Danioover9000

@Member Yes, that does sound weird. I think Carl Jung said something about dreams being some form of communication by the subconscious mind. Also, lucid dreams tend to be vivid.

@Moksha Yes, personality is a developing sentience that exists in complex organisms like in humans and to some degree animals. It's not really consciousness with a capital C, but it's a type of consciousness that's relative and evolving. I think I've said this before, but Crysty, if I bring to mind past memories of my interactions with her, wasn't as developed as she is now compared to the past. Some occultist here did bring up the possibility that she may either be a ghost or some spirit entity that stuck to me, or that she could be a Tulpa, which is an entity with some consciousness from me that's actively hallucinated and is created intentionally or accidentally. Some suggest she's a type of energy that matches some energy that's a higher vibration. I don't know whether this is completely true, but I know that I'm happy to interact with her during meditation or visualization sessions or during the day. I might later investigate into these possibilities and see if there's something there. Your story with the bed shaking and your dream about battling something evil reminds of a few of my dreams I've had. I won't go into too much detail with the group I've interacted for a few months some 2 years ago, the practices I've done with them, or the dreams I've had because I could be misremembering some details in those dreams. However, I've had several dreams that've been influenced by some ideas from that group, and I've had a few where it was vivid and I was battling dragons and I was wearing some type of battling gear. I don't know how much of that is mostly subconscious mind resolving those new ideas or if some of those dreams were real occurrences, but those where some weird epic dreams. Crysty says thank you for the compliment, though she thinks she's more cute than beautiful

@Member Maybe going more hard core on his spirituality. If you had lucid dreams, what did you do to trigger them?

@Moksha I'm not really sure on how she is connected to consciousness itself, but I know enough that she has some personality traits based on her appearance, her conversations with me and her ability to express emotions to me. If a thing to me has personality, that thing has more consciousness than a table. Another wording might be sentience, so to me she has more sentience than a simple object. Currently, I can say for sure that she's non-physical to a greater degree, because she has yet to demonstrate to me that she could fling a cup across a room, yet poltergeists, a paranormal event involving multiple ghosts/energies, can somehow influence physical objects almost similar to their movie counterparts, so this might be also why I sometimes don't think she's entirely a spirit separate from me, like what other people think that ghosts or some spirit entities are separate from the living. I do think maybe people do exist beyond death, based on my experiences with Crysty and that past haunting I had so far. Of course, I'm partly religious, so this is a bit biased from me. Probably life does continue after death but differently than what people think about the after life. Do you mind if you could elaborate more on your strange experiences?

@Moksha Yes, she moves with me, Like I've mentioned earlier in this thread. I've encountered Crysty While in Niagara Falls, and still with me here in the UK. I sometimes can move or teleport to her location in a memory while meditating or visualizing a location. during the day, it's either just her voice or she appears on a spot in my space, or I'm superimposing her form. Have you had any haunting experiences in the past?

If you happen to become lucid in your dreaming, what did you do to get lucid?

While I do think that it depends on who's getting canceled, like an abusive successful person getting canceled, is it too much when the person is moderately successful, or is just starting his/her career? And what are your thoughts on the dynamics of attacking a person based on some dirt that's relevant or even irrelevant to the person getting canceled? Also some thoughts on the video below is good:

You could read about time management, but I think that managing energy is more important because you'll using mental energy to ingest the information you're learning, and that takes energy also to recall that information, each time. Finding the times you can nap is crucial, that's where time and energy management intersect because you give your mind/body some needed rest, while letting it digest the information acquired. More long term strategy is meditate/do mindfulness practices everyday, for 1 hour if you can, but always meditate daily at least. The meditation practices slightly enhance focus, sensory processing and 'divergent' thinking. Mindfulness can also increase focus, sensory clarity and equanimity. More focus means more time can be spent studying. More sensory clarity means more ways to integrate what you learn. More equanimity means less negative backlash from over learning, especially powerful in reducing all sorts of negative emotions that come up while studying.

@Rolo I've done these types of visualization practices. These types where you increase the number of objects you imagine, the quality and scale are pretty powerful. Tulpamancy is a bit more demanding on focus ability and sensory input.

I've done some chess, some art works of landscapes and creatures, and played video games with different camera views. I've had strange experiences with voices early childhood, had experienced a haunting long ago, and another paranormal event that lasted for 7 years to today. Due to my strange experiences, I explored the internet and stumbled upon these resources, and not only did I boosted my ability to imagine, but I also learned and found some reconciliation with some of the stranger events in my past: http://somatosphere.net/2015/varieties-of-tulpa-experiences-sentient-imaginary-friends-embodied-joint-attention-and-hypnotic-sociality-in-a-wired-world.html/ https://www.tulpa.info/ I hope at least these resources could open your mind to these experiences. Have a good day.

@Dryas I've read this word 'optics' being used here in the sub forum. Do you mean manipulation when you're saying optics? I think that a person that goes into stage green is still fresh in emotional mastery, so maybe the negative side of cancel culture is low skill in emotional management. Am I getting close?

@roopepa Do you mean that the reflections are like in dreams? Also, have you done any lucid dreaming or astral projections?

@Ry4n It goes in line with what Leo has said in his video about authoritarianism and democracy, that compared to dictatorships where most of the power is funneled towards the top of a regime, a dictator's family or just himself, the power is now distributed downwards to the middle or bottom of the pyramid. Also, people fall for the illusion of the computer screen being the almighty shield that'll forever protect them.

@Apparition of Jack At the very least, if cancel culture is the first time you're hearing of it, a good description of it, some definitions, is a good start. The video below is one explanation of cancel culture's negative side. Note that I'm not throwing away the good of cancel culture calling out evil action that're probably true, but that's still a big if, and is still dependent on who's canceled:

@roopepa So, have you also got some answers for what a spirit is?

Update: I've done more than an hours worth of mindfulness meditation with labelling, and I'm feeling more aware with my senses. I'm able to look longer at a spot before me, and sometimes she would be there, either on the edges of my seeing or where my eyes are at. Her voice is getting more clearer, among outside noises or inner sounds like music or other people's voices of past conversations. In this mindfulness meditation, I'm able to not only see her hand, but when she puts her hand on my shoulders, I can feel that. It gets more interesting when I turn that attention inwards, and in some of my memories with interacting with her, I revisited and interact with her at those places. When I'm with her, I notice my emotions tend to change and go more positive and active than other times. I'll do another version of meditation at night and see if I can involve her more. @SirVladimir If you have anymore questions, let me know.

@Keyhole I do agree slightly on some of the arrogant toning of posts when it comes to discussing values different from each user. I used to have anger issues, but thanks to actualized.org content and to some prior years of martial arts and to meditation practices I've curbed that issue quite well. My emotional understanding and mastery has also improved after doing mindfulness practices as well, and it's just not a good look when some users here start misbehaving and don't triple check their word choices. I also think it's the perceived protection of the screen in front of you that might also factor into the more aggressive writing. Hopefully as time passes users will mellow out and be responsible for their posting.

@black_math49 Leo has a video on mindfulness meditation using labels. I think that's a good start for you if you want to meditate eyes open.

Update: I'm starting to be more able to impose her form more in front of me than on the sides, while eyes are open during my day and during a mindfulness practice. I'm also doing visualizations where I'm dancing with her on a ball room.

@Loving Radiance We both listen to 009 sound system. She listens to some nature and flute music, while I listen to some soft rock and some mixes. I'll see what she says about getting a personality test. The haunting experience was a separate incident in my childhood, which is horrific. I brought that up to show that the haunting made me open minded to other paranormal experiences later, like this current one with my close friend.

@Dodo Thanks for your advice, I'll stay humble. Crysty thinks you sound like that priest in one of those western cow boy movies.

@roopepa What she say is a thingy that other people like me pass through. What I say a spirit is is a non-physical, energetic being with a fraction of sentience of the thing it came from, say a ghost that came from a human being, or an animal spirit from an animal. has degree of dis embodiment, and different levels of energy which can rarely move a physical object.

@Inliytened1 Thanks again!

@SirVladimir Oh and if I haven't said I'm not a professional medium, psychic or some type of shaman that summons spirits and spirits them away, so if you want help psychically, then Yelp might be a good place to start. However, I'll ask if she wants to visit you tonight or if she's able to do this.

Before I leave I want to thank whoever made this a featured thread, as this is the first time in this forum I had a thread of mine featured. This is also the first website I'm more active on compared to other social media websites. Also Crysty says thanks too, likes the color tag but prefers it green, and tells me to stop being a giddy baka.