Meditation and Dreams: Share your experience

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Originally Posted by sesame

A man saw a venomous Cobra; he went near it, the snake raised its hood, ready to strike. The man started to coax the snake, talk softly to it, (I dont know if the snake heard him!) all the while looking straight at it's eyes. He brought his head at the level of the snake's and kept looking fixedly, eyes locked. The snakes fierce attitude melted away, the man again talked and patted it and slowly put it in his bag.

I would think that this technique is similar to what we see in the old news reels of 'snake charmers'. I'm not sure that I would want to try it though.

[sesame]

I have caught snakes with bare hands scores of times. But that has got little to do with hypnotism. Its rather the quickness of my hand, and keeping the snake distracted by some movement of the other hand. In this conjuncture, let me warn those who are enthusiastic, never mess with big adult snakes. As such, dont mess with snakes at all. Baby snakes can also deliver deadly doses of neurotoxin. Fully developed adult snakes and ancient snakes are quite intelligent and some are really proud ones. If you irritate a snake, it generally acts shy. But Big ones get offended and attack straightaway. Some snakes can spit poison over a distance of 15 feet! If that gets in your eyes, you will end up blind. Snakes like S. African Black Mamba "run" and strike people on the head or face! Yeah, really, no kidding there. They like to bite on the face. And adult humans die in a matter of minutes.

Cobra bites are loaded with neurotoxin. This poison attacks the central nervous system and paralyses it. People can't breath and the heart stops pumping blood. So death comes swiftly. I know of a reckless fellow who was handling a venomous snake. He got bit in the arm and taken to the hospital. But no antivenom was available at that time. He was immediately put in a heart lung ventilator machine. After 72 hours of being unconscious, he came to. What an amazing stroke of Luck! The neurotoxin present in the venom attacked his heart and lungs and temporarily paralysed them. The heart-lung machine supported him during that time. After 72 hours, the poison dissolved and became ineffective and the bodily functions returned to normal. This is nothing short of a miracle.

[GRH]

Sesame, and for everyone else who has posted any interest in this thread...

I am curious about the nature of your dreams? Do you dream lucidly? Do you dream in the third person or in the first?

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Originally Posted by GRH

Sesame, and for everyone else who has posted any interest in this thread...

I am curious about the nature of your dreams? Do you dream lucidly? Do you dream in the third person or in the first?

I always dream in the first person. Sometimes my dreams are so lucid that I have very vivid memories of them. I have also been is stressful situations in my dreams and woken up thinking that I'm glad it was only a dream and not real life. Other times I've woken up with pleasant memories and wishing that what I had dreamt was real.

[sesame]

I dream in first person most of the time. Whatever I see in my dreams, or whatever I do, I see or do them myself (with my dream body).

But sometimes there is one more dimension; that is the witness. I move around in those dreams, I talk and eat and smell and hear... but there is someone watching over the whole scene, including me. That witness is also me. I watch myself as a character acting out my part in the dream. But that witness is very unemotional, he just watches patiently and never intervenes, neither judges things as "thats good", "this is bad".

There are also some dreams that are quite distinguished from the ordinary ones. These are symbolic dreams. In these dreams, I battle against evil... look for something important... meet special people... get hints that may help me with problems... These are rare; and I usually remember every single detail.

Sometimes I feel as if life itself is a long dream.

[sesame]

I was feeling a little uneasy about posting my real picture in this forum.
Since most of my friends (people who need to see me) have seen it by now, I am replacing it with an alias avatar.

Hank, I'm not as brave as you are in this regard.

Note: People here are really protective about their identity. The issue is so sensitive that most like to keep their gender hidden. So, I am taking off my image quite unblushingly.

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Originally Posted by sesame

Since most of my friends (people who need to see me) have seen it by now, I am replacing it with an alias avatar.

You looked like one of my friends on that picture, too bad i didn't save it