Normally I’m a pretty deep sleeper and can’t remember my dreams but there has been a lot of dreaming activity going on inside me especially after doing the meditation/prayer. I think Gurdjieff said that our centers kinda disconnect from each other to recharge during sleep and that there might be ‘crosstalk’ between these centers while sleeping and, even though it might be more complicated then that, this is what may be one of those factors that can cause dreaming activity. I have noticed this, to be what I think is crosstalk between centers after doing the meditation/prayer, as if something in me is working out things between my subconscious mind and my everyday conscious mind. It seems to me that, to the degree to which my subconscious mind and my ‘everyday’ conscious mind are not connected in my everyday life, is the degree to which I might dream and my subconscious is trying to properly align the connections between my centers with itself.
While experiencing this ‘dreaming activity’ (even though I might not remember the dreams themselves), images and deeper feelings associated with the images seem to come into play and are juxtaposed in some strange way (that I don’t understand), but something in me seems to be being ‘figured out’ at some level, or so it seems.
There is a vague impression of feelings and images, maybe from the past, present, and maybe even the future that seem to connect in some way, seemingly in a certain patterned sequence, as if there is another space and time, a higher space and time (as it were) that exists at another level of reality from which, and within which, all these connections are made and thru which energies of different qualities flow and understanding, or flashes of understanding occur and many seemingly unrelated events are seen in relationship as one moment of instantaneous perception.
But when I come back into my everyday awareness then my understanding becomes more linear. What I think might have been seen in an instantaneous flash of perception in one state of consciousness now seems to become a ‘linear understanding’ in another state of consciousness where, although I already know the answer to my questions at one level, or at least it SEEMS that way, at another level I have to ‘figure it out,’ in time, to get to that same understanding. So in a way its like figuring out what I already know, but to already know it, I have to make connections at another level first, (maybe in the future).
Also, what have helped me to be consistent about doing the breathing program during the day is two things. One is I try to imagine that my life depends on doing the exercise, which helps to put me in touch with my instinct, and at the same time picturing or imagining that I’m already doing the breathing exercises the day before doing it. Actually it's more then 'picturing' doing it. It's putting myself into the imagined event as if I'm already there. It’s as if I'm already doing, body and soul, the exercise in my imagination. Then the next day, in reality, it’s easier to do the program since, in reality, I ‘step into my imagination’, and in my imagination it was already done.
While experiencing this ‘dreaming activity’ (even though I might not remember the dreams themselves), images and deeper feelings associated with the images seem to come into play and are juxtaposed in some strange way (that I don’t understand), but something in me seems to be being ‘figured out’ at some level, or so it seems.
There is a vague impression of feelings and images, maybe from the past, present, and maybe even the future that seem to connect in some way, seemingly in a certain patterned sequence, as if there is another space and time, a higher space and time (as it were) that exists at another level of reality from which, and within which, all these connections are made and thru which energies of different qualities flow and understanding, or flashes of understanding occur and many seemingly unrelated events are seen in relationship as one moment of instantaneous perception.
But when I come back into my everyday awareness then my understanding becomes more linear. What I think might have been seen in an instantaneous flash of perception in one state of consciousness now seems to become a ‘linear understanding’ in another state of consciousness where, although I already know the answer to my questions at one level, or at least it SEEMS that way, at another level I have to ‘figure it out,’ in time, to get to that same understanding. So in a way its like figuring out what I already know, but to already know it, I have to make connections at another level first, (maybe in the future).
Also, what have helped me to be consistent about doing the breathing program during the day is two things. One is I try to imagine that my life depends on doing the exercise, which helps to put me in touch with my instinct, and at the same time picturing or imagining that I’m already doing the breathing exercises the day before doing it. Actually it's more then 'picturing' doing it. It's putting myself into the imagined event as if I'm already there. It’s as if I'm already doing, body and soul, the exercise in my imagination. Then the next day, in reality, it’s easier to do the program since, in reality, I ‘step into my imagination’, and in my imagination it was already done.
