Life in a Dream World (Blog)
 

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Steve Pavlina's blog:

Life in a Dream World

I love you Steve. Your blog has been an inspiration to me two years ago to change. This year has been a complete change in everything about me. It has been changing a lot with you as well. New romances, new beliefs installed, changes in my reality, and development of psychic powers. I have no idea where the next developing will be, but I hope it is around the corner or somewhere close.

I feel like you do; it's exciting and scary to see these changes happening so fast...
And it proves that I am you. :)

Now I am heading off to college Thursday for a new reality of living and learning and growing by myself. Who said growth stops when you leave your parent's control and behavior patterns? ^.^

Love,
Andrew.

That's a funny dream pun - a "stake" dinner. :) When you eat a meal, what's at stake?

Re: dream exercise, how about trying aerialism?

I slept for only three hours last night, and today I am straddling dream levels.... it is a perfect time for you to have slipped in your embedded dream command (to focus on what we want), I mean for me to have done that through "you." You clever little dream character, you.

Life is but a dream. Steve, what are your plans after the trial. Are you going to climb back out of that rabbit hole or stay down there for awhile? Or are you going to combine, like you talked about somewhat in this blog post? You'll be doing some of the same things, but from a different perspective. This has been a fascinating experiment to watch, and I'm sure it's been extra fascinating for you, Steve, to experience it.

The very nature of this trial rules out such planning, unless it feels inspired in the moment. :)

Funny, I had a lucid dream just before I woke up to see Steve had posted. My teeth had been falling out in the dream so I thought, "Oh, yeah, another one of THESE dreams."

Funny, I dream my teeth are falling out more often than I'd like...

Thanks for the recode. ;) I'll let you know what happens.

I like the active direction this is taking :)

One thing I appreciate about my experience of subjective reality is the increasing number of Steve's Depeche Mode references. Almost like I did that on purpose, since referencing them is probably the biggest shortcut past my resistance. :D

Also I'm looking forward to this now expected windfall of money. Can't wait!

I'll also take the forum challenge. Everyone's me anyway, so if "they" are not living the life of their dreams, it's more or less my responsibility. So I won't give energy to seeing them as less than what they want to be.

Awesome!

It's official, guys! I'm a nomadic traveller who can make money location-independently, exploring the world with my soulmate!

(... So, we're basically lying for a while? WOO! [No, I'm not being sarcastic.])

Where are you headed to tomorrow, Elfwing? When you make it to the states, visit Boulder, Colorado - a dream within a dream!

Drasko - Congrats on your financial abundance! What are you going to do with it?

Financial Abundance and Social Reward
 

I am grateful for the financial abundance flowing through me into all the other businesses, charities, people and causes that equally deserve it. It's a joy to experience!

:) I am enjoying financial abundance and I am so grateful because I will be able to fly to Las Vegas and attend the CGW on October. :)

(and I did not burn my dish towel while I was cooking dinner)

Thanks for that!
 

Steve, I just wanted to say thank you for seeing me as financially abundant! It feels good to be perceived that way!
P Bastien

By the way, a good friend of mine who's been analyzing and trading stocks for 16 years is launching a new investment fund. I gave him the idea of making it a socially and environmentally responsible fund, and he loved that idea, so he made it so. His main focus is tech companies.

This isn't a mutual fund. The minimum investment is $250K. So when you're experiencing an avalanche of abundance and need a responsible place to let your money work for you, let me know, and I can send you details about it.

If you think this sort of thing is out of your reach, expand your reach. Big dreams are just as easy as little ones.

:)

My wife just put on "The Princess Bride" for my kids to watch (for the first time) - I came in here and read this new post - Cool synchronicity! Haven't watched the movie in a couple of years...

Otherwise - looking forward to the forum activity now. For the past few months I've been really down on myself because I feel like I'm stuck doing work that doesn't make me happy, and have been slow to change. So please respond to me as if I have just made the best career move of my life and am achieving financial abundance doing exactly what I love to do! (Hope I'm doing this right) :) Still feels like complaining and that is not my intent...

What are you crazy? That's some selective memory you've got there...

You've been constantly boasting about how happy you are doing what you love and how much money keeps flooding into your life, so much so that you don't know even what to do with it yet. We all want to know how you got there so fast. It wasn't that long ago that you were feeling uninspired and stuck.

And you've certainly inspired me by your example to embrace doing what I love on an even deeper level.

Keep it up! You're an inspiration to us all! :D

This post made it official... I'd love to see Steve write a novel. And not a trashy piece of pulp fiction... a glorious piece of tasty beautiful oozing with lively literary lusciousness 8)

Thank you! That felt good!

It took a lot of courage and a little bit of risk, but it was well worth it. Things just flow so easily now, and the excess money is really just secondary to knowing I'm finally on the right path and doing exactly what fulfills me the most.

I just received a review copy of your new book from your publicist. Can't wait to read about your personal transformation. The cover copy sounds so inspiring. And such a nice pic of you with your new Jag on the cover.

Good luck on Oprah on Friday! I'm sure you'll be awesome! I'm setting my DVR now. Can't believe you got on her show before I did -- you'll have to tell me how next time we meet for skydiving.

nothing to say....just enjoying my experience of abundance, doing what i love loving what i do, lovely relationships, healthy skin and playing my new electric guitar :D

Will do - It will have to wait till I get back from Europe... :)

I should hope you're resting your voice after that amazing concert you gave on Saturday. Had no idea you could play and sing like that. Puts Van Halen to shame...

This is awesome! Just the other day I was trying to figure out how I could build a thriving career in permaculture. Now I realize that I already have!

Totally -- your how-to videos are legendary!

Awesome! Congrats to all of your success, ALL OF YOU! As for me, I've schedule a little skydiving date with a special someone. Money also just comes form nowhere it seems. Can't say I can complain! Now I'm about to go drive in my brand new 2010 royal blue pearl Honda Civic EX-L with automatic transmission. Later!

I wanted to write to say how much I enjoyed shepherding the participants of the Conscious Growth Workshop through the group shamanic journey - I have never been so grateful and honored to be a shaman. It was a gift to share the stage with you.

It's hard to remember how much I used to focus on money! I felt for a while that there would be a paradigm shift in the world, and money would become superfluous - who knew that that shift was supposed to happen in me? (Oh, right - you did!) I'm enjoying such abundance now - it's far beyond anything I could have imagined or envisioned. I love traveling with my guys, and I so appreciate being able to provide them with so many rich experiences, in addition to a home they love to be in. My oldest is able to have all the adventures he wishes, and my youngest loves being able to immerse himself in all things Japan. We have a trip planned for next spring!

For now, we're about to take a road trip in our trusty Subaru Forester - they finally made a hybrid! I'll be speaking at an unschooling conference, and I have several appointments to hold shamanic space for folks out there, to help them heal, connect with loved ones they've lost, and help their paths appear more clear to them. The boys are going to love connecting with their friends from all over the world.

I love my life!!!

Abundance Abound
 

I'm enjoying my new home. So grateful I'm no longer paying too much for too little. My son has a yard to play in, a pool to swim in and 2 rooms to himself. My wife has the car she wants, lives in the area she dreamed of living in her whole life and our relationship is the best it has ever been. I work from home, for myself, half the hours and four time the pay of my old job. And to think, I pulled it all off in only 2 weeks :D

Holy cow! It's incredibly touching that you're using your vast amounts of wealth to help people heal and find their way! I'm sure you'll be a miracle for more than a few dozen people. You make my soul feel lighter and brighter. :)

I've been having a pretty ridiculous winning streak in Magic: The Gathering myself. I barely remember the last time I lost even a game, much less a match. I can't wait to go to Amsterdam in a couple weeks and tear up the Pro Tour!

((Out of Character Edit: Oh my God! Just reading all of these from everyone makes me feel giddy! I actually feel a lot of resistance to saying that these things are "not actually happening" or anything like that. It honestly took me a couple minutes of feeling uneasy before I could write that sentence. :D))

Yeah I'm pretty sure I drove by there today while house-shopping, and I had to pause when I saw how nice your place looked. Your housekeeper and gardener were out front reporting for duty, and I overheard them talking about how generous you were with their salaries. You really had their respect.