Enlightened Cat

Hello friends of the forum. I got curious about the dreamboard stuff since I saw it advocated so much around the forum, and so I decided to navigate over to the tools section to check it out. I was very curious about how something like this works, and what exactly the purpose of such a thing could be. I was just reading through Phil's description of it, and I think I realized what the mechanism of the dreamboard is, or at least my perspective or interpretation of it. I'm not sure if Phil would agree or not, but this really hit me as something profound like "holy shit yeah that makes sense", so I felt like sharing that with you guys too. These are the notes and insights that spawned from me reading the description of the dreamboard: The way that all of this ties into the dreamboard is that it is getting you to first think of what you want, and then, to further cement the perception of that, it makes you draw or write it on the dreamboard. This creates a visual stimuli of the possibility/desire, and it also simultaneously causes it to reoccur as a thought every single time you see the dreamboard. This is beautifully exemplified by making you write down "simple" things first, like eating breakfast or having a coffee. It is showing you that what you are drawing is literally creating a potential for that thing to exist because it is putting the idea in your experience. There is something really amazing happening when you wake up, look at your dreamboard, see the cup of coffee on there, and then the next second you are literally having a cup of coffee. You can view that possibility in the exact same way in your head when you imagine "I want a coffee", your thoughts about what you want are like a mental dreamboard essentially. If you read through the dreamboard section again with this perspective, I think it makes a lot of sense. For example, the part where it says there is "no source for bad thoughts" makes perfect sense, because bad thoughts are exactly what you don't want, therefore you cannot create a probability for it since your desire is to avoid it. Therefore, there is no source/probability for bad thoughts. However, thinking negative thoughts wont "change the scenery" because it occupies the space needed to create a positive probabilistic thought. You can only have one thought or desire at a time, after all. Anyways, no idea how coherent any of this, but it makes a lot of sense to me now at least. Again, just my own way of seeing it.

What does your experience say about things that are unreal or things that don't exist? Can you point to something that is unreal? Can you point to something that doesn't exist?

Wow, there's a term for it. Shared Psychosis Disorder is aptly named. Yeah you can literally transmit the psychosis that you bring back from your psychedelic experiences to other people, wild.

Inference. Inference. I guess because it seems to predict "real" things? For example, what is the chance of rain tomorrow? You check the weather app, and then it rains according to that chance, at least seemingly. Holding the inference (in this case, the chance given from the weather app), gives a sense that you are predicting reality and that you are viewing reality accurately in some way, like a psychic would read the future. The "why" doesn't seem applicable here because it is based on "another which is not." The perception of favorable fortune is created through the inferred difference between two subjects. "Favorable fortune" is another probability, like on the weather app. Asking "why" is like creating a math equation in your head, and then asking why the math equation exists and why it confuses you. The thing you are questioning should be questioned, not the fact that it exists. Not "why does it exist?", but "what does it exist as?" If it is truly one life, how can it be compared, unless it is two lives? Such a bridge can only be created through a mental measuring stick. The map should not be confused for the territory. Not really, things aren't meshed in probability as the paradigm suggests. Yes. Don't know if calling it destiny or fate is actually accurate though. The "future" can always be changed, but it's not actually the future, just your inference about it, which is extrapolated from the present moment. You can always examine and change your perception of the future because it always happens from wherever you presently are. Even within the paradigm in question, odds change all the time. You can choose to act as if life is a favourable or unfavourable probability, or recognize the limits of living that way.

I will also add some consolidation for this part. If someone says "there is a higher state where the color red becomes more true and accurate", I do not need to reach that state to see through their bullshit. What that shows is that the person does not understand what red is, not that they have reached some higher understanding of red.

That is by design. You can't learn consciousness. Beliefs and knowledge can be learned and unlearned, incorrect or correct, and refined ad infinitum. Your direct experience has no such business, but it often acts like a container for all of that mental diarrhea to happen inside of. Has anyone ever invalidated the color red? Can you learn and unlearn the color red? Can you gain higher insight into the color red? Does the color red change, can it become more accurate? Can it become scary? Can it lack suffering? And if you define it as "no suffering", how can you be scared of it? That's quite the paradox. Are you experiencing a paradox, or maybe just a thought disguised as one?

This tripped me out cause it made me realize that thoughts aren't actually private. The idea of "being private" happens in thought hahaha.

What is also great is the things that don't necessarily need questioning. Your favorite ice cream flavour you enjoy. Your likes and interests. That conversation you had with the cashier. You're here, and whatever is true is already being experienced, and no knowledge about experience can replicate experience. You can extensively study an encyclopedia about how vanilla ice cream tastes, but it won't be the taste of vanilla ice cream. But otherwise, no clue. Looks like we got plopped into the ultimate adventure game.

Not entirely sure on how kundalini stuff works, but just my two cents: It seems like maybe you are having a drastic change in energy and perception, which is not really so concerning on its own. But, your thoughts are moving this energy around quite a bit, which can be overwhelming. This is actually what normally happens for most people, their thoughts about themselves create strong emotions, but the feelings and emotions produced by the thoughts seem to be "amplified" beyond what you are used to in this kundalini scenario. Just as an example, you experience a very ecstatic non-dual feeling of bliss, which is fine on its own of course, but then thoughts about yourself start to fill it, like "I am God, therefore I can do all of this, etc." The feeling of that state has been co-opted by certain stories and narratives like this. You can see that what you have described is driven by certain narratives and stories, like "I am God, I am manifesting this, I can do all of this, this created a feeling of this, etc." So my advice would be to just look at these thoughts and stories as they are, and make peace with them in that way. It seems that lots of thoughts and ideas about yourself are being "pushed" and "purged" out of you, but if you can truly see that, then it's really up to you if you want to act them out or not.