Lucid Dragon Dreams

~Magickal Graphics~

Would that I could dream of a beautiful, powerful she Dragon of pale colors almost translucent perched high on a mountain top (dragon skin cannot feel cold you know) stretching my wings and belching fire...no, make that hiccuping fire (I am ladylike) before flying in circles above the fertile landscape of my life. I have focused on this picture and other dragon pictures trying in vain to have a Lucid Dream of Dragons and it just has not happened. Well, I guess I need more insight into Lucid Dreaming, another way of focusing on Dragons, or maybe if I created my own dragons it would spill over into my Lucid Dream scape. There is always something new to learn some new path to be trod a new way to look at the world through these imperfect eyes of mine. What new path are you walking upon today and which fork in the path are you thinking of taking?

Twilight Vampire Tears

Celebrate the Twilight with The Blood Red Vampire Tears piece I created in a darker persona remembering darker times.
Blood Red Vampire Tears Necklace of the Long by mystic2awesome
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There are two sides to a coin, you can't have light without some darkness, it must always be yin and yang to have a balance of the elements. This is a part of the process of growth, the dark and the light are both necessary and if we deny one or the other it is our ultimate loss. We hold our possessions close as we do our ideas and our grievances and only through letting go exploring new things, new ideas and new thoughts are we able to see beyond this small bit of consciousness we call our own.

By gothB4play

AlteRed ActiOn FiGure Beorgthere the WarRior in the by gothB4play
Click on the link above to see my unique one of a kind, raging to go mystically altered recycled action figure with once loved faux jewels, gems .

Lucid Dream Inspiration

After practicing my Lucid Dream techniques of asking myself several time during the day "Am I dreaming now?" and looking at something to read (if it is gibberish or hard to read your probably dreaming) and then watching a subliminal video piece on Lucid Dreaming I hit the sack. The next thing I know I am hanging lizards up to dry on an old outdoor cloths line. You would think my brain would know that this was a dream, but at the time my brain can not tell the difference. Next, I am taking pictures of someones ear which is covered with a green fungus, yech, because I thought the pattern was interesting. Still no brain recognition. Then I ask myself (out of habit) "Am I dreaming now? And I suddenly realized that YES, I was. At this point I CAN to a degree control the course of my dream. Sometimes I go to Vegas, sometimes I go to the ocean, sometimes I try to fly and sometimes I go to my workshop in this dream scape and try to create something new. Usually I get so excited that I wake myself up and upon waking I do not move a muscle. Moving causes you to forget the dream. I go over the dream a couple of times, enjoying the memories and sights and silliness. Then I roll over and start jotting down the dream into my dream journal. Believe me, when it works it's a lot of fun! I will let you know in a few weeks what I dreamed up in my dream work shop. The girl pictured here is a little Amazon warrior, or maybe a gypsy with a third eye or whatever YOU want her to be.

PAIN and Interactive Imagery

Interactive Imagery as with most meditation techniques can ease most pain, I not saying it can cure the problem but it can help. Use images of places that make you feel happy and comfortable, go to that place in your mind. Feel the atmosphere around you, the textures below you, in your hand, on your face and focus on what they feel like and how they comfort you. If it is a warmth you enjoy then let that warmth come into the area where the pain is and imagine the pain becoming less and less as you focus on that warmth. If it is a cooling sensation you enjoy use the same method by using the coolness that you enjoy to melt away the pain. If you need visual stimulation to feel that perfect comfort you can use a soothing picture and use the technique to imagine yourself there in the picture and "feel" the textures around you. You own mind can do wonderful things if you put it to use focusing on "good" rather than the pain, you don't want to create new wrinkles in your brain by "thinking" of the pain, but rather create new wrinkled pathways in your brain that link the pain to comforting thoughts.