05-21-2011, 12:00 AM
Yes, cementing, I do that too but I had not thought about it till you mention it. Dreams are so slippery that if I don't take a few minutes to process, I can forget dream details once I start moving in the waking. So first I just lay still and recap my dreams.
Glad you liked that exercise. It has an extended benefit I found out yesterday. What happens is, as you wear the blindfold you get accustomed to shutting off one of your sense, sight of course, which you then realize is the dominant sense, which we all know but you realize HOW much its used. So then you acquire awareness at a deeper level of your others especially touch I noticed...just having to use my hands to as I walk so I don't run into things, and then I remember that experience, in gets cemented too. Later in the day yesterday I was at the mall, going up an escalator and I became aware of my hands and their perception, and I then realized my eyes take precedence normally but I can consciously switch to my other senses, its like giving the quieter kids in class an opportunity to speak, they are always there and they just go unnoticed but if you call on them they can participate. On top of this, since the eyes are dominant, guess what, our ordinary perception and internal dialog is linked to the eyes. We all knew that right? But its getting to experience it and HOW OFTEN it occurs, how jelled it is and then seeing we can undo it, through not-doings. We can come up with many not-doings to combat ordinary perception. Its exciting, like discovering new worlds! I'm planning to post a not-doing thread in Inner Landscape and so when anyone comes up with one they find effective we can share it.
Glad you liked that exercise. It has an extended benefit I found out yesterday. What happens is, as you wear the blindfold you get accustomed to shutting off one of your sense, sight of course, which you then realize is the dominant sense, which we all know but you realize HOW much its used. So then you acquire awareness at a deeper level of your others especially touch I noticed...just having to use my hands to as I walk so I don't run into things, and then I remember that experience, in gets cemented too. Later in the day yesterday I was at the mall, going up an escalator and I became aware of my hands and their perception, and I then realized my eyes take precedence normally but I can consciously switch to my other senses, its like giving the quieter kids in class an opportunity to speak, they are always there and they just go unnoticed but if you call on them they can participate. On top of this, since the eyes are dominant, guess what, our ordinary perception and internal dialog is linked to the eyes. We all knew that right? But its getting to experience it and HOW OFTEN it occurs, how jelled it is and then seeing we can undo it, through not-doings. We can come up with many not-doings to combat ordinary perception. Its exciting, like discovering new worlds! I'm planning to post a not-doing thread in Inner Landscape and so when anyone comes up with one they find effective we can share it.