If we aren’t paying attention to it, or if we don’t acknowledge what we’ve noticed, qualia will disappear as completely as the dreams we had last night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a dream state, in both waking and sleeping<\/em>, where the achievement of lucidity allows us to hold on to the qualia within our dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I was awake as I walked in the forested mountain, but I was dreaming. What I saw before me disappeared immediately as it went behind me. I let it vanish just like the previous scene in a dream, let go, forgotten. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The same was happening with my emotions, my grasping, the touch of thoughts I didn\u2019t want to have. They came and went. They were projections, just like dream scenes. I let them go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I am in control of all this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I brought myself here, to the mountain and its trees, to walk. I left the usual routine back at home. Although the trees certainly exist in some fashion all the time, I brought myself here, and so, in a very matter of fact sense, I am protecting them. They’re certainly here relatively (as a Buddhist will point out), but in an absolute sense, I brought myself here. I have created them in my waking dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I’m awake and lucid\u2014say, singing a song and I can’t remember the words\u2014I will cheerfully scat and gloss over the moment. It is just as if I were in a lucid dream, locked in a room with no way out – I would just open the locked door, or if I was falling, of course, I would cheerfully spread my wings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, when someone repeatedly points out my forgetfulness, it really upsets me. I wonder if my emotional reaction just like one of those non-lucid dreams where I\u2019m trapped or falling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I am learning to be emotionally lucid. No one else can tell that I am dreaming. Thus, confidence, going through the motions, appears to all those around us as if I am really that way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Such is confidence, though it ought not be used for gain, for satisfying cravings and aversions, for escape, especially when it is just a tool of denial. (I do have a real memory problem – I always have). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Real confidence ought to be used to improve the dream and the dream world throughout the day, and throughout the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Real confidence is true contentment. This is where the real power of confidence comes into play, because spreads contentment to those around us. That is how we transform ourselves, our communities, and we save the planet. If we’re in touch with that, what could be more desirable, or admirable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If we aren’t paying attention to it, or if we don’t acknowledge what we’ve noticed, qualia will disappear as completely as the dreams we had last night. There is a dream state, in both waking and sleeping, where the achievement of lucidity allows us to hold on to the qualiaContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-qualiens","post-4593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9QShd-1c5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4660,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4593\/revisions\/4660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}