Underpass to inner self

 As I was exploring my inner self, I accidentally saw this book, "Lucid Dreaming: A Gateway to the Inner Self." 

Our brain needs to rest in order to organize the information it has acquired all through the day. We put in all our efforts to assimilate information, considering all possible angles. In this course, our brain tires, and hence it has to look at other things (i.e., get distracted) or go to sleep when our mind sets itself free from all thought controls. Hence, it is possible to solve problems while we sleep. 

In this section, I was reminded of all the discoveries that were first dreamt of, and then they got up and discovered them. 

1. Einstein's theory of relativity

Once, Einstein, in his dream, was strolling through a farm and encountered cows near an electric fence. Now, these cows jumped simultaneously as the fence gave them a shock. A farmer standing at the other end of the fence viewed this move as a Mexican wave (cows were jumping one by one).  This gave him the idea of the theory of relativity, in which he says that events look different depending on where we’re standing because of the time the light takes to reach our eyes.

2. Mendeleev’s periodic table

As I was trying to put up his stories about the discovery of the periodic table, I picked up a few things from novelist Paul Stranthen, who reconstructed Mendeleev's diaries and letters. Mendeleev was consumed by the pursuit of a classification system to organize the elements, but he struggled to articulate his thoughts: "It's all clear in my mind, but I can't put it into words." He leaned forward, resting his shaggy head on his arms, fell asleep, and was quickly carried into a dream. "I saw in a dream a table where all the elements fell into place as required. Awakening, I immediately wrote it down on a piece of paper."

3. Niels Bohr’s atomic model

We all know Bohr's model is the most accepted one. When people were saying the atomic model is like a pudding, Bohr imagined electrons moving around the nucleus just like a solar system in his dream. So when he got up, he experimented with this and found it to be true. 

4. Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan

This Indian mathematician had no formal training, but yet he made an extraordinary contribution to mathematics, and almost all his claims were proven to be correct. Ramanujan attributes his mathematical discoveries to the Hindu deity Namakkal, who visited him in dreams, presenting intricate formulas in a scroll that he validated upon waking.

To date, I was not very aware of lucid dreaming, but as I am going through these pages, I have already started loving lucid dreaming and trying to know what I really want. I feel it is more powerful to discover yourself. The author and many others have shared their insight that in lucid dreaming, we encounter symbolic representations of many aspects of ourselves, like our hopes, fears, desires, and other emotions. Lucid dreaming is profound stuff. Those who have experienced it can relate to it quite well and often use it to discover themselves. As we attain conscious awareness within dreams, the conventional perspective faces significant tests. Delving deeper into the unconscious, we encounter experiences, hinting at a broader concept of the'self' beyond the waking ego. 

There are much more things to explore about lucid dreaming, but as of now, I will end up just enlisting the five stages of lucid dreaming: 

Stage I: Personal play, pleasure, and pain avoidance

Lucid dreamers often delight in their awareness, experiencing touch and sight vividly while analyzing dreams' resemblance to reality. Their primary aim is to sustain lucidity by regulating emotions and maintaining focused awareness.

Stage II: manipulation, movement, and me

In lucid dreams, dreamers develop enhanced movement abilities like flying, akin to Superman, occasionally resorting to physical actions like swimming. They start altering dream elements and perceiving dream characters as manifestations or toys.In lucid dreams, dreamers develop enhanced movement abilities like flying, akin to Superman, occasionally resorting to physical actions like swimming. They start altering dream elements and perceiving dream characters as manifestations or toys.

Stage III: Power, Purpose, and Primacy

In this phase, the lucid dreamer experiments, alters the dream environment, and asserts control over the dream world. They may feel empowered, mastering the intricacies of navigating the dreaming realm.

Stage IV: Re-reflection, reaching out, and Wonder

Encountering the origin, the dreamer confronts the conscious unconscious. Previous beliefs may shift. Challenges arise as the lucid dreamer grapples with this profound mystery, reconsidering assumptions and confronting metaphysical questions. In this advanced stage, they may either overlook or embrace the concealed awareness to probe diverse realities.

Stage V: experiencing awareness

The lucid dreamer grows intensely interested in understanding the basis of both dream and waking realities, transcending lucid dreaming, beliefs, and expectations. This phase emerges beyond direct control, reflecting the dreamer's curiosity and intent, leading to a profound sense of interconnectedness and unity with all awareness.

Lucid dreams does not ends here it leads to exploration the psyche. As dreams shift, so does the act of dreaming. Describing dreams as illusory echoes the Sanskrit term maya, but psychiatrist and philosopher Gordon Globus suggests it implies more. Maya, rooted in "ma," meaning to make, encompasses creative power and the process of creation. Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty views it as formative creativity, echoing Jan Gonda's notion of converting ideas into tangible reality.

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Find my blogchatter A2Z 2024 series:

A- Arms of addiction

B- Babbling busyness

C- Cunning complacency and craving certaininty

D- Daring dreams(ambition)

E- Erratic ilk of arrogance

F- Fraudulent Forgetting

G- Gullible guilt and shame

H-Hankering Happiness pursuit

I- Infringes of information technology

J- Jarring Fatalism

K- Kraken-like projective defence

L- Lucrative masks and labels

M- Mesmerizing Materialism

N- Nostalgia-the niche to ditch the inner self

O- Out of hiding

P- Pedantic Perfectionism

Q- Qualities of inner self

R- Religion and science camouflage

S- Scouting oneself

T- Tyranny of Fantasy

U- Underpass to inner self

V- Vacuous Victimhood

W- Wheel horse in order to hide what rocks

X- Xynolith in me-The anxiety

Y- 

Z- Zest O! Zest! why do you fade in discovering you inner self