7. DREAMING
 
WHAT HAPPENS IN NORMAL DREAMING?
 
THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT SHIFTS SLIGHTLY TO THE LEFT IN A NATURAL MANNER
..Dreaming began with a simple observation. The old seers became aware that in dreams the AP shifts slightly to the left in a most natural manner. That point indeed relaxes when man sleeps and all kinds of unused emanations begin to glow. FFW,192 the assemblage point becomes very easily displaced during sleep (gently and naturally POS, 50) in the course of ordinary dreams, the assemblage point becomes easily displaced by itself to another position on the surface or in the interior of the luminous egg...TAOD,18,19
 
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ARE IN NORMAL SLEEP?
 
DURING NORMAL SLEEP, THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT SHIFTS ALONG EITHER SIDE OF MAN'S BAND ACCOMPANIED BY SLUMBER
During normal sleep, the shift of the AP runs along either edge of man's band. Such shifts are always coupled with slumber. FFW,270.
 
SHIFTS INDUCED BY PRACTICE OCCUR ALONG THE MIDSECTION OF MAN'S BAND AND IS NOT COUPLED WITH SLUMBER, YET THE DREAMER IS ASLEEP
Shifts that are induced by practice occur along the midsection of man's band and are not coupled with slumber, yet a dreamer is asleep. FFW,270.
 
WHAT DREAMING IS NOT
 
DREAMING IS NOT JUST HAVING DREAMS; NEITHER IS IT DAYDREAMING OR WISHING OR IMAGINING
Dreaming is not just having dreams; neither is it daydreaming or wishing or imagining. TAOD,29
 
WHAT IS DREAMING?
 
1. PRACTICES TO RECONDITION OUR ENERGY SO THAT WE CAN
INCREASE OUR PERCEPTION (MOVE THE AP)
 
DREAMING SYSTEMATICALLY MOVES OUR AP
Believing that our energetic conditioning is correctable, don Juan stated that sorcerers of ancient times developed a set of practices designed to recondition our energetic capabilities to perceive. They called this set of practices the art of dreaming. TAOD, ii Dreaming seems to be a sensation-a process in our bodies, an awareness in our minds. TAOD ix.....The awareness of sorcerers grows when they do dreaming. TAOD,101 A warrior seeks power and one of the avenues to power is dreaming. JTI,91Dreaming is the art of displacing the assemblage point at will from its habitual position in order to enhance and enlarge the scope of what can be perceived. TAOD, 19 dreaming is concerned with the displacement of the assemblage point TAOD,69.,161...Dreaming is the most effective way to move the AP. FFW,191...through discipline it is possible to cultivate and perform, in the course of sleep and ordinary dreams, a systematic displacement of the assemblage point. TAOD,18,19..they called this control of the the natural AP shift during sleep "control dreaming" or "the art of handling the dreaming body."...to control that shift does not mean in any way to direct it, but to keep the AP fixed at the position where it naturally moves in sleep...FFW,192 in dreaming there is really no way of directing the movement of the AP; the only thing that dictates that shift is the inner strength or weakness of dreamers. FFW,194 ...everytime this control of your dream is exercised the inner strength gets fortified. Fortified inner strength in turn makes the AP shift into dreaming positions which are more and more suitable for fostering sobriety, in other words, dreams by themselves become more and more manageable, even orderly..FFW,199.
 
2. BEING AWARE IN OUR DREAMS AND HAVING CONTROL
 
IN DREAMING THE PERSON HAS VOLITION AND CONTROL
....Our art as ordinary people is that we know how to hold the image of what we are looking at. ...we do that but we don't know how. We just do it; that is, our bodies do it. In dreaming we have to do the same thing, except in dreaming we have to learn how to do it... we have to struggle not to look but to merely glance and yet hold the image. SRP,144 Dreaming was in essence the transformation of ordinary dreams into affairs involving volition. Dreamers, by engaging their attention of the nagual and focusing it on the items and events of their ordinary dreams, change those dreams into dreaming. SRP,242. ....Only through immobilizing our attention can one turn an ordinary dream into dreaming. EG,139..... with our attention we can hold the images of a dream in the same way we hold the images of the world.. the art of the dreamer is the art of attention. Cc,SRP,239...As soon as one learns to do dreaming, any dream that one can remember is no longer a dream, it's dreaming. EG,140...The control and utilization of dreams. POS,14 the purpose of dreaming, which control and dreaming. JTI,112. dreaming is the not-doing of sleep. EG,23. The dreamers do not lack sleep, but the effect of dreaming seems to be an increase of waking time, owing to the use of an alleged extra body, the dreaming body. EG,23. You can have as many dreams as you want or as many as you are capable of, but you must exercise adequate control and not wake up in the world we know. TAOD,40
 
IN DREAMING WE EXERCISE OUR ABILITY TO BE AWARE IN OUR DREAMS/DREAMING ATTENTION
the dreaming attention is the condition of being aware of the items in our dream. It is the key to every movement in the sorcerers' world. CC.TAOD, 29 Exercising the dreaming attention is the essential point in dreaming TAOD,35 the control one acquires over one's dreams upon fixating the assemblage point on any new position to which it has been displaced during dreams....an incomprehensible facet of awareness that exists by itself, waiting for a moment when we would entice it, a moment when we would give it purpose; it is a veiled faculty that everyone of us has in reserve but never has the opportunity to use in everyday life. TAOD,21,22....as we tighten the control over our dreams, we tighten the mastery over our dreaming attention....the dreaming attention comes into play when it is called, when it is given a purpose..(not a process which leads to an end result) It is rather an awakening. Something suddenly becomes suddenly functional. TAOD, 34 dreaming seemed to begin as a unique state of awareness arrived at by focusing the residue of consciousness (second attention), which one still has when asleep, on the elements, or the features, of one's dream... EG,135. The stronger and the more impeccable the dreamers were, the farther they could project their second attention into the unknown and the longer their dreaming projection would last. (a matter of energy).EG,265.
...It has to do with the unknown. It comes about when unused emanations inside man's cocoon are utilized.... in order to utilize those unused emanations, one needs uncommon, elaborate tactics that require supreme discipline and concentration.. the concentration needed to be aware that one is having a dream is the forerunner of the second attention. That concentration is a form of consciousness that is not in the same category as the consciousness needed to deal with the daily world. FFW,127,128
 
DREAMS CANNOT BE INTERFERED WITH/DREAMS MUST FOLLOW THEIR OWN COURSE
dreams cannot be interfered with, nor can they be commanded by the conscious effort of the dreamer, and yet the shift of the AP must obey the dreamer's command- a contradiction that cannot be rationalized but must be resolved in practice..... when dreams are consciously or semiconsciously manipulated, the AP immediately returns to its usual place. ...interfering with dreams was interfering with the natural shift of the AP... Let the dream follow its own course...FFW,193.
 
DREAMING POSITION IS ANY NEW POSITION TO WHICH THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT HAS BEEN DISPLACED DURING SLEEP.
Dreaming position is......any new position to which the assemblage point has been displaced during sleep. (TAOD,??), (FFW,194)
 
THE FARTHER THE SHIFT OF THE AP INTO THE LEFT SIDE.., THE MORE VIVID AND BIZARRE THE DREAM.
The farther the shift of the AP into the left side.., the more vivid and bizarre the dream. FFW,193. dreams are totally associated with that displacement the greater the displacement, the more unusual the dream... TAOD,18,19
 
TO CONTROL THE DREAM MEANS TO FIXATE THE AP ON A CERTAIN SPOT/COHESIVENESS
Dreaming practices is a way to learn how to have cohesion.Dreaming does it by forcing dreams to fixate the assemblage point. (We fixate it by practicing the techniques of dreaming.... sustaining the view in a dream (this means you are holding the dreaming position of your assemblage point TAOD,70) or changing dreams at will) ....through your dreaming practices you are really exercising your capacity to be cohesive; that is to say, you are exercising your capacity to maintain a new energy shape by holding the assemblage point fixed on the position of any particular dream you are having ...(we maintain cohesiveness) by the clarity of our perception. The clearer the view of our dreams, the greater the cohesion. TAOD,70Those exercises were designed to keep my AP fixed at the place where it had moved in my sleep. FFW,194.... (These are tasks to train the second attention. )EG,141.... All dreamers can direct is the fixation of their AP. Seers are like fisherman equipped with a line that casts itself wherever it may; the only thing they can do is keep the line anchored at the place it sinks...FFW,194.
.. to wake up while dreaming while the AP is fixed in a new position. FFW,194.
 
THE DREAMING ATTENTION, THE ENERGY BODY, THE SECOND ATTENTION, THE RELATIONSHIP WITH INORGANIC BEINGS, THE DREAMING EMISSARY, THEY ARE ALL BY-PRODUCTS OF ACQUIRING COHESION; IN OTHER WORDS, THEY ARE ALL BY-PRODUCTS OF FIXATING THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT ON A NUMBER OF DREAMING POSITIONS.
The dreaming attention, the energy body, the second attention, the relationship with inorganic beings, the dreaming emissary, they are all by-products of acquiring cohesion; in other words, they are all by-products of fixating the assemblage point on a number of dreaming positions. TAOD,69,70.. That the only thing that counts in making that shift (into the dreaming body) is anchoring the second attention. EG,141.
 
THE DREAMING BODY AND THE BARRIER OF PERCEPTION ARE POSITIONS OF THE AP AND ARE ACCOMPLISHED AFTER YEARS OF PRACTICE
the dreaming body and the barrier of perception are positions of the AP, and that knowledge is as vital to seers as knowing how to read and write is to modern man. Both are accomplishments attained after years of practice. FFW,290.
 
A DREAMER IS BY DEFINITION OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CONCERNS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
What she meant by that was that a dreamer by definition is outside the boundaries of the concerns of everyday life. EG,262
 
DREAMING CAN BE AS REAL AS EVERYDAY LIFE
...what you call dreams are real for a warrior. Dreaming is real for a warrior because in it he can act deliberately, he can choose and reject, he can select from a variety of items those which lead to power, and then he can manipulate them and use them, while in an ordinary dream he cannot act deliberately. In dreaming you have power; you can change things; you may find out countless concealed facts; you can control whatever you want. JTI,92...
a man hunting for power has almost no limits in his dreaming. JTI,98.. dreaming entailed a peculiar control over one's dream to the extent that the experiences undergone in them and those lived in one's waking hours acquired the same pragmatic valence. The sorcerers allegation was that under th impact of dreaming the ordinary criteria to differentiate a dream from reality became inoperative. TOP,16. Dreamers move onward without plan or thought; they jump into the reality of the world or into the reality of dreams TSC,231 you are dreaming, but all this is real. So real that it can kill us by disintegrating us... TSC,248 Dreaming is real when one has succeeded in bringing everything into focus. Then there is no difference between what you do when you sleep and what you do when you are sleeping...JTI,99
 
HAVING A DREAM THREE TIMES IS A RULE OF THUMB TO INDICATE TRUE DREAMING
For true dreaming, he gave me a rule of thumb; if I should have the vision three times... I had to pay extraordinary attention to it; otherwise, a neophyte's attempts were merely a stepping stone to building the second attention. EG,50.
 
3. DREAMING IS USED TO DEVELOP THE DOUBLE
 
THE TRUE GOAL OF DREAMING WAS TO PERFECT THE DOUBLE
the true goal of dreaming is to perfect the energy body. TAOD,42. (first and second gates is to forge the EB and the third gate is to let it out) TAOD,14 Dreaming is the art of tempering the energy body, of making it supple and coherent by gradually exercising it... through dreaming we condense the energy body until its capable of perceiving. Dreaming is a way of arriving at the energy body. TAOD,31
 
A DREAMER CAN CREATE AND PROJECT THE DREAMING BODY AND BE IN TWO DISTANT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME
...a dreamer can create and project the dreaming body and be in two distant places at the same time. POS, 48
 
DESCRIPTION OF WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR LUMINOUS BALL DURING DREAMING
What takes place in dreaming is that the right and left side awareness are wrapped up together. Both of them come to rest in one single bundle in the dent, the depressed center of the second attention. EG,258. (see luminous ball.. massaging the SA).. the feeling of being rolled up like a cigar and placed inside the dent of the second attention was the result of merging my right and left awareness into one in which the order of predominance has been switched and the left has gained supremacy. EG,259. In order to have perceived the nagual, you must have used your double. You were asleep and yet aware at the same time. TSC,140.
 
4. DREAMING IS A WAY TO GET TO THE NAGUAL,SAFELY
 
DREAMING IS A DOOR TO THE NAGUAL
Through dreaming we can perceive other worlds,...(freedom to perceive worlds beyond the imagination. TAOD,81)... Dreams are, if not a door, a hatch into other worlds... dreams are a two way street. Our awareness goes through that hatch into other realms, and those other realms send scouts into our dreams....a hatch into other realms of perception.. TAOD,29 Dreaming practices in the world of everyday life..made perceiving energy directly dreamlike, instead of totally chaotic, until a moment when something rearranged perception and the sorcerer found himself facing a new world. TAOD,79 dreaming gives us the fluidity to enter into other worlds by destroying our sense of knowing this world. TAOD,73 ...the door to the second attention...the dreaming attention is like a river feeding into the second attention (ocean).. ??,?? ..dreaming is naturally a way to store the second attention. EG,141. A warrior's greatest accomplishment in the second attention is dreaming. EG,209.
That's why the Nagual taught us dreaming (to not injure the luminous layers) Dreaming tightens the layers. When sorcerers learn dreaming they tie together their two attentions and there is no more need for that center to push out. SRP,254 Dreaming is a practical aid devised by sorcerers..they sought the usefulness of the nagual by training their tonal to let go for a moment, so to speak, and then grab again. This statement doesn't make sense to you. But that's what you've been doing all along; training yourself to let go without losing all of your marbles. Dreaming..is the crown of the sorcerers' efforts, the ultimate use of the nagual. TOP,242. Dreaming was in fact a rational state ..in dreaming, the rational awareness, is wrapped up inside the left side awareness in order to give the dreamer a sense of sobriety and rationality; but that the influence of rationality has to be minimal and used only as an inhibiting mechanism to protect the dreamer the dreamer from excesses and bizarre undertakings. EG,261.Dreaming is the only way to gather the second attention without injuring it, without making it menacing and awesome. SRP,249. there is a pathway to reach it, however, which is available to every one of us, but which only sorcerers take, and that pathway is through dreaming. SRP,242.....the second attention is available to all of us...dreaming brings down the barriers that surround and insulate the second attention. TAOD,51 The second attention is like an ocean, and the dreaming attention is like a river feeding into it. It is the condition of being aware of total worlds, total like our world is total. TAOD, 29.
 
5. WE ARE TRYING TO FIND ENERGY-GENERATING ITEMS IN OUR DREAMS
 
BY FINDING ADEQUATE POSITIONS OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT ENERGY GENERATING ITEMS BECOME AVAILABLE TO US
..we intend to find adequate positions of the assemblage point, positions that permit us to percieve energy-generating items in dreamlike states. TAOD,164 a process by which dreamers isolate dream conditions in which they can find energy-generating elements... dreaming is `an energy-generating condition...ordinary dreams are the honing devices used to train the assemblage point to reach the position that creates this energy-generating condition we call dreaming. TAOD,173
 
LOOKING FOR INORGANIC BEINGS/SCOUTS IN OUR DREAMS
 
WHAT ARE SCOUTS?
 
SCOUTS...ENERGY CHARGES THAT GET MIXED WITH THE ITEMS OF OUR NORMAL DREAMS. THEY ARE BURSTS OF FOREIGN ENERGY THAT COME INTO OUR DREAMS, AND WE INTERPRET THEM AS ITEMS FAMILIAR OR UNFAMILIAR TO US
Scouts...energy charges that get mixed with the items of our normal dreams. They are bursts of foreign energy that come into our dreams, and we interpret them as items familiar or unfamiliar to us. ...the mind takes those currents and turns them into parts of our dreams. TAOD,29 He said that among the multitude of items in our dreams, there exist real energetic interferences, things that have been put in our dreams extraneously, by an alien force. TAOD,46,47
 
AVERAGE PEOPLE HAVE MANY SCOUTS
..average people are subject to (more energy scouts..when the dreams are normal) ..average people have stupendously strong barriers (worries about self) to protect themselves. The stronger the barrier, the stronger the attack. TAOD,85
 
WE WANT TO FIND AND FOLLOW THOSE FOREIGN ELEMENTS
To able to find them (foreign energy elements) and follow them is sorcery. TAOD,46,47 Sorcerers are aware of those currents of foreign energy...they notice them and strive to isolate them from the normal items of their dreams. TAOD,29
 
WHY DO WE WANT TO FOLLOW THE SCOUTS?
 
THE INORGANIC BEINGS SUPPLY THEIR HIGH AWARENESS, AND SORCERERS SUPPLY THEIR HEIGHTENED AWARENESS AND HIGH ENERGY
If we follow them to their source, (with the organic beings' superb consciousness, TAOD,49) they serve us as guides into areas of such mystery that sorcerers shiver at the mention of such a possibility....TAOD,32 (the friendship) ..consists of a mutual exchange of energy. The inorganic beings supply their high awareness, and sorcerers supply their heightened awareness and high energy...(but this forms a dependency) TAOD,52
 
HOW DO WE FIND SCOUTS?
 
SORCERERES ENTICE THEM IN DREAMING.(BY THE ACT ITSELF) ..SUSTAINING THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT'S SHIFT CREATES A DISTINCTIVE ENERGY CHARGE WHICH ATTRACTS THEIR ATTENTION
..those beings are enticed by us,or better yet, compelled to interact with us... sorcereres entice them in dreaming.(by the act itself) ..sustaining the assemblage point's shift creates a distinctive energy charge which attracts their attention by going through the two gates you have made your bidding known to them...(followed) by a sign..either an appearance or some interference in your dreams (energy jolt maybe) TAOD,46,47 They isolate scouts by the exercise and control of their dreaming attention. (energy bodies isolate the dream scouts) TAOD,32 At one moment, our dreaming attention discovers them among the items of a dream and focuses on them, then the total dream collapses, leaving only the foreign enemy. TAOD,30
 
AT FIRST THE INORGANIC BEINGS MAY CAUSE GREAT FEAR
Since at the begining of dreaming we have no experience whatsoever with them, they might imbue us with fear beyond measure. That is a real danger to us. Through the channel of fear, they can follow us to the daily world, with disastrous results for us...Fear can settle down in our lives, and we would have to be mavericks to deal with it. Inorganic beings can be worse than a pest. Through fear they can easily drive us raving mad.... (however).. (sorcerers) turn them into allies..form associations..extraordinary friendships TAOD,47 But it isn't desirable for dreamers to indulge in searching for scouts. TAOD,32 Avoid at any cost sending a feeling of fear or morbidity. The secret is not to fear them.. The intent one has to send out to them has to be of power and abandon. TAOD,47,48 (see also water and FFW, ch #6.)
 
OTHER SCOUTS
 
TAOD,177,178,179
 
STAGES OF DREAMING
 
STAGES ARE BLURRED UNDER NORMAL AWARENESS
Under normal awareness that transition is blurred. but different from (experience of transition states from HA.). EG,252.
 
1. RESTFUL STATE
 
RESTFUL VIGIL IS THE PRELIMINARY STATE, A STATE IN WHICH THE SENSES BECOME DORMANT AND YET ONE IS AWARE.
Restful vigil is the preliminary state, a state in which the senses become dormant and yet one is aware. In my case, I had always perceived in this state a flood of reddish light, a light exactly like what one sees facing the sun with the eyelids tightly closed. EG,129 I had stared at the darkness throughout many sessions and was ready to visualize the spot of coloration. In fact, I witnesses its entire metamorphosis from plain darkness to a precisely outlined blotch of intense brightness, and then I was swayed by the external itch, on which I focused my attention, until I ended up entering into a state of restful vigil. It was then that I first became immersed in an orange-red coloration. (dreaming color)EG,256.
After ten to fifteen minutes of restlessness I finally succeeded in going into a state of restful vigil.EG,129..In order for me to start dreaming or to stop it all I have to do is place my attention on my womb. I've learned to feel the inside of it. I see the reddish glow for an instant and then I'm off.. this only takes a few seconds. EG,136.... I easily entered into the first state... I had a sensation of bodily pleasure, a tingling radiating from my solar plexus, which was transformed into the thought that we were going to have great results. That thought turned into a nervous anticipation. I became aware of that my thoughts were emanating from the tingling in the middle of my chest. The instant I turned my attention to it, however, the tingling stopped. It was like an electric current that I could switch on and off. EG,150,151.
She told me to keep my eyes open and fixed on a point right in front of me, at my eye level; and that this point was going to turn from darkness to a bright and pleasing orange-red. EG.251.
 
2. DYNAMIC VIGIL
 
DYNAMIC VIGIL IN THIS STATE THE REDDISH LIGHT DISSIPATES, AS FOG DISSIPATES, AND ONE IS LEFT LOOKING AT A SCENE, A TABLEAU OF SORTS, WHICH IS STATIC.
Dynamic vigil in this state the reddish light dissipates, as fog dissipates, and one is left looking at a scene, a tableau of sorts, which is static. One sees a three-dimensional picture, a frozen bit of something-a landscape, a street, a house, a person, a face, anything.
 
3. PASSIVE WITNESSING
 
PASSIVE WITNESSING IN THIS STATE THE DREAMER IS NO LONGER VIEWING A FROZEN BIT OF THE WORLD BUT IS OBSERVING, EYEWITNESSING, AN EVENT AS IT OCCURS
Passive witnessing in this state the dreamer is no longer viewing a frozen bit of the world but is observing, eyewitnessing, an event as it occurs. It is as if the primacy of the visual and auditory senses makes this state of dreaming mainly an affair of the eyes and ears only. EG,129.
 
4. DYNAMIC INITIATIVE
 
DYNAMIC INITIATIVE IN THIS STATE I WAS DRAWN TO ACT. IN IT ONE IS COMPELLED TO ENTERPRISE, TO TAKE STEPS, TO MAKE THE MOST OF ONE'S TIME.
Dynamic initiative in this state I was drawn to act. In it one is compelled to enterprise, to take steps, to make the most of one's time. EG,129.
 
WHAT'S ESSENTIAL FOR DREAMING?
 
1. ENERGY IS NECESSARY TO DO DREAMING
 
A PERSON MUST REDEPLOY ENERGY TO DO DREAMING
The redeployment of energy is necessary to do dreaming to start dreaming sorcerers need to redefine their premises and save their energy, but that redefining is valid only to have the necessary energy to set up dreaming. TAOD,181,182 .....the energy needed to release our dreaming attention from its socialization prision comes from redeploying our existing energy ...the emergence of our dreaming attention is a direct corollary of revamping our lives. TAOD, 37....Dreaming requires every bit of our available energy...if there is a deep preoccupation in our life, there is no possibility of dreaming.. (preoccupation means that all your energy sources are taken on) TAOD, 150. We thought that the essential aid to dreaming was a state of mental quietness, which DJ had called stopping the internal dialogue or the not-doing of talking to oneself. EG,135.
 
2. YOU MUST CONVINCE YOURSELF YOU ARE A DREAMER/ WHICH DEVELOPS INTO UNBENDING INTENT/PERSISTENCE
 
CONVINCE YOURSELF YOU ARE A DREAMER
....the act of convincing yourself you are indeed a dreamer, although you have never dreamt before, and the act of being convinced... it requires imagination, discipline and purpose....you get an unquestionable bodily knowledge that you are a dreamer...You feel that you are a dreamer with all cells of your body....Intending the first gate of dreaming was one of the means discovered by the sorcereres of antiquity for reaching the second attention and the energy body. TAOD,26 it starts with an initial act, which by the fact of being sustained breeds unbending intent. Unbending intent leads to internal silence, and internal silence to the inner strength needed to make the AP shift in dreams to suitable purpose. FFW,199 ...every dreamer is different. EG,129. Every one of us is different...what you call pointers would only be what I did myself did when I was learning. We are not the same; we aren't even vaguely alike. JTI,98. Every warrior has his own way of dreaming. Each way is different. The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The countermeasure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments. TOP,18. setting up dreaming, consisted of a deadly game that one's mind played with itself, and that some part of myself was going to do everything it could to prevent the fulfillment of my task. That could include.. plunging me into a loss of meaning, melancholy, or even suicidal depression. TOP,17. put your silent determination, without a single thought, into convincing yourself that you have reached your energy body and that you are a dreamer...doing this will automatically put you in the position to be aware that you are falling asleep TAOD,25, 26
 
THE ACTIVE ELEMENT IS PERSISTENCE
the active element of such training (being aware of your dreams) is persistence, and that the mind and all its rational defenses cannot cope with persistence. Sooner or later...the mind's barrier's fall,under its impact and the dreaming attention blooms.
TAOD,36..practice is what counts..once you get your attention on the images of your dream, your attention is hooked for good. SRP,241. dreaming is something one performs EG,289
 
3. DREAMING MUST BE DONE WITH SOBRIETY
 
DREAMING MUST BE SOBER
Dreaming has to be a very sober affair. No false movement can be afforded. Dreaming is a process of awakening, of gaining control. Our dreaming attention must be systematically exercised, for it is the door to the second attention. TAOD,28.....Dreaming has to be performed with integrity and seriousness, but in the midst of laughter and with the confidence of someone who doesn't have a worry in the world. TAOD 21,22....what we badly need is sobriety, and no one can give it to us or help us get it except ourselves. Without it, the shift of the AP is chaotic, as our ordinary dreams are chaotic. FFW,200..dreaming is as serious as seeing or dying or any other thing in this awesome, mysterious world. JTI,98.
 
4. DREAMING SHOULD BE TAUGHT WHILE IN NORMAL AWARENESS BECAUSE IT IS SAFER
 
DREAMING SHOULD BE TAUGHT WHILE IN NORMAL AWARENESS
Dreaming must be taught while warriors are in their normal state of awareness. because dreaming is so dangerous and dreamers so vulnerable. It is dangerous because it has inconceivable power; it makes dreamers vulnerable because it leaves them at the mercy of the incomprehensible force of alignment. In our normal state of awareness, we have countless defenses that can safeguard us against the force of unused emanations that suddenly become aligned in dreaming. FFW,192
 
5. A DREAMER MUST START FROM A POINT OF COLOR
 
DREAMERS MUST START FROM A POINT OF COLOR
A dreamer must start from a point of color: intense light or unmitigated darkness are useless to a dreamer in the initial onslaught. Colors such as purple or light green or rich yellow are, on the other hand, stupendous starting points. She preferred, however, orange-red, because through experience it had proven to be the one that gave her the greatest sensation of rest. She assured me that once I had succeeded in entering into the orange-red color I would have rallied my second attention permanently, providing that I could be aware of the sequence of physical events. EG,251.
 
6. TO DO DREAMING ONE NEEDS TO MANIPULATE BOTH THE LUMINOUS AND PHYSICAL BODIES
 
BOTH THE PHYSICAL BODY AND THE LUMINOUS BODY NEEDS TO BE MANIPULATED
To do dreaming one needs to manipulate both the luminous body and the physical body. First, the center of assembling for the second attention has to be made accessible by being pushed in from the outside by someone else, or sucked in from within by the dreamer. Second in order to dislodge the first attention, the centers of the physical body located in the midsection and the calves, especially the right one, have to be stimulated and placed as close to one another as possible until they seem to join. Then the sensation of being bundled takes place and automatically the second attention takes over. EG,259.
from the moment that the body learns to make a dent, it is easier to enter into dreaming.... ordinarily the dent is created on the spur of the moment by the dreamer when it is needed, then the luminous shell changes back to its original shape. EG,254.
I had acquired a strange impulse, a sensation that my body had instantly learned to reproduce. It was a mixture of feeling at ease, secure, doemant, suspended without tactile sense and at the same time fully awake, aware of everything. EG,254.
 
7. IN DREAMING, WE MUST FOCUS ON DREAM ITEMS THE SAME WAY WE DO IN EVERYDAY LIFE
 
IN DREAMING, WE MUST FOCUS ON DREAM ITEMS THE SAME WAY WE DO IN EVERYDAY LIFE
In dreaming one has to use the same mechanisms of attention as in everyday life, that our first attention had been taught to focus on the items of the world with great force in order to turn the amphorous and chaotic realm of perception into the orderly world of awareness. EG,139.
 
8. TECHNIQUES TO HELP DREAMING: DISRUPTING ROUTINES THE GAIT OF POWER, NOT-DOING AND RECAPITULATION
 
TECHNIQUES TO HELP DREAMING: DISRUPTING ROUTINES, THE GAIT OF POWER, NOT-DOING AND RECAPITULATION
Three techniques to help dreaming: disrupting the routines of life, the gait of power, and not-doing. TOP,242...he had driven my attention away, making believe that the important problem was not doing. he explained that disrupting routines, the gait of power and not-doing were avenues for learning new ways of perceiving the world, and that they gave a warrior an inkling of incredible possibilities of actions. DJ's idea was that the knowledge of a seperate and pragmatic world of dreaming was made possible through the use of those three techniques. TOP,242 ...the reason average people lack volition in their dreams is that they never recapitulated and their lives are filled to capacity with heavily loaded emotions like memories, hopes, fears etc. sorcerers, in contrast, are relatively free from heavy, binding
emotions, because of their recapitulation..Recapitulation and dreaming go hand in hand. As we regurgitate our lives, we get more and more airborne. TAOD, 147,148...
 
WHERE TO DO DREAMING?
 
INDOORS
if dreaming is going to be done indoors, it is best to do it in total darkness, while lying down or sitting up on a narrow bed, or better yet, while sitting down inside a coffinlike crib. EG,249.
Along the wall opposite the door was a raised platform covered with straw mats..she said it was where she did her meditation..she called it dreaming. TSC,79,80.
 
OUTDOORS
Outdoors, dreaming should be done in the protection of a cave, in the sandy areas of water holes, or sitting against a rock in the mountains; never on the flat floor of a valley, or next to rivers, or lakes, or the sea, because flat areas were antithetical to the second attention. EG,249.
 
WHEN IS THE BEST TIME TO DO DREAMING?
 
EARLY MORNING OR LATE NIGHT BECAUSE OF INTERFERENCE BY PEOPLE
DJ had told us that the late night or the early morning hours were by far the best. His reason for favoring those hours was because... he said that since one has to do dreaming within a social milieu, one has to seek the best possible of conditionds of solitude and lack of interference. The interference he was referring to had to do with the attention of people, and not their physical prescence. For DJ it was meaningless to retreat from the world and hide, for even if one were alone in an isolated, deserted place, the interference of our fellow man is prevalent because the fixation of their first attention cannot be shut off. Only locally, at the hours when most people are asleep, can one avert part of that fixation for a short period of time. It is at those times that the first attention around us is dormant. EG,138.
 
TRY DREAMING AS A NAP DURING THE DAYTIME TO TEST CONTROL
he suggested that I should try dreaming while I took a nap during the daytime and find out if I could actually visualize the chosen place as it was at the time I was dreaming. If I were dreaming at night, my visions of the locale should be of nighttime. He said that what one experiences in dreaming has to be congruous with the time of day when dreaming was taking place; otherwise the visions one might have were not dreaming but ordinary dreams. JTI,152.
 
WHAT ARE THE POSITIONS OF DREAMING?
 
FOR A WOMAN
that the best position for a woman to start from is to sit with her legs crossed and then let the body fall, as it may do once the attention is on dreaming. EG,138.
 
LEGS IN A GROIN STRETCH SITTING UP
In the beginning..I had done it while lying on my back, until one day when DJ told me that for the best results I should sit up on a soft thin mat, with the soles of my feet placed together and my thighs touching the mat. he pointed out that, since I had elastic hip joints, I should exercise them to the fullest, aiming at having my thighs completely flat against the mat. he added that if I were to enter into dreaming in that sitting position, my body would not slide or fall to either side, but my trunk would bend forward and my forehead would rest on my feet. EG,138.
 
WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO ENTER DREAMING?
 
PLACE ATTENTION ON YOUR WILL AT THE TIP OF THE STERNUM AT THE TOP OF THE BELLY
The best way to enter into dreaming was to concentrate on the area just at the tip of the sternum, at the top of the belly. He said that the attention needed for dreaming stems from that area. The energy needed in order to move and seek in dreaming stems from the area an inch or two below the belly button. He called that energy will, or the power to select, to assemble. In a woman both the attention and the energy for dreaming originate from the womb. EG,136.
 
PROTECTING THE BELLY BUTTON TO HELP HOLD OUR IMAGES
In dreaming we pay attention with the belly button; therefore it has to be protected. We need a little warmth or a feeling that something is pressing the belly button in order to hold the images in our dreams. SRP,144. (ex. pebble belt for the bb). SRP,145.
 
USING CRYSTALS/PEBBLES TO HELP TURN OFF THE INTERNAL DIALOGUE FOR PERFECT DREAMING
For perfect dreaming, the first thing you have to do is shut off your internal dialogue..put between your fingers some two-or-three inch-long crystals or a couple of smooth, thin river pebbles. Bend your fingers slightly and press the crystals or pebbles with them... metal pins (are effective also) if they were the size and width of ones fingers. The procedure consisited of pressing at least three items between the fingers of each hand and creating, an almost painful pressure in the hands..this has the strange property of shutting off the internal dialogue...crystals are best..although with practice anything was suitable...Falling asleep at the moment of total silence guarantees a perfect entrance into dreaming..and it also guarantees the enhancing of one's dreaming attention. TAOD,93,94. after getting into a state of total inner silence, with her I had to slip gently into dreaming.. TAOD.187 from doing dreaming I had learned to enter into a state of total quietness. I was able to turn off my internal dialogue and remain as if I were inside a cocoon peeking out of a hole. In that state I could either let go of some control I had and enter into dreaming, or I could hold onto that control and remain passive, thoughtless, and without desires. EG,46.
 
WEARING A HEADBAND DURING DREAMING
You must wear a headband to sleep.. getting a headband is a tricky maneuver. I cannot give you one, because you yourself have to make it from scratch. but you cannot make one until you have had a vision of it in dreaming... the headband has to be made according to the specific vision. And it must have a strip across it that fits tightly on top of the head. Or it may very well be like a tight cap. Dreaming easier when one wears a power object on top of the head. You could wear your hat or put on a cowl, like a friar, and go to sleep, but those items would only cause intense dreams not dreaming. ..the vision of the headband did not have to occur only in dreaming but could happen in states of wakefulness and as a result of any far-fetched and totally unrelated event, such as watching the flight of birds, the movement of water, the clouds and so on. JTI,132.
 
OTHER THINGS USED IN DREAMING
(use of ring on finger....use of skin... skin automatically screens energy..the use of energy exchange..the use of using the reservoir of attention located behind the roof of our mouths. .. .TAOD,94)
 
SETTING UP DREAMING
 
CONTROLLING YOUR DREAM
to set up dreaming meant to have a concise and pragmatic control over the general situation of a dream, comparable to the control one has over any choice in the desert... JTI,97. To have a precise and practical command over the general situation of a dream TAOD,21
 
1. SUSTAIN THE IMAGE OF SOMETHING IN YOUR DREAM
 
SUSTAIN THE IMAGE IN YOUR DREAM
....don't let the dream slip into something else. (the idea is to be able to engage your dreaming attention like looking for a specific object like your hands in the dream) TAOD,21 ...everytime you look at anything in your dreams it changes shape..the trick in learning to set up dreaming is obviously not just to look at things but to sustain the sight of them. JTI,99
 
SELECTING WHAT YOU WANT TO DREAM ABOUT
a warrior chooses the topic by deliberately holding an image in his mind while he shuts off his internal dialogue. In other words if he is not capable of not talking to himself for a moment and then holds the image or the thought of what he wants in dreaming, even if only for an instant, then the desired topic will come to him. TOP,18.
 
WE PRACTICE SUSTAINING IMAGES BY FIRST LOOKING FOR OUR HANDS OR ANY IMAGE IN OUR DREAM
..one had to deliberately dream that one was looking for and could find one's hands in a dream by simply dreaming that one lifted one's hands to the levels of the eyes. TOP,16. ...you can, of course, look at whatever you goddamn please-your toes, or your belly or your pecker for that matter. JTI,98...description of looking for hands TOP,17.....You don't have to look at your hands...like I've said, pick anything at all. But pick one thing in advance and find it in your dreams. I said your hands because they'll always be there..JTI,100...after years of unsuccessful attempts (to find his hands).. I finally accomplished the task. Looking at it in retrospect, it had become evident to me that I had succeeded only after I had gained a degree of control over the world of my everyday life. TOP,16
 
LOOKING AT OBJECTS IN THE DREAM SHOULD BE DONE IN GLANCES/OR WE LOSE CONTROL
One only strives to immobilize the second attention only in the learning period. After that, one has to fight the inconcivable pull of the second attention and give only cursory glances at everything. In dreaming one has to be satisfied with the briefest possible views of everything. As soon as one focuses on anything. one loses control. EG,142... ..I realized that if I did not stare at things but only glanced at them, just as we do in our daily world, I could arrange my perception. If I took my dreaming for granted, I could use the perceptual biases of my everyday life. After a few moments the scenery became, if not completely familiar, controllable. EG,52. ...take quick, deliberate glances at everything present in a dream. If they focus their dreaming attention on something specific, it is only as a point of departure. From there, dreamers move on to look at other items in the dream's content, returning to the point of departure as many times as possible. TAOD,25 Every time you isolate it (starting point item) and look at it, you get a surge of energy, so the beginning don't look at too many things in your dreams. Four items will suffice....as soon as the images begin to shift...go back to your starting point and start all over again. TAOD, 30,31 Remember that if you glance only briefly, the images don't shift. TAOD,30...when they (object in dreams)..change shape you must move your sight away from them and pick something else, and then look at your hands again. It takes a long time to perfect this technique. JTI,100, 112... every time you look at your hands you renew the power needed for dreaming, so in the beginning don't look at too many things... when you feel you can gaze at things indefinitely you will be ready for a new technique. JTI,112 The most serious problem the dreamer has in this respect is the unbending fixation of the second attention on detail that would be thoroughly undetected by the attention of everyday life, creating in this manner a nearly insurmountable obstacle to validation. What one seeks in dreaming is not what one would pay attention to in everyday life. EG,142.
 
2. TRAVELING TO CERTAIN PLACES WHILE DREAMING
 
TRAVELING TO CERTAIN PLACES OF YOUR OWN VOLITION
The next step in setting up dreaming is to learn to travel... the same way you have learned to look at your hands you can will yourself to move, to go places. First you have to establish a place you want to go to. Pick a well-known spot-perhaps your scholl, or a park, a friend's house-then, will yourself to go there....this technique is very difficult. You must perform two tasks. You must will yourself to go to the specific locale; and then, when you have mastered that technique, you have to learn to control the exact time of your traveling. JTI,113, In order to help yourself you should pick a specific object that belongs to the place you want to go and focus your attention on it...JTI,152. it is easier to travel in dreaming when one can focus on a place of power, focus your attention on any object there and find it in dreaming. From the specific object you recall, you must go back to your hands and then to another object and so on. JTI,153....after finding my hands he recommended that I should choose a locale, focus my attention on it, and then do daytime dreaming and find out if I could really go there. He suggested that I should place someone I knew at the site, preferably a woman, in order to do two things; first to check subtle changes that might indicate that I was there in dreaming and second to isolate unobtrusive detail, which would be precisely what my second attention would zero in on. EG,142.
 
3. GETTING THE DOUBLE TO FOCUS ON ITSELF/SEEING ONESELF IN BED/DREAMING THE DOUBLE
 
DREAMING THE DOUBLE
Finding my hands in my dreams was the first pointer; then the exercise of paying attention was elongated to finding objects, looking for specific features, such as buildings, streets and so on. From there the jump was to dreaming about specific places at specific times of the day. The final stage was drawing the attention of the nagual to focus on the total self. ..this final stage was usually ushered in by a dream..in which one is looking at oneself sleeping in bed. By the time a sorcerer has had such a dream, his attention has been developed to such a degree that instead of walking himself up...he turns on his heels and engages himself in activity, as if he were in the world of everyday life. from that moment on there is a breakage, a division of sorts in the otherwise unified personality. the result..was the other self, an identical being as oneself, but made in dreaming. SRP,243. there are no defintie standard steps for teaching that double, as there are no steps for us to reach our daily awareness. We simply do it by practising. ...he contended that in the act of engaging our attention of the nagual we would find the steps. he urged me to practice dreaming without letting my fears make it into an encumbering production. SRP,243. There are no procedures to arrive at the attention of the nagual. (dreaming) SRP,243
 
VIVIDNESS AND DETAILS ARE UNIMPORTANT IN DREAMING
He said that to follow them (details of the dream) was a waste of time, because details and vividness were in no way important. JTI,112.. ordinary dreams get very vivid as soon as you begin to set up dreaming..that vividness and clarity is a formidable barrier .... JTI,112.
 
DON'T INDULGE IN YOUR DREAMING
(During the dream..Don't indulge) don't cling to things or situations..TAOD,41..
 
GATES OF DREAMING
 
THERE ARE SEVEN GATES OF DREAMING
There are seven gates...and dreamers have to open all seven of them, one at a time. TAOD,22 (these are entrances into the energy flow of the universe)
 
TWO PHASES AT EACH GATE
...there are two phases to each of the gates of dreaming..the first is to arrive at the gate; the second is to cross it. TAOD,142
 
FIRST GATE OF DREAMING: BEING AWARE WHEN YOU ARE FALLING ASLEEP AND DURING DREAMING
 
In essence, what don Juan wanted with my first task was to exercise my dreaming attention by focusing it on the items of my dreams. To this effect he used as a spearhead the idea of being aware of falling asleep. His subterfuge (trick) was to say that the only way to be aware of falling asleep is to examine the element's of one's dreams. TAOD 35 To ask a dreamer to find a determined item in his dreams is a subterfuge...the real issue is to become aware that one is falling asleep...this happens by sustaining the sight of whatever one is looking at in a dream. TAOD,27, .....although it might seem that finding hands in a dream might be aimed at teaching me to command my dreams. TAOD,27,a threshold we must cross by becoming aware of a particular sensation before deep sleep...A sensation like a pleasant heaviness that doesn't let us open our eyes. We reach that gate the instant we become aware that we're falling asleep, suspended in darkness and heaviness......to do this..one just intends to become aware of falling asleep.. TAOD,22 ..the goal of dreaming is to intend that your energy body becomes aware that you are falling asleep. Don't try to force yourself to be aware of falling asleep. Let your energy body do it.. TAOD,22 ..between the last waking moment and the first sleeping moment, a tunnel streches down deep into consciousness. Most people do not perceive this subtle state; indeed, you cannot be aware of it with your everyday mind. At that instant, when you are neither awake nor asleep, this tunnel opens up... EE,M,77. put your silent determination, without a single thought, into convincing yourself that you have reached your energy body and that you are a dreamer...doing this will automatically put you in the position to be aware that you are falling asleep. TAOD,26
Once we reach the gate, we must cross it by being able to sustain the sight of any items of our dreams. TAOD,30..the art of the dreamer is to hold the image of his dreams. SRP,144....on reaching the first gate, they also reach the energy body. TAOD,31 to maintain (the gain of reaching the first gate) is predicated on energy alone. TAOD,32
 
SECOND GATE OF DREAMING
 
rule of the second gate..one, through practicing the drill of changing dreams, dreamers find out about scouts; two, by following the scouts, they enter into another veritable universe; and three, in that universe, by means of their actions, dreamers find out, on their own, the governing laws and regulations of that universe. TAOD,108.the universe behind the second gate is the closest to our own....powerful and aggressive TAOD,110.111....the second gate is reached and crossed only when a dreamer learns to isolate and follow the energy scouts. ..waking up in another dream or changing dreams is the drill devised by the old sorcerers to exercise a dreamer's capacity to isolate and follow a scout. TAOD,107...it is the door into the inorganic being's world...the drill is essential. TAOD,108. ..You reach the second gate of dreaming when you wake up from a dream into another dream. ..that is to say that one is having a dream and then dream that one wakes up from it...the alternative is to use the items of the dreams to trigger another dream. TAOD,40, 44 ..my mistake ..what I meant is that one has to change dreams in an orderly and precise manner. TAOD,44.
what is really going through the second gate ,hopping from dream to dream is the energy body. ..on crossing the second gate you must intend a greater and more sober control over your dreaming attention: the only safety valve for dreamers. ..(the safety valve is a perfect energy body (which is the goal of dreaming) it has such a control over the dreaming attention that it makes it stop when needed. TAOD,42
 
THIRD GATE OF DREAMING
 
(arriving at the gate)...is reached when you find yourself in a dream, staring at someone else (yourself) who is asleep. ..you actually see your body asleep. TAOD,151
(to cross the gate) ..to move around once you've seen yourself asleep. TAOD,141.. to make the energy body move on its own. TAOD,169. The energy body can now move like energy; fast and directly. TAOD,163
..you begin to deliberately merge your dreaming reality with the reality of the daily world. (completing the energy body)..the energy body is ready to come out (ready to act). To be successful the entire energy body must be engaged. There must be irrational fluidity. TAOD,142,143. ...while in the inorganic realm, voice your intent to transfer normal awareness (of the daily world) to our energy bodies. TAOD,189..
..the real task of the third gate... seeing energy with your energy body. TAOD,163
...the last task of the third gate of dreaming.. stalking the stalker..to deliberately draw energy from the inorganic being's realm in order to use awareness to go on a journey through the universe. TAOD,185
 
THE FOURTH GATE OF DREAMING
 
the energy body travels to specific concrete places and that there are three ways of using the fourth gate: one, to travel to concrete places in this world; two, to travel to concrete places out of this world; and three, to travel to places that exist only in the intent of others. TAOD, 200.. in this state.. the corporeality of the body has no significance. It is simply a memory that slows down the dreamer. EG,52. to wake up at any dreaming position. this maneuver is really a very complex affair- so complex that it not only requires sobriety but all the attributes of warriorship as well, especially intent... because intent is what maintains the dreamer's sobriety, the alignment of whatever emanations have been lit up by the movement of the AP....FFW,200....Description of this. EG,50,51,52,53. You were learning to get to your dreaming body when you dreamed that you got out of your body. EG,139...the dream in which one was watching oneself sleep..was the time of the double. TOP,67. in order to shift into your dreaming body when awake you have to practice dreaming until it is coming out of your ears. EG,141. (description of how to direct the dreaming body. EG,261)
 
THE DOUBLE DREAMS THE SELF
The self dreams the double....perhaps the ordinary dreams of the self are simple, but that doesn't mean that the self is simple. Once it has learned to dream the double, the self arrives at this weird cross road and a moment comes when one realizes that it is the double who dreams the self. TOP,78.... you could have known then that you yourself are a dream, that your double is dreaming you, in the same fashion that you dreamed him last night.No one knows how it happens. We only know that it does happen. TOP,79.
 
EXPERIENCES WHILE DREAMING
 
FLYING IN DREAMING
DJ taught me on this earth and in dreaming someone I could never see taught me. It was only a voice telling me what to do. The Naugal gave me the task of learning to fly in dreaming, and the voice taught me how to do it. Then it took me years to teach myself to shift from my regular body, the one you can touch, to my dreaming body. EG,139.... By shifting my attention to my dreaming body, I could fly like a kite while I was awake. EG,140. All I needed to shift into my dreaming body was to focus my attention on flying. EG,141. Example of EG,141. The intent of flying produces the effect of flying. EG,143.
 
MOVING WHILE DREAMING
to place my awareness on the midpoint of my body... and to sweep the floor with it, that is, making a rocking motion with my belly as if a broom were attached to it. I remained in a waking state. ..in a sitting position. (experiences from this....EG,257,258) ..EG,257... she directed me to open my eyes while I was in a state of restful vigil... in order for me to move I had to intend my moving at a very deep level. in other words, I had to be utterly convinced that I wanted to move, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that I had to be convinced that I needed to move. EG,260
 
GHOST DREAMING
(dreaming about something that doesn't exist anymore)..... whoever does ghost dreaming is marked by fate to have ghost helpers and allies... none of us has has ever done ghost dreaming because we are not violent or destructive. EG,54.
 
DREAMING TOGETHER WITH OTHER PEOPLE
a group of seers who activate the same unused emanations...there are no known steps, it just happens; there is no technique to follow... in dreaming together, something in us takes the lead and suddenly we find ourselves sharing the same view with other dreamers. What happens is that our human conditions makes us focus the glow of awareness automatically on the same emanations that other human beings are using; we adjust the position of our AP to fit the others around us. We do that on our right side, in our ordinary perception, and we also do it on the left side, while dreaming together. FFW,201.
 
UNIFORMITY IS TO HOLD, IN UNISON, THE SAME POSITION OF THE ASSEMBLAGE POINT.
Uniformity is to hold, in unison, the same position of the assemblage point. TAOD,77
 
DREAMING EMISSARY/THE VOICE OF DREAMING
Upon crossing the first or second gate of dreaming, dreamers reach a threshold of energy and begin to see things or to hear voices. Not really plural voices, but a singular voice....It is an alien energy that has conciseness (abruptness).alien energy that purports to aid dreamers by telling them things...they can only tell what the sorcerers already know or should know..an impersonal force that we turn into a very personal one because it has a voice...we see it or hear it because we maintain our assemblage points fixed on a specific new position; the more intense this fixation, the more intense our experience of the emissary...It cannot be advice. It only tells us what's what, and then we draw the inferences ourselves.
(it tells you things)..anything I focus my intent on...the DE is a force (impersonal and constant TAOD,75) that comes from the realm of inorganic beings..everyone hears the emissary; very few see it or feel it. TAOD,64,65,66... That was when some voice began to tell me what to do. I've always felt it was a woman's voice. EG,140. Her voice was the woman's voice that la Gorda thought she heard in dreaming. EG,249. .the nagging voice you heard, reminding you to fix your dreaming attention on the items of your dreams, was the voice of an inorganic being. TAOD,59...what you see in dreaming as bright or dark sticks are their projections. What you hear as the voice of the dreaming emissary is equally their projection.. TAOD,87..the voice can't lie TAOD,180 ..the nagging voice you heard, reminding you to fix your dreaming attention on the items of your dreams, was the voice of an inorganic being. cc, taod,59 is this a reference to the dreaming emmisary???
 
DESCRIPTION OF CC DREAMS
None of the sensory experiences involved in dreaming are part of our normal inventory of sensory data. All of them are baffling to me. The sensation of an itch, a tingling outside myself was localized.. the sensation of being rolled up on myself... I knew my toes were touching my forehead.. on a physical plane I was sitting down and my thighs were against my chest. EG,259. I knew that I was dreaming. I was actually sound asleep yet I was totally aware of myself through my second attention. POS,112.... I remained half awake, listening to the tune. It seemed as if I were entering into a state of dreaming-a complete and detailed dreaming scene appeared in front of my eyes. EG,117. (my dreams) ..solely visual TAOD,71..
...vivid dream...I was so aware of everything, that I tried to orient myself by reading signs and looking at people....the more we walked, the greater my sensation of visceral anxiety. My mind was curious, but my body was alarmed...we were in a reality beyond what I know to be real... (after awakening) I was numb..an unusual itching on my solar plexus kept my breaths short and painful TAOD,24, 25 I felt a sizable jolt of nervousness in the pit of my stomach (solar plexus); it was like a punch. TAOD, 50,135 I was like a diver, and waking up from that world was like swimming up to reach the surface. TAOD,116.... an immense fatigue had begun to make my eyes sore and itchy. Finally I gave up my resistance and was pulled into the deepest, blackest sleep I have ever had. Yet, I was not totally asleep. I could feel the thick blackness around me. I had an entirely physical feeling of wading through blackness. then it suddenly became reddish, then orange, then glaring white, like a terribly strong neon light. POS,108 I realized that seeing DJ was not a consequence of light on my retina. It was rather, a bodily sense. POS,110 ...the light in the dreamed changed. Images became sharper. Ths streets...more real than a moment before. My feet began to hurt. I could feel that things were absurdly hard. TAOD,28 Watching those people in that dream, I experienced a fear and revulsion impossible to forget...( DJ says) ..your energy body hooked onto the foreign energy of that place and had the time of its life...you were examining alien energy for the first time in your life. TAOD,39 ..some windlike force, which I felt as a buzzing in my ears, pulled me through the window to the outside... TAOD,42 ..pulled me into another dream through a buzzing vortex...my dreaming practices always ended by my running out of dreaming attention and finally waking up or by my falling into a dark,deep slumber....the only disturbance I had was a particular interference, a jolt of fear or discomfort. TAOD,45...(the jolts continued, but) whenever they happened a strange calmness always trailed behind, a calmness that took control of me and let me proceed as if I had no fear at all. TAOD,49 It seemed at that time that every breakthrough in dreaming happened to me suddenly without warning. TAOD,49 It had been relatively easy for me to learn to sustain the image of my hands after I had learned to command myself to look at them. My visions, although not always of my own hands, would last a seemingly long time, until I would lose control and would become immersed in ordinary predictable dreams. I had no volition whatsoever over when I would give myself the command to look at my hands, or to look at my hands, or to look at other items of the dreams. it would just happen. At a given moment I would remember that I had to look at my hands and then at the surroundings. There were nights ...when I could not recall having done it at all. JTI,111.
I had begun to dream about specific places, such as the school and the houses of a few friends. JTI,152
 
description of the greyish bugs of matter.
TAOD,112,113,115,116,117,118
 
Saber toothed tiger TAOD,119., EG,53, EG,160.
 
another world.. bright light..dreaming EG,263,264.