{"id":569,"date":"2014-11-15T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T19:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/?p=569"},"modified":"2014-11-15T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-15T23:14:53","slug":"the-other-as-an-aspect-of-our-truer-self-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/?p=569","title":{"rendered":"The Other as an Aspect of our Truer Self"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Other as an Aspect of our Truer Self<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/h3>\n

Paper for the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) 2014 PsiberDreaming Conference (PDC)<\/em>
\n\u00a9 by Beverly (Kedzierski Heart) D\u2019Urso<\/h4>\n

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When our physical self goes to sleep, our dream self awakens in a dream world. Our dream self acts as one of the characters in our dream, taking on an image of our physical self. We have what feels like very real experiences in this dream world with other dream characters, but if we don\u2019t know that our physical self is dreaming, we don\u2019t sense our connection with our physical self, the dreamer.<\/p>\n

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We continue having dream experiences until our physical self wakes up out of the dream. Does our dream self now die? Does it really matter, because we now find ourself in another world. From the perspective of our physical self, our dream self, the other dream characters, and the whole dream environment no longer seem to exist. We could say they all dissolved back into our physical self\u2019s mind, although they never really left it.<\/p>\n

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When our truer self goes to sleep, our physical self awakens in a physical world. Our physical self acts as one of the characters in the physical world, taking on an image of our truer self. We have what feels like very real experiences in this physical world with other physical characters, but because we don\u2019t know that our truer self is dreaming, we don\u2019t sense our connection with our truer self, the dreamer. We continue having physical experiences until our truer self wakes up out of the physical world. Does our physical self now die? Does it really matter, because we now find ourself in another world. From the perspective of our truer self, our physical self, the other physical characters, and the whole physical environment no longer seem to exist. We could say they all dissolved back into our true self\u2019s mind although they never really left it.<\/p>\n

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Having lucidity while asleep, we sense a connection with our physical self while our physical self sleeps. This connection creates a very powerful and meaningful dream life. Fear disappears because we know that we are more than just our dream body. We view all the characters in our dream, including our own character, as equal aspects of our physical self. We feel that we can direct our dream world by surrendering to the will of our physical self.<\/p>\n

Having lucidity while awake, we sense a connection with our truer self, while our truer self sleeps. This connection creates a very powerful and meaningful physical life. Fear disappears because we know that we are more than just our physical body. We view all the characters in our physical world, including our own character, as equal aspects of our truer self. We feel that we can direct our physical world by surrendering to the will of our truer self.<\/p>\n

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Wherever we experience dream characters, both our physical self and our truer self sleep. If our dream self senses a connection not only with our physical self, as typical in lucid dreams, but with our truer self, then it has access to the physical world because our truer self in a sense dreams up the physical world. In this case, the characters in our dreams could have a connection to others in our physical world because they exist as aspects of our truer self.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We can view birth and life as a process similar to sleep and dreaming. In both cases, our truer self appears to separate into distinct characters creating the concept of the other. Who these others represent depends upon our definition of self. When I view my self as Beverly, namely my body and personality, I might feel that the characters in my sleep state dreams represent aspects of Beverly. But if I view my self as more than Beverly, then these characters could represent aspects of people in my waking life or beyond. While asleep or awake, we learn about our truer self by noticing how all these so called separate characters interact. When we identify with one character in particular, we may have experiences such as fear, judgement, or grief. When we can accept these experiences, we identify with all the characters and treat them with compassion and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedreamnow.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}