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    Choi's Journey of the Conscious Mind

    Attempt 11: So Close...

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    Choi
    , 03-11-2012 at 11:46 AM (910 Views)
    Attempt 11:

    No luck this time either I just fall asleep instantly. It's beyond my control...
    So tonight I am going to listen to guided relaxation mp3:s again.

    I woke up in the morning and fell back to sleep again and I got lucid for a moment.
    I was dreaming that I were in a mall and I can't remember how, but I realised that it was a dream. And this time I had a clear mind to choose what I wanted to do. I found a pen in my pocket and stared at it, but then it felt like something else took over. I couldn't control my actions even though I was lucid! My dreaming body walked inside a house and there I saw my biggest dream distraction, a hot woman... I lost my lucidity and the rest of the dream consisted of me hitting on her although it was a failure.

    I have reached the first gate now, by becoming aware of when I am falling asleep or be aware of dreaming as I would call it. So now I am going to quote the next lesson of Don Juan:

    - "Don Juan said that the active element of the training of the awareness of dreams is persistence, and that the mind and all it's rational defenses cannot cope with persistence. Sooner or later the mind's barriers fall, under it's impact, and the dreaming attention blooms."

    ...

    - "You reach the second gate of dreaming when you wake up from a dream into another dream. You can have as many dream as you want or as many you are capable of, but you must exercise adequate control and not wake up in the world we know"

    He also explains that when the second gate of dreaming is crossed, the dreamer sinks into mortal depths. And that's why sober control of the first gate is important, because perfect control of the energy body is the safety valve dreamers have in order to return to the physical body again.

    Creepy stuff, but I will find out if it's true. Because right now I am feeling more "sober" in my dreams and that's another reason to why I get lucid more often nowadays.

    Wish me good luck and if I dissapear you know that something have happend to me in the dream or as Don Juan calls it The Secondd Attention.

    However, I hope none of this will ever happen. :shock:
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    Updated 03-11-2012 at 05:30 PM by 49122

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    1. Ctharlhie's Avatar
      The second gate is DEILDing! :O
    2. Choi's Avatar
      I thought so too :P But as I continued reading .. SPOILER ALERT!

      - "The mistake was mine. I told you that one has to wake up into another dream, but what I meant was that one has to change dreams in an orderly and precise manner, the way you have done it. With the first gate, you wasted a lot of time looking exclssively for your hands. This time, you went directly in to the solution without bothering to follow the given command: to wake up in another dream.

      Don Juan said that there are two ways of properly crossing the second gate of dreaming. One is to wake up in another dream, that is to say, to dream that one has a dream then dream that one wakes up from it. The alternative is to use the items of a dream to trigger another dream."

      This is almostl iek the dream where I teleported to my school or when I catched my false awakenings.
      Although I still need to pracctise to control my energy body in order to cross the first gate of dreaming, to be able to get to the second one.
      In other words: 1 Gate: Get lucid by intetending -> Control the dreaming body by focusing on objects -> 2 Gate: Teleport to another scenario (You conscious in now bigger than usual) -> OBE. Then in order to cross the other gates you need help, help from the inorganic beings or entities. I will write more about them when I have encountered them. Because so far it's only a Don Juan theory to me..
    3. Choi's Avatar
      Shit just got real! I am walking in the footsteps of Carlos Castaneda...

      This was just a random post, because I accidently posted the previous post two times xD
      Updated 03-11-2012 at 05:31 PM by Choi