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[Thing of silly men]

I think that's incredible that an advanced civilization surrender to extinction done the shift of its mother continent to a position of earth globe where its freezing was inevitable. Would be "Thing of silly men" I think.
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Well, he explains that these people spread out to the rest of the world and became a lot of the "gods" of the ancient civilizations, but that most were wiped out by a flood.  They didn't just sit there and take it

I think he mentions in AD that NEW is harder for people who have good visualization skills.  I lucked out in that I have pretty good visual, touch and hearing, and weak smell and taste sensualization skills.  So I was able to manage it pretty easily.  I'm with boydster, though.  These exercises gave me responses faster than any regular visualization program had before.  I recommend you try to keep it up!  Also, try taking Frank's advice and asking him if he has any suggestions!

I really can't help you with figuring out whether it is a past life or not.  You'd have to do some sort of past-life regression and compare the characters in your dreams to those you see.  Also, I'll point you to this post we had going a week or two ago about your situation maybe you can read in some insight:

http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=130766

Could be that you're venting an action you miss in real life as well.  You could feel in control in your dreams because your subconscious realizes that it is missing form your waking life.  Everyone wants a little control sometimes, and the subconscious really shows you what you want to see.

there is a lot of stuff i did when dreaming that i never experienced in the "real" life

But, have you gone on to do some of those things later?  If so, how did what you did in the dream compare to real life?  What I'm interested in, is how the sub-conscious deals with dream situations it had never come into contact with in "Real" life.  The only thing I've done in my lucid dreams that I haven't done in real life is to fly... And, well kind of hard to test my theory out with that one.  I'm not saying it's impossible to do things in dreams you haven't done in life, I'm just wondering how they compare.  I've had a sparse stretch of LDs lately, although with the full moon coming soon usually have more.  Maybe I'll try to do something I've not done in real life...  Just have to figure something I haven't already done that I could do afterward!

Well, I didn't have much trouble getting the feelings from NEW either.  Not feeling anything when moving energy to certain parts of the body usually indicates a blockage there in my experience.   However, now that I've been practicing NEW for awhile I find that areas that are well-developed have little feeling from the moving energy and I have to pay close attention to even feel it.  This might be your case.  Also, the sleeping thing only lasted me for about two weeks.  It was nice to only need 4 hours of sleep a day, had so much more time to get things done.  But, I'm back up to my regular 8 to feel awake and not overly groggy.  

Another hint I give guys (since most guys I know wear their pants around their hips not waist)  is to find where the top of a pair of blue jeans hits your abdomen, that's usually right where the storage area is.  Also, if you just channel the energy flow around there, it'll usually flow right into the storage center.

Good luck!  Hope this helped a bit.

I was wondering if you can change the number of topics displayed per page.  I read through the FAQ and didn't see it.  If it was in there and I didn't see it I'm sorry.  I looked in my profile settings as well.  If anyone could give me a hand I'd be grateful!

Yeah, I've died in a dream, too.  Both third and first person.  In fact, in one of the third-person ones I actually killed me.  That was kind of creepy.  

"If this is what dying is like, then it's not so bad..."

Yeah, most of the time this is what I feel.  A few times when I got shot in the gut or whatnot, I felt this incredible burning pain then everything fades to black and I usually wake up.  But, the only way you can die from a dream is to be scared to death.  I read in the newspaper once that someone had a "fear-induced heart attack" in their sleep.  That must've been sooooome nightmare.  I guess they had heart disease though.  So everyone out there stay healthy, we don't want everyone dieing form their dreams!

When you wake up in the morning after a pre-cog dream, do you know it was a pre-cog?

Usually, I can never tell.  the 99% figure sounds about right, at least 90%.  

I guess the main question is, does it really mean anything at all if in the course of your life you can never do anything about them?

Well, it turned me into a determinist.  However, I don't think they really have an impact.  I'm like fire:

that happens to me except its exactly what will happen, but when it happens can be from minutes to years after the dream is over. I actually had a dream about a house that i was going to buy years before we were thinking about even getting a house. but usually my precog. dreams are pointless, like a person saying something out of context or a person walking somewhere.

Also, I'll add that I've had several dreams that I experience later, but the odd thing is even if I try to change the events or outcomes, I can't.  I end up doing the same things in real life as int he dream.  A really creepy feeling to be thinking one thing and say another, or to try to walk somewhere and not be able to move.  But, most of the time I'll have these random dreams and have no clue if/when they'll come true.  

Personally i don't think precognition works in any practical enough way to put it to use.

Exactly, no one can really tell if their dreams are pre-cog, unless all of there dreams are.  Even so, who's to say when they'll stop being so.

what I'm really interested in is lucid dream precognition

I'm not sure that will work.  Lucid dreaming is inherently subjective.  The instant you go lucid you form the dream.  Even saying in your mind something like "Show me the future" would probably just show you what you assume will be or what you want to see.  Not saying it's impossible, though.  If you ever figure it out I could use some lottery numbers to, err, prove me wrong.

Its mind boggling to imagine just how powerful the brain really is, that it can imagine and create any world in breathtaking detail and 'real time' effects that super computers couldn't even start to do.

Amazing, isn't it?  I still believe that if you have never experienced the situation that you are in the brain kind of makes up physical feelings as it goes along.  I was wondering... Have you ever fired a gun in real life?  If not, how did it feel in your dream?  I'm wondering if it would be similar.

you really have to stop and think about whether being "awake" is anywhere near the mental ability we have while we sleep. In many ways we are far less aware while awake.

If you talk to many of the people here, you feel far more "awake" or alert/aware while either Astral projecting or lucid dreaming than you feel when you are actually awake.  I believe the mind can experience things in these situations that would blow your normal mindset away.  This is why I think everyone describes these as "so real."   Just my two cents...

I have since confronted the problems head on and worked through most of them

Glad to hear it!  I'm wondering if you've had one of those types of dreams since?

I am a strong believer in the power of dreams to heal, especially lucid dreams. If I give a little time in order to carefully record and analyze my dreams they repay me by providing me with all of the answers that I need to solve any personal issues.

I actually started my dream journal and foray into lucid dreaming because it was suggested to better my chances of AP.  Little did I know that most of what I hoped to learn out there with AP I found within with LD.  I, too, believe that dreams can be very powerful.  Not all of them are important mind you, but most seem to be.  It's been a wonderful experience for me.  Whereas, when I talk about AP to my friends it always leads to odd looks, I've been able to get them interested in LD because they like the "Godlike" feeling they get.  After they do all the normal LD things (sex, violence, etc) most have gone on to use LDs to answer their own inner question.  I figure I've set them on a good path.

I also believe that once ones personal issues, problems or inner demons have been resolved then that is when the lucid dreaming really comes into it's own as a means to have truly wonderful experiences of learning and adventure

Well, learning and adventure they surely are.  I'm hoping to advance to AP for a greater understanding of things outside myself.  I will still continue to use Lucid Dreams as a means of looking in even after I achieve this.  I'm glad to see that someone else looks at dreaming with the same luster as me.

oh and Freak,

Do we really think our own thoughts, or the are the thoughts that we have others thoughts slipped to us?

Yes.

This is very interesting to me. Are you guys saying that you don't notice greater or lesser densities of prana in different areas or according to weather, etc.

Well, the levels change in every situation a touch, weather just being one thing that affects it.  Unlike you I draw more energy from the wind/rain than I do form the sun.  So during a rainstorm or just windy day I can pull in large amounts of energy.  However, certain times I draw on energy form the sun, mainly at sunset.  

Also, another big source for me is electromagnetic radiation (emi fields).  Most people say that this hinders them.  I grew up under high-tension lines as a kid so maybe my body learned to use the energy.  This makes it so I can be in an office or anywhere with computers and other electronic machinery and be able to feed off of it.  

I believe there are vast amounts of energy available everywhere in every condition, just different types.  If you can teach your body how to use/extract these you will never be without.  That's just my opinion though.

like i have the belief that everything is connected because we are all just different expressions of the same 'stuff'.. and also that everything i percieve to be in existance is interconnected because of the exchange of energy...

That's very Hindu of you.  Well, it basically describes the later beliefs in Brahma.  They believe that everything we see, do, and are, are simply ripples in Brahma's energy flow.

Other information points to a pre-Egyptian advanced civilization possibly existing on Antarctica before it shifted to the south pole and froze.  You can take it or leave it.  Graham Hancock collected a bunch of this info in Fingerprints of the Gods.  But, I'm sure an Astral realm view of Atlantis exists just because of all the movies, books, stories, and thoughts the human race has put towards it.  So if you can AP and want to visit Atlantis I'm sure you could.

I agree that is a good question.  My theory is that the subconscious interprets reality strangely.  It's not actually bending the reality from its point of view.  Physical laws and understanding has no bearing on it, so it kind of ignores them.  In your example for instance, buoyancy, water resistance and pressure are not experienced by the subconscious so it basically makes up how it thinks water feels to it, which happens to basically feel like nothing or air.  

I think that when it correctly represents the physical world, that it might be your conscious mind exerting some pull over it, saying stuff like "no, water makes you float" and from the pounding of the physical reality into your mind, like gravity.  You've never flown off the planet before so why start now type of deal.  To break this impression you need conscious thought, ie lucid dreaming.  

I would be interested to hear if you woke up/went lucid upon realizing the water was like air, which would mean that your conscious mind realized something was wrong and tried to snap you out of it.  

Also, in response to Sampson, I agree that the subconscious relays information based on sensual inputs.  So, it's not really what happens in the dream that important, rather how you feel about what happened and how and what you feel as it is happening.  

BTW, I hear that the car dream you had is very common among people trying to run from things that are quickly catching up to them.  an example:  not studying for an exam and having this dream the night before it, it means that you are trying to avoid it, but deep down you know it's unavoidable.  Another interpretation is that you feel that something in real life is not progressing how you had hoped/in the amount of time you had hoped.  Which one depends on if the car actually gets going or just putters around.

That's interesting, my energy feels cool when I'm moving it about and afterward I feel like I've been sitting in an oven.  I would suggest maybe putting a blanket around your feet and see if that helps, as long as you wrap it loosely it won't hinder energy absorption.  Maybe try imagining that you feel warm and actually try to make yourself feel warm when you are done with your exercises but before you really break your concentration.  Sorry that I can't be of more help.

From my practices it has helped me stay awake and alert, which is always helpful in the realm of studies.  I didn't notice any bonus from NEW in memory, which I'm sorely needing.  However, with the benefits to concentration I've done better.  I would suggest doing some AP concentration exercises since they've helped me.  They can be found in Ch16 if you have Astral Dynamics, if not you can find different kinds all over the Internet.  Someone else here might be able to point you to them better than I can.

Also, when I was in school I always just kind of zoned out.  IF you are doing this no amount of energy work will help.  I would suggest getting enough sleep and trying to find a way to apply the things you are learning to your life to make it more interesting.

Death/funeral dreams are quite common.  The fact that no one paid you any attention might be that just your spirit came out of the grave and people can't see spirits (well most).  If I were you I would've taken a peek back in the grave to see if my body was still there, although that could've snapped you awake.  As for the bathroom thing, even the best of us have been known to *cough* indulge ourselves.  And, ralphm was probably right about you creating her.

Yeah, I've had this as well.  In fact, I'll take it one step further.  I actually have had several different dreams with the same people I've never met in them.  It's kind of creepy waking up sometimes, and I also feel disconnected form reality for about an hour after having dreams with these people.  It seems I have three separate groups of friends if you include the group I *actually* know in real life.  One of them involves me going to a different college than I went to.  

Now, the really creepy thing for me was actually meeting one of these other people in real life.  Well, not really meeting more like just seeing.  We both kind of stared at each other across a room for about 2 minutes before someone hit me and asked what I was looking at and I had to go.  I think it could've been interesting if I had time to talk with them.  I wonder if they had the same dreams I had.  Oh well, another time and place I suppose.

If anyone has an experience like this they want to share I would like to hear about it!

1.  I usually just feel comfortably cool afterward.  I think this might have to do with how you feel the energy moving.  Do you experience a cooling sensation or a warming sensation when you feel energy activity?

2.  I, honestly, didn't have too much luck with the sponging action.  You're supposed to imagine that you're bringing  a sponge soaked with hot/cold (depending on question one) complete with the wet feeling afterward.  I replaced this action with a sucking action.  Like my legs/arms are a straw and I'm sucking the energy through them.  Someone suggested this to me here and it's worked great so try giving it a shot.

3.  I practice all during the day, whenever I have a bit of free time.  I get the best responses at sunrise and sunset, with sunset being the stronger of the two.  I only notice the increase when it's not cloudy as well.

Hope this helps you a bit.