The Dream Model

Yes - I haven't given much thought to the whole 'balanced perspective of the personal vantage' kind of thing. But balance seems to be a good thing for navigating through experience. Just having brain/vision imbalance, I couldn't feed myself, walk, etc. So in that sense, which is the sense I think most people are 'noticing' from, it probably is a good thing. I dunno.

Balance infers control. Lack of balance, lack of control. Maybe I'm being pushed to let go more. Orrrr....this is another evil ego-plot to show me how majorly uncomfortable it is to be totally out of control. Or....I got a virus and was susceptible to it because the pollen count is so high now. Dunno.

Lotsa dunnos.

Ohhh. That's very interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people in the second category were drawn to spirituality. I would have put myself there at one time, but right now I don't feel 'unfortunately trapped'. Even with the current shenanigans.

Well, maybe we can just say you're exploring the sense of being unstable and out of control, and not separate the physical from the mental and let it go at that.

That works for me. The sense of "umm, could this be some kind of re-orienting?" came up multiple times through the worst of it.

Hey, I made it up and down the stairs today. Yea! Those stakes were a good idea.

Yes, I asked you that. But more in the context of LOA.

This time it was just a curiosity question. You said when you close your eyes your condition is not there.

Dream state and waking state do come and go. They are appearances only and therefore not real. When these states arise, there's suddenly a complete world there. But during the waking state the dream state is seen as imagination/purely mental while the waking state is seen as reality/physical and such. So when these complete worlds come and go in an instant, one might wonder if that distinction physical/mental is really that accurate or important.

Good to hear you're making progress. Reminds me a little of Milton Erickson, the 'founder'/'inventor' of a technique that later became known as NLP.

He had polio as a young adult and spend a long time in bed. Apart from rolling his eyes he really couldn't do anything. He had a little sister that used to play in his room so he was watching her since he couldn't do anything else anyway. And so he watched her closely and recognized certain patterns in human behavior and language which he later used as a therapist.

You said that you can watch how walls and floors get lined up. That's interesting. I guess that's similar to what newborns experience. When you look at newborns and they seem to look at you, then you will notice that they don't really look at you but kinda straight thru you. They seem to look into your direction but don't seem to recognize you as some kind of 'object' which they can focus on. That comes a little later in their development. So maybe they go thru the exact same process you are going thru right now, except that you have a memory of what a room and such looks like and they don't.