“The Relationship Between Energy and Form in Dreams and the Expansion of Consciousness”

 By Dr. Nigel Hamilton – London, United Kingdom

“Energy and matter are interchangeable (Einstein). Yet the energy (field) and matter (form) that appear as pictures/ landscapes in our dreams seem determined by something more primary, our consciousness… 

Indeed, lucid dream experiences can lead to what the Tibetan Dream Yogis call “the dreamless state” a transcendental experience in which there are no images, no sense of time or space, only “clear light” or awareness. In such experiences, emotions take on a subtle, transpersonal character such as a profound sense of serenity, peace and harmony.Just as we can experience a changing sense of time and space in a single dream – and over the course of an extended cycle of dreams covering several years – so we can also experience a shift in our emotions in a single dream or over the course of time. As we become free of our psychological blocks, fear, scripts and our assumptions about who or what we are, the spaces and the images in the dream open up, time dilates and the dreamscapes become more colourful and more beautiful.

Some lucid dreamers have related experiences of timelessness and a sense of the omnipresent. Some have described the changing dream space as a change into another reality, a higher spatial dimension of deeper feeling, knowing, and being. In such instances, the dreamer’s emotional tenor, heart longing and consciousness appear aligned with the source of consciousness in a transcendent state. As a result, the dreamer re-enters waking reality with a fuller, more expanded sense of self and their relationship to the universe. Often, the dreamer’s waking world also becomes more clearly reflective of their heart longing…” – Dr. Niguel Hamilton

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“Metacognition refers to one’s awareness of and ability to regulate one’s own thinking” – https://sites.google.com/a/uwlax.edu/exploring-how-students-learn/what-s-all-the-fuss-about-metacognition

“…The differences in volumes in the anterior prefrontal cortex between lucid dreamers and non-lucid dreamers suggest that lucid dreaming and metacognition are indeed closely connected… Our results indicate that self-reflection in everyday life is more pronounced in persons who can easily control their dreams,” – Max Planck Gesellschaft –  https://www.mpg.de/8869963/lucid-dreams-prefrontal-cortex

“…85 percent of what subjects worried about never happened…  …new research has found that you can rewire your brain to stop worrying.  It starts with the decision not to believe the misfortune that your worried thoughts see in your future. The part of the brain that causes stress reactions literally has the intelligence of a toddler.” – https://www.huffingtonpost.com/don-joseph-goewey-/85-of-what-we-worry-about_b_8028368.html

“…The process of noticing, and breaking thoughts down will help you immensely in becoming more aware and less reactive to negative thoughts that drain your energy and limit your growth.” – http://onewithnow.com/aware-of-thoughts/

KEEPING ALL OF THE ABOVE IN MIND, HOW ABOUT THIS?

• Throughout the day, OBSERVE YOUR THOUGHTS and emotions.
• Whenever a DISTURBING EMOTION such as worry, guilt, etc. comes up, DO A REALITY CHECK (since we worry so much, this should give ample opportunities for reality checks throughout the day.)
• Follow up and

1. EVALUATE THE THOUGHTS THAT CAUSED YOUR EMOTIONS – WERE THEY IRRATIONAL, UNREALISTIC, SEF-DEFEATING?
2. Come up with RATIONAL AND CONSTRUCTIVE ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF BELIEVING OR THINKING

• REPEAT, repeat, repeat

 I call it EMOTION INDUCED REALITY CHECK – EIRC. 

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The next generation of dream recording technology is under way. Cloud X is a non-profit, crowdfunded project set to take place in Los Angeles, California.

Considering that such technology is becoming a reality is quite mind-blowing and, of course, has various aspects to it. Below is some information on the new project. The team exists of quite a number of experts in the fields of psychology, neuropsychology and neuroimaging.

“The CLOUD X project is an attempt to record a complete dream—imagery, dreamed speech and dreamed motor behavior…

The technologies involved in the project will be a combination of electroencephalography (EEG), electrooculography (EOG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and electromyography (EMG). EEG and EOG will help determine when the sleeper is in rapid eye movement sleep (ripe for dreaming), fMRI or fNIRS will capture dreamed imagery, and EMG will collect covert muscle activity used in dreamed speech and dreamed body movement reconstruction…

…recording and reconstructing dreamed visual imagery and dreamed speech are more complex. In both cases, pattern matching of awake recordings and dream recordings determine the resultant reconstruction and dream movie…

…For visual imagery, software needs to be trained on awake brain patterns gathered from individual and image databases…

…For this project, we plan to utilize experienced lucid dreamers as subjects and train these subjects in a set of specific dream scenarios, i.e. visualization, body movements and speaking both when awake and when dreaming…If successful with this approach, the software training cycles for imagery and phoneme decoding can be reduced and the imagery recorded more personal and specific.

…As part of Cloud X, we also plan on producing a short documentary about the project, a “making of” film, in this case on the creation of the first movie from a dream…

…Our project lead, Daniel Oldis, is an independent dream researcher and author of The Lucid Dream Manifesto. His work has been featured by Forbes, CNN, Psychology Today, the Huffington Post, Fox Networks, Coast-To-Coast AM, CBS Radio, Australian Broadcasting, the Orange County Register, Dreamtime magazine and other media…” – Go Fund Me – Cloud X – The Dream Movie

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“A Brief Synopsis Of The History And Characters Of The Gateway Project” – reddit – by u/SuperFestigio
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/6d0nys/a_brief_synopsis_of_the_history_and_characters_of/

“Analysis And Assessment Of The Gateway Experience” – CIA Library – Declassified – https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp96-00788r001700210016-5

The Monroe Institute – Hemi-Sync & Sam Tech – https://www.monroeinstitute.org/node/2519

“Hemi-Sync is a trademarked brand name for a patented process used to create audio patterns containing binaural beats, which are commercialized in the form of audio CDs. Interstate Industries Inc., created by Hemi-Sync founder Robert Monroe, is the owner of the Hemi-Sync technology.” – Wikipedia

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“The Monroe Institute (TMI) provides experiential education programs facilitating the personal exploration of human consciousness…”

“In 2008, The Monroe Institute began to investigate a complementary method of producing the consciousness altering effects…

…Rather than binaural beating to achieve its effect, Spatial Angle Modulation (SAM) uses a single frequency tone…

…The greater the quantum coherence quotient, the more non-local awareness emerges or what one might call experiential quantum entanglement, the gate key to non-local awareness…

… We believe that the objective evidence for SAM’s effectiveness in facilitating enhanced states of awareness will be shown in ongoing studies of gamma synchrony as an electrophysiological correlate of consciousness itself.” –  The Monroe Institute – http://www.monroeinstituteuk.org/spatial-angle-modulaton-sam/

“It’s supposed to help get you in altered states of consciousness…They’re interested in states that correlate with gamma waves (above beta frequencies).” – https://astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_consciousness/anybody_heard_of_spatial_angle_modulation_monroe_institute-t36339.0.html

“Another way to picture all this…is that with the SAM quantum mind technology we will be able to alter the frame exposure rate for perceived local reality, the interlude between frames (when you are entangled with all space/time), and the exposure period for both perspectives…” – Restless Soma – Tributary – July 19, 2011 – http://restlesssoma.com.au/restlesssoma/index.php?topic=2666.0

“…Using stereo headphones or speakers, the spatial angle of the apparent sound source moves more rapidly than the brain can process as a Doppler shift anomaly. As a result, the brain produces a modulation or change in the tone – a tremolo effect similar to binaural beating. It is this tremolo effect coupled with the size and orientation of the movement arc produced that give SAM its ability to influence regional brain activity and changes in states of consciousness…” – F. Holmes (Skip) Atwater – IRVA 2012 – Quantum Mind RV with Spatial Angle Modulation – http://www.irva.org/conferences/speakers/atwater.html

The Monroe Institute – Spacial Angle Modulation – Open Meditation: YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecBZo9Aw3V8

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MNEMONIC TECHNIQUE – A device, such as a formula or rhyme, used as an aid in remembering

“If You Want to Have Lucid Dreams, Here’s a Tip From a Recent Study” – by Mike McRae

“….One technique required subjects to practice checking their reality while awake with the aim of entrenching the habit for when they were dreaming.

A second process required them to awaken for a short duration after five hours of sleep, and then return to sleep…

The third technique – referred to as MILD (mnemonic induction of lucid dreams) – involved repeating the phrase “the next time I’m dreaming, I will remember that I’m dreaming” while awake….

…Just over 17 percent of dreams among those who used all three techniques were described as lucid. Among those who fell asleep within five minutes of returning to bed during the MILD technique, this rate skyrocketed to almost 46 percent…

“The MILD technique works on what we call ‘prospective memory’ – that is, your ability to remember to do things in the future,” says researcher Denholm Aspy.

“By repeating a phrase that you will remember you’re dreaming, it forms an intention in your mind that you will, in fact, remember that you are dreaming, leading to a lucid dream.”….

…The least likely to work, however, was practicing reality checks while awake. Those in this group actually experienced fewer lucid dreams….

This research was published in Dreaming.” – www.sciencealert.com/researchers-suggest-three-tips-for-lucid-dreams?utm_source=ScienceAlert+-+Da…

Reality testing and the mnemonic induction of lucid dreams: Findings from the national Australian lucid dream induction study. – Aspy, Denholm J.,Delfabbro, Paul,Proeve, Michael,Mohr, Philip – Dreaming, Vol 27(3), Sep 2017, 206-231 – psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fdrm0000059 …

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“Compassion motivates people to go out of their way to help the physical, mental or emotional pains of another and themselves. Compassion is often regarded as having sensitivity, an emotional aspect to suffering…“Compassion involves “feeling for another” and is a precursor to empathy, the “feeling as another”… compassion is the desire to alleviate another’s [or your own] suffering…” – Wikipedia

“In lucid meditation, we are already awake, yet we try to connect with the power of the dream realm. Translated into waking life, this ability, cultivated during meditation, develops the power of our subtle senses. This capacity affirms our essential unity with all of life. It cultivates compassion, awareness, and a sense of our being in the flow of things.” – Excerpted from the book Living in the SuperMind—From Personal Mind to Spiritual Mind by Dr. Maurie Pressman and provided by the publisher: https://manyhands.com/eyes-on-books/opening-to-the-supermind-through-lucid-dreaming-and-lucid-meditation/

When you wake up in a dream in this sense you empathize with the perspectives of other self-aspects rather than simply accept the consensus reality of the dream at face value. In some important respects, this is more powerful than lucid dreaming because it amplifies the six core qualities.  It is compassionate, in that it strives to empathize with the perspectives of other sentient beings appearing in your dream.” – From the text DREAM YOGA – Joseph Dillard – http://www.dreamyoga.com/challengeslucid-dreaming/  

“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside somebody else’s skin… Dreaming can be a school for this kind of compassion… “The shock of realizing I am in a black man’s body makes me conscious I am dreaming. Now lucid, I stay with the dream… I am fascinated by discovering what it feels like to have your genitals outside your body… Now I’m walking down the street, in this black man’s body… I smell delicious food aromas wafting from a restaurant… Two white men at the door tell…“Sure you can come in, boy. You can eat watermelon.” … I feel boiling anger rising inside me… I pull out of the dream.”  I asked Norma how she felt about this dream adventure inside a black man’s body. “I felt exhilarated,” she told me without hesitation. “I felt sad about the racism that black man had to contend with, yet grateful that I could share a part of his life.”  “If only all of us could have this experience of being inside other people’s skins, we could get rid of a lot of our prejudices and social problems.” – Belifnet – Posted by Robert Moss – http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/dreamgates/2012/05/compassionate-dreaming-living-inside-somebody-elses-skin.html

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“Induction of lucid dreams: A systematic review of evidence”

– by Tadas Stumbrys, Daniel Erlacher, Melanie Schädlich, Michael Schredl –boris.unibe.ch/39251/1/21_LucidDreamInductionReview_23_revised.pdf

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“Induction of lucid dreams: A systematic review of evidence”

“…Future directions

The following ideas, we believe, are worth to tackle and pursue further. The techniques that showed to be most effective, such as Tholey’s combined technique or MILD, should be tested further and the circumstances under which they are most successful should be explored (e.g. in combination with WBTB). Also the methods that demonstrated some initial success but were not further investigated (e.g. WILD techniques, vibro-/electro-tactile, vestibular stimulations) must be more thoroughly tested. Application of the Acetylcholinesterase inhibitor class drugs, such as donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmin, definitely warrant further investigation, as well as new prospective yet untested methods like tDCS, TMS or GVS (Noreika et al, 2010). …” – – by Tadas Stumbrys, Daniel Erlacher, Melanie Schädlich, Michael Schredl –boris.unibe.ch/39251/1/21_LucidDreamInductionReview_23_revised.pdf

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TheRaRaRabbit

A tall man in a short man's body.

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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley IRB# 907-90991

This survey is being conducted by:

Principal Investigator Gregory Scott Sparrow, EdD, Professor at The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley

Co-PI Ralph Carlson, PhD, Professor The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley

In consultation with Ryan Hurd, MA, Lecturer in Psychology and Holistic Studies, John F. Kennedy University

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