Lovely. You've given words to experiences with lucid dreaming i had this summer. The dreams happened shortly following events around a psylisibn hallucinogen experience days earlier. Which occurred shortly after my fathers death. The dreams and shrooms resonated for days and altered my thinking. Not just in memory, but in ways i see and think to this day. In other words, the Dream lag continues. I feel certain neural pathways were interrupted and altered. Most dreams recede into vapor quickly, these have not. Your essay puts all this into a framework that i can start to make verbal sense of.
Wow Mark! Thank you, that's amazing to hear. It sounds like a deep experience kicked off for you with those resonances, points to a lot of pathway change. And it's so worthwhile and meaningful to dig into
This was a great post. I recently had to put my senior dog down and about a week after, I had a dream about him. He had come back to life - no longer old, sick and bitter - just happy, healthy and sweet. This post led me to reflect more on that dream and what it might’ve meant for me.
Thank you Leona! That sounds like a doubly special dream. As I read back into the history of dreaming, just about every culture has acknowledged the awe and mystery and importance of dreaming of a loved one or animal after their death. Wonderful that the meaning continues to unfold for you
Lovely. You've given words to experiences with lucid dreaming i had this summer. The dreams happened shortly following events around a psylisibn hallucinogen experience days earlier. Which occurred shortly after my fathers death. The dreams and shrooms resonated for days and altered my thinking. Not just in memory, but in ways i see and think to this day. In other words, the Dream lag continues. I feel certain neural pathways were interrupted and altered. Most dreams recede into vapor quickly, these have not. Your essay puts all this into a framework that i can start to make verbal sense of.
Wow Mark! Thank you, that's amazing to hear. It sounds like a deep experience kicked off for you with those resonances, points to a lot of pathway change. And it's so worthwhile and meaningful to dig into
I LOVE THIS
This was a great post. I recently had to put my senior dog down and about a week after, I had a dream about him. He had come back to life - no longer old, sick and bitter - just happy, healthy and sweet. This post led me to reflect more on that dream and what it might’ve meant for me.
Thank you Leona! That sounds like a doubly special dream. As I read back into the history of dreaming, just about every culture has acknowledged the awe and mystery and importance of dreaming of a loved one or animal after their death. Wonderful that the meaning continues to unfold for you
I find dreams slowly sneak into our “real” life making it quite possible to believe in the impossible- that is if you remember them!!
Thanks Georgia, that they do!! It can be a challenge to remember them, but so worthwhile
"Experiential topsoil," and the "dream-lags" begins to make sense of so much. I love the post so much. Beautiful writing about Beautiful experiences.