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Interesting dreams. I hope you continue to treasure them. Dreams are special. I had some "strange' experience too when I was younger. I don't talk much about them for fear of getting committed to some nameless asylum. I am much older than you. I have used my small experience as guidepost for my life. Anyway, nice to meet another 'dreamer'.

nice to meet you as well. I've been working with people who are disabled for 10 years now, and of the older generations there are some with scary stories about the asylums of yester-year. Not that long ago in the big picture.

Those dreams that I've shared I haven't thought about until just this last few month I started looking into taoist alchemy, qi gong, and such types of things a little closer, then reading briefly about some of the abilities of the claimed masters and the training and body movements used in various types of meditation, I was flooded with the memories of those dreams. Definitely got me to start working from the book "taoist yoga alchemy and immortality" and I'm having experiences that relate to what I've read so that's interesting. I need to find a teacher of this type of stuff in the Seattle area.

Also, I'm a avid lucid dreamer and I'm curious (I've read a book on Tibetan dream yoga but did not find it to be fruitful) if there are any mixes of these paths... Dreaming, and Taoist Alchemy(Nei-gong better said?)

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If at this point you dont experientially understand "complete and utter stillness" then that is a very important prerequisite. No mention was made of it so I thought I would mention it. It is imperative to integrate all of the energy you cultivate.

I'm guessing that's the state you have to balance in to even get these events to occur? I'd love to hear you elaborate.

Are there any real masters in the Seattle Wa. area?

The electricity you generate in the abdomen cavity during meditation is raising into the head to the center of your skull. There you have the pineal gland but also the Optic chiasm where optic nerves cross each other. So whatever you see in such a " vision" is because the nerves are excited and they send electric signals to the Visual cortex where you create the image. That's the first step to enlightement, to create interior light, to see the interior light in the center of your brain when the outer eyes are in darkness.

what is the next step?

Thank you.

Thanks for the replies. The vision was definitely in my minds eye and not open eye visuals and the vision aspect only happened at the end when the blue whitish light cracked me between the eyes inducing a very temporary state of bliss/euphoria/whatever. I thought it was strange how it felt like it hit my head and thew my head back though. Is that normal?

the point on my abdomen was filled with pressure first and then it felt as if it moved to my solar plexus. I was a little nervous because I've heard people mention not doing these types of meditations without a "master" or whatever, though I'm reluctant to trust just anybody with these types of matters as they are very special important to me and I'm weary to let some type of charlatan start program my thoughts on the matters. The internet is nice because one is not forced to believe what they hear and with honest searching I find it's easy to sense the truth.

Working through "Taoist Yoga Alchemy and Immortality" has been interesting. Having dedicated much honest effort I started to feel the accumulated energy under my navel rise to my solar plexus without my willing that to happen so I stop... OK sure... another day's work, it happens again and this time I stop after letting it sit in my solar plexus for a while, not remembering what should be happening and not wanting to think about it... I stop it, but this time when I open my eyes it's like i'm looking through this wide purple tunnel that is rotating back and forth. (no clue!?!)... Another day's work I'm just letting the energy reside in my solar plexus again and SNAP!!!!!!! this brilliant white/blusish light like "pings" or "cracks" into the space between my eyebrows and I get this split second of complete euphoria but it subsides really quickly and I open my eyes because it was so shocking and the light quickly diminished also.

Can anyone tell me more about the process I'm going through?

and this is very subjective and I'm sorry if it feels Waaaay out there but I swear to my word it felt like my hands were magnetic for like 10 minutes afterwards. Like they were they same pole though so they would feel resistance against one another from like 6-8inches away. I must have looked like a loon doing all the little tests I was doing to see if I was really feeling this. hahah. So, any ideas, comments or words of wisdom? I could certainly use it.

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Hi guys. I've enjoyed the forum and am happy to have found a place like this. I'll just jump right in here.

I used to have all these strange dreams from my childhood where I would make these strange body postures and generate this feeling of chills (best way I can describe it) and end up levitating or turning invisible or what have you. Now this was from a very young age (like 3rd 4th grade) and I can't recall any outside stimulus for these types of dreams.

later in young adult hood I had a natural tendency to lean towards subjects pertaining to the meaning of life, the origins of consciousnesses, etc. and was often considered (and felt) to be "out there" but I always was just kind of o.k. with it and really only slightly sad I could not get any of my friends to share in the more deep feelings about life I was having.

Now almost thirty years old and having done much humble searching -however hard it was to sift through the new age(or however you wanna dress it up) capitalization of awareness- I find myself here with a hand full of deep experiences and a truck full of questions. I hope to have open and insightful dialogues with many intelligent people and it's my intention to respect the process.

thanks for reading and I look forward to your insights.