[FRIAM] Abduction

[Steven A Smith]

I have spent my life cultivating hypnopompic and hypnogogic states...  
this, which supports lucid dreaming, is my best way to access mystical 
states...   mindfulness meditation, as I practice it, can lapse into 
these states if I allow it.

I was put off by the drug-culture of my peers in the 60's/70's for many 
reasons, one might have included a strong steeping in rational/linear 
modes of thinking/being, in spite of an early discovery of and 
indulgence in lucid dreaming.

I know many who identify as "evening" or "morning" people, but there is 
evidence that before the industrial revolution brought ubiquitous 
artificial light (city gas or kerosene lamps, then electric lights, now 
flickering TV/computer/phone screens), "segmented sleep" was the 
standard.  It was common (almost ubiquitous?) for people to go to sleep 
soon after dark and then wake in the middle of the night for an hour or 
two of wakefulness, referred to as "Dorvielle" in French Speaking 
cultures or "wake-sleep", a somewhat hypnotic state (perhaps a slow 
slide from hypnopompia to  hypnogagia and back again?).

Hot climates/cultures have an alternative "segmented sleep" wherein the 
heat of the day is reserved for a "siesta" with both evening and early 
morning reserved for taking care of business when  it is cooler.   I 
think of a siesta as being somewhat lighter and more lucid-dream 
conducive than "night sleep".

- Steve

On 1/2/19 10:07 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> There's also this thing one can do called `sleeping in', which tends to increase the probability of dream memory and/or lucid dreaming, at least for me.  A built-in neuroplasticity mechanism complete with psychedelic phenomena and a safety mechanism of motor system deactivation. (
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> On 1/2/19, 10:03 AM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>      For instance, I have never dreamed about what mushrooms might do for me.  Is that a fair statement of a difference between us?
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