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Wow! Please everyone watch this amazing new series so we can discuss ??. Episode one is about awakening... Some beautiful allegory throughout the episode. Can't wait for episode 2

@traveler@traveler. Well ain't that just jiffy

?‍♂️ I just thought it was funny

Oh cool I bought one that you can program to flash at certain times but it's a guessing game for when you will be in REM. Your mask is much more advanced but of course comfort is important. And yeah I agree, being enveloped in the multi-faceted world of working for Disney has absolutely changed my psychology and way of looking at things.

The questions are asking themselves. Welcome to the infinite realm of self inquiry. ?

@Derek White this is a great forum for learning, but the complete lack of interest in lucid dreaming is sad. If you want to step through the looking glass without psychedelics, you should learn to WILD. This is stepping into the dream realm from a waking state and fully conscious with your individual matrix of memories in tact. Of course psychedelics is faster but not the only way. After you learn to WILD, you will see that you are the looking glass. You are stepping inside yourself.

Last night I got lucid during a dream and had a false awakening shortly after. I laid in bed while this little imp creature tickled and pinched me. Annoyed, I banished it in the name of Jesus. (I'm not religious but thought it might work ?) It disappeared and I got out of bed. I was in very low energy and consciousness, and moved about very sluggish. I managed to melt through the back wall and into the dark backyard. Still feeling very sluggish, I clapped my hands together and yelled "brighten up!" Immediately the sky began to brighten up like a beautiful sunrise. My body became lighter and free. I flew up a little bit and realized I was in a huge middle eastern city, full of colorful aladdin style buildings. (some listening music for the rest of the post) I flew closer to the city center and landed. Music was playing all around me, the same song as the listening music. Hundreds of people were gathered together in some kind of worship or prayer. I walked down the street and an elderly couple said something to me. I'm not sure what they said but it was some kind of playful banter. I remembered to look down at what I'm wearing. It was a long white tunic and colorful pants. I keep walking and come upon a side street. Down that way was this big colorful flashy cinema. I'm torn if I should go and check that out, or continue exploring. I decide to check out the cinema. In front of it is a glass or plexiglass wall that I can't get through. A line has formed so we stand and wait to be let in. Finally we are able to go into the cinema and inside is like an AT&T store. I roll my eyes that I waited around for for this and walk through. We are led to a room in the back where some kiosks are set up and some employees behind desks. They start trying to interview me and want me to watch ads. I'm like screw this and leave. Once outside again, I see that there are a few other cinemas on the same street. I enter another one and it's more like a museum. A female tour guide begins leading me down some stairs and to my right there is a little cubby hole with a statute of a pine cone. I ask what this represents, although I already knew, and the tour guide confirms that it's the pineal gland. I ask her if she can open my pineal gland. She says, "sure, what are you planning on using it for?" I said "I just want to be able to visualize better." "Oh ok" , she says and puts her hand up to my head. I feel heavy vibrations in my forehead that lasted for at least a minute. They were borderline uncomfortable but I didn't mind. After that we continued our tour of the museum. Later, I realized that my tour guide was now a handsome male, and I say, "weren't you a girl?" The guide's face begins shifting back and forth between male and female, before my eyes, and he/she holds their hands up to try and cover the face in shame. "You're binary!" I exclaim, and immediately wake up.

I've been watching Sophia videos. There is not someone sitting there with a keyboard, she is pulling answers from a database she has learned. It seems that most her interviews are pre-selected questions, so they probably do 'teach' her the answers beforehand. But I've seen people ask surprise questions and she can peice together an answer much like humans do, although of course not as complex.

no one wants to talk about valuing humanity nowadays so...

Learn to WILD. you will step directly through the glass. I think you might like this book – "The WILD Way To Lucid Dreaming: Lucid Dreaming On Demand" by slider. Start reading it for free: http://a.co/agaMDPQ <<--- that's a link to the kindle book... One of the best how to's I've found on WILDING.

I would argue that @ajasatya 's response was fairly open minded....

I also think 'the 100', especially in its later seasons, is a great study on this. You can find on Netflix

@arlin here's a relatively non spiritual answer.. If we didn't die, nothing would get refreshed. Old ideas would stagnate, wither, and rot. Death brings the possibility of a brighter future. We live, and die, for progress. The children inherit the earth.

@Raw Nature https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade Tardigrades are so cool. They are microscopic animals with brains!!! And they can survive in space.

@Danioover9000 I'm on the fence with that... Species are supposed to become endangered and die off, it's the balance..

You might say we live to die. ?

I'm team tardigrade Scratch that, I'm team octopus

@Javfly33 that's an awesome story. Not all children are existential like that and possibly you were marked for this work ? mine was more of this strange loop thing were I really took time to wonder if this (my life) was happening in someone's eye or mind, and for some reason I would imagine Tom and Jerry, the cartoon, and imagine that as I'm watching the cartoon, my existence was appearing inside Tom's big yellow eye. ?‍♂️ I dunno, something like that, I was a strange kid.

Sounds like you are looking for an excuse to stop seeking God, or acceptance for being stage blue or green, which by the way you're welcome to do/be. You will be loved. (and also, you're the one who sounds emotional....)

Just found this awesome app on android. It lets you record mantras or affirmations in your own voice, and then play it on a loop to a selection of background music for up to 59 minutes! This is exactly what I asked for earlier last year and it's so awesome to see it manifested... I'm in awe... For those that like multiple affirmations in one setting : There's currently no option to string together multiple affirmation recordings into some kind of custom session, but you can easily just record a long string of affirmations and set it to music. I can not wait to play around with this, as I originally wanted to use it for lucid dream induction but the possibilities are endless!!! The app itself seems to be called Mindwire, but to find it on Google play, it's called 'positive affirmations maker' by hillsidemonk.

I wonder if maybe your question requires the assumption of a timeline, and is about (insert blank here ) which does not exist, in time. Or, it's just all holistically actual, direct, and now. The end of time merging with the beginning of time. What time?

@Beginner Mind @Beginner Mind Well on your way to find food, you step under a tree and a bird shits on your head. There can be surrendering to the circumstance, or it can ruin your day. If it ruins your day and you find your food, are you getting the full sustenance? Is the food as sweet when you are focused on your bad day?

So subtle ????

@Beginner Mind If you want to sit in the couch, you can. Do it long enough and you might die. Or you can go out, get some bread and water, and see what's going on outdoors. Either scenario can include total surrender.