Are You "Open-Minded"?

SeaBreeze said:
Debby, I have lucid dreams occasionally like flying, and it's awesome to be able to acknowledge that you are dreaming and control your experience...incredible, big dreamer here.
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Very lucky, both you and Denise! I feel jealous, reading about it and all this strange and interesting stuff and everyone else has the experience! Well, except for that one time. Oh well, such is life right?
 

Ameriscot said:
I bought a guide on how to have lucid dreams way back in the early 90's. I kept a dream journal and also a small tape recorder next to my bed so I could remember the dream I was having when I woke up without opening my eyes (which usually makes the memory disappear). Throughout the day I would ask myself if I was dreaming and why I thought I was or wasn't. Flying was something I wanted to do, and I finally did it - once. It was amazing! I was in a chocolate shop in one dream when I realized I was dreaming and how great it was I could eat it all and not get fat! Another time I was taking a shower and asked myself if I was dreaming. I tasted the soap to prove I was.

When I was driving down a motorway on a long trip alone and was a bit tired I wondered if I was dreaming and for a split second thought I might be. That scared me! I no longer worked on becoming lucid.
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Sounds like your chocolate dream was a dieters delight Ameriscot. The 'soap' one, well that's all yours. I was listening to a podcast a couple days ago and the guy on it was talking about the dream journal that he's kept for 25 years. I think he'd developed some kind of 'ap' to help save, organize and spot patterns in his dreams. Maybe that's the answer, quit being lazy and start writing them down. The tape recorder at the bedside might not work for me though because my husband is a very light sleeper and I wouldn't want to wake him.
 
Debby said:
Sounds like your chocolate dream was a dieters delight Ameriscot. The 'soap' one, well that's all yours. I was listening to a podcast a couple days ago and the guy on it was talking about the dream journal that he's kept for 25 years. I think he'd developed some kind of 'ap' to help save, organize and spot patterns in his dreams. Maybe that's the answer, quit being lazy and start writing them down. The tape recorder at the bedside might not work for me though because my husband is a very light sleeper and I wouldn't want to wake him.
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The soap had no taste which was how I knew I was dreaming. I went in and out of lucidity as the dream started as a nightmare about being late for work! ;) Keeping a dream journal made me very aware of my dreams. And when I first started doing this I was using nicotine patches to quit smoking - for many it makes your dreams more vivid. It was like being in a mini-series every night! I stopped keeping the journal when I got to dream number 1,000. And I had some very, very weird, interesting dreams.

One of the good tests I remember when you ask yourself if you are dreaming is to try to read something. It's very hard to focus your eyes and read while dreaming.

The idea of becoming good at 'waking up in your dreams' and controlling them was that you would have more control over your daily life.
 

Nobody really knows the point of our dreaming. Sometimes I think it's just our brains having fun making bad B movies for itself to watch while we are asleep!;)
 
Twice in my life I have 'awakened' in the night to see loved one's standing at the foot of my bed. Each time, the apologized for not being able to stay. The following morning,in each instance, said loved one had died during the night. One old person, one child. I do not have a definitive explanation, it is enough to have been granted the privilege of saying good-bye. I think this certainly qualifies me to say I am broad minded!
 
Shalimar said:
Twice in my life I have 'awakened' in the night to see loved one's standing at the foot of my bed. Each time, the apologized for not being able to stay. The following morning,in each instance, said loved one had died during the night. One old person, one child. I do not have a definitive explanation, it is enough to have been granted the privilege of saying good-bye. I think this certainly qualifies me to say I am broad minded!
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Wow! THAT is strange. It is an established fact that we use only a tiny part of our brain and that some of us, you probably, are much more capable of the fringe areas that most of us can't access. I know that manifestations of mind can physically be present. I had a little cat, Annie, who spent most of her life either at my side or on my lap. A devoted little cat who trusted me implicitly. When she died, it broke my heart. Several times at night, I physically felt her move on my bed where she had always slept. Strange sensation but real none the less.
 
Josiah09 said:
Open mindedness suggests a willingness to consider new ideas and and replace your original idea for a new one. I've changed my opinion on countless topics countless times, and because I've admitted to being wrong so many times, I've learned to be exceedingly skeptical of all ideas knowing that quite likely what I believe today I may not believe tomorrow. This variability in my belief system is not haphazard. . . I'm just adjusting my opinions to best comply with what I understand to be reality. When I do hit upon an idea which does seem to agree with reality I stick with it. I've been an atheist since the age of 14 but if God came into my house today and performed a few simple miracles to prove who he was I stop being an atheist. I'm open minded God you just need to give me a good reason to believe in you.
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Miracles occur in people not things
 
nwlady said:
Another thing that interests me is that Deja Vu, I have it maybe a couple of times a year, and all my life. I could sware I had done exactly the same thing, same surrounding etc. Many times in places I had NEVER been before.
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Sometimes the self runs into it's self, serendipity
 
Shalimar said:
Twice in my life I have 'awakened' in the night to see loved one's standing at the foot of my bed. Each time, the apologized for not being able to stay. The following morning,in each instance, said loved one had died during the night. One old person, one child. I do not have a definitive explanation, it is enough to have been granted the privilege of saying good-bye. I think this certainly qualifies me to say I am broad minded!
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from "A Thousand and One Arabian Nights". While asleep the prince looked at a small dgene at the foot of his bed, a flipped a bean at it to make it go away.
 
AZ Jim said:
Wow! THAT is strange. It is an established fact that we use only a tiny part of our brain and that some of us, you probably, are much more capable of the fringe areas that most of us can't access. I know that manifestations of mind can physically be present. I had a little cat, Annie, who spent most of her life either at my side or on my lap. A devoted little cat who trusted me implicitly. When she died, it broke my heart. Several times at night, I physically felt her move on my bed where she had always slept. Strange sensation but real none the less.
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That happened to me with a cat that had died. He always jumped onto the foot of my bed to sleep at night. A few days after he died I felt him jump onto the bed.
 
Omg, another me?? LOL:) I would love to know that we get another shot at life. I often wonder if we could have at least some of the wisdom we've gained in this time around, to take with us though. Otherwise, all the same mistakes:(
 
AZ Jim said:
So you are saying a tornado the roars into a town and destroys all the buildings except one which happens to be a church is not what we would describe as a miracle?
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any value placed on any hierarchy of buildings is subjective to real estate appraiser
buildings don't have souls
 
Ameriscot said:
I think there are too many things that happen that science can't explain which leads me to believe there is something, don't know what exactly.
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science was not designed to explain everything, it's people's expectation of it that is the failure

when that expectation stops the something out explains itself
 
Ameriscot said:
Right. I did not become a democrat because my dad or people in my family were one. I felt very early that Democrats were on the side of the poor and wanted to help those lesser off, and the Republicans were the opposite. Simplistic, but that's how I felt the first time I voted in 1972 at the age of 20.

As for religion I was raised strict catholic but by 14 I questioned everything I was being taught and rejected most of it.
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It sounds like you didn't reject their social justice teachings.
 
AZ Jim said:
We don't know all we would like to know.
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be careful what you wish for,

from Apollinaire
come to the edge, he said
they said we are afraid
come to tht edge he said
they came , he pushed them
they flew

look before you leap
 
AZ Jim said:
We were not talking relative values. You stated "Miracles occur in people not things". I was responding to that.
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Sorry I have a hard time with double negatives, wasn't referring to buildings just people.

not sure how you got to that, if a change in a person for the better occurred because some building was left standing that would be a miracle
 

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