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@VeganAwake haha nice post time

These recent commercials are really special. The idea is that if you talk about foster care, it helps foster care. It's that simple. Implanting seeds into the human dream (consciousness). ((By the way... this thread could be a lot more fun with discussion... just saying... feeling like I'm just talking to myself here... ))

I have nightmares where I'm really scared, or suffering... and for all intents and purposes, yes its REAL. But.... then I wake up and poof, nothing but a bitter memory. The dream self who was suffering was not me, and no longer exists (although of course when we recall dreams we consider that to be ourselves.) All of the things which that dream self endured was self inflicted and I should probably feel a little bad about that but... well, the nightmare is already over.

(some listening music) When I talk about a dream, really I am referring to the use of imagination over a period of time. And since the concept of time was born in imagination, it can be said that all of Life is but a dream... Short dreams, long dreams, dreams within dreams. Pockets of time, and experience, both of which are constructs of imagination. What if all of humanity considered a total of three days as one day? And it was normal for the sun to set twice, getting dark, and light, dark and light... All in the span of one day? In fact, they plan their meals and nap times around it. How would we perceive time differently? Would it seem slower, or faster? More to lose, or more precious? Would we still count seconds, or would there be a whole different metric of time which people in our own reality would consider very slow? If we stepped in to this hypothetical world, would things feel slower? If we considered three days as one, what would that do to our lifespans?

hahaha yes its been doing that since I was at least in middle school. But I was very unpopular so that's probably why. Even to this day I have dreams that I was a child tv star. Although I haven't imagined being famous in waking life in a long time.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-risky-is-it-really/201312/why-we-really-celebrate-new-years-day ((listen to this song to put you in that new year mood ????)) ((some listening music for the post : From psychologytoday.com: "Why We Really Celebrate New Year's Day At one second past midnight on January 1, the day will change from Tuesday to Wednesday, usually a transition of no special significance. But somehow we've decided that this change, which will end one year and begin the next, is different. This unique tick of the clock has always prompted us both to celebrate and to step outside the day-to-day activity we’re always busy with to reflect, look back, take stock, assess how we did, and resolve to do better. Save perhaps for our birthdays, no other moment in our year gets this sort of attention. Why does the start of the new year carry such special symbolism? And why is its celebration so common around the world, as it has been for at least as long as there have been calendars? Behavior this ubiquitous must surely be tied to something intrinsic in the human animal, something profoundly meaningful and important, given all the energy and resources we invest not just in the celebration but also in our efforts to make good on a fresh set of resolutions, even though we mostly fail to keep them.... (( granted, no one's new year fell on the same day or even month, throughout independent history (before the world was united by advances in travel). But the desire to measure LIFE seemed to have included a measurement of 'year' across the ancient world. )) ... It may be that the symbolism we attach to this moment is rooted in one of the most powerful motivations of all: our motivation to survive. The celebration part is obvious. As our birthdays do, New Year’s Day provides us the chance to celebrate having made it through another 365 days, the unit of time by which we keep chronological score of our lives. Phew! Another year over, and here we still are! Time to raise our glasses and toast our survival. (The flip side of this is represented by the year-end obituary summaries of those who didn’t make it, reassuring those of us who did.) ((I like this writer's sense of humor ?.)) ... New Year’s resolutions are examples of the universal human desire to have some control over what lies ahead, because the future is unsettlingly unknowable. Not knowing what’s to come means we don’t know what we need to know to keep ourselves safe. To counter that worrisome powerlessness, we do things to take control. We resolve to diet and exercise, to quit smoking, and to start saving. It doesn’t even matter whether we hold our resolve and make good on these promises. Committing to them, at least for a moment, gives us a feeling of more control over the uncertain days to come.... (( I agree with this. Hope of a desired outcome is so ingrained into the human dream... Who really keeps those resolutions though ??.)) ... Interestingly, New Years resolutions also commonly include things like treating people better, making new friends, and paying off debts. It's been so throughout history. The Babylonians would return borrowed objects. Jews seek, and offer, forgiveness. The Scots go "first footing," visiting neighbors to wish them well. How does all this social "resolving" connect to survival? Simple: We are social animals. We have evolved to depend on others, literally, for our health and safety. Treating people well is a good way to be treated well. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," it turns out, is a great survival strategy. And many people resolve to pray more. That makes sense in terms of survival, too: Pray more and an omnipotent force is more likely to keep you safe. Jews pray at the start of their new year to be inscribed in "the Book of Life" for one more year. And though death is inescapable, throughout history humans have dealt with the fear of mortality by affiliating with religions that promise happy endings. Pray more, and death is less scary... (( dear God, please teach me to be still this year. You have your work cut out for you. Your ADD monkey mind friend, Amen.)) ... There are hundreds of good-luck rituals woven among New Year celebrations, also practiced in the name of exercising a little control over fate. The Dutch, for whom the circle is a symbol of success, eat donuts. Greeks bake special Vassilopitta cake with a coin inside, bestowing good luck in the coming year on whoever finds it in his or her slice. Fireworks on New Year's Eve started in China millennia ago as a way to chase off evil spirits. The Japanese hold New Year’s Bonenkai, or "forget-the-year parties," to bid farewell to the problems and concerns of the past year and prepare for a better new one. Disagreements and misunderstandings between people are supposed to be resolved, and grudges set aside. In a New Year’s ritual for many cultures, houses are scrubbed to sweep out the bad vibes and make room for better ones. (( I can spot the human dream at work a mile away...)) Happy new years fellow human! Can't wait to see what 2020 will bring!

((All posts in this thread should be taken with a grain of salt and as a curious exploration of DREAM)) Meet your ancestors ? : (( did you enjoy the family reunion? If it is to be reasonably believed, we lost the tail earlier than I assumed... Who knew ?‍♂️ Plus you have to wonder why we came down from the trees... And 10 million 'years' later, were standing... (ironically, the concepts of 'time' and 'years' were probably several more million years away as well, and yet evolution progressed... Hmmm?) This video goes more in depth on the early humanoid species: Happy new years!

@Raptorsin7 yeah so just curls until your arms ache sufficiently... This will get you used to feeling body awareness by having something very concrete to focus on and then you can begin working on feeling more subtle things like emotional feelings. (unless you are in an emotional state and of course it's not so subtle ?)

@MrDmitriiV do you ever wake up in sleep paralysis?

If the higher selves are in religious terminus, where is 'God'? When we dream at night, we tend to think we are going deeper in, but perhaps the dreams take place in a higher density? How does divided light arise/manifest?

@Sussso is there a park nearby? When you start to get restless, just go walk around in nature

Can't be sure, but sounds like you were about to have a body exit, is all... you are supposed to ride the vibrations until they pass and then step out or roll out of bed in the astral plane.

Lift dumbbells for about 3 minutes or until your arms really ache, and then sit and just feel the ache until it passes. Every time your mind wanders, or the ache subsides, pick up the weights and make your arms ache some more. Do it for 5 minutes, but not judging how many times you had to stop and redirect attention to feeling. Then work your way up to 5 minutes without any interruption. Then you can graduate to doing an emotional feeling meditation.

Ok... understood. But how does the divided light arise/manifest? In the divided light, there is gratefulness for This dream. Was the creator (divided light) created intentionally, or spawn out of complete impossibility?

Is it to say that if there is anything, there is nothing, and that this nothing is what has been named 'light'? (although we know that visible light is merely a portion of light and is due to having the right receptors) Light doesn't create, it bends itself. It bends, and 'creates' shadows, colors, hues, and the most important ingredient : memory recording. A conception of dreams.

(If enjoying the listening music, then of course watch the included videos after you finish reading...) This post is dedicated to the symbols which we hold dear, and have been shaping the Human dream for many decades or centuries. First, perhaps one of our most beloved symbols, the heart symbol. Turns out, it has a very surprising and unnasuming beginning, as a symbol for birth control. From history.com: A Heart-Shaped Plant Used as Birth Control Perhaps the most unusual theory concerns silphium, a species of giant fennel that once grew on the North African coastline near the Greek colony of Cyrene. The ancient Greeks and Romans used silphium as both a food flavoring and a medicine—it supposedly worked wonders as a cough syrup—but it was most famous as an early form of birth control. Ancient writers and poets hailed the plant for its contraceptive powers, and it became so popular that it was cultivated into extinction by the first century A.D. (legend has it that the Roman Emperor Nero was presented with the last surviving stalk). Silphium’s seedpod bore a striking resemblance to the modern Valentine’s heart, leading many to speculate that the herb’s associations with love and sex may have been what first helped popularize the symbol. The ancient city of Cyrene, which grew rich from the silphium trade, even put the heart shape on its money. --------------------------------- ? Lol. First off, the fact that we harvested it into extinction is both sad, and hilarious. Sounds like something we'd do. So this is the first usage of the 'heart' shape, which by the way is found throughout the plant kingdom. Next, from Wikipedia, we learn of the firmer connection between the heart shape, and what we call love. ----------------------------------------- The combination of the heart shape and its use within the heart metaphor developed at the end of the Middle Ages, although the shape has been used in many ancient epigraphy monuments and texts... .... the familiar symbol of the heart represented love developed in the 15th century, and became popular in Europe during the 16th... .... One possible early use in the 11th century could be found in the manuscript, Al-Maqamat written by Al Hariri of Basra. The manuscript includes an illustration of a farewell greeting between two men while astride their camels, with the heart shape seen prominently over their heads... .... The first known depiction of a heart as a symbol of romantic love dates to the 1250s. It occurs in a miniature decorating a capital 'S' in a manuscript of the French Roman de la poire (National Library FR MS. 2086, plate 12). In the miniature a kneeling lover (or more precisely, an allegory of the lover's "sweet gaze" or douz regart) offers his heart to a damsel. The heart here resembles a pine cone (held "upside down", the point facing upward), in accord with medieval anatomical descriptions. However, in this miniature what suggests a heart shape is only the result of a lover's finger superimposed on an object; the full shape outline of the object is partly hidden, and therefore unknown..... (( ok, that's hilarious too)) ... Giotto, in his 1305 painting in the Scrovegni Chapel (Padua) shows an allegory of charity (caritas) handing her heart to Jesus Christ. This heart is also depicted in the pine cone shape based on anatomical descriptions of the day (still held "upside down"). Giotto's painting exerted considerable influence on later painters, and the motive of Caritas offering a heart is shown by Taddeo Gaddi in Santa Croce, by Andrea Pisano on the bronze door of the south porch of the Baptisterium in Florence (c. 1337), by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in the Palazzo Publico in Siena (c. 1340) and by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella in Florence (c. 1365)... ((so here we are at least seeing a symbol of a heart/love, and it being offered. Interesting that the symbol is a pine cone, because of its affiliation with the pineal gland...)) .... The "scalloped" shape of the now-familiar heart symbol, with a dent in its base, arises in the early 14th century, at first only lightly dented, as in the miniatures in Francesco Barberino's Documenti d'amore (before 1320). A slightly later example with a more pronounced dent is found in a manuscript from the Cistercian monastery in Brussels... ... The convention of showing a dent at the base of the heart thus spread at about the same time as the convention of showing the heart with its point downward.[8] The modern indented red heart has been used on playing cards since the late 15th century.... ... Since the 19th century, the symbol has often been used on Valentine's Day cards, candy boxes, and similar popular culture artifacts as a symbol of romantic love. The use of the heart symbol as a logograph for the English verb "to love" derives from the use in "I ♥ NY," introduced in 1977.[18] Heart symbols were used to symbolize "health" or "lives" in video games; influentially so in The Legend of Zelda (1986) and Minecraft (2009). Super Mario Bros. 2 (1987, 1988) had a "life bar" composed of hexagons, but in 1990s remakes of these games, the hexagons were replaced by heart shapes. Since the 1990s, the heart symbol has also been used as an ideogram indicating health outside of the video gaming context, e.g. its use by restaurants to indicate heart-healthy nutrient content claim (e.g. "low in cholesterol"). A copyrighted "heart-check" symbol to indicate heart-healthy food was introduced by the American Heart Association in 1995.[19]... ------------------------------------------ So there you have it. The history of the symbol which we use for an emotion we call love. ❤️❤️???. In what ways do you think having this symbol for love has helped our growth as a species, and in what ways has it hindered?

Love you Mandy ?❤️ That song was very special to me during one of my first awakenings

@seeking_brillianceoops @V-8 what propels the illusion of the divided, light in motion?

What if I induce a coma, just for the hell of it? ??? Sometimes I would like to watch my favorite TV shows again, like Lost, or Buffy the vampire slayer, with fresh eyes. I can still enjoy my favorite show, but knowing the ending kind of takes alot of the magic away. (Although it also provides a different, loving type of experience). But I do lament never being able to see these shows again with fresh, innocent eyes.

@VeganAwake sounds heavenly ?

???. ?? ??? I loved that story. I don't know if I truly get it, but it's awesome. Just sounds like we're all making THIS up as it goes. Hehe

@VeganAwake True, but if it's pretty enough I might forget

Yes, perhaps.

@VeganAwake well in this case you didn't give it enough time lol... But I experience this feeling too. Sometimes it's like when you try to talk to dream characters about the dream and they stare blankly at you or become angry. Your post had some nice humor throughout, I enjoyed it

No, because it wasn't like that. I remember being frustrated on having huge mood swings at my highly stressful business, and being ashamed for that. And now I can look back and realize I'm in a whole different league now and the mood swings are now balanced. The melancholy has also lifted. But as with anything, it happens so gradually you don't recognize it until you can look back and see where you were. I still hide from reality with TV, video games, and other forms of distraction. I let those courses run, and then continue on, cultivating what will bring me peace and happiness, and then just allowing it to manifest. It's not a bad method.