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We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

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Monday, November 28, 2005

Dreams

I feel as though I haven't slept in weeks. My shoulders and back are tight and I've carried a headache the past few days. I've been looking for some insight into my sits and any relation to the night terrors, but have yet to find any relevant and resonating information. I hardly slept again last night, nor Saturday night. The dreams are so incredibly intense and have such a real nature to them. Halfway through my sit last night my ears began to hum - but there were two separate sounds. A high pitched sound and a humming sound. The sounds seemed to both come from within me, but at different places. These sounds carried on throughout the entire night and made falling asleep quite difficult. When I did manage to fall asleep the lucid & terrifying dreams came.

posted by I Am This at 10:38 PM

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Anonymous Anonymous said ... (1:33 AM) : 

Hi Kelly,
Hope you don't mind, followed the link to your blog from e-sangha via the Kundalini Experience thread :)
When I was having terrifying nightmares I found "Lucid Dreaming & Meditation" by Alan Wallace (who helped with translating Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness with the Dalai Lama), to be helpful. It is an essay and can be downloaded in PDF. format here:
http://www.alanwallace.org/writings.htm
Scroll down to Popular Essays and you'll see the title.
Also here http://www.nydzogchen.com/dream.html
can be found articles/writings on Dream Yoga/Lucidity by Dr. Michael Katz
Wishing you Well
Simon L.

 

Blogger I Am This said ... (9:51 PM) : 

I'm quite glad to share it all with you Simon, don't mind at all.

Thank you very much for the link, I've just started to do some reading on the essay you suggested and am thoroughly enjoying it.

Wishing YOU Well ;-)

 

Anonymous Anonymous said ... (1:40 PM) : 

Don't try to sleep! It helps.
I just lie awake until I fall asleep. Don't worry about not getting enough sleep. Just watch your thoughts; it's better than doing some regular sittings or zazen. And you don't get backpains at all.
When you are enlightened, nothing matters. Wisdom will carry you thru from now to now. After all, the future will never come. And the past is gone forever.

 

Blogger I Am This said ... (5:27 PM) : 

Hello Anonymous,

Yes, don't we always do that. We fret about not sleeping which makes us more anxious to sleep which prevents sleep that much more! I'm not especially concerned about the lack of sleep but the terrors that fill my evenings, I suspect this is the Kundalini energy.

The pain I experience is in no relation to my meditation (my body has been through sits long enough that it is not an issue anymore) but again, I suspect, with the 'K'.

There is a relationship however, between meditation and all of this. As when I do not sit in the evening I sleep peacefully most of the time.

 

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