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100% I’ve done some extensive testing in the past while I was trying to find the right one to help my mom have her first lucid dream. It is the only test that is reliable.
My comment was also based in the movie BTW.
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from the book “An Experiment with time, by J. W. Dune”:
@NightHawk999 you can check his brilliant description of how memory works and the performing associative thinking creates more complex ramifications of brain traces that able us to remember things.
this man was a genius… I LOVE his writing
“But there can be no reasonable doubt that the idea of a soul must have first arisen in the mind of primitive man as the result of observation of his dreams. Ignorant as he was, he could have come to no other conclusion but that, in dreams, he left his sleeping body in one universe and went wandering off into another.”
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Interesting enough, a book came to my hands thanks to a premonitory dream I had last week: in the dream I was on my path and a huge fridge was on the side with the door opened. On that same day, I was at the beach with a friend and noticed there was a “fridge library” where people can take a book, read it and then give it back… I was so excited (with the fact of being able to pick that image from the dream) that I suggested my friend (who is German) to pick a book for her, since I had mine to read… and she picked this one, directly:
in which the author describes the same processes as JW Dunne…
they both describe very precisely and with their experiences, how the inner images we visualize, in some cases, are as real as reality…
“The rays of light, proceeding from objects in the light, have the power of forming pictures on other bodies, as well as on the retina of the eye. If the body be sufficiently opaque and polished, we can readily see them, as in an ordinary mirror, or a polished plate of metal, or water, as we observe in the river the trees that grow by its margin; and although when the object is removed no picture is visible, there is good reason to believe that the picture thus formed is nearly, if not entirely, as enduring as the substance on which it is formed.”
They also both explain this with the help of color phenomena, which is much more magical that people usually think of…
I am mind blown!..
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for me, king is daily register of dreams and registering dream signs. this is what causes me to have spontaneous lucid dreaming I’m in the dream and I clearly know it’s a dream - no need for reality checks (which some experts say that they only reach 90% accuracy). this is also a great practice for daytime as you mentioned in the memory thread @Dream_Hacker - that exercise is really what keeps us lucid in all states, recognizing and also remembering this is all a dream, making the joyful exercise of being present enough to remember what is truly important 
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Thank you for this
Amazing!
Sounds like it hit some pretty deep topics in that book!
The Placebo and Nocebo effect seem to both strongly support this claim.
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it goes way over placebo and nocebo.
it touches our psychic abilities…
this book is a kind of a treaty of psychometric experiments they developed along time. It would become more and more accurate with time (just like me with my intuition technique) - a regular practice delivered an increasing accuracy in what they were able to see with eyes closed - the text I shared is only in the beginning of the book, where they are explaining how it all works.
this book that I was able to see where it was in a dream, is a huge confirmation and empowerment of my experiments since 2014!.. amazing stuff…
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these two gems, both recommended by two beloved friends, have just arrived…
I have preparation work for, at least, the next decade…! uuuufff… 
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Yes, I agree.
Your ‘experiments’ are definitely paying off. 
I am still in a state of disbelief and awe from the email you sent me.
I think yesterday or the day before I referenced TWR’s book (I think in the Mudra thread), cool synch!
Highly recommend the chapter on the 4 Foundational Practices of sleep, but all is golden.
The cover art hits home deeply as well, I will never forget the first time I saw that ‘Cloud blanket’ in the mountains.
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the place where my father was born (Arganil), has this… it’s SO comforting for me to watch it in the morning, along with the sunrise… I feel at home…
I understand… me also! hihihi it was so clear… sometimes when things are really clear, there can be a strange tendency to not believe in them…
I started there! already made a resume… hihihi
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AWE & AMAZEMENT would be a better way to describe my state of mind.
You pretty much shattered any disbelief that may have been hiding in the woodwork.
Thank you for that Treasure
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you are so welcome!
here’s another one - I have it with me for years now, but it was on a shelf… yesterday I brought it up to my “books flooded desk”:
Here’s a piece of this beautiful “music”:
“So the thought takes a form that is borrowed from the world of mind. A clear mind, therefore, can give a distinct life, a distinct form to the thought; a mind that is confused produces indistinct thoughts. One can see the truth of this in dreams: the dreams of the clear-minded are clear and distinct; the dreams of those of unclear mind are confused. Besides, it is most interesting to see that the dreams of the artist, of the poet, of the musician, who live in beauty, who think of beauty, are beautiful; the dreams of those whose minds have doubt or fear or confusion are the same character as their minds. (…) The form of a thought is not only known to the person who thinks it, but also to the one who reflects the thought, in whose heart is reflected. Therefore there is a silent communication between people, the thought forms of one person reflecting in the mind of another. These thought forms are more powerful and clearer than words.”
(page 188 - first and second paragraphs)
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I like this better than "Great minds . . . . . . "
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I like both
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I have just per-ordered this beauty:
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I will pre order it this week, thank you for letting me know
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Have not finished this book yet, but VERY excited to wet my beak again. Something tells me it is going to be a Total Grand Slam, but I will eat my words if it is not.
In the first 24 pages there is a line that talks about black spots forming on the heart. And if we dont remove them, they eventually turn the entire heart black.
Thought that was a very powerful line.
I dont think the Author is a Buddhist 
, but it would not shock me if they were one in a previous life, or had some sacred teachings from the Dharma,
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This book was recommended by a dear friend:
I will not read it… been studying this in the last years, but thought about sharing it here because it’s really an intelligent book, with several examples of American expectations that I thought you might enjoy…
felt this to be true… let us know please how it goes for you 
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Wonders of the Natural Mind: The Essence of Dzogchen in the Native Bon Tradition of Tibet
AH reccomended. Have not read but excited to.
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Today I share this video with what some people call the father of transpersonal psychology: Stanislav Grof, side by side with his beloved wife Briggite Grof. (He had his birthday on July 1st.) He is a great bringer of consciousness into the world.
He is the author of the book “The Way of the Psychonaut” love this name 
I LOVE the concept he mentions right in the beginning of “Earth spaceship” and I do remember that, especially in the pandemics (perhaps because of the calmness in nature) when I was at the beach, sitting and contemplating the ocean, I had a clear feeling that I was in this beautiful space ship… the wind would support this delightful experience. What a ride!
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