Author Topic: Puppet master's play  (Read 2621 times)

Offline Snaggle

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Puppet master's play
« on: July 10, 2012, 05:26:28 AM »
 My own dream goal may or may not be possible. It's to be every character in a lucid dream all at once, while also being the director of the dream, controlling both what happens and the dreamscape itself. I think it might be possible because of experience both within dreams and outside them. I'm certain that the subconscious is not a single mind mirroring the conscious, but hundreds of minds that are always active observing, thinking and communicating with the conscious self. I often experience hypnagogic images as a mass from which I choose one, the same from dreams. I think I'm entering one of the dreams of these subconscious selves when one picks a dream.

Against my goal is the fact that in dreams I've only ever been able to mind meld with a character who was obviously my dobbelganger, whether human or animal. I believe if my goal is possible at all, that I'm going to have to learn to command the dream mass before entering a dream. If anyone has already done this any pointers would be appreciated.

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Re: Puppet master's play
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2012, 07:18:31 AM »
Ambitious.
I might join you.
Do you think the Mass has a boundary?
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Re: Puppet master's play
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Offline Snaggle

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Re: Puppet master's play
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2012, 06:57:55 AM »
Ambitious.
I might join you.
Do you think the Mass has a boundary?

Most certainly, I've recently been seeing them as something like a "popcorn ball" of dreams that I've been pulling one out of.

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Re: Puppet master's play
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2012, 12:23:00 PM »
 - been able to inhabit both my consciousness and that of a DC simultaneously, felt no hierarchy, "I" was simply in two equal places.

Are you going for all at once or are you going to work your way up to it?

I'm curious about what would happen if you truly merged with the "director". To me that seems like a very different kind of consciousness shift.  I think its a different thing than just having a third person perspective in a dream. interesting ambition, let us know.
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