INVISIBLE GURU FORUM

Tally Ho!

Dream couple nights ago in which you, Jed, giving us guidance as we’re out on a trek somewhere in Namibia.  You instruct to look for special kind of Zebra….with horizontal stripes.  When found, tell to lie down, go to sleep…then lift out of our body into the lucid-dreaming-body…then float horizontally between the horizontal black stripes on the body of the zebra!    Ridiculous!….but this is dreaming, where ridiculous lives and breathes!.  We find the absurd zebra, lay down next to and sleep …then roll out our bodies to then float, slick as spit, between the horizontal stripes…as instructed.  We’re then transported into another dream!  Much more abstract and bizarre.  Flora and fauna practically unrecognizable compared to previous dream.  On path around a lake, there’re floating spheres of crystalline blue water everywhere in air around us.  We touch one with finger tips…it absorbs into our bodies…cool and smooth.  Rest of dream so strange, can’t remember. 

I report that to say this:  over last week…every day, all day has been filled with this pervasive smoooooth sensation…sustained awareness.  Visually akin to floating in spherical bubble of smooth crystalline blue.  Does this resonate?  Weird series of events….but there it is! 

When Jed first agreed to work with me almost a year ago, I had visions/dreams of fractal coiling/cruising/coruscating threads of rainbow colored clear light endlessly/effortlessly expressing amidst the infinite expanse of the void.  And then, in the day, saw the most marvelous sun dog as the light from the sun refracted through thin veil of clouds, to become these ephemeral spear heads of rainbow inflections demarcating the cardinal points around the sun. 

To honor that...Infinity's expression of Jed's earth-bound inflection....here's The Rainbow Connection, by Kermit the Frog.  He'd appreciated the tongue-in-cheek of a puppet singing a simple, heartfelt song plucked on a bango.....paying tribute to the ineffable.  That Which is Beyond our puppet bodies...the illusion of the appearance of the world at large.  We're all muppets in the Muppet Movie...and it's a beautiful thing.






In terms of me amidst the Nav series....Comms were dropped halfway through....but, in a way, it seems appropriate somehow.  I'm Flight 19, lost and turning this way and that....confused/disoriented....running out of fuel in the Bermuda Triangle.  I know I'm too far from land now....and that I and my imaginary flight crew will all soon disappear....without a trace. 

Couple days ago, lucid dream which underscores the whole community/no-community  paradox in my impression

Pre-dawn a.m. movements/meditation/contemplation....then back to bed to disengage while intent to hold onto awareness.  Weird surges of body vibrations then with concomitant strange, other-worldy sounds emerge all around me which usually herald transition to a broader state of awareness.  Then....I fall asleep.

To dream I'm living in this co-ed group home. I’m bunking with another female my age…nothing sexual though. We’re more like kids in an orphanage. Brother and sister. We’re goofing off in the morning before waking. I get up and am sifting through the closet looking at stuff the last resident left behind. There’s this rectangular tablet computer cover which has a charging/docking port within it. The prior tenant had “Sexy Time” in cursive embossed along its top edge…kind of coy, playful, tongue-in-cheek motif like sweat pants back in the day that had “Juicy” written across the butt. We’re laughing at this, like kids do. Lay down facing each other and I place it on the side of my head/face, wearing it like a sideways hat or beret for comedic effect. Later get up to go to the bathroom. The lights don’t work. Classic dream sign. I suspect I’m dreaming, but the dream is so real, I can’t believe it. Look at my hands and, sure enough, the finger tps disappear, phasing in and out like they do when I become lucid and look at them. I’m astounded…such a clear one!

I leave the bathroom to go out into the hall…the whole group home is empty now…all furnishings have been removed and the whole place cleaned/polished...most of the residential furniture has been removed...as in suspension awaiting new tenants. Empty….silent…potential space. Feeling refreshed in the lucidity and the silent space, I go sprinting down the hallway and slide into the living room on the glossy hard wood floors in my socks, a la Risky Business (dating myself, I know  ). I’m thinking about diving through the wall at the far end to go out and “meet the wildlife” so to speak….but then I remember my primary directive. Collapsing dreaming layers down through the layers, toward the singularity. So I drop the excitement/anticipation which propels dream drama forward….and stand gazing at the wall……and then sink into the floor and through the "woodwork" of the surrounding details of the dream scene to….WAKE UP!

The lucid dreaming living metaphor is the best or closest, IMHO, to representing what's actually going on. 

For me (the only one who's here, apparently....and BTW who am I even posting this for?  IDK! Dream forum full of dreamed NPC's....oh well, just go with it), it's the metaphor that strikes home in the most direct and simple way.  Interestingly....the metaphor plays out with a paradoxical/ironic moebius strip plot twist.  In the context of the dream in which the dreamed character becomes lucid.....and then finally awakens.....the awakening is, in truth, a false one...and misleading due to the fact that "awakening" from a lucid dream gives the impression that one truly is....awake!  To clarify...false awakening within a dream (many may recognize this, having had false awakenings) is another beautiful metaphor/indicator.  "False awakening" in context of lucid dreaming vernacular, involves dreaming a dream to then "awaken" within the dream in another dream...believing that one has truly awoken...and yet is still dreaming.  That's the indicator within the dream pointing to the fact that when the dreamer awakens to daily awareness....e.g. me sitting here typing right now (in which I've already proven is a dream given the disappearing thumb trick)....is actually a false awakening.  In fact, I am closer to True Awakening when this false person is dreaming to then become lucid to then start to emerge from the dream.  It's at that point that the emerging awakening gets hijacked into a false awakening....which is daily awareness...in which, in Truth, I am still dreaming....or being dreamed!  This is crazy!  But this is the way to unravel it, I believe/have a hunch.  Bearing down with awareness, from moment to dreaming moment, on this fact.  I'm dreaming....right now.  *performs body breath, mind-awake/body asleep technique while sitting at computer*

Looking back on the prior community/no community dream.....first of all, noting that the dream community helped provide the context for lucidity to emerge.  So, yes.....perhaps there are dreaming scenarios which provide optimal circumstances to ensure dawning lucidity....and then awakening.  But, in Truth, this is the Dreamer's way of weaving the state of actual progressive awakening....into the dream being dreamed.  The Dreamers dreams of a school....or community within which lucidity emerges and true awakening dawns.  Less harsh, perhaps, then the Dreamer dreaming of getting killed with a gunshot or car accident, I guess.

So....thus, the potency, I feel....in dreaming Jed's dream instruction to dream the body breathing (there is no body apart from the dreamed body) and intent to mind-awake/body-asleep rhythm with the body breathing.  Within the dream, it engenders stillness and gathers awareness at the same time.  The stillness melts away perceived activity which helps engender the belief that the dream body amidst the dream world it is acting within....is real/awake.  OOOOhhhh....just looked down at the reflection of my computer screen in the surface of the glass desk top....creating a parenthetical rainbow light inflection in which the epicenter shifts when I move my head...the point of perspective...back and forth.  LOL!  It's holographic!  Now train whistle in the distance....all this pointing to the apparent fact....I am dreaming.  Anyways....body breathing/mind-awake and body-asleep technique...similar to phenomenon, I feel, in previous lucid dream in which I became still....stood in the living room....alone...in a place previously filled with the dream community before lucidity had everyone vanish...and, in becoming still....I woke up.  Or at least dreamed that I woke up! 

Whoa....this is all very disorienting.  AS it should be.  I gotta stop for now....I'll be back.  Unless I wake up...in which all this disappears.  My god....the compulsion to keep dreaming is STRONG!  Maya, madesmoiselle.....you got bones, sister.  Very potent spell, I must say....