Everything

[poliphilo]

Last night, as I was drifting off to sleep, a voice spoke in my right ear. It seemed to be a male voice and it spoke very clearly, though I knew it to be incorporeal. What it said was,  "You have seen everything."

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[ennoia-khora.livejournal.com]

I've had a lot of experiences in the hypnogogic and hypnopompic states...usually voices in the former (sometimes very direct like yours, sometimes just fields of "chatter"), and visions of people or "things" in the latter, often with sleep paralysis, very distinct tactile sensations, full audio. In one of my favorite, as I was coming out of sleep, there was a little girl standing beside my bed, who looked at me and said "YOUR Grandfather!!!!" in the most exasperated tone. I though, "Good lord, what has he done now?" :)

They've run the gamut from meaningless to menacing to sublime. I haven't discovered too many really solid links between the frequency or content and anything I'm doing, apart from the fact that the overall occurrence is more frequent when involved in more intense periods of spiritual training or crisis. I note them when they occur, but they haven't yielded as much beneficial material as regular dreamwork. So I just count them as part of what makes my night world so lively. :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I was once shown- again in a hypnagogic state- a series of 19th century photographic portraits- not the approximations one might expect in a dream but all clearly of "real" people.
I have no idea who they were.

[ennoia-khora.livejournal.com]

It's strange and wonderful territory - like you say, much more "real" than dreams. I have no idea what to make of it much of the time, but it is quite fascinating.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I find it difficult to believe that my Victorian photographs were purely the creation of my own subconscious.

[ennoia-khora.livejournal.com]

Since I come from a worldview that doesn't attribute everything to the subconscious (even dreams aren't that simplistic in my understanding), I don't try to enforce any beliefs on it. Especially in my hypnopompic experiences - they've been distinct personalities doing very intentional things, which I don't always understand. But as in a typical day, they range from random encounters to doing "business" or even seeing friends.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I agree with you.

I believe we are surrounded by intelligencies...

[petercampbell.livejournal.com]

But maybe from the collective unconscious?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I doubt if they came from me.....