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Consciousness Experiments

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Consciousness Experiements

Ultimately I think people might be interested in OBE's and or remote viewing.

I think there is a Paracast episode on remote viewing.

Training mind might be a must here, learning to focus. Perhaps a daily ritual of meditation should be included.
Baby steps, 10 minuet meditations to start.

There are practices that are suppose to open your "3rd eye". Like kundalini yoga. I've occasionally do Kundalini yoga and i find when we do exorcises to work on our head chakras.. and, no, i have no idea what there called, i don't really study that sort of thing.. the top of my head can get warm as well as the center of the forehead, and i feel very "out of it".. so that might be interesting to work on as well.

babysteps!

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homework
listen mindfuly

It's kinda long but interesting... he does go into some questions that regard issues that might arise during meditation. Please heed these questions. And he will give us some techniques.
Thanks Hotkafka and Angelo for steering me to this site. It is very extensive.

hk
In 1968, during the Mexico Summer Olympics my oldest brother was working nights at a convenience store, a few blocks away from a major metropolitan hospital. He had just turned twenty-one at the time. A man walked in, and asked for a case of beer which was back in the cooler. As my brother leaned over, and for reasons unknown, the man stabbed my brother in the back with a knife which had a seven-inch blade, glancing off his spine, then piercing his kidney, lung, and spleen. The man left the store, leaving my brother alone, and bleeding to death on the floor. My brother got up off the floor, pulled the knife from his back, and made his way to the front counter. It just so happened that an off duty nurse needed something from the store and walked in. Needless to say he was in the ER within minutes. The first surgery lasted fourteen hours, and a specialist was flown in from Texas.
My brother at the time was, (and still is), a follower of a guru, and practiced meditation quite often. The reason I mention this is because it helped to save his life. You see, his injuries were so severe that the surgeons could not anesthetize him, fearing he would go into shock, and die. So as he lies there on the table, having lost most of his blood, with an incision from his navel to his spine, and having his kidney, spleen, and other things removed, (twenty-two pounds worth), he meditated. He told me that during the experience, he had left his body and was looking down on himself being operated on, in great detail. To the extent of what surgical instruments were being used by which surgeons, on what organs, how many surgeons and nurses there were, and their appearance. He also described the instruments on the surgical cart, and the manner in which they were arranged. There was also something about the description of a timepiece which one of the surgeons was wearing, during a visit after the surgery. The accounts were so detailed and uncanny that he was later interviewed by the surgeons, and the event was documented, and published in a medical journal, although I don’t know which one. About a week later after the initial surgery he was in the ICU when one of his lungs had collapsed, and he had flat lined, but was resuscitated. The physicians thinking my brother was a goner, called my parents to the hospital. This was the event in which he had another out of body experience where he said he was going toward the infamous light, but something told him it wasn’t time yet. This event could have been the result of massive amounts of DMT which is released by the pineal gland during the death process, according to Rick Strassman. Anyway, my brother is still around, meditates, and occasionally golfs.
I have read that there are fifteen hospitals which now have cameras in their ER’s, conducting studies in OBE’s. I just thought that this OBE might interest you, coming from someone who was close to the event.
 
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Very cool story, glad your brother is doing well. I am going to assume he has no fear of death either. Perhaps his guru should follow him.

When I was about 22ish, I was living in Chicago and a friend of mine from high school called and said that Will died. Now Will was this odd androgynous person in high school who everyone loved. He had a cheribuk figure, rosey cheeks and curly thick blondish hair. He was usually a great guy, who was a friend/acquaintance, but a person of no real impact in my life, like a best friend or family.
I was young and didn't deal with death well, and was distraught by the news. So that night I have this dream. Will gives me a big bear hug, tells me everything is okay, and that he is okay. Upon waking, I felt really relieved and happy about my awesome dream.

A few years down the road, I'm in Tallahassee (where i went to highschool). And I was talking to a friend, and I told her about my dream. Her eyes got really wide and she said, OMG I had the same dream.
That was a tad bit freaky...
Okay YEARS later, I'm on facebook and the old highschool kids (it was a very small school, for misfits) - decided to make a certain memory page. And someone put pictures of Will's old band up. Of course this lead to many discussions about how people missed Will. So I put out a post on my dream. And one of Will's friends mails me saying he had the same exact dream.
One of my friend's mothers, saw Will on her deathbed.
Now, I've lost all my grandparents, and it seems to me that most (aside from my grandmother) have left my life without leaving me a postcard. Will and i were friends, but not to the extent that I would call him. So i find it surprising that i would have had a dream about him and not my family.

The idea that our lives our somehow orchestrated does not sit well with me. Not being religious, not really liking religion on many levels, but here it is, experiences that are like little reminders telling us that there is way more to life then we know.
 
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Is anyone else trying to have lucid dreams?
If so, how's it going?
My own attempts have resulted in nada, but I've read it may take a while, if ever.
Just wondering how everyone else was doing.
 
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I had a very interesting dream concerning a relative who has passed. Didn't quite get to the lucid stage but it was close.
 
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My attempts are bearing a small amount of fruit. My cat tends to wake me up in the am yowling for food and if i don't feed her, the husband wakes up. And he works hard, so i want him to get his rest, and must fall down the stairs to feed the yowling cat before she naws my ankles off.

However i am reading the dream telepathy book each night and that is keeping it in my consciousness.. I'm also taking some amino acids as i'm running a little low and they make me dream more.
This is defiantly taking some work!
I did have a sleep paralysis dream this afternoon... where it felt like i was on the verge of an obe. I could feel my hands dissociate but my head wanted to stay in my head. The cool thing about this sleep paralysis was that i wasn't in fear. Usually i have alot of fear.
I dreamed that someone came into the studio at this point and tapped my leg, they left as i was unresponsive.

It was pretty cool... keep at it.. I'm going to sleep with a pen in my hand..to try to remember to write down my dreams upon waking.. if we can do this, then maybe we can try telepathic dreams.. cool..
 
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Sorry but I don't understand. Did you dream about giraffes?

Yah.. i'm kinda lost too must be a joke.

Exo, have you been dreaming? Are you able to remember your dreams? I've been getting ideas on experiments to try... *rubbing hands together* It will be exciting, but first we have to get in the habit of remembering our dreams and writing them down. So hard!

Dyingsun.. are you an extrovert? How old are you? These two things might have some correlation into why you can't remember your dreams..
Age and extroversion vs. introversion. Apparently remembering dreams is harder as you age... and if your an extrovert, you have an even harder time remembering them because extroverts personality is shaped and more aware of external forces, that doesn't mean that a person doesn't dream, rather that their dreams don't have as much importance to their psyche.
 
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Yah.. i'm kinda lost too must be a joke.

Exo, have you been dreaming? Are you able to remember your dreams? I've been getting ideas on experiments to try... *rubbing hands together* It will be exciting, but first we have to get in the habit of remembering our dreams and writing them down. So hard!

Dyingsun.. are you an extrovert? How old are you? These two things might have some correlation into why you can't remember your dreams..
Age and extroversion vs. introversion. Apparently remembering dreams is harder as you age... and if your an extrovert, you have an even harder time remembering them because extroverts personality is shaped and more aware of external forces, that doesn't mean that a person doesn't dream, rather that their dreams don't have as much importance to their psyche.


Yes, quite often I can remember my dreams, a lot of them in very vivid detail. And I have kept dream journals for years, so what's the experiment?
 
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Yes, quite often I can remember my dreams, a lot of them in very vivid detail. And I have kept dream journals for years, so what's the experiment?

your one up on me! dream journals are work..
well.. we try to influence each others dreams..

:redface:

like i try to beem images of a painting into your head.. i won't tell you what the painting is.. say i tell it to Angel, since he is fabulously impartial.. we can do this for a few days and then you can tell us what your dreams are and we can try to find any corresponding correspondence.. Dreams tend to be indirect..
 
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That's awesome because you understand the significance of the painting on a deeper level and you might be able to relate that to the dream!

Did you know you were going to be on this commuter train before you dreamed about it Angel or are you pulling our proverbial e-legs?
 
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That's awesome because you understand the significance of the painting on a deeper level and you might be able to relate that to the dream!

Did you know you were going to be on this commuter train before you dreamed about it Angel or are you pulling our proverbial e-legs?

I was being silly. I take a commuter train every day. I had a dream that there was a delay because there was a tire on the tracks buried under the snow and they didn't know where. So the trains were delayed.
So I did have a dream, but it was no prediction of anything.

I used to think dreams were a lot more than I think they are now. I love dreams and dreaming though - I always have. I've even had several lucid dreams and have always dreamed in colour. Apparently that's something.
I still think dreams represent what you're thinking, but there's nothing that has shown me they're more than that.

I've got to watch this:

NOVA | What Are Dreams?

It's on Netflix Canada. Not sure if it's on the American one.
 
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you know if i was a therapist i could figure out what the tire buried in the snow meant.. but alas.. i'm not that creative. :p
 
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you know if i was a therapist i could figure out what the tire buried in the snow meant.. but alas.. i'm not that creative. :p

Not that I want to get too personal on this thread and make it about me, but we're getting a shed and I was telling my wife that we would put the winter tires in there.
That's a good enough explanation for me.
 
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yes it does!... but then, a therapist would be able to read into that even deeper.. 'cause they are evil that way.
;} we won't go farther with this.. as you know.. personal and stuff.
 
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Here is the experiment, let's do it on this weekend or next??
Since Exo Doc seems to have extraordinary abilities in writing down his dreams.. here is my idea..

Tyder, myself, and others who are interested will see a shared image.. we will meditate on said shared image and try to send the imagery to Exo Doc... in god knows what world .. we could do this for a couple of days and see what happens.. we should probably run this experiment a few times.. IF anyone has any time to participate.. ????
Exo Doc can then write down his dreams and we can see if there are any corresponding imagery or whatnot..
 
Consciousness Experiements

Here is the experiment, let's do it on this weekend or next??
Since Exo Doc seems to have extraordinary abilities in writing down his dreams.. here is my idea..

Tyder, myself, and others who are interested will see a shared image.. we will meditate on said shared image and try to send the imagery to Exo Doc... in god knows what world .. we could do this for a couple of days and see what happens.. we should probably run this experiment a few times.. IF anyone has any time to participate.. ????
Exo Doc can then write down his dreams and we can see if there are any corresponding imagery or whatnot..

OK, this sounds like something worthwhile, so I'm game.
So laying down some ground rules, am I supposed to post all the dreams I can remember?
And I'm assuming we begin tonight, or when? Or does that really matter? If you guys start anytime in the next few days to a couple of weeks, should I know about it or not? And just post my dreams beginning tonight and keep posting whenever I can remember until we get a "hit"?

BTW, I don't know about "extraordinary" abilities, I just like to keep track of my dreams because some of them are really cool, and I have made some really neat paintings from the imagery I get sometimes.
 
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