Since "reality" is merely perception based on input through the five senses, and thus merely a subjective experience dictated by the rules established over thousands of years of evolution, it seems that "reality" might shift along with perceptions.

Case in point: If you were a non-believer in psychic phenomenon, but were to experience such phenomenon with your own eyes (and somehow manage NOT to rationalize it away out of fear), would your perception shift to the point that your reality would begin to allow such phenomenon to occur on a regular basis? We're talking WITHOUT drugs here people.

We can all point to experiences of having thought of something that re-occurs back to us from some other source. A thought, idea, concept, creation, dream, or other seemingly personal thought experience that shows up on the public radar screen - pick your media: tv, radio, film, book, etc - as if we'd written it ourselves. Many point to these experiences as proof of Jung's Collective Unconscious, a vast pool of knowledge and inspiration that we all pull from.

Now consider Collective Dreaming. According to some dream guides, there are "primitive" tribes in South Pacific island nations that supposedly dream together. They awake and discuss what they all saw, and base a large part of their waking life on these dreams.

Could it be that modern, "civilized" society has managed to clamp a lid on our ability to create connection to eachother, or to dim the clarity to the point that the fleeting images and sensations of psychic connection we DO experience are downplayed as psychological anomolies? Have we relied so heavily on rational thought that we've effectively created a psychic block to these abilities which may be inherent - and perhaps essential - to human existence?

We look at other species and observe fascinating traits such as instinct. The way a whale knows where to migrate, the way a sheep dog knows how to herd, the way a bear knows how to fish - usually without instruction from a parent. Or how about the way birds fly in formation, shifting direction as if with one mind? There are many instances of collective thought in nature, but for some reason, it's discounted in our own.

Perhaps there's a vast, untapped potential of human existence that we are ignoring. And not just passively, either. Look at how things like dreaming, imagination, creativity, and deja vu are discounted as the whimsy of feeble or un-serious minds.

Lucid Dreaming may have important implications barely fathomable to most humans on the planet today. Through Collective or Lucid Dreaming, we may be able to time travel, to "remote view", to communicate faster and more completely than the Internet could even ever hope to come close to. The brain is an incredible device, severely underused and more often depleted of its power - by dumbed-down TV, mind-terror and control tactics dolled out by those seeking to keep power, mind-numbing drugs, and self-delusion. Escapism has hijacked the mind's ability to expand to new and enlightenened consciousness, and is fueled by those who would like to keep it that way.

Why?

Because a free mind can be a dangerous thing to those who want to exert control.

More to come...

Lucid Dreaming

Step one in any Lucid Dreaming program will probably have you journaling to become more conscious of your dreams. Step two recommends a technique or two to help actually become conscious while dreaming - such as looking at the palm of your hand IN YOUR DREAM, thus "waking up" while remaining asleep. Step three involves taking some kind of conscious control of your dream after step two, thus coming into a true state of Lucid Dreaming.

What I've been interested in is steps four and five.

To me, step four has been meeting other people and entities in my lucid dreams. After all, we share psychic space just as we share physical space, so running into folks during your trips through the ether is not out of the ordinary. It is possible to literally meet up and share dreams.

Step five is about building literal dream communities.

My first experiences in these communities were in my early 20s, when I repeatedly visited the same massive construct in a dream state that I entered over and over. This construct can best be described as a huge stadium. I can vividly remember being situated on a "point" in the stadium, and being able to look around this enormous "space" and seeing thousands of faces around me. We were all gathered there, aware of ourselves and eachother in this dream construct. It felt like some kind of transit bay, or a sort of briefing room, or in this case stadium. There would be "information" that beamed down from above, and we all received this information on a psychic level, though it was almost like hearing someone speak over a loud-speaker. I could lucidly look around the stadium and recognize faces that I'd seen before; either faces from other dreamtimes or faces of friends or family from my waking life.

The next kind of dream constructs I can recall visiting were more of a sexual nature. They were in abandoned buildings, usually in the basement, and while initially scary turned out to be quite incredibly hot. Some were in shower-type tiled bathrooms, while others were constructed to look like ancient Roman baths, with marble, high arched ceilings, and lots of wispy steam. There were literally as many different kinds of constructs as there were minds to imagine them, and I got the distinct feeling that many of these constructs were thousands of waking years old, that beings had been visiting them for a very, very long time, and that there were certain beings among them who were aware of my inquisitive presence.

And that's when I began to become intrigued with the idea of buildng a dream construct of my own.

More to come...