Nahm

Have you ever known of a dream outside of you? Is your experience of a dream the same as your experience of someone else’s dream? When you wake up, where are the other people? Are there really other people in your dream?

What if you are not a separate self, as in...what if what you’re believing is something other than you, is not actually. Like “my mind / consciousness decided to troll me”. If you are not a separate self... separate from ”mind / consciousness”...then simply....thoughts arose. You, actual you, which is not separate.....you, as in - mind / consciousness -....nothing happened to you. You’re fine. You were fine the whole time. And where as you say “I remember my consciousness being unstable, shaky wise, trying to zoom out of the body”...if you are not a separate self, then you are the consciousness you’re talking about. Because you are the consciousness, the awareness of - you are fine, & you were fine the whole time. Likewise... “ my heart rate was pacing with fear blood pressure”. Listen to that, listen to how you feel...and let the thoughts, which are in discord, which are not true (the separate self),...go. Yes, mind is the last stop, the most fundamental, the ground floor....it’s you. It’s also Love. In continuing to repeat the same perspective, that you are a separate self...separate of mind....separate of consciousness...separate of awareness.....what you’re perceiving is shaped by this perspective. In this way, though it is going unseen and transpiring quite innocently....in this way you are believing you are a separate self. In that perspective, there is of course much fear. A separate self is temporary, separate from source, and lives & dies, etc. Feeling is YELLING this truth and there is still a refusal to listen to how you feel. Nothing is ‘because of the anxiety’. In ignoring feeling, and believing thoughts rooted in the perspective of separatism....when that does not feel good....rather than considering the thought / perspective is simply not accurate or true....you keep believing it is. To keep believing it is - you label the Love....”anxiety”. It’s not anxiety, it’s Love, and it’s always True, always accurate. Love yourself in as many ways as you can think of. Let thinking which does not feel good to you go, in any healthy productive way you can. Meditation, a therapist, a book, a friend, modalities like reiki, massage, etc, etc. Are you seeing the perspective at play there.....that you are a “separate self”....the ‘self’ which has to ‘face’ the ‘darkness void’, the ‘troubled nights’, the ‘paranoia’, the ‘soul rape ambush’...that needs ‘defending’. The reason it is difficult at night is because of the story....nothing actually changes when you turn off the light. Nothing actually happened or happens to you in this scenario. You were fine the whole time. In the plainest sense....did you encounter the ‘darkness void’, whatever you were paranoid of....did you actually encounter that, were you ‘soul raped’? No, of course not. It doesn’t have anything to do with awakening really. It has to do with doing what’s actually satisfactory to you, in terms of clearing your conscience. I’d say your feelings which you are communicating mind it very much. Nothing=Infinity=You. Self is not illusory...the concepts are. Concepts about you being separate from consciousness, awareness, mind, love.....that is illusory. It’s not awakening. It’s the opposite really. It’s believing thoughts, attaching to concepts, identifying as a separate self, not listening to feeling, labeling things as the catalyst / culprit. That right there is honesty....and you can tell by how it feels great and relieving. Stay focused there, more & more of that. And right back to believing concepts. There’s no such thing as a mundane life. Life is an inexplicable miracle. “Mundane” is a concept. It doesn’t feel good, because it isn’t accurate or true, so let it go. “My ego”....perspective is not going to feel good either. When you focus on that perspective, as if you were a separate & helpless self....it does not feel good. That doesn’t feel good either. Writing about feelings is a great was to develop / extract emotional intelligence & self honesty.

If you’re asking in the ...actually what is it... sense - it is, actually, you. There is not a ‘second ago past’, nor a ‘second from now future’. Just now / you, creating, using you. The body is never awake (or asleep). Go with awareness, so to speak. Memory is awareness. Vision is awareness. Being lucid, understanding, ‘getting this’...all awareness. In inspecting...the premise ‘this is a dream’....’that is not a dream’...breaks down. So everything that followed it no longer is something to be resolved, as it was just content, built on a premise, which having been inspected, disappears.

@seeking_brilliance You don’t need to have an awakening, there has never been an experience of the brain producing dreams. There is only the holding of the belief that it is. In a similar sense, one holding the belief that the body produces awareness, doesn’t need an awakening, there is only to examine the belief and see through it. The spoon is bent by no longer believing there is a spoon. It is you which bends. Some people call a dream reality. Some people call reality a dream.

It’s that it’s all a dream, that the simplicity is missed. A dry erase board from Office Depot. Who’d have ever guessed? “My reality is a dream and I am it’s dreamer” - not John Keats

⬆️ created in a lucid dream ⬆️ “Nonduality”. Lol. You’re hilarious! ⬆️ created in a lucid dream ⬆️

@Guided Obviously you are the author. Are you telling the story you want? “If you are seeing the movie, you are inherently seeing the screen!” - Rupert Spira If you are feeling sadness, then sorrow...you are feeling Love. Love is the creator, the author, of sadness & sorrow. “First time you feel it, it might make you sad Next time you feel it it might make you mad But you'll be glad baby when you've found That's the power makes the world go 'round” - H.L.

Of course it will. The two are the same. I know you’re awesomeness. If I think anything to the contrary...it doesn’t feel any better to me than it does to you, because truth feels great. You’re awesome.

No problem .... just the perspective there is a problem. The true self can never change nor disappear, and anything “you” worry about - notice, you are holding it as “separate” from, “you”...thus creating “something” to worry about. Keep doing the work. Get help on your techniques, and finding what the best practices for you could be. “I’m what’s aware of this”.

@Pilgrimage of Self Take a few minutes, and though you might not believe any of it...make a little game out of writing that again, but just write every sentence from the opposite perspective. It can be helpful in uncovering that what is at play here is perspectives, beliefs, like you said, you are not a victim. Couldn’t agree more. Often, when I see beauty, I think of you.

Don’t know what it is, but this one goes with that one. Lol

@seeking_brilliance Mind sharing your most recent dream? Just leave out what is derived of thoughts, perception, and sensation. I just wanna hear the rest...the other stuff. That differentiating other stuff. I’d also love to here what’s on your dream board...what you’re creating of this. Rather, what you’ve become conscious you are creating.

@seeking_brilliance A dream within a dream might be redundant and self resolving.

@electroBeam Awesome share. ??

By cutting my words where you did, you construct an impression of nihilism. By not editing mid sentence, you see that the intention is the opposite from what you’re implying. This is good to notice, for the sake of the depression, in the sense, noticing your perspectives, actions, behaviors, etc, might have something to do with how you’re feeling, right now. Sounds good to me Also notice there, you’ve covered your perspective from yourself, by implying it’s my perspective. When you read the words I wrote as a whole, you can see this. Again, I’m mentioning this with the intention it is beneficial for you to see how you’re recreating the discord (depression). For sure...define purpose. If healthy ambition is important to you, maybe incorporate it into your life purpose. One cannot be present and enjoy the ~Now~ if he or she has, for example, clinical depression. It's not as if it's possible "cheat" life by accessing ~the Now~ and all one's problems will be solved. Indeed. Don’t cheat. Inspect, “do the work” so to speak. When a thought doesn’t feel good, listen to the feeling...and inspect the un-truth in the thought or perspective. Is it really a duality...a ‘rather’? They seem the same, as that good feeling there, that planning, is transpiring, now. Sounds good to me. Not even sure what it is you’d be rushing. Feeling better, ...maybe? Not sure. Glad to hear you got the help you needed. I’m a big fan of utilizing all resources available. Sounds like you’re doing great. I believe a point will come for you where you get a laugh out of thinking you ever were not-now. ♥️??

Matter’s really nothing.

@seeking_brilliance If you are lucid dreaming now, will you have non-lucid dreams anymore while sleeping?

A happy, judgement free one, full of self-love and no belief in need or judgement. On the mod side... please be careful with statements like these as someone could obviously be offended.... I get it, you’re talking about yourself, just a head’s up.

@Buba Gay is no problem. Judgement is a ‘problem’...or at least, one who is judging self / other, and has not yet realized the judging is the suffering, “has a problem”. Without judging yourself / gayness / being gay / gay people...there’s no problem. Some people seem to like the suffering in a way, for a while, or at least believe they’re getting something out of it. Read up on line on how to realize / let go of judgement. Also, find a good therapist and have a look at potential roots to this in your past / childhood (the judgment, nor being gay)

@OmniYoga Yes. It’s not typically possible for someone to in the literal sense, stop thinking. In returning attention to breathing from the stomach, the body responds in a great many ways, and thoughts are no longer receiving attention. Overthinking fizzles out as it was not the natural state to begin with. When this outcome is not experienced, writing about feelings is ideal. Unresolved feeling keeps the thought wheels turning (thought trying to resolve feeling, with more thought).

Take a step back, behind the perspective. Notice you are employing / creating / believing that duality. I don’t believe it. In the personal sense, I do not believe that duality. You don’t have to either. Once you don’t - no problem, no guilt is possible, because you realize you were creating it / imposing it / believing it. If you want to help people self realize, best not be the bringer of dualities & guilt. There are no ‘sides’ to take. This plays out only in the belief that there is a duality. Which there isn’t. (Not to imply you were supposed to know this, but this is when you realize how sneaky thought is / how important perspective is)

@Jahmaine Maybe purpose, recognition, greatness, mastery, practicality and benefits weren’t on his mind at all. Just speculating of course.

@Chilli Awesome....yes...aaannnnndddd...the map is literally the territory. Lol. SOOOO sneaky!

@Chilli ??Sooooo sneaky!