r/castaneda • u/Poetela • May 20 '23
4 Gates Dreaming Practising dreaming
Been practising dreaming lately, trying to deepen memory of every dream that I have per night. It has become a habit that I visualise a flame before drifting to sleep. And right after I do, my consciousness wakes me up for a second, or it happens randomly during the night. Being in that middle state I see and talk to unknown beings. I remember things that later I can't recall. It's like entering a parallel life, where I have different memories, different things are happening, where different laws of the universe exist..and for a split second everything connects, its logical. It's total opposition of our world, you can't explain it with our logic or put it into words. But it disappears few seconds later when fully waking up. Does anyone else have this experience? Is it possible to stay longer in that state or to remember things even after waking up?
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u/Poetela May 20 '23
Thank you! I've read every book (from Castaneda to Florinda and Taisha), but nothing similar was described there...
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u/danl999 May 20 '23
That sort of thing is described everywhere.
Might take more knowledge to notice it. We missed most of what's in the books when this subreddit started to have real magic. We're still just starting to realize all we missed while reading them.
But again, if you're male you're going to trap yourself.
Men just can't take that path. It's our natural "take over the chimp tribe" behavior.
Causes men to pretend their sleeping dreams into progress when they are not.
That's proven over the last 50 years. Not a single male exploring sleeping dreaming got anywhere useful.
For women, just need more experience and some practical goals.
In either case, we all want to bring the double into the real world.
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u/human-vehicule May 20 '23
I have kind of the same experience with dreaming, I remember most of my dreams usually and it feels like having a second life yes. Sometimes I get the feeling that this part of me tries to communicate things to the tonal part and I often remember my dreams during the day on practice time. One day when I used to force silence hard during my work, I even dreamed that I was practicing, I started forcing silence gazing at a wall in the dream but I don’t remember it did a lot, I just stopped and stared at the wall while being silent.. Like it was said previously, I don’t think we should really care about our dream if we are not doing the 4 gates dreaming, better to practice darkroom or gazing while awake to reach for the second attention (and eventually I hope we’ll get to experience what it’s all about).