## Dreams - Proving a point Dreams... Experience independent of "material world". Hence the "mind" or "self" can produce/manifest a fully convincing/immersive reality. Reality as defined by the existence of impressions; say sound, voice, emotions etc. A phenomalogical reality. If this is the case... how can we know that what we consider waking reality is not "merely" another dream. It happens that I become lucid whilst I dream. Or in other words, I realize that I am dreaming whilst I dream. This realization enables me to alter the dream; in a nightmare i may simply "switch channels", or i may decide to fly. i may decide that the enemy i was charging at is.. asleep, their weapons not working. ``` Normally dreaming → fully inside construction → limitations feel absolute → cannot fly Become aware you're dreaming → partial step outside construction → limitations become optional → fly, switch channels, disarm enemies ``` If similar mechanisms apply to "waking life" - a state of experience which may, in hindsight (after we die?) turn out to be yet another dream? If "waking" reality is merely another dream - what would it take to become lucid? ## "Sleep Paralysis" - The Merge I had these... certain periods... The "waking" and the dream world "collides". ... Sick, withdrawals, winter, change of year, boundary worlds, tallin, narva. ## Inter subject dream Shared dreams... Meeting in dreams, meeting real people in dreams. ... So two agents can meet each other in dream state... ## Psychedelics - The Melting Loosing language as objects melted, thought i was going insane/dying (identifying self with the "chatter/radio channel"). Objects became melted together, the rick and morty show left the screen, melted into the floor, the table and floor becoming one (they always were) No longer able to communicate clearly with my companion. Language no longer made sense; no distinct/separate objects, no words to capture them. Thought i was loosing my mind, clinging to whatever words was left. Eventually let go... best trip of my life... Funny how society permits: - Amphetamines for kids - Anti depressants for... everyone - Semi daily alchohol usage - Various pain killers, sedatives and so on But picking up a mushroom from the forest and consuming it... your a naughty nelly. Perhaps someone has a vested interest here? ## Narrative - The Self Propagating Cage Reality as constructed by narrative? How many of our limitations are imparted upon us due to narrative -- "no you cannot fly". A simple example; you wanna go lift a barbell, if you believe you cannot do it; a) you never even try b) you bail mid lift A very down to earth example of how a "soft" narrative can concretely limit your physical capabilities. Another great example is strecthing/yoga... you may believe that if you continue the "stretch" something will "come apart", the worry makes you tense, makes the stretch impossible; qde narrative produces a physical reality. ``` Narrative → tension → reduced range of motion → confirms narrative ("see, I can't do it") → more tension next attempt. ``` Eventually a physical cage ("cage" as defined by limitation of physical movement) is constructed, through mere narrative. Which means the materialist framing is already inverted. It's not: > matter → experience → narrative It's at minimum a loop: > narrative ↔ physical state ↔ experience Or perhaps even: > narrative -> physical state --> experience Thus it's proven (you can go try yourself) that narrative indeed can force physical, measureable limits. Now the question.. how deep does this go? Using the same model of questioning, which other things are limitations, merely because we believe they are? How many limitations have become internalized because they've been repeated by authority figures since childhood, then later on your peers who eventually succumbed to the limitations too? "Magic only exists in fiction" "No you cannot fly" -- space x will IPO this year.... "No you can't..." Most uttered limitations like this is merely the consequence of the individual uttering them, seeking to protect their ego by extrapolating their own limitations as universal law. The true scientist/inventors/\*nauts are those who dare to seek out the strongest held limitation -- and then obliterates it. The agents who truly wants to evolve are those who ruthlessly test; which of my limitations are consequences of narrative vs something I've personally put to the test. ## Linguistics Why is a table a distinct object from say the floor that supports it? Without something to stand on... the table would be nowhere.. Without someone to "observe" the table, it wouldn't exist either.... Merely a linguistic distinction -- the object as separate from the subject. Mistaking abstraction, arbitrary cut outs of reality, for the fabric itself. "intelligence cuts reality into pieces and proudly exclaims; look the world is made of pieces". Congratulations... Keep asking your science/math teacher "why" enough times.. see what happens, in my experience; - "thats just how it is" - "stop asking so much" - "your distracting class" - "not within curriculum, dont think about it" When in reality; science is based on math/logic, and ultimately logic is based on axioms; rules that are.. axiomatic, ie. not derived but arbitrarely defined, nothing prooves it. "thats just how it is". Gotta remind you of a certain set of religions huh? "trust bro" Narrative about narrative generating narrative all the way down. Over trusting "science", the ever changing narrative/explanation. Mistaking a (highly) useful tool/lens for reality. Taking the pyschosis to its ultimate conclusion by conflating language with "intelligence" and now we gotta deal with moronic ai priests.... ## On Formalisms - axiomatic dogma Studied the lambda calculus... some dude made up/discovered a couple of rules (formalism) -- from which all our other stuff, numbers and all that jazz that we like to cling to may be derived. ## Out of Body - Astral Projection Was in lviv... summer 2021. Out of body experience. Red hotel... I was sleeping during the day. All of a sudden i left my body. Floated to the ceiling and observed it in the room. Sooo some part of "me" must also be separate from "body". Astral projection? The out of body is an empirically re-producible experience, see: INSERT. Materialist science assumes that the "mind" is a sort of "emergent" by-product of particles (or whichever substrate we're currently down to) colliding together and creating a sort of computer with input/output. If that's the case... how can the "program" reliably leave the "computer" (mind leaving body) AND observe it from the outside/third person perspective? Supporting evidence: - OBEs are reliably induced by TPJ stimulation (Blanke et al., 2002) - Pilots under g-force report them consistently - Ketamine/dissociatives produce them pharmacologically - Near-death OBEs correlate with hypoxic brain states One may argue that theres some sort of "glitch going on" - the "mind" making up a "hallucination" of it observing itself... well okay gltichy camera... but thats still an experiernce of "self" beyond the boundaries of the body. Under what circumstances is what we experience a "glitch" vs "real"? Whichever fits into... narrative? :-) ## Institutional Religion - The Slave Gods ... Christianity, emerged amongst the slaves of the roman empire. A coping mechanism, social control. The priest taking a confession - the ultimate handler. The inherit guilt. The fallen world narrative. Hell narrative as a method of self policing and compliance. The omnipontent judge (now manifest in almost total surveillance). Sexuality, procreation, as a source of guilt. The worldview that the current, present, only surely known world, is somehow a fallen world, a world of sin, something to be virtuosly suffered through so one can get to the made up ideal, real, final world. If your good. Deviants persecuted, burned on the stake. Believe the narrative - nod along, or else. (Same mechanism serves as the foundation of nation-states). (Note that there's a massive difference between institutional and privately held "christianity"). Christianity as a sacrifice in the present - striving towards a better world.. i can get behind that. ## Gnostic - schools of thought The demiurge.... The archerons. A crafted world. .... o The world as a crafted narrative cage. The idea that the material world is a kind of prison constructed by a lesser deity, and that _gnosis_ (direct knowledge, не (not) faith) is the escape mechanism. The gnostics were systemically hunted and executed by cathloic church. ## Linguistics And Thought Limits A programmer or multi lingual individual will know this; > Not all languages are created equal. Some enables the expression of certain concepts that simply do not exist in other languages. An example where they play with this in litterature is good ol' 1984; they attempt to modify language to erase the ability to conciously think of concepts such as "freedom". This proves another point; things may exist that we do not yet have a word for. Think about that for a while... Gravity kept pulling apples to the ground, even so before newton formalized it. What other forces may operate on our lifes that we do not, as of yet, have a formal word/concept for? Is this what may be considered the realm of magic; the things that exist but are beyond our rational capabilities? ## Identity - another narrative Who are you? You'd likely respond with your name. Your name.. an arbitrary thing... could be; - Emil - Konstantin (insert cyrillic version) - blablabgoop In many cultures you get to take on a new name. In military operations you'll likely take on multiple names. Ditty for internet usernames. So which one? And surely.. your not a couple of letters. Perhaps your job title next? Maybe where your from?... Where your from... question can be answered in a lot of ways... From at what point? 1. ur moms vagina? 2. the hospital at which your moms vagina found itself at the time of birth? 3. the city at which you were born? 1. where in that city? 4. the city you currently reside in 5. the city you don't currently reside in but mostly did The point I'm trying to have my reader conclude is that... identity is... you may have guessed it... another narrative. Enforced by the state (which in turn.. is narrative backed by violence) (legal papers). Identity or rather fixed identity is also the pre-requim for any sort of surveillance and control... a fixed target to trace. Suppose all records of you vanished. No passport. No birth certificate. No name. No social media. No government file. No memory in anyone else's mind. (I have personally found myself with this issue...). Who would you then be? Would you be someone? Surely yes... but you'd now be beyond the identity construct. In a dream you have a sense of identity. Perhaps even one which is different from the one in the waking state. Which one is real? To summarize this idea;