05-08-2011, 12:00 AM
Enchantra wrote:
Interesting post. Brings up a question for me, and maybe others here can answer it. When shapeshifing or dreaming as another being, are you all aware that you are human in another body? I've never really thought of this before and am curious what everyone else feels.
I once shapeshifted into a coyote in Dreaming, and I was only the coyote... always had been, always would be. I was trotting down a road deep inside Joshua Tree National Park, enjoying the moonlight and the wind in my fur. The road was rough but comforting on the pads of my feet, and I was utterly without agenda, without concern, just a trot in the moonlight. "I" as my humanform identity did not exist.
Other times when I have found myself inhabiting another form (usually another human), there is a duality of perception. There is the perception of the person I am in the dream, and the perception of me looking at the person I am in the dream.
So I guess I'd say it goes both ways.
Interesting post. Brings up a question for me, and maybe others here can answer it. When shapeshifing or dreaming as another being, are you all aware that you are human in another body? I've never really thought of this before and am curious what everyone else feels.
I once shapeshifted into a coyote in Dreaming, and I was only the coyote... always had been, always would be. I was trotting down a road deep inside Joshua Tree National Park, enjoying the moonlight and the wind in my fur. The road was rough but comforting on the pads of my feet, and I was utterly without agenda, without concern, just a trot in the moonlight. "I" as my humanform identity did not exist.
Other times when I have found myself inhabiting another form (usually another human), there is a duality of perception. There is the perception of the person I am in the dream, and the perception of me looking at the person I am in the dream.
So I guess I'd say it goes both ways.