tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3056283751377434749..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Childhood beliefs and wishesBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-144930785008263392018-05-11T06:42:48.974+01:002018-05-11T06:42:48.974+01:00@Fred - Indeed, I am talking about the same thing ...@Fred - Indeed, I am talking about the same thing as Wordsworth reported. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-48392369282242266652018-05-11T01:26:19.374+01:002018-05-11T01:26:19.374+01:00This is reminiscent of ideas from Wordsworth's...This is reminiscent of ideas from Wordsworth's poem <i>Intimations of Immortality</i>:<br /><br />Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: <br />The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, <br />Hath had elsewhere its setting, <br />And cometh from afar: <br />Not in entire forgetfulness, <br />And not in utter nakedness, <br />But trailing clouds of glory do we come <br />From God, who is our home: <br />Heaven lies about us in our infancy!Fred G.https://www.blogger.com/profile/03604229481555749766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-65124570301123058172018-05-10T08:46:35.844+01:002018-05-10T08:46:35.844+01:00@CCL - I think that, usually, dreams are experienc...@CCL - I think that, usually, dreams are experiences from which we learn unconsciously - and are designed as such. <br /><br />But, presumably, as someone becomes more divine (theosis), they would begin to become more conscious of what happened in dreams, and understand explicitly what they had learned or needed to learn from them. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-6347581698558729952018-05-10T08:37:04.066+01:002018-05-10T08:37:04.066+01:00It may be that everyone we meet in our dreams is i...It may be that everyone we meet in our dreams is in reality another dreamer rather than merely a facet of our own imagination.<br /><br />But it is highly improbable that we recognize them for who they are in reality. I tend to unconsciously assume that a high proportion of the people I meet in dreams are those known to me in waking life, but on regaining consciousness and careful reflection this almost always turns out to be highly implausible.<br /><br />Should this, <i>can</i> this, affect how we approach the act of dreaming, or of recalling dreams?<br /><br />I hardly know.Chiu ChunLinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519192610708043962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-20548745895129182592018-05-10T06:18:32.489+01:002018-05-10T06:18:32.489+01:00Thaks for a great set of comments!
As I wrote th...Thaks for a great set of comments! <br /><br />As I wrote this, I felt as if I was rather 'sticking my neck out' and it is gratifying to get so much confirmation that my own experience was not unique!Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-50915288073025870592018-05-10T02:35:33.003+01:002018-05-10T02:35:33.003+01:00I have memories of when I was a very small child (...I have memories of when I was a very small child (maybe 3-4) of effortlessly lifting my fathers barbell, thinking it was trivial to lift and hoist around. A few years later (6-8 maybe) I remember one day deciding to lift the barbell again, expecting it again to be trivial. The peculiar thing is I remember being shocked that I could no longer budge the weight, it being for adults. I would think about this incident occasionally in future years and explain it to myself that I also vaguely remember my father making play barbells out of wood and perhaps that is what I remember lifting, but I always doubted that explanation.<br /><br />I remember having several such strange experiences and beliefs when I was a child. Fascinating topic.<br /><br />Nigel Worthingtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12909877167718415332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-21651063677913147762018-05-09T20:37:08.557+01:002018-05-09T20:37:08.557+01:00https://wmjas.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/low-gravity...https://wmjas.wordpress.com/2013/08/13/low-gravity-dreams-evoke-real-memories/Wm Jas Tychonievichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446790072877463982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-19968768694163630362018-05-09T17:20:08.207+01:002018-05-09T17:20:08.207+01:00My dreams of flying have almost always been in an ...My dreams of flying have almost always been in an uncontrolled state. I raise from the ground without any sort of choice and just float away uncontrollably.Michael Eganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15112150999682608634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-6405348201023177212018-05-09T12:32:24.448+01:002018-05-09T12:32:24.448+01:00As a child I often had very vivid (even lucid) dre...As a child I often had very vivid (even lucid) dreams of flying. If I ran down a hill fast enough I could leap into the air and fly...<br /><br />As an adult I often had vivid dreams of being in a plane crash, which is a very different thing.Dexterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07748293799490877339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-52300448123466026882018-05-09T10:07:14.207+01:002018-05-09T10:07:14.207+01:00I used to be able to fly in dreams but never very ...I used to be able to fly in dreams but never very well. I was propelled by thought but there was always some resisting force which eventually brought me down. I think you're right that this is a memory of pre-incarnationary existence, a very garbled memory in my dreaming case.<br /><br />When I was a child I would have visions of what seemed to me to be a very early state of the Earth which I would see from a great height as though soaring above. There really is so much waiting for us when we've done our tour of duty here.William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.com