It's been awhile since I had a lucid dream. I used to have them more frequently. There's something to our state of being that I've read about that will produce more of them.
One of the things I discovered I could do and then began doing in my lucid dreams was take over the 'director's chair' in the 'movie' that the dream was. When something in the dream sequence produced a bad outcome, sometimes really bad outcomes I would hit 'rewind' in my dream back to a point where I could make a different choice and avoid the bad outcome as the dream sequence restarted, "Action!" Sometimes no matter what choice I made the same bad outcome would result in the dream sequence. So I'd rewind back to another point further back where I could make a different choice and avoid the bad outcome in the dream sequence. I found I could do this over and over and over in the lucid dreaming state, still not awake, eyes closed, not fully conscious. But able to sit in that dream 'director's chair' and go through multiple different dream sequences until I would finally find the moment in the dream that the 'bad' choice was made that resulted in the bad outcome that no other subsequent different choices would prevent.
I would refuse to let myself have a full-on nightmare. I would find where things were put into motion that the dream was going to end up in a nightmare and choose differently. Often it wasn't an obvious choice.
In thinking about dream analysis of when it would happen there was often a learning experience that accompanied the dream that was meaningful for me to think about what was going on in my life at the time and clarified the need to make different choices when presented with options. And once you know you can occupy the 'director's chair' in a lucid dream it becomes much easier to do the next time. Kinda cool. I'm sure there's many who study dreaming and could add insights.
The most important takeaway I had from my experience in the dream "director's chair" was the significance of "third order events" that had set into motion the sequence that would end badly. Seemingly unrelated but the bad outcome was the result of an earlier order event that wasn't apparent when first looking for causation. Sitting in that "chair" fostered an appreciation for thinking through where certain decisions, even about relatively inconsequential matters could lead.
Imagine a world where that type of "superpower" was possessed by those in positions of authority who authentically were acting in the people's interests, not their paymaster/puppetmaster's interests? Like had authorities during Scamdemic taken into account third order events. Heck, had they even taken into account second order events the world would've been better off. Something always happens downstream that we don't anticipate. Even downstream of normal and ordinary decisions we make. It takes a whole lot of humility and foresight to consider third order events.
Most chess hobbyists can think through second and third order outcomes of certain moves. The best chess masters think how about so many outcomes downstream of a move option that it took decades of teaching massive computers to consider them all.
There's something in this thought process I'm trying to discern that's more broadly relevant. I know it's in there, not able to do more with it now than put it into the ether as an idea germ that goes where I think it has value.
It's been awhile since I had a lucid dream. I used to have them more frequently. There's something to our state of being that I've read about that will produce more of them.
One of the things I discovered I could do and then began doing in my lucid dreams was take over the 'director's chair' in the 'movie' that the dream was. When something in the dream sequence produced a bad outcome, sometimes really bad outcomes I would hit 'rewind' in my dream back to a point where I could make a different choice and avoid the bad outcome as the dream sequence restarted, "Action!" Sometimes no matter what choice I made the same bad outcome would result in the dream sequence. So I'd rewind back to another point further back where I could make a different choice and avoid the bad outcome in the dream sequence. I found I could do this over and over and over in the lucid dreaming state, still not awake, eyes closed, not fully conscious. But able to sit in that dream 'director's chair' and go through multiple different dream sequences until I would finally find the moment in the dream that the 'bad' choice was made that resulted in the bad outcome that no other subsequent different choices would prevent.
I would refuse to let myself have a full-on nightmare. I would find where things were put into motion that the dream was going to end up in a nightmare and choose differently. Often it wasn't an obvious choice.
In thinking about dream analysis of when it would happen there was often a learning experience that accompanied the dream that was meaningful for me to think about what was going on in my life at the time and clarified the need to make different choices when presented with options. And once you know you can occupy the 'director's chair' in a lucid dream it becomes much easier to do the next time. Kinda cool. I'm sure there's many who study dreaming and could add insights.
That’s a superpower!
The most important takeaway I had from my experience in the dream "director's chair" was the significance of "third order events" that had set into motion the sequence that would end badly. Seemingly unrelated but the bad outcome was the result of an earlier order event that wasn't apparent when first looking for causation. Sitting in that "chair" fostered an appreciation for thinking through where certain decisions, even about relatively inconsequential matters could lead.
Imagine a world where that type of "superpower" was possessed by those in positions of authority who authentically were acting in the people's interests, not their paymaster/puppetmaster's interests? Like had authorities during Scamdemic taken into account third order events. Heck, had they even taken into account second order events the world would've been better off. Something always happens downstream that we don't anticipate. Even downstream of normal and ordinary decisions we make. It takes a whole lot of humility and foresight to consider third order events.
Most chess hobbyists can think through second and third order outcomes of certain moves. The best chess masters think how about so many outcomes downstream of a move option that it took decades of teaching massive computers to consider them all.
There's something in this thought process I'm trying to discern that's more broadly relevant. I know it's in there, not able to do more with it now than put it into the ether as an idea germ that goes where I think it has value.