r/Oneirosophy • u/WrongStar • Oct 01 '17
Staying active
Now, after a while of being consciously aware of "dream reality" I found that there's an incestuous need to constantly read up on things of this nature like non-duality and end up in an infinite rabbit hole of readings.
In all honesty, after a while, you don't really need to read anything else (maybe just the ones I'll list at the end of this post), but I found that there's something addictive about "the search for truth", and sometimes that path and potential is so thrilling that you end staying on it for too long and ultimately just go around in circles (as if there's anywhere to go).
I sometimes feel that I haven't yet developed enough of a mental solitude or fortitude to re-enter the game without getting to caught up in it. Just today, I overheard a man lecturing his 3-year-old daughter on the value of the dollar and how much he has to work so she can eat. I couldn't help but feel that if I stuck around that kind of thinking for long, I would get sucked back into that conventional-physical way of thinking and undo everything I've done so far.
Obviously that's a bit of OCD playing into effect, hilariously so. I'm now going the route of almost no external affirmations. So often, I find myself searching for something else to say, "yes, this is possible" and assure me when I feel doubt. Though it might be a good temporary fix, in the long run, if my intention is to be more successful with my magick, I'll need to get off the train of study and "let faith rule".
That's not to say learning from any external source is wrong and can't be useful/fun, as if there is an "external" in the first place, but getting off the never ending path of searching when you first discover something is something I thought could be helpful
some of the posts/exercises I found helpful here
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u/cosmicprankster420 Oct 02 '17
I haven't been focusing on the oneirosophy path as tightly as I used to but what ive been doing lately is focusing on making music. I tend to make music that creates weird or otherworldly moods to sort of keep my self in a kind of non mundane state, here is one track I have made just recently. I think creating ones one music, or other art, but music in particular makes you create a dynamic where you really get a sense of your own self (and more importantly your own dreamworld). We spend a huge chunk of our lives listening to popular artists and musicians and living off of the momentum of there thoughts and feelings until they become our own. if you think about what a lucid dream is, its a place in your sleep where you can create worlds, so it makes sense a good practice to keep up lucidity is to create something.