Thread for Reaffirming Dreamlike Reality

[Andrew Gubb]

I'm writing this for me, feel free to join in with your own experiences.

Dreamlike Reality is just any sort of reality that is not what I was brought up to believe. Its opposite is "fundamentalist science" reality, where everything is clockwork and consciousness is a sort of optical illusion. In dreamlike reality, consciousness is everything and life is a dream, with certain rules that spring out of consciousness (not the other way around).

In other words

Dreamlike Reality: consciousness defines matter

Fundamentalist Science Reality: matter defines consciousness

In practise Dreamlike Reality contains awesome stuff like telekinesis, telepathy, guidence, spirits, psychic abilities, the law of attraction, freaky hypnosis stuff that bends the limits of the possible, and so on. While technically most of this stuff doesn't need a Dreamlike foundation for reality to work, a viewpoint where humans are basically just highly evolved animals makes stuff like telekinesis confusing and difficult to explain.

My first tentative steps into DR were when I investigated hypnosis and NLP. Hypnosis, while dismissed by some, is considered legit by others - so my Fundamentalist Science background could tentatively accept it even though I balked at some claims. Eventually though it helped to lead me beyond Fundamentalist Science because the things it can do, such as make cancers grow and shrink before your very eyes, are beyond the realm of what makes sense in a Fundementalist Science reality. If the body can do such things, then it makes no sense that anyone with Selfish Genes ever dies from cancer.

Anyway I'm going to cut this first post short and continue in a moment as I think I've made a decent intro to the thread. I'm going to get documenting my experiences in shifting to a Dreamlike Reality viewpoint and in doing so, I will strongly reaffirm this viewpoint. Some of the freaky experiences I've had make it impossible not to believe in DR. And that's what I want my subconscious mind to see for itself.

[Andrew Gubb]

After being introduced to the reality-bending world of hypnosis I read "the power of now" and had my life changed. I also got into Steve Pavlina's work and found it impossible to consider that he was totally deluded about Dreamlike Reality when at other times he wrote the Truest (with a capital T) stuff I had ever read.

Finally I was introduced to his wife by phone. The circumstances of the reading with her were a little improbable to start with as I just so happened to have the not inconsiderable money I needed for it at that very time. The money had been a rather random birthday present from my normally unheard of grandfather.

Erin proved Dreamlike Reality to me in many ways. The first thing she did which blew me out of the water was to mention the shield I had visualised around myself just two days before. The shield was stipulated to allow positive energies in but for negative energies not to pass through. Her words, roughly:

"It's funny, I sense a shield around you, but normally shields represent a sort of cutting off from the world -- but this one is letting in the positive energy, just blocking the negative."

Almost choking, I said that I had made it. She recommended me a different visualisation, one which I still use sometimes to this day. I'm proud to say that in some versions of google the blog post I wrote describing it is number 1 for its title keyphrase

she told me so many things which were true or turned out to be true. i can't explain them all in one post, but my mind was blown and any conflicting beliefs, as well.

[James81]

Matter defines consciousness shapes matter.

It's like a circle.

[Andrew Gubb]

So let's post just one experience that blew my mind. I want to keep cracking open this safe of residual skepticism.

It was christmas and I was desiring a romantic partner. I thought, "there's no way I can find someone in Bilbao". Bilbao is where my parents live and I was going over to stay with them.

They live in a country home far away from anywhere. So the chances of meeting anyone new - let alone anyone who fits my rigourous standards of awesomeness - were low.

It turns out that my parents were renting a room out to someone. That someone had tattoos on her arms in sanskrit calligraphy. I instantly set my eyes on her. We talked and it turned out we had a hell of a lot in common.

Long story short we hooked up by midnight on christmas eve

Now here's the freaky part. A friend of mine told me later, "Oh, I forgot to tell you! I had a vision for you (three days before christmas). There was a woman dressed in red, and a golden wrapped christmas present for you."

Wait, what? Impossible meeting with highly awesome person on christmas eve, and my friend has a vision of a christmas present and a woman for me?

Coincidence doesn't explain it. It just can't.

[Wax Frog]

Originally Posted by Andrew Gubb

Its opposite is "fundamentalist science" reality...

I'm rather fond of the term coined by one Dr. Neal Grossman - "fundamaterialism"

Here's to the witnessing of your own skeptic 'trash compaction' aiding me in the pursuit of my own

[Andrew Gubb]

Thanks froggy

So here's another.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE MAGIC FIGS

I started playing with the raw food diet two years ago, and have been back and forth about it since then. Last year, though, I managed to get the diet to work well for the first time.

Before I started, I wasn't sure whether it'd be a good idea or not. The last time I'd gone raw I ended up being very ungrounded (due, I think, to not eating enough and not eating enough veg). So I asked the Universe for a sign. I asked for the special sort of figs I used to make raw bread, which I hadn't found anywhere since moving to Bilbao. This wasn't a trivial thing as I'd made a serious effort to find them and I couldn't. I'd been in Bilbao for about half a year.

So having the figs appear in my life would be a signal that it were time to go raw.

The very next day, I found them. In a normal supermarket, the sort I might go to any day. I didn't look for them. I just happened to notice them.

Holy C**P!!!!!

[catalyst]

Reality is what it is.

The awesome stuff you speak of, is a self made illusion. A delusional denial to rationalize our own weaknesses. Wishful thinking to escape responsibility by making all things equivalent. While it may seem harmless, it is the seemingly easy way out - an evil thing in my book.

[Wax Frog]

To quote that great sage Miley Cyrus , Say-wha-say-what?

[SethWilliams]

Originally Posted by catalyst

Reality is what it is.

The awesome stuff you speak of, is a self made illusion. A delusional denial to rationalize our own weaknesses. Wishful thinking to escape responsibility by making all things equivalent. While it may seem harmless, it is the seemingly easy way out - an evil thing in my book.

Quite cynical. And irrational.

If you don't like LOA/IM/Subjective Reality/Magick, thats nice. But why are you here?

Just to tell us where in denial?

Escaping what responsibility, anyway?

[Andrew Gubb]

Originally Posted by catalyst

Reality is what it is.

The awesome stuff you speak of, is a self made illusion. A delusional denial to rationalize our own weaknesses. Wishful thinking to escape responsibility by making all things equivalent. While it may seem harmless, it is the seemingly easy way out - an evil thing in my book.

So I'm taking the easy way out by challenging my ingrained way of looking at things?

[Andrew Gubb]

SOME PSYCHIC INCIDENTS

Both me and others I've been in contact with have experienced some psychic phenomena that would blow a skeptic's mind. To be honest, I think the fact that Erin exists is proof enough because I can tell she's not lying about what she writes. Never the less, I will post some experiences from my own life, which my skeptical side feels are somehow more trustable.

TALKING WITH THE DEAD

I went through a period of advertising y services as an energy healer to earn my living. It didn't end up working out too much - in part I think cause of internal resistences - but I had some interesting clients.

One of them wanted me to heal her uncle. It was a distance healing.

Before I did the healing I had a dream where someone healed me with energy by jumping at me and touching two particular points on my chest. I remembered this dream as I did the healing and aimed to heal those points on my client's uncle.

Later, my client told me that those points had been hurting him particularly. I hadn't known this. And they were not the sort of points you'd particularly expect to hurt, on anyone, or on this particular patient.

So... long story short, my patient died I don't blame myself as a healer as they were already doing all they could and it's not like a healing will always work. But yeah, my client's uncle passed on.

My client asked me if I could connect with his spirit. I said I didn't know, but I could try.

I don't know what it was about this time but I connected VERY clearly. I found in my mind's eye a presence I identified as him and "zoomed in" with my consciousness to that presence. I saw it as colourless and formless - well circular which for me represented formless - but conscious. It said, in English words I could hear very clearly, "I don't want to be here".

At this point I kinda freaked out and disconnected from the presence. The wierd thing here was that as I disconnected I realised that with my consciousness I had gone very "high up" in some indescribable way. When I returned to earth, it was like having gone very rapidly down a huge height.

That experience, that sensation was so clear I couldn't put it down to self delusion. And when I checked up with my client, she agreed that the words the spirit had said made a lot of sense. My patient had had a lot of things he still wanted to do on Earth and didn't want to have left.

[Andrew Gubb]

I remembered this one only recently. It's funny how the memory can just let these things slip away.

I was stealing a couple of years back. I went to the big megamarket "El Corte Ingles" with a backpack and stuffed it full of everything I could find. A very reckless way of stealing. Just like me. I can be pretty reckless sometimes. I don't know why I was stealing really, I think I just wanted to see what was so great about it.

So I got caught, and the security guard basically told me I had to buy everything I'd grabbed or they'd take me to court. (I'd probably get a fine and of course a criminal record, which wasn't too appetising).

I wasn't sure if I had the money in my account (definitely not in cash), but I tried my debit card anyway. It went through. Phew.

A little after I found out my mother had sent me some money just as a random present. She's generous but it's odd of her to just want to give me money for absolutely no reason like that.

It had arrived about one minute before I needed it.

[funnyav]

My being seems to train both aspects of its reality-perception mechanism by polarizing for a few weeks to one belief system:

A) Reality exists apart from me, and I must adapt to it and learn to control it,

OR

B) Reality is created by me, somewhat randomly, as I go along, because it is a reflection of my messy mind.

( and in this case my "mind" or greater sense of self is apparently more than I can feel from a conscious state )


In A) I develop my social skills by analyzing my behavior and how it affects others.

In B) I intend a positive social experience, do what comes naturally, and have this magical afterglow for days following.

I think I prefer B, somewhat, though am reluctant to release my grip on reality completely at this time XD