11-05-2014, 12:00 AM
Hehe. I once had a dream that I was in a desert at night and Don Juan was sitting on a rock over there facing me. So I felt elation at finally having found Don Juan in my dreams! I said, "Are you Don Juan?" Then Don Juan said (he was dark and I couldn't see his face) "I am Don Juan," in this cracking, sinister voice. Then it began to cackle!
I don't think that was Don Juan! lol
If lucid dreaming was part of the Christian tradition they would see Jesus etc.
I DO believe that in dreams we have access to perception that is not available though.
To me the metaphor is a lot like computer modeling and skinning. To create a model you first start with a 'mesh', and then later you 'skin' the mesh with whatever 2-dimensional images are available in the inventory of your computer's hard drive.
Dream energy is like that mesh, and we graft from our inventory of images/experiences onto that 'energy' - only be sensing the essence of the items in our dreams or 'seeing' can we know for sure if they are real.
Of course, if the phantasmagorical 'frog' he refers to in the article tells us things that turn out to be true that we could not have possibly known otherwise, then the frog is 'real', although it may not be an actual frog. I have dreams of that nature quite frequently (most of them are not lucid). Usually its quite mundane things such as whether a co-worker will be fired, what someone plans to do, how to build something, what may happen next, and last but not least, what form my death is taking lately.
I don't think that was Don Juan! lol
If lucid dreaming was part of the Christian tradition they would see Jesus etc.
I DO believe that in dreams we have access to perception that is not available though.
To me the metaphor is a lot like computer modeling and skinning. To create a model you first start with a 'mesh', and then later you 'skin' the mesh with whatever 2-dimensional images are available in the inventory of your computer's hard drive.
Dream energy is like that mesh, and we graft from our inventory of images/experiences onto that 'energy' - only be sensing the essence of the items in our dreams or 'seeing' can we know for sure if they are real.
Of course, if the phantasmagorical 'frog' he refers to in the article tells us things that turn out to be true that we could not have possibly known otherwise, then the frog is 'real', although it may not be an actual frog. I have dreams of that nature quite frequently (most of them are not lucid). Usually its quite mundane things such as whether a co-worker will be fired, what someone plans to do, how to build something, what may happen next, and last but not least, what form my death is taking lately.