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@ROOBIO Pretty cool way of spirituality showing itself in biology. Nice find.

@Vxvxen awesome

@Galyna Yeah, i don't get sleep paralysis anymore, but it was mainly cause of my bad sleep schedule.

@Prevailer How is that duality?

@tedens I wouldn't recommend trying to create sleep paralysis, but it typically happens with stress and awkward sleep schedules. When I would come home from school I would pass out at 6pm from exhaustion then wake up at 12am. Then I would fall asleep again at around 3-4am. This sleep schedule induced sleep paralysis for me about 80% of the time. It is also more likely to happen if you sleep with your body facing upwards.

@The Lucid Dreamer Big fan of the topic of dreaming and sleep. Sleep paralysis can be used as a gateway for lucid dreaming if you keep your eyes closed and try to imagine a situation you want to move to and then try moving your body to it. But sleep paralysis can be pretty scary, so it's a brash method. It's just something I learned from the numerous times I tried to escape sleep paralysis. Another interesting feature of dreams is that you are unable to have inner dialogue. This is something I never really thought about and it kind of blew me away, wondering if this is the case for everyone. It seems that inner dialogue might manifest itself as actual voices in the dream? Not sure. It seems that way in the case of sleep paralysis. Also, your morals and sense of self can be completely skewed in the dreams. I have had dreams where I was running around slicing people up with a knife while thinking nothing of it and actually enjoying myself. Also the memories and things you experienced during the day often have an influence on what you dream about, but sometimes the thing you dream about is completely irrelevant and out of the ordinary. I've had dreams of blood and gore and I saw absolutely nothing of the sort in real life near that time, it really caught me off guard. In sleep paralysis, which is technically a lucid dream, there are shared phenomenon around the world of certain creatures that can be seen. One of these is referred to as "shadow people", It is basically a shadow in the shape of a human. There is also this intense malevolent feeling of dread that can be felt, but I'm not sure if that is just me being scared. Sleep paralysis seems very similar to a psychedelic trip. I also had an experience in sleep paralysis which refers back to the idea of inner dialogue manifesting itself as an actual voice. I was trying to keep myself calm during the sleep paralysis, and kept repeating to myself in my head "nothing, nothing, nothing" to try and get myself to think about nothing and clear my mind. As I was saying this, a stranger's voice appeared and started repeating exactly that, "nothing, nothing, nothing" exactly as i was doing in my head all in real time. Then the voice multiplied and it started drowning itself out, creating this echo effect to the voice. Then everything faded to black. A theory I came up with is that the monsters we see in sleep paralysis are manifestations of our own fear. We see scary shadow people because we are scared of the dark in the moment, so we see monsters made of darkness. For some reason, I am able to have inner monologue during sleep paralysis. Probably because it is so close to the waking state. I think dreams in general are your subconscious's way of communicating with you. If you want to decipher your dream, pay attention to the feelings and emotions it brings out of you and how you relate to it. Try to intellectualize what happened to you in the dream in words and how it made you feel. It is possible to decipher them even if they are seemingly nonsensical. I had a dream that I was eating raw meat and I looked it up and apparently it was common and it actually had a meaning that applied to me. Even if you are in a non-lucid dream, whatever emotion or idea you conjure up seems to manifest itself. If you think a monster is gonna appear behind you in a dream, a monster will most definitely appear. I have learned to escape any scary dream. You simply need to close your eyes and curl up into a ball, then imagine positive thoughts. I am able to do this even in non-lucid dreams for some reason, maybe out of instinct. I don't try to contemplate much during these experiences because of fear since most of my lucid experiences have been during sleep paralysis. Most I've done during a lucid dream is asking someone in a dream "Do you know you're in a dream?" to which they responded "No". I also had this scary lucid dream where there were monsters everywhere and they kept telling me that I would be stuck in the dream forever. I've gotten most of my knowledge from non-lucid dreams, they are straightforward and seemingly created for you. Honestly though, asking people in dreams for answers seems like a pretty awesome idea. Now I just have to learn how to become lucid without sleep paralysis.

@Bittu What is some helpful advice for me personally?

@Nahm Your shirt does not pertain to a psyche.

@Leo Gura Oh wow I'm starting to get it now. Thanks.

@Leo Gura I am awareness experiencing itself. I can taste food because I am awareness experiencing a human body, which can taste food. A lamp has no capacity to think, move, taste food, etc. Even though I know I am the lamp since everything is consciousness and everything is me, the lamp has no capabilities which allow it to develop a sense of self like a human can. Is this the reason that people are under the illusion of being attached to their body? Thanks for the response.

@Leo Gura Why does my awareness feel so attached to this human body instead of some random object? Is it because inanimate objects cannot be aware and don't have the same capabilities as a human body?

@EternalForest You can apply purpose and meaning, just be aware that you are the one creating it and throwing it into reality. God is everything, so yes God is unsympathetic because it loves all aspects of itself, but God is also sympathetic at the same time because God is everything. This is a glimpse into how unconditional love works. Instead of wishing for reality to be some other way, you should learn to appreciate how it already is, because that is exactly how it should and must be for everything to work.

@Bill W The Devil that religion refers to is your ego. But, God is also everything that exists, so the ego (devil) is also God.

@Aquarius yep

@Aquarius someone who is unaware of ego and existential truth, generally speaking

@EternalForest Because God is infinite and God is everything, so it has to be like this. It has to be like this or it would not be God, because then it would not be everything. ...Or at least that's how I understand it. Also, you should be careful trying to assign purpose and meaning to God's will because purpose and meaning is a finite human creation and God is infinite and beyond that. This is what I learned from Leo's video on understanding meaning and purpose.

@Baotrader Parents are usually programmed like that. Just keep to yourself when necessary.

@LifelonglearnerCheti He does have a few interviews

I've seen a lot of stuff like this on Leo and the best thing to do is to ignore it. There will always be people like this. Nothing can be done about that. Honestly though, I still find myself harboring an emotional response when I see this kind of stuff, so that's something I need to work on.

@Mongu9719 He answers this exact question in the video at 1:00:04. When Mario gets hit in the head in a video game, he dies. But that doesn't mean Mario's brain is running the simulation.

After the virus, China finally has blue skies without pollution covering it.

@BETGR164128 Corona virus is man-made, so yeah someone thought of it and manifested it into reality.

@Kushu2000 This was answered in his video on the devil and religions. Hell is attachment to the ego. Simple as that. Heaven is the opposite, detachment from the ego.

@Thewritersunion Library dreaming? What's that?

A video on sleep, lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, etc would be nice.