Icelander said:

I have some other strange phenomena to report. I seem to be remembering dreams in long chains from the past. A certain type of thought will trigger a remembered dream which will then spiral into a long chain of remembered dreams which often took place many years or even decades ago. Sometimes twenty or more dreams are remembered. This can happen at any time of day or night and is becoming very regular. The dreams often take place in unknown locations that do not seem to be on this planet. In fact some have several moons if the dream takes place at night.

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redgreenvines said:

ever walk by a guy on the street and recognize the facial expression, as one you may have had one day when, as a child, someone was really bugging you?

I often see people on the street, reliving their agonies and doing their regular chores at the same time.

not just reliving the suffering, but cultivating it as the inherent rhythm of their lives.

Little partial conversations must be going on in the background, helping to sustain the grimaces.

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redtailedhawk said:

Interesting... I would argue for a possible explanation outside of your brain (which is highly overrated organ IMO).

I know this is a stretch for us living under the spell of Newtonian-Cartesian scientific paradigm, but most other belief systems and paradigms outside western science acknowledge that not all our thoughts, are really our own... but could have an outside source as well.

And you don't have to be mad to acknowledge this as a possibility. Even C.G. Jung wrote in his autobiography that the majority of insights he received on the nature of collective unconscious was not his own, but were channeled to him by some entity (I don't remember the name).

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Well we'll have to disagree on this one as I see no evidence of outside entities in our world.

How is our brain overrated? I'd be curious to know.

As far as Jung goes, it's going to be my guess that in his older age with death approaching and no help for his personal death anxiety in sight he turned to mysticism for comfort. Another one bites the dust.

Kickle said:

"Quite early I had learned that it was necessary for me to instruct the figures of the unconscious, or that other group which is often indistinguishable from them, the "spirits of the departed." The first time I experienced this was on a bicycle trip through upper Italy which I took with a friend in 1910. On the way home we cycled from Pavia to Arona, on the lower part of Lake Maggiore, and spent the night there. We had intended to pedal on along the lake and then through the Tessin as far as Faido, where we were going to take the train to Zurich. But in Arona I had a dream which upset our plans.

In the dream I was in an assemblage of distinguished spirits of earlier centuries; the feeling was similar to the one I had later toward the "illustrious ancestors" in the black rock temple of my 1944 vision. The conversation was conducted in Latin. A gentleman with a long, curly wig addressed me and asked a difficult question, the gist of which I could no longer recall after I woke up. I understood him, but did not have a sufficient command of the language to answer him in Latin. I felt so profoundly humiliated by this that the emotion awakened me. At the very moment of awakening I thought of the book I was then working on,
Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido, and had such intense inferiority feelings about the unanswered question that I immediately took the train home in order to get back to work. It would have been impossible for me to continue the bicycle trip and lose another three days. I had to work, to find the answer."


From: On Life after Death

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