03-30-2011, 12:00 AM
I came across this the other day from a post from SHM The art of Dreaming as described by Carlos Castaneda. It seems to relate to my dream.
The only thing that makes you think you are yourself is the form. Once it leaves, you are nothing. A warrior without form begins to see an eye. The formless warrior uses that eye to start dreaming . If you don't have a form, you don't have to go to sleep to do dreaming . The eye in front of you pulls you every time you want to go.
There it was, “If you don't have a form, you don't have to go to sleep to do dreaming.” I can’t say I have seen an “eye” unless it was that dot. But I did not go to sleep as far as I can tell.
In the final analysis every dreamer is different. There are, however, general states.
Restful vigil is the preliminary state, a state in which the senses become dormant and yet one is aware.
The second state is dynamic vigil. In this state one is left looking at a scene, a tableau of sorts, which is static. One sees a three-dimensional picture, a frozen bit of something--a landscape, a street, a house, a person, a face, anything.
The third state is passive witnessing. In it the dreamer is no longer viewing a frozen bit of the world but is observing, eye-witnessing, an event as it occurs. It is as if the primacy of the visual and auditory senses makes this state of dreaming mainly an affair of the eyes and ears.
The fourth state is the one in which you are drawn to act. In it one is compelled to enterprise, to take steps, to make the most of one's time. This state is called dynamic initiative.
“One sees a three-dimensional picture, a frozen bit of something--a landscape, a street, a house, a person, a face, anything." This seems to relate the page with words on it that began to dissolve.
The only thing that makes you think you are yourself is the form. Once it leaves, you are nothing. A warrior without form begins to see an eye. The formless warrior uses that eye to start dreaming . If you don't have a form, you don't have to go to sleep to do dreaming . The eye in front of you pulls you every time you want to go.
There it was, “If you don't have a form, you don't have to go to sleep to do dreaming.” I can’t say I have seen an “eye” unless it was that dot. But I did not go to sleep as far as I can tell.
In the final analysis every dreamer is different. There are, however, general states.
Restful vigil is the preliminary state, a state in which the senses become dormant and yet one is aware.
The second state is dynamic vigil. In this state one is left looking at a scene, a tableau of sorts, which is static. One sees a three-dimensional picture, a frozen bit of something--a landscape, a street, a house, a person, a face, anything.
The third state is passive witnessing. In it the dreamer is no longer viewing a frozen bit of the world but is observing, eye-witnessing, an event as it occurs. It is as if the primacy of the visual and auditory senses makes this state of dreaming mainly an affair of the eyes and ears.
The fourth state is the one in which you are drawn to act. In it one is compelled to enterprise, to take steps, to make the most of one's time. This state is called dynamic initiative.
“One sees a three-dimensional picture, a frozen bit of something--a landscape, a street, a house, a person, a face, anything." This seems to relate the page with words on it that began to dissolve.