In My Mind…
A few months ago I picked up a book on astral travel – that my spiritual body may leave my physical body and explore planes unseen to the physical state. Now, before you write me off as some crazy guy trying to achieve out-of-body experiences, let me attempt to explain my reasoning. The book discusses many different ways on how to achieve astral travel through different meditations and techniques. My goal is not necessarily to achieve such a thing as an out-of-body experience but more of an exploration of myself and the inner workings of my confused mind through lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming being the awareness that you are dreaming and in return can manipulate the dream. I have inadvertently had a couple lucid dreams in my life and without realizing how interesting such an experience could be, I have ended up doing something meaningless and woke myself. Astral travel is debated as whether or not it is an authentic practice or just lucid dreaming; but for now, that’s alright with me.
As a kid I always wanted to be able to fly, as I’m sure many kids did, which I probably have Peter Pan to thank for that. But if I perceive to be flying, through lucid dreaming, is there that much of a difference than if I were to really being flying over some astral plane in a “spiritual” body? Well, certainly, there is a difference, but I will not know until I have achieved such a thing. But I am excited to see how far I can push my creativity, and I feel the best way to test this would to be in a dream state, where I can be safe from harm.
My Mind: Self Portrait
And as I confuse you with my broken thoughts, I confuse myself; somewhere in this tangled mess my passion radiates. This is my crooked path to become more self-aware and less self-conscious.
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Actually this one is awesomer!
Keep up the art work, maybe the answer’s in there.
Just realized you haven’t posted anything in a while so not sure if I’ll ever get an answer… I’ll just yoink it for now, credit you in my blog.