Good, smart science fiction provokes conversations about the nature of reality, the nature of us, and/or our potential future. Good sci fi lubricates the wheels of imagination, gets them spinning, and inspires more of itself within the receptive audience. It may make us feel like we’re on the cusp of something. Something great. A discovery […]
He accuses her of cheating on him. He’s paranoid. Because he’s secretly cheating on her. We’ve all heard this one, right? It’s an extreme example of projection. We like extreme examples that don’t apply to us because they allow us to feel like we’re not those people. And yet, everyone projects. In fact, I’m doing […]
HE WRITES: Hi Jeremy, I have just started reading, Dreams of Awakening: Lucid Dreaming and Mindfulness of Dream and Sleep, by Charlie Morley and in it was the following passage… …Albert Einstein once wrote, ‘A human being… experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion […]
Unconscious dreams are fully formed and you’re fated to play them out unless you wake up into them. In an average dream you are unconscious, rolling through the motions, and the dream is about you. The characters are you; the setting is straight out of you. Unconscious dreaming is self-absorption—but healthy self-absorption that provides lessons […]
He had a lifetime of extraordinary paranormal experiences, which showed him that there’s more to life than our culture allows for, but it was a dream that really woke him up. He set out reading alternative spiritual texts, studied shamanism and mysticism, and experimented with hallucinogens. What the dream showed him, and what he felt […]
He receives challenges from dragons, help from angels, and battles with aliens. He ticks off high strangeness experiences like foods on a grocery list. These are all real experiences, he says, and yet he prefaces his life adventures by telling me that dreams are very important to him. She, on the other hand, will tell […]
He talks about all of the magical things that come to him during meditation. He’s a visionary, he says, piercing the veil between worlds in the multiverse and bringing back magical practices, which he spells, “magickal”. He says all of the right things, the things his listeners want to hear, but he does so trepidatiously […]
Dream Time Have you ever become lucid in a dream only to have the characters around you stop acting their roles and try killing you? I’ve talked and written elsewhere about how this has happened to me numerous times and how stunned I was to see it play out in the movie Inception. I’ve toyed […]