Mind from the Inside

[Arkilogue]

I think I'm going to try lucid dreaming tonight using the waking-dream-check technique.  In this technique, you tell yourself several times during the day, "Am I dreaming?  Why. . . yes I am!"  They say if you can do this in a dream, you have a pretty good chance of realizing you ARE in fact dreaming, and taking control.

When I really get into it, I can usually have at least a short lucid dream within a few days.  I'll let you guys know if I have any luck.  

Good noctourneys!

I've had great success using the W.I.L.D technique, waking induced lucid dreaming. It's taking your conscious/volitional state directly into the dream state without passing through the subconscious dream state.

There are a number of different approaches/descriptions but I think I found the operational crux: Breath control. If your mind wanders and starts the subconscious story production, you lose awareness of your breath/body and the autonomic nervous system takes over. But if you are consciously breathing slower than the rest autonomic rate, your mind remains in control of itself and passes into the frequency realm of the subconscious. Do not follow or entertain any mental imagery, the transition from the waking state to a lucid dream state is a very physical experience! You will pass into and through what is described as "sleep paralysis" and that is the threshold of phase transition into the OBE/lucid dream state.

Like I said, it's a very physical experience. You will know you are operating in the right manner if you start to hear/feel vibration and what sounds like rushing wind or water and if you mind is not relaxed enough it will be quite loud and potentially startling. "Aware, aware...relax, relax." All feelings/reaction of fear or joy, apprehension or elation will keep you from changing phase. Don't be afraid, you are merely immersing within yourself. It's all you, embrace your self.

It's like your subconscious is it's own realm with it's own things going on. It operates at a lower/slower frequency and it has a border membrane. The vibration/sounds you will hear are like frequency dissonance and beat interference as you faster frequency conscious mind approaches the slower membrane threshold. To cross the border you have to entrain with it/match frequency.

Think of the transitional membrane like the surface of the ocean(dream state) and you are trying to sink into it. Your awareness is like light and the conscious mind is like the atmosphere. The light of the mind is used to fast horizontal considerations in the clear air, but this mode of perception reflects off the surface of the water due to it's angle of incidence. What is under the water cannot be seen. So one's angle of awareness must be brought to a vertical state and oriented towards what is above (outwards) and what is below (inwards). And only when the wind of thought is no longer blowing on the surface of the water does it still to the point of becoming transparent and the light of the mind can clearly penetrate it and see what is below which was formerly hidden from sight. Stillness is the key.

When I successfully make the transition from air phase to water phase, I can still feeling my physical body breathing as I am still willing it to operate at a slow frequency. This is anchor's my ability to remain volitional and not slip into and emotional driven dream state. It's a movement and a rest. As long as I can return to rest, I retain volition/free will. As soon as I allow breath to leave my control, there is no more rest for the mind and it's all movement, movement, movement and this is how the mind get's lost inside itself. That's the normal dream state.

It's also the normal waking state only the positions of the conscious and subconscious mind are swapped. In the waking state the conscious mind is primarily outward pointing, concerned mainly with what is going on in the objective world while the subconscious paints the conditions of (creates) our inner world.

For instance you are walking down the sidewalk and out of nowhere some one comes up to you and says "You look like a flat-minded nonce, everything you think is shite and your ears aren't level with each other." I imagine a lot of people would take offense, respond with their own colorful metaphors and the negative impression of the experience would have inertia and stick with them for a while and possible "ruin their day." The conscious mind recognizes the speech pattern, "let's it in" and the subconscious responds by taking over your emotions and creating your internal world in a negative state. But what if they said it in Swahili? The same information was expressed to you in the object world but the conscious mind didn't recognize it. You probably feel the general trend but just think person is mad for what ever reason and be on your way.

And what if they say it in English but you are walking by with head phones on, listening to your favorite song? You didn't hear it, it had no effect on your internal world and you go on your merry way....yet the same information was expressed in your objective world.

What about a reaction to the same situation without slipping into an emotional "waking dream" state? This stranger comes up and accosts you for no reason, you don't know them so you ignore them and walk by without giving it a second thought or feeling. Because it's not worth your conscious time and you have much more important things to focus on. You are master of the creation of your internal world, dreaming the dream you choose....or don't choose. If you don't dream your own dream, you might unintentionally end up in someone else's nightmare....because you weren't intentional with the power of your own internal volitional inertia to back you up.

This same strength of mind can also be a weakness with people's internal dream/belief state over-riding all external information. They love their dream state and any attempt to make them be still enough to examine it it met with hostility. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.


Anyway, this post is long enough. Next post will be 2 examples of the most powerful/instructional lucid dream experiences I've ever had.