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@Superfluo please check out my series of visualisation training. I liked your breakdown of visualisation. I suppose I spend time in all three

@Girzo dude try it! I think you'll really enjoy

@abrakamowse yay. Saying it out loud, even to yourself, will help strengthen that bridge. But writing them is very powerful too.

Yes I think wbtb will work just fine for you. Study up all about it and start doing the practices again. You are having an upswing of dream awareness, might as well take advantage

Seek out YouTube vloggers with high count subscriptions, who share an interest in marijuana or psychedelics, or mystic stuff, and post about your book in the comments with a link to your website. You get one shot per post, so make it count ? (Instant exposure to like minded people.) Might need a website/blog if you don't have one ?. Also contact the vlogger and try to get featured on their series. There are also some fiction writers vloggers who are badass and like marijuana. Seek them out as well. Here's one you might want to contact to test it out. She makes how to write videos but she's cool and might like be interested in something different: https://www.youtube.com/c/iWriterly

I call it tending the garden ?

@Keyhole @abrakamowse (not abrakamowse) @Keyhole nice parable ? what does it mean to you?

@abrakamowse lol I definitely didn't mean that elevator game, whatever that was ? Just meant going up along the chakras as a way of shifting timelines ?

@abrakamowse oils could be fun but that's a long way away for me.... Plus I don't know how I feel about working with paint thinner... I'm already messy enough ?

@abrakamowse that's great! If you have some marijuana, smoke some and sit with the memories. More may flood in.

@abrakamowse thanks! I use acrylics.

Painting started : Sunday November 8, 2029

@abrakamowse there's a lady in my throat chakra? Hmm I need to learn this elevator game and go meet her!

Masks and Hats Chapter Seven: 11-20 7:11 Within society, we are not only encouraged, we are forced-- to adopt a persona that is best pleasing and serves the society. (Which is funny, and not surprising, because as we learned earlier, persona literally IS society. So this is some kind of self-feeding loop.) To be accepted and approved-of is a driving goal in all of us-- even those that act directly against it in rebellion-- is this perhaps because the persona is seeking communion with itself? Which is funny to say because it makes it sound as if "persona" is a real, alive being. When its really just a byproduct of Society itself. Society lives through Persona(s). And society is a concept itself. (I took alot of liberties in this paragraph, interpreting in my own words what is being said. Perhaps someone will get a different takeaway.) 7:12-13 During a growing and expansion phase, (which ironically can be during a time of great pain) we adopt and 'try on for size' many different attitudes, expressions, mannerisms, moods, etc. ---and kind of experiment with these, testing them out in various situations we may encounter. But over time, we become accustomed to the ones which stick. We get so accustomed to these behaviors until we begin to believe they are part of our nature. The author here calls these our many "masks and hats." 7:14 We try on so many hats and masks over the course of the first 30 years or so, that we get good at taking one on and putting on another, sometimes without even noticing. For example, I carry a different persona at work than I do at home. Sometimes so different, I'd be embarrassed if the two worlds ever met. The same goes with how I act alone compared to how I act with my husband. There's a blending of that, because lately I just don't care anymore, but I still completely let go when alone. Its an amazing feeling to do so. 7:15-16 Main takeaway: " "Doing" something is not the same as "being" something." 7:17-19 Since we are not taught to build a clear distinction between all the mask and hats we put on, and the underling being, our conceptual self dominates our lives, thoughts and feelings. It's a full time job to maintain this "adopted-self", and every person becomes confused and identified with it. Frustrations which arise from this identification put us in a bit of an imagined hell. 7:20 We must learn the distinctions between what is conceptual and what is real about ourselves, so that we can learn to work with our conceptual selves more consciously. Anything conceptual about ourselves can change.

@Mindflow never underestimate the adventures you can have in the bottom of a crevice ?

From one lazy seeker to another.... I feel ya! Now get off your ass and put in some work!? I can't tell you what blocked the ability, that's where your homework comes in. I can only try and direct you towards success. Psychedelics are said to blast open people's abilities to lucid dream or other spiritual gifts. However many experience a closing of the valve, so to speak, after a while and it's important to open up these gifts naturally. That's where your homework comes in. Once your natural ability has been rediscovered, you can go back to being as lazy as you wish. That's a great question. Well, I don't know. How about you get lucid, summon a dream guide, ask them, and report back! I'll be waiting. ? My two cents : if you believe in love and grace, that's my answer...

@Judi hey judi, thanks for calling ? If you are waiting around for your dream self to question if you are dreaming from a certain scenario, yes that would be your hindrance. It's not a bad method, but it's not best to rely on it. If you'd like to supplement this method, I recommend affirmations before sleep (MILD method), something like "when I experience a sudden life change, I will know that I am dreaming." There's a great app in the Google app store called mindwire, which lets you record your own affirmations and play them back on a loop to the music of your choice. Let me know if you have trouble finding it. Do you practice reality checks? If so, are they done with reminders?

Nothing is lost! Only hidden. I'm wondering if you've attempted any practices that people typically do to attract lucid dreams? (reality checks, mnemonic affirmations, etc)

Haha sorry about all the storms lately ?

@DrewNows where you at?

No, it's just that the hot witch girlfriend also...oops.... turns out to be from outer space. It was her advanced technology that was mistaken for magic...

Why does it have to be anything?