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July 15th, 2009 by Sean Timelessness

I’ve been trancing out before falling asleep lately, in an attempt to get back into OBEs. I haven’t escaped my body yet, but I’ve consistently hit a timeless state of mind.

I can’t pinpoint when I enter the state, but snapping back to reality is very distinct. I wake up with a sense of panic, completely oblivious to how long I’ve been in the state. The time is… lost. There is no sense for how long I’ve been laying there, stuck in this loop of non-awareness.

It’s not like dreaming, because I still have a sense of time while dreaming. My sense might be wrong (a five minute dream can feel like an hour), but the sense is there. Even with deep sleep, when I’m not in R.E.M., I still wake up with a sense of time. It’s not like an OBE, where everything might be blurry, but I still have a sense of time. This trance state is without this sense.

The reason this intrigues me so much is because the next question is: where am I while in this state? Which of course is a leading question. If I can be in a state of non-awareness, is it such a large jump to reason that death is just perpetual non-awareness?

Let’s say I’m a devout religious person who believes in life after death, heaven, hell, etc… I still can’t deny that this non-awareness state exists (because I’ve experienced it). So now I have an experience of non-existence. I have felt what not-existing feels like. How can I sit here and rationalize the existence of life after death when I’ve experienced death after death? Sure, life after death might exist, but what necessity is there for it? Not-existing already exists.

Thoughts?

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July 9th, 2009 by Sean Dreaming and Expectation

There are a few different theories on what dreams are, and how they work. I imagine that the various theories each have their own nugget of truth. One particular theory that has served me well comes from Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D., in his book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming.

LaBerge believes that expectation drives the dream experience. By exploiting and controlling our expectations, we can take control of our dreams.

For example, suppose you are dreaming that you are walking down a hall. What do you associate with walking down hallways? Perhaps you subconsciously expect to see someone in the hall. Ok, who do you see? As you walk towards the stranger, details become more clear… this stranger has dark hair, slightly shorter than you, and a little heavy. Who fits this description? Who do you expect at this point? Maybe I expect to see my father… and the moment my mind expects an outcome, the outcome materializes seamlessly in the dream.

The important point is that the dream is built while you are experiencing it, moment by moment, based on your immediate expectations. My father wasn’t in the hallway at first… his presence was created during the experience, by stringing together a series of expectations.

It has been my personal experience that dreams aren’t solely controlled by expectation, because sometimes unexpected things happen. But for the most part, this theory rings true with me.

One way to exploit this expectation mechanism is to create unknowns in your dream, and then fill in the unknown areas with whatever you choose to expect. For example, suppose you are dreaming that you’re in a building… but you’d rather be in a meadow during the Middle Ages. First, look for a door. Nothing has been created behind the door, because you haven’t opened it. Move to open the door, but first convince yourself that a meadow is behind it. Have confidence! YOU are in control.

Open the door, and let that confident expectation create the environment.

You can apply this concept many different ways… one popular method is to spin in circles in your dream, until the scenery blurs. This spinning essentially makes the entire environment an unknown. Then, while spinning, expect to be transported elsewhere. When you slow your spin, the environment is regenerated based on your expectations… building the new location for you.

So: create an unknown, expect an outcome, and investigate the unknown while holding this expectation. Works every time. Happy dreaming!

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