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@JuliusCaesar You feel sleeping dreams are a co created reality too? If your waking and sleeping realties are all your mind, who are you co creating with? Other aspects of yourself? What do you mean by collective dream? What makes up the collective? So you feel these other aspects of you are conscious, aware and having experiences as you are? Do you view them almost like parallel lives? Perhaps. It requires more investigation. There are many differences between my lucid sleeping dreams and waking reality. For example, I can completely change the environments and control people easily in lucid dreams. Also, when I begin to ask people in my dreams a lot of questions it becomes obvious they are not conscious in the same way I am. They often become nonsensical in their replies.

@JuliusCaesar If others minds are a part of your mind are you also a part of their mind? It gets very paradoxical. Who is imagining who? Who do you feel is creating the collective dream? I guess I don't view my sleeping dreams as a co creation. It feels more like only my personal narratives playing out.

@JuliusCaesar Do you feel all sub minds in waking reality are part of your mind in the same way everyone in our sleeping dreams is a projection of our mind? Isn't this an indication you and I are in a shared dream in waking reality versus our dreams while sleeping being only a creation of our finite mind? Yes I have many times. But I don't feel that necessarily means waking reality is only being created by my mind. In a shared or co created reality you could still have influence to change certain things.

@JuliusCaesar I am hesitant to believe waking reality is only a creation of my individual mind like in sleeping dreams. I have been recording and analyzing my dreams a long time. It easy for me to see my personal mind and emotions playing out in the narratives of my dreams. A lot more difficult to recognize those patterns in our world events. Also, if you and I were to compare our nightly dreams most likely they would be vastly different, but in comparing our experience of waking reality, our perceptions of our world and experiences would be very similar. This leads me to think sleeping dreams are a creation of our personal limited mind, where waking reality may be a shared creation. Not only my creation.

@JuliusCaesar What is your perspective on waking reality being a shared dream with other sub minds of the infinite mind?

@Someone here Some advice based on personal experience with deliberate creation in my life. Be very cautious and selective in adopting other peoples limited perspectives of what is possible for you. Easily accepting others limited viewpoints shows very weak conviction in your beliefs. Reality always shows you what you most dominantly believe is true for you. You will need strong unshakeable belief's to begin deliberately consciously creating more of what you want to experience. You are already doing it. Just examine your life and you will find what you most strongly believe to be true is your experience.

@JoeVolcano I appreciate you sharing your perspective. If there is no finite mind what did you mean when you said "Sure the distinction is that night-time dreams are just thoughts coming out of your ostensible finite mind." No, it's only me.

@JoeVolcano So is your perspective that waking reality is a shared consensus reality with billions of other conscious finite minds?

@JoeVolcano I will have to reflect on this. Some elements of my reality have changed and others are exactly the same. I'm not sure why it's easier for me to believe that sleeping dreams are all my mind, but I'm hesitant to believe the same for this waking dream. Maybe it's because I can manipulate my nightly lucid dreams and waking reality is so consistent and stable and difficult to change. Do you see any distinctions between the two? Or do you feel they are both created by your mind but with different rule sets?

@Razard86 Yes, but only for me, not other people or the consensus reality. That is what I was referring to. If waking reality is only my personal mind then if I awaken or change my consciousness it should theoretically be able to alter the entire world, not just myself.

@amanen What do you feel is best evidence we have of our waking reality being only our consciousness? If this is the truth, then if you change your consciousness the world should change.

@JoeVolcano Thank you! Do you know if the author has ever discussed what methods he used to achieve his insights and awakening?

@Raptorsin7 Thank you for sharing the interview. I would love to hear more details about what techniques she used to heal herself. Powerful example of how malleable reality is.

@JoeVolcano Do you have a favorite of his books?

@JoeVolcano Thank you! I've read some of Jed McKenna's work. I will look into it more. He does at times seem to have a pessimistic outlook which make me wonder if his awakenings are incomplete.

@AlterEgo Thank you!

He is basically saying your awareness is God. Yeah, he probably wants people to discover the insight on their own.

I am able to easily achieve and embody expanded states of consciousness. It feels incredible. All my worries and concerns fall away. I feel peaceful, content and whole. But then gradually the Matthew personality begins to come back online and reasserts itself and I lose much of it. Have any of you discovered any practices that helped the expanded states we access become more sustainable for you? Where it became your dominant state most or all of the time.

@Raptorsin7 Thank you for the Rumi video.

@Fernanda Having trouble finding the beauty in it lately. Often I feel frustrated.

@Carl-Richard The expanded state feels so good though. I feel so empowered. The contrast makes the contracted finite state much less appealing.

I have had several deep meditations recently where I was able to achieve very expanded states. Still having trouble sustaining them though. Why is our limited contracted state so difficult to shift? It always reasserts itself after a few hours. Any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.

@The Mystical Man I would agree. During lucid dreams when I begin asking several probing questions of dream characters they become nonsensical in their answers.

@The Mystical Man I agree. However, my questioning of dream characters during lucid dreams and other experiences I have had during OBE's makes me think there is a difference in dream characters and people in waking reality. If you are able to lucid dream try questioning people in your dreams and see what it reveals for you.

@JuliusCaesar True. A deeper understanding of the different levels of imagination and dreaming would be helpful. Perhaps he has said all he knows on the subject.