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- it's easy because imho we've all been seeing them all our lives all
along anyway, there being no premium placed on seeing them we just don't
notice it!
shorty use to say this and i never knew what he saying. I knew it was something very interesting but i just didn't 'know'. He said
"that he had always been seeing energy".
### - can't speak for 'energy' or the 'seeing' of it, but what we now call hypnagogia has been there in-use in the background all along, the closest
can marry that to cc being him stating that we're all aware of these
things but just not in a deliberate manner & way; iow we've rationalised
it all into a service that's running unnoticed in the background, the
'proof' of that being the way things like that then come forward into our conscious awareness once it/they've been pointed out to us...
think on this: that what we call our 'conscience' is also potentially an
aspect of this silent knowing, one which we dip into constantly as we talk
& conjecture to ourselves, ditto the image of the world that we've learned
to relate to since birth; it's all done (and maintained) unconsciously in
a polished routine manner alone + god help us if that auto-pilot
programming ever develops a glitch lol ;)
### - the main thing here, from my pov that is, is that you're now
psychologically prepared in-advance to notice these things and to then
attempt to act on them if/when it occurs (perfect) plus having already
genuinely WILDed at least a couple of times, you also know just what to
expect if/when you get it right...
i don't know what to expect when these things appear anymore than i can
guess what is going to happen in a dream. The shit just comes. It
shows
up and you witness whatever it is. Does anybody ever know what is going
to
show up in psychedelic dream/experience? Not really. It's always a surprise. Your mind sez "surprise motherfucker, better hold on to the
rails here for awhile, it's coming at you". Hold your perception
steady
mate. You can change your underwear later. ha ha !
### - didn't mean knowing in-advance what hypnagogic 'images' (or dreams)
might show up, that's always random (although particular dreams,
especially older forgotten ones, can defo be deliberately recalled &
reentered at that point with practice) but the fact that once they 'begin'
to appear in 'any' form, you then know what to try to 'attempt' to do with them, e.g., triggering a WILD by looking at some of their details... that successfully having already done that a couple of times you now know what
to expect if/when you invoke those hypnagogia and/or when they appear at random...
that because you're not deliberately invoking the hypnagogia and instead
only waiting on chance to make them appear, you're now in the position of
kinda laying in-wait for them to occur so you can try to jump on the
situation to take advantage of it again and experience another full WILD...
this is the same thing (or the problem created really) that happens with
those using wbtb to go WILD on instead of learning to deliberately bring themselves into that state, and as such they're availing themselves of the opportunity to WILD by dint of having already slept for a while, in which
case they're actually still in a partially altered state of awareness
(feels like not yet fully awake iow)
the point being, that 'any', even only slightly altered state of
awareness, is plenty when it comes to seeing those hypnagogia for
example... and this is why wbtb even works at all...
better still (much better all round actually) is that of learning to deliberately bring 'oneself' into that same slightly altered state of
awareness yourself, e.g., by learning to relax the body until it begins to
feel just a bit/slightly odd) at which point one is then in almost exactly
the same position (in awareness) as that automatically brought about by
wbtb, see?
this is why the drugs affected you: that is precisely what drugs do! they slightly alter our usual awareness and then we begin to notice all kinds
of things we didn't pay any attention to before!
iow: ANY altered state, no matter how slight, opens us up to more than
we're usually dealing with, seeing slight shifting colours and images
being a direct symptom of that! the only problem was that we didn't
realise all the things that 'can' be done from that pov! (we got high, we
gots stoned or drunk whatever, it's all the same, and we then enjoyed that
part alone rather than trying to see if anything else can be done with it
too other than enjoyment...)
the problem with drugs, or substances, or even wbtb, is that they rob us
of the volition involved to turn the whole thing into something more
volitional altogether! thus the most important part of the whole training
& practice is in fact this first stage wherein one learns to deliberately
bring oneself into that slightly altered state of awareness...
gaining 'volition' is the bottom line; volition is everything!
and because without volition we end up as being/remaining someone else's
bitch haha :)))
(and believe me, life can be a real bitch!)
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