abrakamowse

It's really crazy and that's what blew my mind completely. I felt that it was even more clear than real life. In the dream I remember thinking "when I wake up, how am I going to tell the difference btw this and real life"... it was crazy hehehe...

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I forgot to mention, my reality checks are to check how many finger do I have. Looking at my hands from time to time. I ask myself if I am dreaming and I take a look to anything weird in the environment. I try to look for signs and see if I can read what it is written on them... Not more than that, I will check other methods too.

Ok, I got you... I will begin a dream journal. I knew I have to do it, but for laziness (probably) I didn't do it. I will put a notebook on my nightstand so first thing in the morning I'll do is to take notes about what I remember of my dream. I knew also about those techniques, I am doing reality checks but also not as often as I should. I will try to make reality checks every hour during the day. I let you know what happens!!! Thanks!!! @Shin This is the only Jason I know:

Thanks for sharing @Vittorio ??????

I understand this statement like if you try to keep your ego you will lose your real self, you will not know you are the universe or that you are "that"... And I think he is talking about what happens after you die. So, you will lose all memories, everything about being an ego, you will not integrate that part and you will be one but what remains from the ego self will disappear, because it never existed in the first time. But what is that you will preserve? Because the real self is always you, you can't lose it. So, even if you "lose" your false sense of self you will remain. Does that has another meaning, does Jesus try to say that somehow the ego self can still be let's say "integrated" in the higher self? I always wondered about that, what do you think? I would like to see/read other opinions.

Nopes... Yes I think it will help me to become awake in "real" life. I also read about the toltecs and how they did lucid dream to create better dreams in reality and I am interested in that too... I will try to be all day focused on lucid dream...

Isn't reality a dream too? No one is dreaming in reality. You just become conscious that you are in a dream... and then you realize that life is just a dream too! BAM! You are enlightened!

I am here! Lol

Ok, thanks! I will wait for you to tag me.... you are the boss hehehe...

I don't eat meat... I eat hamburgers.

There's no toaster.... you are the toaster

@Nahm You are welcome!

Aaaah.... that's different. You should have said that from the beginning hehehe....

@Shunyata I think before that is too early hehehe... this is not a matter of agreement or disagreement. It will happen when it will happen. But I don't think anything is going to happen. Because whatever happens is going to be the way things are. If we disappear from the universe, another being will be there, maybe more intelligent than us, who knows??? Are you thinking in an end of times like in the Biblical sense? I don't think that is going to happen... It will happen, but everything in the Bible is a parable, an image of what will happen... but I am not sure if you are referring or thinking in something like that.

Maybe 2052 ????

It was supposed to happen in 2012 but nothing happened.

Thanks Nahm!!! That was the response I was looking for. I understand it now! Many thanks!

Being Ok for us is different than being Ok for animals for example. So, there's not really an absolute OK, what is OK for us is bad for others... or it can be bad... like for the cows is bad that we eat them.

I think the problem is that people in general (me included some time ago) want to have something external which gives them direction or tell them the truth. So, in the case of the christians, they think that if you read the Bible the truth is written there and you will have all the answers there. But what they don't understand is that the same text can be interpreted in many ways. So if you don't interpret the text in certain way then you are heretic or a devil or whatever... They have to understand that what is written in the Bible is just a guide, not something to follow word by word, and that everything has meanings beyond what they can understand, the Bible is written in parables. They took all the meaning textually and that creates so much confusion. And on top of that, they feel that what the bible says is about a physical world, like if you are going to resurrect they think your body will live again, that Heaven is physical, that the Kingdom of Heaven is going to be on earth in a physical way. They are not open to other ideas or interpretations. Is so sad really... that a so powerful message is being diluted because of a bunch of people who call themselves "Christians". They are clearly not very Christians IMO.

But what happens if you preserve it? There's still a "you" in that? How do you preserve that "you"? Or you don't? If not, he would say... "there's no way you will preserve anything... " That's my question Got you... I am also trying to have lucid dream, I had one by accident and I was always curious about how to have one. I am on a reddit forum where they talk about techniques, etc... That's true... The parable of the mustard see is so powerful really. That's a good interpretation, thanks!

Ok, you do lucid dream? Thanks @cetus that makes a lot of sense, very true. Wise advice! Thanks a lot!!!

That's what I wanted to know Lol... I could also say, remember that time when I was seeking_brilliance and I thought I was abrakamowse?

Same here... I was close to that too in the hospital. Like 1 week in the hospital full time and then I went to partial hospital. I stay at home and went there from 8 am to 3 pm and had therapy, etc... Great experience anyways. It helped me to understand consciousness better. :-)

I had that experience and felt like I was losing my mind. I wasn't ready for it and I ended in a hospital. It took me like 3 or 4 years to understand what happened to "me"...