My dreaming has taken off on new directions. Putting my intent upon certain items popping up in dreams has led into other directions.

I went with a friend and her daughter to a sacred site, a geographical area close enough to where I live. That night I had an image of her daughter running through the fields, as she does. But as I looked at the scene, she changed into a cat, like a bobcat, bounding around. As I looked closer to the vegetation, then zoomed into a rock, I heard a voice saying, “You’re viewing me in my more natural form.”

I remembered when I seen some orbs in that area in a previous experience. As I drew that image into my mind, I suddenly zoomed into a more breathtaking experience. It was like I was seeing within a huge mansion or temple in the clouds.

To make a long story short, its the typical second gate of dreaming from Castaneda, in which one uses items of a dream to trigger another dream, as I reestablished by looking to the information on the net.

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Engaging form . . . realities . . . an interactive field of meaning and knowledge.

Modes of self-hood are here. Observer and observed are in sync.

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As I found elsewhere: “Tibetan Dream Yoga begins with attention and knowledge, their first and second gates.”  “Learning to become attentive to the energy that animates life is the first Gateway . . . ” “Attentiveness is understood by perceiving the energy behind the form as opposed to the outer shape or appearance.” “When we move beyond our sensory perceptions that are stifled by our filters, we engage a different Self. This Self perceives with the sixth sense or intuition. When we don’t do anything, and we quiet the mind, this Self provides hunches or intuitions about what is really happening. This signifies that we have stepped through the first Gate of Dreaming and become attentive.” “When we become attentive, we begin to pay attention to reality.” “Being knowledgeable means not relying on past experiences or someone else’s knowledge or opinion. We learn to move into the inner source of knowledge, totally bypassing all of the filters, and learning to perceive energy through intuition.” “We become knowledgeable by finding the Source behind the dream. We perceive knowledge intuitively through the Dreamer of the Dream or the Dream being.”