, have you noticed that--no matter how hard you try, as you are drifting off to slumberland, to hold on to the "reality" of the sounds of the television, traffic, or the dog snoring-- they fade away into oblivion. Conversely, when you awake in the morning, leaving behind the so-called "dream world" for the world of reality, have you likewise noticed that-- no matter how hard you try, as you are waking up, to hold on to the sights and sounds of "dream" you just had-- they fade away into oblivion in exactly the same manner as the sights and sounds of "reality" fade when you're falling alseep?
Polarized points of view, interchangeable--indisputably. And so, which is the "dream," and which is the "reality"? Who is to say? How do you really know that this very waking moment is not the dream, and last night's dream the true reality? The ancients wise ones taught that "dreams are the true reality." Aristotle wrote: "life is an imitation of art...and art is an imitation of reality; therefore, life is but an imitation of reality." The reality of dreams. The Tibetan monks in bygone centuries, when they prayed, chanted repeatedly, "this is the world of illusion...this is the world of illusion.
Which brings me to this... From Stewart Swerdlow:
Normally, a person sleeps 7-8 hours a night (normal range). If you extrapolate that into a life time, and in the United States an average life time is 75 years, a 3rd of your day that you are sleeping, extrapolate it to a life time means you are sleeping 25 years: A quarter of a century-- That's a long time to not know what's going on: A third of your life you don't know what's going on, which is a reminder that our dreams are extremely important, as the life that you live in your dream state, is just as valid as your waking state... we are a conscious entity in all of those realities! "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes" --Carl Gustav Jung "....All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves." Bill Hicks IP: Logged |
SunChild Moderator Posts: 1183 From: Melbourne. Victoria. Australia Registered: Apr 2009
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posted December 03, 2009 04:50 AM
Im going to repost this for my friends to see on facebook. It's nice and simple for them to 'get it'... thanks for that! IP: Logged |
koiflower Knowflake Posts: 1984 From: Australia Registered: Apr 2009
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posted December 03, 2009 07:25 AM
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SilverStone Moderator Posts: 415 From: Registered: Apr 2009
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posted December 04, 2009 03:51 AM
Your welcome, Sunchild!
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BiBi DeAngelo Knowflake Posts: 493 From: Los Angeles, CA, USA Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 27, 2010 03:42 AM
bumped up.... IP: Logged |
WinkAway Moderator Posts: 1204 From: here, there & everywhere Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 28, 2010 02:59 PM
I remember reading this..
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LEXX Moderator Posts: 2916 From: Still out looking for Schr�dinger's cat.........& LEXIGRAMMING... is my Passion! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 28, 2010 04:55 PM
I get glyphs which tells me it is a dream, a dream within a dream; then a glyph telling me to remember dream because the dream glyph and the reality glyph will be switching places. Additionally, my dreams do not have the faint "readout" like in my real life.IP: Logged | |