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"Mr. Sandman bring me a dream..." it's called Hypn

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MageSteff
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"Mr. Sandman bring me a dream..." it's called Hypn

Referencing the CTW: Interaction thread
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1777

Where both Phyllis and Iris Pge report haivng a dream where they are awake and a DEG is standing by their feet....

See this site:
http://www.theness.com/articles/hypnagogia-cs0102.html

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It was late at night; I awoke and saw a shape at the end of my bed. As the shape floated closer I could see that it was an old ugly woman. I tried to move but I was paralyzed. She moved onto my chest, I could feel her weight on me and I could smell her breath. I tried to move and scream but I couldn't. Suddenly, when I thought I could not take any more, she disappeared.

The above scenario is not an atypical one in paranormal literature. Many accounts involve sensing a presence, hearing footsteps, and the inability to move. Another common element of visitations is their occurrence at night while going to sleep or early in the morning upon waking from sleep. This characteristic is very important because it points to a more reasonable explanation than a paranormal one; that of a waking dream or hypnogogia.

Carl G. Jung called it "the royal road to the unconscious"
a definition can be found here:
http://www.bodysoulandspirit.net/hypnagogia/what/define.shtml

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...The most direct way of explaining what Active Imagination is is this: Active Imagination places us at the threshold between our everyday sort of awareness and the dream world. If we can bring a degree of alertness and openness to the threshold, the dream world will reach out to meet us. The dream world provides us with its unique view on the world and we bring our questions, our capacity for learning, and our ability to be surprised. This marriage, of inner world and outer world, can provide our lives with much needed insight, energy, passion, and meaning. ...

There is also a page associated with this second site that tells how to enter that state intentionally.
http://www.bodysoulandspirit.net/hypnagogia/how/getting.shtml

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Since the DEG's show up there, maybe it is a way to find out what they want by combinding it with Lucid Dreaming.

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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 9:23 pm

Sunny du Pree
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Mage

Awesome post this deserves a good read....

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Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 9:48 pm

Valas
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http://www.edgeofsight.com/st0322.htm

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Story Eight - Summer 2003

Some times I question my sanity. I am sure that you hear that a lot. When I was only five or six I awoke to the sounds of heavy breathing. Of course I woke up; standing over my bed looking down at me was a tall figure in a black hooded robe. The only things visible were two glowing red eyes. Terrified I went screaming to my mother's room. She passed it off as a dream. The months passed and I remember vividly that I could feel a presence in the house but I was young and couldn't understand what I was feeling. My parents were divorced so one week I was visiting my father. When I returned my mother said that she had been sleeping in my bed because she missed me, and that the same thing had appeared bending over the bed as if to see who it was. Now you may be asking your self why she would tell me this. I don't know to this day. Well this thing haunted me throughout my childhood especially when I was unhappy or upset. I found out later that my sister had also experienced the same thing only at a friend's house. The friend also saw it. My sister a not very religious person began to pray and it disappeared. As I got older I became fascinated with the Occult and did much research on paranormal self defense. One night when I was eighteen I awoke to feel its presence in the room. I don't think I have ever been as afraid as I was at that moment. But a rage filled me and I sat right up in bed and said out loud to the dark that if it wanted me for something then do it, otherwise leave me the hell alone!! After that night I felt as if a great weight had been lifted off my shoulders. However I feel that that thing has never left my sister or I alone. But I'm now twenty nine and I feel that there are forces watching out for us, but it's still disturbing. My advice to anyone with the same experiences is to not give these things the time of day!! Give them nothing of yourselves.

Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2003 9:58 pm

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