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Would you like to elaborate? And If this is a new discussion topic, could you edit your post with DISCUSSION at the top? What do you mean by your statement, and do you think it's typical to overestimate ones progress? Like do you see this on the macro levels as well? (social clusters, societies, etc)

I agree... Morning sleep is the sweetest. I used to love to wake up on school mornings and realise I woke up too early and had 20 minutes left to sleep. And your Intuition is correct, riding multiple alarms between 4 and 7 am can lead to a string of lucid dreams, highly vivid dreams, and false awakenings. They make smartphone apps for that.

@SirVladimir reading that excerpt, the overwhelming feeling of 'God, I love this man, Tolkien... I just would love to have met him and know him. " And then I remembered, of course I know him. He's left volumes of himself. He is frodo, and Sam. He's gandalf and Sauron. And smeagle. And so am I. So we must be one, he and I. I actually know Tolkien quite well. And I love him to the core. I can't tell if Sam is going meta with the reader, or with himself as a spawn of middle earth (in other words not actually breaking the Fourth wall. ) I think it's definitely open for interpretation and there's a kind of beauty in that, not surprising considering the author. I know if I were writing that I'd be snickering mischievously the whole way. You are right. Books have been written about everything. But not one so blatantly written about a (unified) You.

I tried the TRE the other night. There was the shaking you see in the videos, and then some kind of trembling in my groin area that felt like electric currents running up. This is where I hold the most tension, very painful. I am noticing less pain right now. Also I wanted to say if you have trouble getting the shaking, do it after leg weights exercises. Like if you go to the gym, the best time to try this would be right after you get home from leg day. Also, I like this idea of slowly gaining full body awareness and recording your steps. Have you tried yoga nidra?

I suppose nostalgia can be a bit twisted like that. Are you blah right now? Are you just wanting to feel something at all, and the depressed feelings ( and dopamine releases from bursts of releases) is the most familiar thing to fall back on?

Don't try to feel anything. That's the biggest obstacle. Get out of the way. If you come to the highest realization of being empty, then do just that. When I said being empty means you can fill it with anything, I meant after you get up from meditation and go about your day. If you want to be love, then be love as you go and help an old lady across the street. If you want to be bold then be bold as you walk into the singles bar. That's what I meant.

Old Greg is a fine fellow indeed. Mindventure, I like that ?

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I think it helps more to get out of the environment, and the mind will flourish. But I guess there are some predispositions to consider.

@Arthur8769 I find self love to be a sense of belonging, no matter where I am. I take home with me. I am Home. It doesn't necessarily feel like romantic or endearing love, but sometimes it can.

The good thing about being empty is that you can fill it with whatever you want. And it will never overflow ? what exactly were you expecting love to feel like?

@Natasha thank you, that's perfect!

@Myioko they shift in looks, whether it's subtle or really different. But yes the intense nostalgic feeling keeps it all in tact.

How about when we start a new discussion topic, we add DISCUSSION: in bold letters at top of post. This way when scrolling through they will be easier to find. Could a moderator change the third rule to reflect this in my starting post? @Natasha @Forestluv etc...

I wonder if guided emotional release meditation would work, that way maybe in the moment when you're pissed there's no need to do anything too rash...

@Eph75 no specific format, just open chat and discussions related to yellow and turquoise.

@Hulia God, I love dreams ? that's a pure heart statement if there ever were one. I had been really upset lately because I haven't visited my old favourite dream locations in what feels like a year or so, but I had another favourite location come up a few nights ago, so I'm really happy. The other location I visited was behind the house I grew up in. Over the years, this dream narrative developed that my parents had built this apartment complex back there in the woods. There's a landlord apartment in the bottom right, and then a restaurant and entrance to the complex of the left hand side. Once you get past the restaurant and into the building, it's extremely haunted past that point. But also extremely interesting and filled with wonder. Theres several floors of basements which are like a flea market, and more demonic haunted , and the floors above are more like apartments and ghostly. There's never really a set number of floors, although some dreams have me going to the top of a high rise and it's more like corporate offices up there. I really love this location and was so glad to return a few days ago. @MyiokoI think I had asked you once about dream locations... I have so many places like this

@nitramadas I was hoping you'd have something interesting to start us off with. I know you may feel like one of the only yellow+ members of this forum, but the good thing is that if you begin discussing tier 2 interests on here, law of attraction will kick in and the godlike powers of Google will bring more yellow+'s here for your enjoyment. Win-win! What would you like to discuss? The stage is yours. Of course, if anyone else has any teir-2 topics to discuss, please feel free. I am curious to learn more about this mysterious world of teir-2 thinking ?

Thanks, I love these type of games.

Perhaps take a pause and try passion visualizations and exercises to remember how to tap into it.

@Jay Ray here is one... I'll look for more, but the buzzwords seem to be 'visualization compositing' and 'imposition' if you want to google for more. https://community.tulpa.info/topic/5807-jds-guide-to-visual-imposition-image-heavy/ Of course this guide applies to more than just tulpas. As far as shutting it off, I would look into how mediums break off clairvoyant messages when they want to be left alone. 'shielding' and 'cord cutting' are really powerful to learn.

That's neat ?

(forgive the silly commentary ?)

Nice exercise ?

Well ultimately I don't think there is a mirror, but it's easier to call it that when we're still pretending that there's a perspective and reflection. Another hint is that I don't particularly mean look for images, like with eyes open. Look for another type of reflection.