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By Cathal
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Belinda wrote: August 25th, 2024, 1:59 pm Because an archetype appears in a religious scripture and also in someone's dream one must not assume that the dreamer subscribes to a religious faith.
The song below feels like a hidden remix of another high-pitch violin remix of Rihanna's song in such a way that I almost felt like a robot listening to the song! So it's easier to see how a remix of a remix can create a meta-perception for encryption when it comes to lucid dreaming.

[url]https://www. youtube .com/watch?v=u38iQUZjtRQ&list=RDu38iQUZjtRQ&start_radio=1[/url]
【UTAU】 Disturbia 【CRINA】(Rihanna Cover)
[yid=RDu38iQUZjtRQ&start_radio=1][/yid]
By Belinda
#467329
Cathal wrote: August 28th, 2024, 6:34 pm
Belinda wrote: August 25th, 2024, 1:59 pm Because an archetype appears in a religious scripture and also in someone's dream one must not assume that the dreamer subscribes to a religious faith.
The song below feels like a hidden remix of another high-pitch violin remix of Rihanna's song in such a way that I almost felt like a robot listening to the song! So it's easier to see how a remix of a remix can create a meta-perception for encryption when it comes to lucid dreaming.

[url]https://www. youtube .com/watch?v=u38iQUZjtRQ&list=RDu38iQUZjtRQ&start_radio=1[/url]
【UTAU】 Disturbia 【CRINA】(Rihanna Cover)
[yid=RDu38iQUZjtRQ&start_radio=1][/yid]
This is solely your interpretation not encryption. Rihanna means nothing to me.There is no encryption going on among people who remember dreams.
Location: UK
By Cathal
#467374
Belinda wrote: August 29th, 2024, 7:23 am This is solely your interpretation not encryption. Rihanna means nothing to me.There is no encryption going on among people who remember dreams.
Sleep paralysis can mean not only that your muscles don’t distract you from dreaming but also how tensing and relaxing your muscles can help you focus on a dream. For example the glutes aren’t just a sexual muscle where much like a gentle stroll your breathing pattern during sleep can be partially synchronised with your upper leg muscles. An ironic way to prove lucid dreaming might be if lucidity and hallucinations were simply the norm where most people are actively choosing not to lucid dream!
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By Lagayascienza
#467375
I don't think we actually need to prove anything about lucid dreaming and hallucination. My advice is to just keep taking the tablets. And dream all you want about those hot actresses. Lucidly or otherwise. It's all fun, right?
Favorite Philosopher: Hume Nietzsche Location: Antipodes
By Belinda
#467416
Lagayscienza wrote: August 30th, 2024, 10:12 am I don't think we actually need to prove anything about lucid dreaming and hallucination. My advice is to just keep taking the tablets. And dream all you want about those hot actresses. Lucidly or otherwise. It's all fun, right?
Yes, but do you agree that dreams are not encryptions but are subjective or intersubjective interpretations.

Cathal seems to be claiming that someone or something puts an encrypted meaning into his mind:
The song below feels like a hidden remix of another high-pitch violin remix of Rihanna's song in such a way that I almost felt like a robot listening to the song! So it's easier to see how a remix of a remix can create a meta-perception for encryption when it comes to lucid dreaming.
It's widely recognised that one may actively participate in dreams or passively observe what is happening.
There is no reason to suggest that someone or something has encrypted some ulterior meaning.The Jungian idea of archetypes as applied to a dream deals in genuine cultural or biological archetypes.('Rihanna' for instance is so far from being a cultural archetype that I and a million others have never heard of him. On the other hand the photo of a beautiful woman that you posted may well be archetypal as we have here an actual thing, a detailed photograph of a more or less important idea which is available to anyone who looks at it).
Location: UK
By Belinda
#467441
Lagayscienza wrote: August 31st, 2024, 6:38 am I don't think anyone puts ecrypted meanings into our minds. I think that idea is delusional.
So do I. May be Cathal does not know the accepted meaning of 'encryption' and thinks it means something like 'symbolism'.
Location: UK
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By Lagayascienza
#467443
You maybe right, Belinda. However, my reading of Cathal's many posts suggests to me that there is a bit more than semantics going on.
Favorite Philosopher: Hume Nietzsche Location: Antipodes
By Cathal
#467593
Lagayscienza wrote: September 1st, 2024, 6:13 am You maybe right, Belinda. However, my reading of Cathal's many posts suggests to me that there is a bit more than semantics going on.
One way to think of free won't in neurological terms might be if instead of trying to focus your eyes on an object you'd instead be actively defocusing on the background so as to passively focus on an object. I'm not sure if this might be a bit hectic though(!):

https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=JDgU-rMkVNU
Dj Splash - You Spin Me Right Round (Remix)
By Belinda
#467599
Cathal wrote: September 7th, 2024, 9:11 am
Lagayscienza wrote: September 1st, 2024, 6:13 am You maybe right, Belinda. However, my reading of Cathal's many posts suggests to me that there is a bit more than semantics going on.
One way to think of free won't in neurological terms might be if instead of trying to focus your eyes on an object you'd instead be actively defocusing on the background so as to passively focus on an object. I'm not sure if this might be a bit hectic though(!):

https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=JDgU-rMkVNU
Dj Splash - You Spin Me Right Round (Remix)
I'm afraid, Cathal, your reply is incoherent. Would you like to edit it?
Location: UK
By Cathal
#467618
Belinda wrote: September 7th, 2024, 12:30 pm I'm afraid, Cathal, your reply is incoherent. Would you like to edit it?
You could identify more with your peripheral vision more than your central vision when it comes to free won’t in actively looking away rather than looking towards:
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This artist likes to create a mess (NY motion blurs)

Modern art might seem vague but could also appear like dark humour. I once went to a modern art museum in Qatar 2015 where there were multiple rolls of blank papyrus or wheat layered in different directions in dozens of portraits. Years in retrospect it’s possible it was a critique of rural people basking too long in scenery!
By Cathal
#467760
Years ago I’d vivid dreams of being in a swimming pool and the changing rooms only for everything to somehow feel bigger than real-life as if the dream elongated space. So one way to think of dreaming is not only that there’s a different depth perspective than real life but indeed that each dream will have a slightly different depth perspective from one another. In other words each dream is like a distinct painting with its own flaws in drawing ratios. Who knows if the amount of space dilation in a dream depends on how far back in time the memory is for mental time-travel.
By Cathal
#467764
One way to think of religious paintings with enlarged backgrounds is that they’re almost more 3-dimensional than real-life such that the enlarged background might repel you like an opposing magnet for time to move faster.
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By Belinda
#467768
Cathal wrote: September 8th, 2024, 2:15 am
Belinda wrote: September 7th, 2024, 12:30 pm I'm afraid, Cathal, your reply is incoherent. Would you like to edit it?
You could identify more with your peripheral vision more than your central vision when it comes to free won’t in actively looking away rather than looking towards:
88F5BB81-5D28-42C1-ACFE-518BE05559C5.png
This artist likes to create a mess (NY motion blurs)

Modern art might seem vague but could also appear like dark humour. I once went to a modern art museum in Qatar 2015 where there were multiple rolls of blank papyrus or wheat layered in different directions in dozens of portraits. Years in retrospect it’s possible it was a critique of rural people basking too long in scenery!
That's your interpretation! It is good that you did interpret it all all , as some people would attribute the papyrus designs to the artist exerting an elaborate leg pull.
Contrary to your interpretation, my interpretation may have been how a culture was founded on papyrus and wheat technology.
Location: UK
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