From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   Using the "old school" in-line reply technique, J wrote:> "I'm not actually   
   sure I even like remembering my dreams."   
      
   Whatever one may think, say or do *is* one's *own* business (per the 10ᵗʰ   
   Commandment, Exodus 20:17.)   
      
   However, I'll present to you the "what if?" scenario:  What *if* one could A)   
   learn to control one's dream (in essence, control one's life) and thereby B)   
   have a direct (preferably positive) consequence *on* one's dreams / life?  IF   
   such were possible, *   
   then* one's life could begin to reveal much greater light to the world of   
   darkness, poetically speaking, as it were.   
      
   To that end, here's a link to what I call the "Right Eye First" technique,   
   that I developed decades ago (and first posted here in alt.dreams) which has   
   had various (mostly positive!) responses / feedback!   
      
   tinyurl.com/RightEyeFirstTechnique   
      
   I'm personally working on "brevity" by using links to avoid re-typing the same   
   information over and over again (a bit like sharing a cooking recipe using cut   
   & paste, but with a link.)   
      
   Meanwhile, many, *many* people try to share their own, personal tips on what   
   brings "happiness" (or "meaning") into existence.  That above link is simply a   
   *physiological technique* that appears to function on *most people!* that is   
   designed to instantly    
   trigger REM phase, and to *aid* in dream recall.   
      
   But "happiness" / "meaning"?   
      
   Hmmmm.... well, my life was pure, prodigal garbage at one point, so I decided   
   to "change role models" from what *I* wanted to what someone *else* was able   
   to achieve.  OK, so who then to pick as "the" role model?  Someone who *never*   
   lost, and even in    
   the one event were it appeared all was lost, was actually the key moment of   
   victory?   
      
   (I suspect you can "hear" where this is going.)   
      
   OK, so then I started *questioning intently* as to *why* that particular role   
   model should be (or "is") preferable to all others?  Well, to answer that, I   
   had to start questioning the words recorded of what the person taught.  In   
   order to do that, I had    
   to *discard ALL* of what "other folk" said about what X actually "means," and   
   question the words recorded directly.   
      
   (Again, I suspect you can "hear" where this is going.  However, what I'm   
   sharing here is the *process* of investigation, query, study, analysis,   
   result/consequence.)   
      
   So OK, I've got this "Concept 1" that I pick as the "new standard" by which to   
   start applying my life, the standard(s) by which I treat others, and more   
   importantly, the "template" with which I filter my words that they may be   
   meaningful to the reader /    
   listener.   
      
   Now comes the "important part," that is, picking an "antithesis" to "Concept   
   1," which was the *real* trick indeed!  I can tell you more about that   
   "journey," but unless you have any actual interest, there may be no actual   
   "point" to sharing it.   
      
   So again, *to be brief,* I put the journey into a children's level story which   
   (I believe) brings out the *point* that "Reality Conforms to Thought."  (Now   
   apply that to the reality of "Light" and "darkness" and you may *possibly*   
   begin to "get the    
   picture.")   
      
   That's the whole purpose to the link:  tinyurl.com/ITTA-TCoU   
      
   J:> "I did [use] to remember a lot more and make an effort to remember them   
   when I was young. For some time I've not really thought much about it and let   
   them fade as is the default human condition. Looking upon my old haunts on   
   Usenet with the soon to    
   be dismantling of GG brought me back to them."   
      
   Ditto.  I remember back when I was just learning to understand that people   
   dream (as a youth of around 3 or 4) that I tried to remember them all as   
   well.  To this day, I can remember some *very old* dreams (dreams from *long   
   ago*) with fairly decent    
   clarity (like the two-story hay bales with a hatch between the floors)   
   although I started noticing *in my adult year* that certain dreams seemed to   
   have a "real life analog" that occurred typically within 24 to 48 hours.    
   (Then came the "out of body" / "   
   astral body projection" experiences, and that *really* piqued my interest!)   
      
   So when I discovered alt.dreams, well, it seemed like practically a "god send"   
   that I could *journal* the dreams, then see if any of them actually *did*   
   "come true" in real life.   
      
   ONE such dream of significance *may* be found by looking back at July 25th   
   (and for whatever reason I have trouble remembering the year, possibly   
   mid-to-late '90s, certainly no later than 2004) wherein I posted a dream of   
   being a female about to give    
   birth, the feeling of trying to pass a bowling ball from inside my pelvic bone   
   to the outside, and that if I squeezed one more time, something was going to   
   "break."  I posted that dream, then later that afternoon, my nephew was born   
   (at least a full week    
   or more ahead of his due date, somewhere in August.)   
      
   J:> "Is it even helpful to remember and analyze them. I don't know."   
      
   The dream I had of October 7th of 2023 was rather amazing, but by the time I'd   
   posted it, apparently, the news of the invasion of Israel from the Gaza strip   
   was already world news.  It doesn't matter that I posted the dream *before*   
   turning on the news:     
   the news went public *at about the time* I was having the dream.  (It's the   
   idea of posting a dream *before* an event occurs that I find a fascinating   
   possibility.)   
      
   J:> "There is some entertainment to be had from them, but it also feels   
   somehow wrong in a way I can't put my finger on."   
      
   Well, I *sorta* get that.  It's the near anonymity of alt.dreams that I   
   appreciate:  Sure, I can post some *wild* stuff that would *normally* get a   
   person "committed" (back before the Left dumped out all the criminally insane   
   into the streets as homeless    
   addicts) but in alt.dreams, it's simply "just a dream," and as such, open to   
   speculation / interpretation (even ridicule, but fortunately, there's been   
   none of that visible in all the years I've been posting here.  The "bad folk"   
   tend to simply disappear,   
    and only the auto-spammers leave any actual "defecation" in the space.)   
      
   Other than that, I am unable to see anything "wrong" about posting dreams.  To   
   me, it's analogous with the public "block chain" that's the core engine of   
   bit-coin technology.   
      
      
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