anyway i have had much experience with vivd dream recall and too have read nonsense words/sentences in my dreams. many times i am reading a text message from my phone within a dream and suddenly i begin to realize that i am reading complete nonsense and then it dawns on my that i am literally making up what i am reading as i go! quite a strange phenomenon.

i agree with rob on the expectations bit with dreaming but i have always been on the fence when it comes to the belief that life is the very same way. i have had many instances (every other day it seems, sometimes multiple times a day) since i was very young that i feel totally demonstrates my expectations forming my reality as if i am in a dream.

I certainly think that to an extent expectation/intent effects reality, in both a quasi-mystical way (for instance, those experiments with random number generators where the results were influenced by human intention to change the results from being not so random) and straight forward, common sense ways (for instance, doing affirmations on my goals helps keep me aligned with them, thus influencing my actions, thus helping manifesting my goals.) Beyond this, I absolutely love to speculate on how our thoughts and expectations influence reality, but I personally reserve holding firm opinions on affirming that thought *create* reality in a literal, black and white sense.

I’m having a hard time expressing the fine line in between these two things though… I’m not entirely comfortable with what I wrote, but I can’t seem to find the words I’m looking for.

I particularly find your first dream that you recounted interesting. To my mind, the fact that you were aware that you were dreaming and were reading a book in which the words were clear as day but had absolutely no true meaning, including some words being completely made up, is in and of itself a metaphor for what you are undertaking in analyzing your dreams.

I theorize, after much conscious experience, that our entire physical existence that we experience is made up of our expectations. Think hard about this. Expectations are what cause us to subconsciously jump to conclusions as we process the great probability field that is the Universe. So consciously we experience something that may appear to be detached, or independent of us, or originate for an unexpected reason, but subconsciously we chose that experience because we expected it for whatever reason. These reasons for expectation can be memory/experience, or doubt, or any multitude of things.

The five aggregates of Buddhism are a classic example of things that impose certain subconscious expectations upon us.

What this means is that all of your lucid dreams are the product of your expectations, and that they are really all delusions in the face of ultimate truth. That is why the words are clear as day, but make no sense, and some of them are not even words at all.

Do not get me wrong, I have read many of your accounts of dreams and I find that they contain much conventional truth and wisdom, but in the face of unconventional truth and wisdom all of existence, everything we experience, everything we are becomes illusory, deluded and false.

I call it all the lie, to put it in very blatant terms. My own existence is the lie. All my thoughts are the lie. All my philosophy about existence is the lie. All my great conventional wisdom is the lie. The only real truth is the void.

I’ve found for some reason that mind machines work a lot better for me if I haven’t used them for a long stretch. But if I try it on successive days, I find that the effect wears off.

But I still love playing with my Sirius mind machine. I think it’s those psychedelic-esque experiences it gives me that has me hooked, and the occasional weird OBE-type feelings I get sometimes. I’m so fascinated with that!!

What kind of mind machine do you have? I have a Sirius and a PRX-200, I believe it is (an older model, and now it’s broken.)

PS Good to hear from you Zataod!

I’m glad you are still diligent in your experimentation.