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by SeekerOfWisdom » Fri Dec 14, 2012 9:01 am
Lucky haha I have only ever flown rarely.
Well it's a tricky sentence because technically illusions are what's real. You can see that waking state is also illusion by recognizing that nothing isn't illusion, that it is of the same 'stuff' as a dream, existing only in what is seen.
In this world it is considered impossible to see without the presence of light, I see clear as day light and fuck girls while I'm sleeping, see how those two contradict each other?
It is only labeling, discriminating, getting caught in particular manifestations and false knowledge that clouds the mind from seeing clearly what's right in front of it, from believing that there is somehow more to these experiences, that they are more real, simply because you are "here" now, and every time you think about your life and self another imaginative shallow image is going to float by your mind stabilizing your belief in the reality of what appears to be your "self", convincing you that your body is more than that imagined body which was flying, cause your seeing it now.
Some of the things which make illusion clear can literally be "seen" upon close inspection: Depth and distance are the most obvious illusory aspects, akin to looking at a painting and seeing distances where there are none, movement itself is tricking the mind into thinking it's form is actually going somewhere, at the time it considers the body as it's true self, in reality all that is occurring is a change of those "pixels" that make up sight, or that "screen" of sensation flowing onward. There has been no body or movement, only "surroundings" altering, these surroundings being made up of feelings and sensations such as in a sleeping state.
The next most illusory aspect that can be observed, only with a mind clear of pre-conceived concepts, is that of reality/sensory experiences altering based on your mood and thoughts. Now I'm not implying that you have any free will or control over these, just that thoughts and emotion, even without action, influence the direction of events. Similar to the way fear manifests into murderers and lust manifests into girls in a dream. All that exists is a continuum of thought effecting sensual experiences which effect thought and so forth.
After those two observable aspects which you might be able to pick up on, there is always wakefulness. With enough of it, and enough lengthy observation, eventually you see into the illusion, meaning it is clear to you in the same way it is clear you are dreaming when you become lucid in a dream, there isn't doubt in the mind nor do you need explanation, you are just aware of it.
If one were to leave behind completely the past, and all the past associations they have made for what is occurring, and to just look around without bias, asking, "what is this?", you see that it is like a miraculous vision, both complex and convincing, it is when you look back on it that you see how dream-like it really was, that your memories are nothing but new experiences, shallow fragmented imaginations of the mind, all thought is deceptive, it makes one believe the thoughts are rational because we associate our self to it, trusting our own thoughts ya know, when in reality they are as real and contain as much explanation as a thought you might have while sleeping, nothing but fleeting illusions.
Just realize that your mind believes what's happening in the dream is real at the time, not because it is similar to what is real because you are imagining things you've seen, but simply because reality is made up of imaginative/dream-like experience. You think Diebert is more real because you are feeding his illusions, but if he died, it would be exactly like dying in a dream.
I can't really say how I can be so sure besides that I have seen it with my eyes, when being wakeful it is like being lucid in a dream, and time after time I've witnessed reality forming on my thoughts.
Remember, all thought is elusive, deceptive, it distracts the mind from what is, clouds it with past assumptions.
A good way to see how shallow your knowledge is, just really and honestly think about anything, a plant growing, fire, anything, realize you don't know what that is, what your seeing there, that all you know is that your seeing, and when you try to rationalize the processes, conceptualize them, the best you will get is a little image of a plant in your mind growing, or a few words lol, and then your mind automatically accepts it, it goes, "Yep that's familiar! hence it's rational", when in reality, the plant hasn't grown, the plant doesn't even exist, only imaginative/illusory/transient sensation exists.