I have spent my life cultivating hypnopompic and hypnogogic states...
this, which supports lucid dreaming, is my best way to access mystical
states... mindfulness meditation, as I practice it, can lapse into
these states if I allow it.
I was put off by the drug-culture of my peers in the 60's/70's for many
reasons, one might have included a strong steeping in rational/linear
modes of thinking/being, in spite of an early discovery of and
indulgence in lucid dreaming.
I know many who identify as "evening" or "morning" people, but there is
evidence that before the industrial revolution brought ubiquitous
artificial light (city gas or kerosene lamps, then electric lights, now
flickering TV/computer/phone screens), "segmented sleep" was the
standard. It was common (almost ubiquitous?) for people to go to sleep
soon after dark and then wake in the middle of the night for an hour or
two of wakefulness, referred to as "Dorvielle" in French Speaking
cultures or "wake-sleep", a somewhat hypnotic state (perhaps a slow
slide from hypnopompia to hypnogagia and back again?).
Hot climates/cultures have an alternative "segmented sleep" wherein the
heat of the day is reserved for a "siesta" with both evening and early
morning reserved for taking care of business when it is cooler. I
think of a siesta as being somewhat lighter and more lucid-dream
conducive than "night sleep".
- Steve
On 1/2/19 10:07 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
There's also this thing one can do called `sleeping in', which tends to
increase the probability of dream memory and/or lucid dreaming, at least for
me. A built-in neuroplasticity mechanism complete with psychedelic phenomena
and a safety mechanism of motor system deactivation. (
On 1/2/19, 10:03 AM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson"
<friam-boun...@redfish.com on behalf of nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote:
For instance, I have never dreamed about what mushrooms might do for me.
Is that a fair statement of a difference between us?
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