Dreams and Dreaming

Posted on October 29, 2015 by majick. 0 comments.

I’ve spoken to plenty of people about lucid dreaming, and it’s interesting to hear how many people have had lucid dream experiences spontaneously. It’s a lot more common than one might think, simply because it’s not something everyone talks about that often. Not many people realize it’s something you can learn to do intentionally and regularly, mostly these short lucid dreams get passed off as curiosities and aren’t very well developed. There is usually a brief recognition that you’re dreaming, and without knowing what to do with it, you often end up just falling back into ‘normal dream’ mode. It

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Posted on October 23, 2015 by majick. 0 comments.

It might seem a little strange to consider that you have more than one identity at first, but when we look at identity we realize it’s not a fixed thing anyway. Are you the same person you were yesterday? What about five years ago? As we see, identity changes over time. When we make the transition from waking to dreaming, we also transit from our waking self to our dreaming self so that we can operate proficiently in dreaming reality. To ‘get’ this, let’s use an analogy. If you hold both hands out wide, one hand is your waking self

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Posted on September 14, 2015 by majick. 1 comment.

What are currently recognized as dreaming periods are the REM (rapid eye movement) portions of sleep. What is generally not known however is that we dream and have other experiences at deeper levels of the psyche that aren’t usually fully consciously remembered. Some of these are formless or imageless interactions. The information and experiences we have on these levels is translated into dream imagery at levels closer to our waking consciousness, and this is what is recognized as REM dreaming. In other words, we still dream in non-REM periods, but these dreams are trickier to remember directly the deeper we

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Posted on August 30, 2015 by majick. 0 comments.

Manifest Your Dreams into Reality with aReal Magick Shamanism Apprenticeship   Opportunity is a funny thing… it sometimes comes when you least expect it, but it always seems to come at the right time. So why do we hesitate? The problem is not so much a lack of opportunity, but more that most of us are so busy floating through life half-asleep that we miss the opportunities that do present themselves… What wasted gifts! Well consider this your wake up call..! “All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in

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Posted on August 24, 2015 by majick. 0 comments.

A few years ago I had the experience of dreaming in Zen! For those unfamiliar with Zen stories, they are often short but insightful tales about experiences that have helped people realize the truth… (I recommend Zen Flesh Zen Bones by Alan Watts, a great collection of Zen stories.) But I was fortunate enough to bring this one back from the dream world! I saw it from the eyes of the characters and third person simultaneously, but here is my attempt at a written version… Enjoy! …A travelling zen monk was passing through a city one day, when he was

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Posted on May 30, 2015 by majick. 2 comments.

Came across this one awhile ago… Wish I could remember where now. But it still cracks me up! And it makes the point so well too… how can we be taught to so flippantly ignore or devalue a huge portion of our inner experience? Should we continue to let the uninformed beliefs of society about dreaming influence the way in which we treat our private or public dreams? If that is considered ‘normal’, I’d rather be considered a raving lunatic! It seems a little backwards though, don’t you think..? Perhaps as this comic satirically suggests, the way in which people

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Posted on April 15, 2015 by majick. 0 comments.

It should really be emphasized that there is quite a difference between the realism of normal dreams and lucid dreams. Many people assume that because their normal dreams are often vague, dim, cryptic, even unpleasant, or otherwise just ‘unreal’ seeming, that lucid dreams are equally as ‘unreal’. This is definitely the wrong conclusion to jump to, and yet how many people dismiss dreaming practices as a result on the basis they are ‘just dreams’? Fully lucid dreams are as real as waking life. We must simply understand it is a different reality, a different dimension of experience. Imagine if you

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