Extensions . . . going past one’s filters . . . Dreaming, or Seeing, in the Don Juan sense.

One can feel oneself in a different mode here, not just dealing with “inner imagery,” like in one’s head, for instance.

The Other Self.

Was it sleep or not? I just closed my eyes . . . instead of those random hypnagogic colors, as if within the head, I was controlling and shaping them, with intent, in a nice clear and focused way. They ended up being tangible things. There was the comment of being detached from the body. Hmmm. Thought about that the next night . . . intent does come from a different axis, locale, even if it feels close.

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

Actions interconnected, meaningful, not separate.

Modes of Selfhood are here . . . the observer and observed are in sync.

It was like I was moving along the empty parking spot of an outer mall. Could feel myself in a different mode, moving, see the spot and buildings. Maybe it was about uptown, and now during the corona-19 quiet . . . I was thinking about Stoketown.

When we get into the “grabs,” the apparent image, only form, internalizations/externalizations and its generic symbolism, energy goes the other way.

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.”

https://beingofintent.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/touching-upon-the-second-gate-of-dreaming/