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slider@anashram.com
so what if all this was a dream? and then we wake up in
death and realize that is the lucid dream? eh?
### - a lucid dream we were mostly asleep in heh...
which would then make it an ordinary dream no? an ordinary dream that we
only sometimes became lucid in (a lucid dream within an ordinary dream?
damn that's complicated!)
so here we all are ordinary-dreaming (not realising it's a dream i mean)
and then at some point we die and wake up in a 'lucid' dream only to
realise we were only ordinary-dreaming all this shit all along? damn! :)
sounds about riiiight heh + doesn't get much more fucked-up (in a dream)
than wallyworld huh
i dunno maan, could be... i did have that weird dild that time that i
thought i must have died in for real because i couldn't feel/sense either
my sleeping body or the midway point (the place between both options) as
usual, and so figured that i must have died and this this was now some
strange 'other' reality i was now facing after death (had a mixture of happy/sad feelings to have died but also still being aware + facing some
wtf new reality... talk about scratching my head for a few moments in a
dream?? lol...)
and then of course, i woke up in my bed and realised it was only a dild
(one of my first so i didn't know what was going on at the time heh + was
so weird i even mentioned it in the book...)
so 'maybe' what you suggest might have some truth to it; that one day
we'll die for real only to then wake up in a 'lucid' dream and realise
we've just died and now can't go back because the body is no more? (which
is precisely what i felt/thought in that dild...)
it certainly was a very strange (and rather disturbing) dream, and because
IF that's what gonna happen it could be quite freaky? (shit, am dead
already?? d'oh! now what!?)
otoh, maybe WILDing is the way out of all this mess eh? that by
'consciously' being able to lucid dream we might then just develop that
part of us that persists and thus have more choice about the whole thing
in some way? (some of the buddhists, for instance, reckon that
'deliberately' + at the right time entering into a WILD and NOT returning,
is the proper way to go? curious eh...)
could it be that the "dream/energy-body" (to use cc's terms) is what
persists after death IF it's been duly developed in life? or maybe it
survives anyway in all cases, who knows...
the buddhists going the way of WILDs rather than dilds maybe suggesting
that WILDs are the better option, possibly because of the increased sense
of volition one obtains from WILDing (from deliberately being 'able' to
send oneself into the dream state rather than accidentally i mean...)
i guess we'll ALL find out for sure one day huh :)
from a WILDs pov, dilds are still very creepy really, they're always so
weird and pretty strange compared to WILDs which seem almost factual by comparison + so stable to a point that ya often reach that same stage of wondering if you're still actually dreaming or not (because it's all so concretely real-seeming it raises one's doubts) and then have to prove it
to yourself in some way?
slider goes: up-up & awaaay! as proof of dreaming heh
ya can't beat flying for providing such proof...
best reality check i know!
if ya can fly you're defo dreaming alright hah :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38wIuDAq2yg
"lying there staring at the ceiling
waiting for that sleepy feeling..."
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