I’ve never been able to submerge into the depths of water. I even dreamed about my mother falling through a trapdoor attached to the seabed and I couldn’t do anything about it. I can swim and walk on it but I can’t immerse myself into it.
I can relate. I spent some teenage years in depression because I valued dreams over waking life.
I made a community specifically for lucid dreaming (not for dreams in general) https://discuss.online/c/lucid_dreamers
Find a significant purpose in your waking life. Dreams will become a training place. https://discuss.online/c/lucid_dreamers
At one point you could realize that you are a dream figure in another person's dream. The advantage of meeting others in the dream state is that one of them may present you to yourself.
Painting by Alex Grey
Have you ever heard about dream yoga or milam? The practice of dream yoga is one of falling asleep with awareness, aka lucid dreaming. It is interesting how we use that term ‘falling asleep’. One does not creep asleep, or climb asleep or jump asleep – one falls asleep. I always find language interesting, because it often talks about our experience that is hidden in the words at some level. Ultimately, finding common - but hidden - expirences/meaning/symbols in our dreams is the purpose of this community.
The picture is a fresco from the gallery of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence. It depicts Charon's boat, the sleep of Night and Morpheus by Luca Giordano (1684–1686)
I noticed that there is no community for onironauts. Iwish to create it since i’m skilled and passionate about it. But when I click the “create” button nothing happens. No error messages appear, the button just spins for a fraction of a second leaving everything as is. Can someone help me?
Yesterday I made a community for lucid dreamers. If you’re interested https://discuss.online/c/lucid_dreamers