--- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > --- In [email protected], "Alex Stanley"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > And, in other news, today marks ten years of sobriety for me.
> >
> > Congratulations. More of an achievement than
> > most of the realization experiences discussed
> > here.
>
> Thanks. Ten years later, it's still like every morning is a little
> victory.
>
> And, I don't know if this is a realization experience, but I just
> now figured out why I was so upset this morning. I was having an
> unpleasant dream and completely aware of it, when, in fact, I
> wasn't yet awake. There simply wasn't any definite dividing line
> of awareness between the dream and waking up. A couple months ago,
> I witnessed my sleep, and it was kinda scary because I was awake
> to the bodily paralysis of the sleep state, and I couldn't figure
> out whether I was awake or asleep. Honestly, I find these
> experiences very disconcerting. I am totally cool with sleeptime
> torpor, thank you.
LOL. I understand. There was a period of a couple
of years when I was studying Tibetan forms of dream
yoga. This involved lucid dreaming ("waking up in
dream" and controlling it), plus a number of other
practices. That was all neat. The issues revolved
around the Tibetan view of dreams, which is that they
are *real*, just happening in another plane of exis-
tence. No pussy "dreams symbolize things" stuff in
that tradition. If some badass was chasing you in a
dream trying to kill you, the approach taken was that
it was a *real* badass, and that the best thing you
could do was to wake up in the dream, stand up to it,
kill it deader than roadkill on a Saturday night, and
wish it well in its next incarnation before moving on
to happier dreams.
Made for some very interesting nights, lemme tell you. :-)
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