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I just wanted to share this. It makes me think of exactly what I'm doing with this moment. Will I have any regrets in my future about what I was doing now?

Yes, a first hand account. Nicely worded too. When I had my first little taste of an awakening I realized it's like stars in a daytime sky. Just because you can't see them through the blue sky with clouds, doesn't mean their not always there.

@Shin Exactly!

@Don_Avocado Nice! That needs to be said a lot more often around here. So many people talking about "getting to a higher state", getting to that "level", "searching", "attaining" ect. Like it's something at another time or place that it will happen. Many don't see that it's right here now cloaked only by a self imposed illusion that it exists somewhere else. Would you agree that it's possible to experience what we really are under all the BS without the use of 5MeO ? I've never done it before but I know what you experienced from your report. It sounds to me like what it does best is to remove those self imposed filters. Thanks for sharing that.

The accent needs to be taken off the dreamscape aspect and put more onto -what is different today about perception as a whole. Was there a glimpse of the truth to take away? Something unshakable that remains? @Mikey Sometimes I see things in my dreams that come true. Question: do all your dreams come true? No, but I know which ones will. Dune

@Bob84 If @Elzhi sees existence a little more clearly today than yesterday, does it really matter" It sounds legit to me also..

@Elzhi Who said enlightenment can't be realized during a sleep state? It sounds like you tapped into something. Perhaps a glimpse of the ox's tail as the saying goes. Consider the dream story part as just a story from within you. An experience no different from any other experience. But look beyond the visuals of it and ask yourself, "how did it make me feel?" Did it feel like truth that you totally trust in? When you did wake something remained. Your perception was shifted beyond the usual "me" as an observer. That's real. Usually when we wake in the morning, we assume we are fully awake. That's not necessarily always the case. Often we awake into just another dream state of self and start our day. Most do that their entire lives. It's sounds like when you awoke this time, you truly awakened.

@Prabhaker Maybe this single pointedness of mind deserves a lot more exploration. It does seem to be key in the shift of perception beyond self.

Single pointedness of mind is what both transcendent experiences have in common. Sex brings awareness to a point of focus, same as a mantra.

I would say an orgasm qualifies as a Samadhi experience. A union.

I have RLS. (Restless leg syndrome). It got worse because i get it in the arms too now. If you don't know what that is, the limb gets a really weird restless feeling and than the muscles fire suddenly and the limb jerks of it's own doing. When I'm active I don't notice it. But when I relax my body, that's when the trouble starts. Simply sitting watching TV or resting in bed at night is when it starts. So of course that effects meditation too. But I can't overcome it. I try but always give up because it's so relentless. That's my part of the spectrum to someday overcome.

@bflare Do all these same things but in a totally egoless way. This universe gave you a body, a gift. Taking care of it is within the natural flow of the universe. Nurture it as you would a garden with respect for the universe. Find the harmony, the flow, the Tao. Do it not because of the ego or what somebody else had said. Same with helping others with personal development. Do it all in a very selfless way as an act of giving back. All this can be part your practice toward liberation through respect and returning to the natural flow of the Tao.

I was once obsessed with enlightenment. What was I thinking?

A dream dreaming of being awake and realizing it's all just a dream. A dream state perpetuated by thought.

@kundalini

@awareemptiness I use the aware emptiness method of meditation. No pun intended.

@pluto Nicely said! I missed that the first time around.

"My assumption was that you were talking about Naked Reality." I was. My bad... I got the two new guys confused. One is stealing Leo's views, the other his future face.

@Dodoster Lol. I gotta feeling he didn't the way he critiqued everything Leo said. Making himself look higher by putting somebody else down. What a Donald Trump strategy that is.

@LaucherJunge Hi, this sounds a lot like lucid dreaming. I've done it a few times and the images are incredibly vivid and detailed.

Here we go again. Self or No self?

@Mr Lenny =_,$s@!)(

@pluto Here's a good one too. If you haven't seen it yet,,,,,

@pluto That was cool. Thanks!

That it's not just understood conceptually but experienced directly. Like sex.