--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Anyway, when I would have a higher states experience in the past,
> it would be like the shift of a tectonic plate within; one moment
> I'm...here, and the next I'm...there, with no clarity around how
> I got to 'there' from 'here'. So it could've been I was hypnotized
> or externally influenced somehow. And 'I' felt different; not quite
> myself.
>
> My experience now, with whatever I am moving from or to, is that
> the experience is wholly mine and I can review the transition in
> time, so that wherever I might go, be it transcending, asleep,
> champagne high, emotional envelopment, etc. there is no longer
> the "wha' happened?!?!?" accompaniment; I am always where I am.
>
> This is a different experience I think that the trance state you
> are describing, because there is no loss of me at any time. While
> my subjective experience may change and possibly drastically, I
> am always tracking, big or small, high or low, light or dark,
> its always just me.
Nice.
This is a sort of non-sequitur, but what you said
reminds me of a time in the Rama trip when we were
studying dream yoga. There was a lot of work on
becoming lucid ("waking up" in the dream and being
able to control what happens in it), and after a
while you got good at it, so that you no longer had
to do anything to will lucidity; it just happened.
And then I noticed that the lucidity was "bleeding
over" into the waking state. I'd lay down to go to
sleep and there was no longer any period of non-
awareness. I'd just slip seamlessly from being lucid
in the waking state to lucid in the dreaming state.
I don't experience this that much these days, but
it sure was fun at the time. As you said, waking
or dreaming, it was always just me.
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