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Post by s***@gmail.comI try to stay away from potato chips because of the fat.
Were you aware that *some* fat is *good* for you? Keeps the arteries "lubed" so to speak, prevents hardening, plaque build-up, attacks, strokes, etc. The "bad" fat is that which actually contributes *to* such build-up & hardening. Which is which? It helps to do one's own research. I prefer to go by what Jesus says in Matthew 15:11— A man [One's Spirit] is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.
Post by s***@gmail.comJust wanted to tell you that I have a hard time trying to read [your] dreams because you always relate to yourself as a 2nd person dreaming. Just wonder why?
(Long answer): Well, when "I" speak to "you" I am addressing the "second person," as in "you are asking an interesting question."
When "I" speak of "the dreamer" the perspective is that of the "3rd person," such as "The person ("The dreamer") was reading the Bible."
When "I" speak of only myself, that's only a single person, and as Jesus teaches in John 5:31— "If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true."
When speaking of "you," one also "speaks falsely" as *all* instances of "you are" reflect "duality of ad hominem fallacy." (See also: discussingjesus.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-What-are-some-introductory-critical-thinking-short-notes-answer-Richard-Carl-Silk and also: tinyurl.com/itta-topic-0v1 and tinyurl.com/ITTA-Topic-Ud )
When speaking in 3rd person, "One speaks of ALL" rather than any segment or portion of Creation.
For instance, "we" is the "preferred pronoun" of the demon, formerly known as "Legion" of the Gadarene in Mark 5:9— “What is your name?” Jesus asked. “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.”
The plural, collective pronoun "we" may be "safely" used in a tightly defined setting, such as:
"The family and I went adventuring last weekend: we had fun."
There are two major examples of "speaking in the 3rd person" in the New Testament: Primarily, Jesus always refers to Himself as "the Son of Man"; John the Disciple / Apostle always refers to himself as [the disciple whom Jesus loved] (or some phrase very similar to that.)
Here's an example of using "One" in the form of "third person Omniscient":
One has a choice— to *love God* (Oneself *and others) NOW and for all eternity, or to {hate, fear, oppose or deny} {anyone or anything} until death. Simple choice. See also: biblehub.com/joshua/24-15.htm — But IF it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then CHOOSE for yourselves THIS DAY whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”
(See also, Deuteronomy 30, specifically, verses 15-20.)
Silly me, I've somehow always imagined that you've been reading these posts sort of like the occasional comics strip: if it's there, someone reads it. It barely occurred to me that you *might* have skipped one or two.
(Basically, all this has already been explained throughout the history of these posts, but the opportunity to refresh the information is always helpful 👍)
Over the course of the years, it became somewhat apparent to me that when writing dreams in the 1st person, to say (write) that "I" was [doing something] began to feel "awkward," *especially* in dreams wherein the mind of the dreamer happened to be a female (like one written earlier, just this month! or the one some years ago, on the morning of a specific July 25th, when I dreamt I was my sister about to give birth!!) or when the "point of view" is that of the "first person," as seen from a "camera view perspective."
That is, in first person, the individual never sees one's own face (as the camera never sees itself) because that's the perspective *from* which one is observing.
In first AND second, "I can see *your* face" (1 sees 2.)
In *some* cases, the dream is as if seeing the dreamer from the (3rd person) perspective of, say, a drone camera hovering slightly above or behind, as if from an audience perspective, watching something either on stage or on screen. (That's why the angle of the view is sometimes mentioned: some views are as from below, looking either further below, or forward, or upward to ground level, some from ground level looking either downward, forward or upward, and some from above, looking either downward, forward, or further upward. I *seem* to recall at least *one* dream wherein the view included a *view behind*!)
Somewhere, once upon a time, in the not-too-long-ago, I *seem* to recall posting *one* dream wherein the perspective was *omniscient,* as if seeing in *all* direction *in the single moment* (which, if you close your eyes and think about it a moment or two, you can possibly "see for yourself" what that may be like— for instance, imagine what space must look like, in *all* direction, from the very center point of the sun.)
So at any rate, it occurred to me, that *sometimes* the dreamer (the perspective *in* the dream, regardless of whether it's 1st, 3rd, or Omniscient in some manner) is in a role far different from anything I've ever experienced for myself in real life, say, that of a road worker laying blacktop. Sure, I've *seen* that in person, even been helped by such a person in my early youth, but never worked such a job personally. So for me to dream of being in such a perspective, it simply "reads better" to write that "the dreamer was working as a road builder..." (etc.)
Also, there are times when "I" seem to be "in communication with" either:
A) someone else within the dream, such as "me speaking to you" (1st person to 2nd person) *OR*
B) someone communicating with me, (2nd to 1st) *OR*
C) the mind of the dreamer in communication with an "Omniscient Mind," which (so far) has been sensed at two levels (at least!) such as:
1) the dreamer in communication with myself, as in something I (Richard) happen to know of from this lifetime experience, and am somehow sharing that knowledge with the dreamer, OR
2) the dreamer in communication with a *truly* Omniscient Mind, One that can answer any question the dreamer may ask, and sometimes the answer is so instantaneous with the question, it's as if both are One in the Same: The question *is* the answer, just as a coin has a heads *and* a tails.
(To be honest, it's a bit clearer in recall when the question is asked, and the answer is received in a "linear fashion" much as two people having a discussion. When the answer is instantaneous, it's often necessary to [paraphrase] the text so as to share a [hint] of what was being communicated, or what the answer may have been [akin to] so that an analogy may be understood.)
Having begun using "the dreamer" to reference the mind and/or action of the perspective within the dream, there seems to have come (at times) a much fuller setting of a scene, with respect to details, *notably* to orientation.
There are *often* times dreams that "seem familiar" with respect to location, yet as I'm typing up the dream, I realize that it's "not exactly" the same as IRL (in real life.) But those "similar settings" allow for describing orientation, such that "north" is "up," "south" is "down," "west" is "left," and "east" is "right." (I wonder if people in the southern hemisphere sense that somehow "south" is "up"?)
Then again, sometimes the dreamer may be "facing southwards" which makes "south" akin to "forwards," etc.
I know this may sound silly, but in the back of my mind, there's always the chance that someday, somewhere, some screenwriter or playwright may be looking for ideas, and stumble upon something here in alt.dreams that comes up in an online (Google, Duck Duck Go) search of some kind, and that the settings and directions may somehow be of use. Then again, with even a few more years of practice (assuming I live that long) I may get into that line of work myself. Who knows?
What I *can* tell / share with you is: the more *detail* that one can put into the retelling / journaling of a dream, the more detailed one's dreams will become. It's kinda like learning a skill in grade school: the more the student practices math (or art) the more accomplished the student becomes in that field of study.
Yet even with all that, sometimes I read some of your dreams and am captured by the beauty of the simplicity of the writing! Sometimes I can read one and just "see" the entirety of the scene, or at least enough to understand it. And yet that's when I often feel the need to ask a "clarifying" question or two, like "all that makes perfect sense, but what about [X]?"
Hope that answers your question(s): Feel free to ask a follow-up. ✔
(Short answer): "The dreamer" may be an "astral vehicle" — and as such, may be in any condition / perspective / form at any time, whereas "I" tend to feel limited to the male, human, Richard Carl Silk perspective, which is basically rather "boring" if / when observed primarily from *outside* of the mental perspective.