Meditation and Dreams: Share your experience

[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.

[SSL]

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

[sesame]

Originally Posted by Shemale Sex Lover

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

Muahuahua..ha ha
Gotcha there.

[sesame]

When I get ill, I avoid medicines. I detox naturally and get well with yoga practices. Natural healing is sometimes slow and sometimes lightning fast. It depends on the level you work on. I consider depending on just my body and mind for everything as one kind of freedom. The less I want from outside, the happier I am.

I sometimes use herbs that purify blood and improve circulation. Fresh herbs from the market, or your secret garden work best, avoid capsules if you can. I almost always make use of the six purifying principles of Yoga to get back to sound health.

They are:

1. Neti
2. Dhauti
3. Basti
4. Tratak
5. Nauli
6. Kapalbhati

Tratak is purifying the gaze of the eyes. I have somewhat explained it earlier along with hypnosis. Basti is cleaning of the large intestine. Most people here must be familiar with enema. Basti is similar to that, only it goes much deeper into the body. It goes upto the colon.
I may explain the other steps some other time, depending on public interest.

[GRH]

Alright, to answer my own question several posts back...

I am usually lucid in my dreams, but I seldom bother to alter the dreamworld. I believe the dream exists for a reason, so I try to let that purpose unfold. However I am almost always aware that I am in a dream. Sometimes if I awaken from a dream that I have not concluded, I can will myself back into that dream so that I can finish it. I generally dream in the first person, but sometimes in a narrator, third person construct.

I've had a couple of bad dreams the past two nights. LONG, CONVOLUTED dreams. Dreams that I could bore you with a thousand details of if I were so inclined. Last night's dreams involved traveling vast distances, reuniting with family, only to have my mother die in these weird subterranean tunnels that were full of nooks, crannys, bars, restaurants, etc. And there was also this strange and elaborate building connected to all this...It's a building that I have been too before in my dreams.

The dream from the night before involved a cookout at my family's house. My grandmother was there, which is odd, because I NEVER dream of her, and she's been dead for several years. At any rate, she wanted me to go cook these fish on the grill. I wasn't happy with this, because I'm a vegetarian, but I agreed. I tried to get the flames adjusted just right on the grill, and everytime I got close, my grandmother would use a little remote control to make them flame up intensely, nearly burning me. (Yes we had a pretty antagonistic relationship in real life.) Well, her trying to singe my flesh pissed me off, so I went in the garage and got a chainsaw. I started cutting down all of the shrubs, bushes, and flowers in her backyard. I was like, "I'll teach you, bitch!" She started screaming and sent my grandfather after me. At thi point, the chainsaw morphed into a weird spinning blade at the end of a chain. I was able to swing this device around my head like a mace. I began swinging it at my grandfather and told him I had to finish my job of destroying the yard. The irony is, my grandfather's backyard is one of my favorite places in the whole world...In reality, I couldn't dream of destroying it.

[sesame]

I have been in one dream all through the night, quite often.
I woke up several times in between and kept returning to the same dream situation again and again. Sometimes I have seen the same Landmarks in many of my dreams. Viz, A ruin, with tigers, lions and snakes crawling all over the place. There are ancient caves and statues here and there. Its like a lost Greek city.

P.S.: Control your anger, GRH, you are too leery and violent in your dreams. Many years ago I saw my mother die in one of my dreams. I cried in my sleep. When I woke up with tears running copiously all over my face, I found my Mom in perfect health. What a respite that was! Phew!