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- From: dbsbanka@solomon.technet.sg (Teo Pit Koon)
- Subject: Re: Reality Test
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:13:26 GMT
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- Greeetings :-)-
-
- Erik Bailey (ebail@ctp.com) wrote:
-
- >I had another interesting dream over the weekend. I was riding my bike
- >along a narrow ledge high up on a building, and the ledge in front of me
- >suddenly ended. I knew I couldn't go backward, because there was no room to
- >turn my bike around. So, I had to decide whether to jump. I agonized over
- >the decision, because I couldn't decide whether I was dreaming. But I think
- >I remembered the cannonballs, and these discussions, and said "What the
- >hell" and jumped. IT WAS GREAT!!! An *amazing* feeling of flying (I've
- >never skydived, but I imagine it was similar). BTW - I didn't end up
- >hitting the ground, I basically woke up at that point.
-
- It happens all the time. Despite the petty little doubts we
- harbour in our mind, it usually turns out all right, if it feels right
- to jump. Flying is perhaps one of the most enjoyable experience in astral
- land...
-
- >>>It would be nice to have a simple "reality check." I've heard in alt.dreams
- >>>(yeah, I know, this is drifting a bit from oobe) that perpetually asking
- >>>yourself "am I dreaming?" during *all* phases of your life will enhance
- >>>reality checks, but I keep forgetting to do this! :-(
- >>
- >> That would be a little bit paranoid, wouldn't it? I do believe
- >>(have believed it all along :-) that there exists a ridiculously simple
- >>solution (from a 4D point of view) just crying out to be discovered. Well,
- >>maybe, some day, some where, someone out there will say: "S-m-i-l-e,
- >>I've got it" :-).
- >
- >Paranoid, perhaps, but I suspect it works, in the same way that a dream
- >diary enhances dream recall -- it just gets embedded into your system. As
- >for a simple foolproof system, net.immortality awaits the one who finds it!
- >:-)
-
- Well, if it works, it sure take a l....o......n......g...........,l
- ........o........n.....g l...........o...............n....g
- t....i.....m............e. (for my case at least). I am still waiting
- for it to work :).
-
- The star gazer ***
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