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| User: | realityhandbook (2683237) Rax Oha Tal: The Reality Engineering Handbook
Dream Logs and Musings on the Mechanisms of the Matrix |
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| Name: | Reality Handbook | ||||
| Website: | realityhandbook livejournal | ||||
| Bio: | Welcome. This journal contains hundreds of entries, and is something of a hodgepodge. It focuses on my dreaming life, which is noteworthy because I am frequently able to become aware that I am dreaming while still asleep. In scientific parlance, this is called lucid dreaming. (If you're suspicious that anyone claiming this ability just makes it up after they awake, please read up on the subject, as trained lucid dreamers have proven the phenomenon in peer-reviewed laboratory experiments.) Lucid dreaming is uncommon but not unheard of. Yet what makes me unique is that it happens several times a night, I can stay in the state for several minutes, and I can bring back detailed dialogue, names, websites, or other information. Rather than waste this opportunity learning to fly or conjuring supermodels, I've conditioned my response to interview dream characters—as well as explore the environment and test it with improvised experiments. You can read my recent posts, or some of these that I found fairly memorable:
I think of myself as something like a SETI researcher, except instead of filtering through radio signals from space I'm filtering the signals that I receive in my own mind. I probably shouldn't set my hopes on being the linchpin that finds the bridge between parallel dream universes, but I do. One aspect of my hope is that with the advent of search engines and archiving we might have a tool history did not in terms of linking together people who might have exchanged information in a dream... separated by space and time. There's relatively little interest in this journal, and I've tried a modest amount of outreach to dreaming communities. I've not been impressed by the quality of thought in most online forums, and certainly I've been saddened by the lack of response to my posts. It's tragic because I think I'm a useful freak to study...much like Daniel Tammet's rather amazing status as a savant who can describe the visualization process he uses to do ridiculous computation in his head. I wish more people took an interest in my methods and in researching me, as opposed to worshipping irresponsible New Age loudmouths who actively refuse inquiry. Please, if you are new to lucid dreaming, and are in general finding yourself starting down the path of discovery of a world a bit more complicated than the one you were taught about by your parents, your church, or your university... READ THIS WARNING!!! before you get caught up in a web of too much alternative literature. (Note: I have some unusual interests listed which are not necessarily things I am interested in—such as 'jesus', 'aliens', and 'the cia'. This is because although I often find myself using the terminology of the lucid dreaming community, many of the issues I tackle would be of interest to those who might be labeled spiritual or schizophrenic by their societies. Distilling the vocabulary out of the experience is something I would like to do—so I'm happy to speak with those who are coming at it from a different angle. But note that I do not have the background for helping people work through psychiatric issues of happiness/unhappiness, which are largely tangential to what words you use.)   Jan 2004 Feb 2004 Mar 2004 Apr 2004 May 2004 Jun 2004 Jul 2004 Aug 2004 Sep 2004 Oct 2004 Nov 2004 Dec 2004 Jan 2005 Feb 2005 Mar 2005 Apr 2005 May 2005 Jun 2005 Jul 2005 Aug 2005 Sep 2005 Oct 2005 Nov 2005 Dec 2005 Jan 2006 Feb 2006 Mar 2006 Apr 2006 May 2006 Jun 2006 Jul 2006 Aug 2006 Sep 2006 Oct 2006 Nov 2006 Dec 2006 Jan 2007 Feb 2007 Mar 2007 Apr 2007 May 2007 Jun 2007 Jul 2007 Aug 2007 Sep 2007 Oct 2007 Nov 2007 Dec 2007 | ||||
| Memories: | 6 entries | ||||
| Interests: | 96: afterlife, ai, aliens, alternate reality gaming, anti-censorship, anti-copyright, anti-psychiatry, art, artificial intelligence, astral projection, autostereograms, bipolar disorder, cia, code, color theory, combination locks, computer science, conspiracy theories, cryptography, divine justice, dreaming, dreams, education, emulation, esp, ethics, existenz, filters, fractals, games, graphic design, hacking, hogwarts, honesty, hypnosis, intelligence, jane roberts, jesus, john nash, kindness, logic puzzles, lucid dreaming, magic, magic eye, mark twain, math, mathematics, mechanism, meditation, memory, metaphors, metaphysics, models, music, music videos, mythology, oneironauts, open minds, past lives, patterns, penn and teller, philip k dick, physics, process of elimination, prophecy, ram dass, reality engineering, resumption of disbelief, richard bach, richard linklater, rubiks cube, schizophrenia, science, shamanism, simulation, spam, spirituality, steganography, story-telling, storytelling, suspension of disbelief, teaching, telepathy, the cia, the matrix, thomas szaz, translation, visions, waking life, watermarks, words, writing, zen, zoning, æ, ∞ | ||||
| Schools: | None listed | ||||
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| Account type: | Basic Account | ||||
