Here is what I posted in the Waking Life forums:
Alright, I'm just as skeptical as the next guy, but I had an amazing dream that I woke up from at 1am today. The memory is still a bit blurry, but here is what I have:
I was driving on the highway, I pull over, a couple of guys approach, they shoot me, I die in my dream, but I'm still alive in a conscious sense, so I notice I'm myself but living a different life in a different place, and I go through death again, and I'm still me living a different yet similar life, and then it turns blurry but I remember things speed up until I have an overwhelming wave of energy go through my body, and then I remember understanding that death = rebirth, and just dwelling on the fact that I understand that, and I still have this strong energy, and I don't know wether I am awake or within the dream, and I finally wake up into reality and the energy fades away.
It's now 1am, I check the clock and interestingly, I remember Waking Life, and the resemblence is spooky. So for 30 minutes afterwards, my mind is very clear and I really can't think about anything but the dream, and then I'm scared to go back to sleep because I'm afraid of having the death experience again, but then I clam myself, rationalize the dream a little more, and go back to sleep.
I've never had a dream like this, I've had lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, but never a dream were I went on beyond death. I don't die in my dream often, but when I do, I wake up right at the point of death, but in this dream, I went well past a couple dream deaths.
Now, here are my rationalizations:
I've been thinking Waking Life and Philosophy way too much in the past week.
Or, I somehow blocked my airway while sleepign, C02 built up, and my brain in it's plight for oxygen created this death experience and I finally woke up. (Although I don't recall gasping for air aftwer waking up)
Or, I've seen waking life and met now 3 interesting philisophical people I had never met before and discovered these forums all within the last 2 weeks. And with all this take about "being prepared for something" etc., it really was a mystical dream with a message.
Well, all I can say is I come away from the experience with a positive outlook. It was spooky, but in a revealing way not a negative way. I'm less afraid of death having had this dream.
peace
Alright, I'm just as skeptical as the next guy, but I had an amazing dream that I woke up from at 1am today. The memory is still a bit blurry, but here is what I have:
I was driving on the highway, I pull over, a couple of guys approach, they shoot me, I die in my dream, but I'm still alive in a conscious sense, so I notice I'm myself but living a different life in a different place, and I go through death again, and I'm still me living a different yet similar life, and then it turns blurry but I remember things speed up until I have an overwhelming wave of energy go through my body, and then I remember understanding that death = rebirth, and just dwelling on the fact that I understand that, and I still have this strong energy, and I don't know wether I am awake or within the dream, and I finally wake up into reality and the energy fades away.
It's now 1am, I check the clock and interestingly, I remember Waking Life, and the resemblence is spooky. So for 30 minutes afterwards, my mind is very clear and I really can't think about anything but the dream, and then I'm scared to go back to sleep because I'm afraid of having the death experience again, but then I clam myself, rationalize the dream a little more, and go back to sleep.
I've never had a dream like this, I've had lucid dreams, sleep paralysis, but never a dream were I went on beyond death. I don't die in my dream often, but when I do, I wake up right at the point of death, but in this dream, I went well past a couple dream deaths.
Now, here are my rationalizations:
I've been thinking Waking Life and Philosophy way too much in the past week.
Or, I somehow blocked my airway while sleepign, C02 built up, and my brain in it's plight for oxygen created this death experience and I finally woke up. (Although I don't recall gasping for air aftwer waking up)
Or, I've seen waking life and met now 3 interesting philisophical people I had never met before and discovered these forums all within the last 2 weeks. And with all this take about "being prepared for something" etc., it really was a mystical dream with a message.
Well, all I can say is I come away from the experience with a positive outlook. It was spooky, but in a revealing way not a negative way. I'm less afraid of death having had this dream.
peace
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