10-08-2010, 12:00 AM
I was just repeating what the dream told me. Often I write dreams down and let information flow without thinking about it or judging it, this way the information is less biased to what I'm thinking.
i'll answer the question about prior knowledge. I think having lots of Prior knowledge about dreams doesn't really adequately prepare you for the experience. In fact prior knowledge can actually hinder people's progress because they walk into the experience with certain expectations, only to find again and again their expectations aren't met. Many wind up frustrated because of this and give up altogether because they are trying to pit their own experience against someone elses experience. and because the picture doesn't match, they think they are doing something wrong. They, in fact, aren't doing anything wrong, but they don't realize it, because they aren't trusting what their own experience is telling them. They trust someone elses picture and model completely without learning to rely on their own... That's insanity. The only thing that can prepare you is more experience. In the start it is like navigating the woods in complete darkness, it's blind and scary, but if you don't give up and you don't die, you begin to see clearer picture as to where you are going.
you can read and have prior knowledge about any skill but that won't prepare you for the experience. You can read all you want about learning to ski, how to turn and slow down etc. But none of that helps you until you take the time looking like a baffoon on the ski hill. You read in the manual "to slow down or turn shift one foot down the slope and slowly turn" So you try it but you turn too much at first, you begin losing control. You begin falling off the ski's alot on the beginner hill, until after much frustration, something in your body clicks. and you make a correct turn and slow down. Now you know what it feels like in your body to turn the skiis and slow to a stop. Everything you read about skiing before is now just black letters. Now you truly know what it FEELS like to turn on your skiis. After that you search for the same feeling and technique to slow down and then it works again. Then you do it over and over again without thinking about it.
dreaming is a skill set just like any other skill that you learn. people can provide tools on how to reach and explore dreaming, but not one can tell you exactly what will happen or what you will experience.
i'll answer the question about prior knowledge. I think having lots of Prior knowledge about dreams doesn't really adequately prepare you for the experience. In fact prior knowledge can actually hinder people's progress because they walk into the experience with certain expectations, only to find again and again their expectations aren't met. Many wind up frustrated because of this and give up altogether because they are trying to pit their own experience against someone elses experience. and because the picture doesn't match, they think they are doing something wrong. They, in fact, aren't doing anything wrong, but they don't realize it, because they aren't trusting what their own experience is telling them. They trust someone elses picture and model completely without learning to rely on their own... That's insanity. The only thing that can prepare you is more experience. In the start it is like navigating the woods in complete darkness, it's blind and scary, but if you don't give up and you don't die, you begin to see clearer picture as to where you are going.
you can read and have prior knowledge about any skill but that won't prepare you for the experience. You can read all you want about learning to ski, how to turn and slow down etc. But none of that helps you until you take the time looking like a baffoon on the ski hill. You read in the manual "to slow down or turn shift one foot down the slope and slowly turn" So you try it but you turn too much at first, you begin losing control. You begin falling off the ski's alot on the beginner hill, until after much frustration, something in your body clicks. and you make a correct turn and slow down. Now you know what it feels like in your body to turn the skiis and slow to a stop. Everything you read about skiing before is now just black letters. Now you truly know what it FEELS like to turn on your skiis. After that you search for the same feeling and technique to slow down and then it works again. Then you do it over and over again without thinking about it.
dreaming is a skill set just like any other skill that you learn. people can provide tools on how to reach and explore dreaming, but not one can tell you exactly what will happen or what you will experience.