Living in a Lucid Dream

Post by fsiefken » Thu, Jul 04, 2024, 5:14 PM UTC

hosh wrote: post #99

fsiefken wrote: post #93

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Hi hosh, you mention shared dream space, how do you know for certain the others are real dreamers and not just imagined, anticipated or dreamed ones by your own consciousness? If they were real this would imply solid proof of ESP - which I think would be all over the news, or at least mentioned in the Noema magazine article by Claire Evans. Is there a subculture of dream parapsychologists publishing this in undergrou…

Sometimes I see threads here on HN related to the occult or the very weird spaces psychonauts explore and I forget the audience I am talking to. I generally have to compartmentalize; this is the kind of stuff I talk to in other communities, forums, and private Discord channels, not here. I would have thought other lucid dreamers here would have encountered this kind of stuff, but I guess not. What I said here is rela…

Thanks for the pointer hosh, as a psychonaut, vajrayana practitioner reading books from for example bernardo kastrup, zoe7's void books, robert anton wilson, dean radin and robert bruce I can relate. I've had various interesting experiences and entertained a variety of 'reality tunnels' and am for sure in favor of 're-enchantment'. Still the comment didn't compute for me, I understand and respect your reluctance!

Post by pegasus » Fri, Jul 05, 2024, 6:47 AM UTC

wruza wrote: post #90

pegasus wrote: post #61

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Lots. The internet is full of them. Most center around making a habit of periodically doing a "reality check" throughout the day, like reading a word from a note and then re-reading it to check whether it changed or not. I carried a note saying "Wake up!" in the pocket and after a few days of maybe a dozen checks a day, the check (like all daily habits) occurred in a dream. The realization when the inevitable discrep…

My method was “look at your fingers”. It’s easy, cause they are familiar and often in sight by default. I remember first time raising my hands and seeing that .

I imagine it would be even more shocking when noticed, but possibly easier to go unnoticed - since visually, morphing is continuous in dreams, but word meanings are discrete and can't morph into one another like that.

Btw. funny (and fascinating) how "dream-rendering" has similar issues with producing realistic hands as LLMs. Similar with continuity issues.

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