This past weekend, I spent some time with my friend Ethan (not his real name), and we were tripping on L and we watched Waking Life
which
by the way
is an excellent, excellent movie to watch in any state of consciousness
i highly recommend it
if you haven't seen it
go see it!!!

but anyway

one of the things it speaks about in the movie is lucid dreaming,
that is
when you are aware that you are dreaming
and then you control your dream
and one of the other things it talks about in the movie
is that your brain does not know the difference between a dream
and not a dream
most of the time...
unless you are able to gain that awareness that you are in a dream
and then that's called lucid dreaming right

so then
I started thinking
I have been able to lucid dream
once I know I am in a dream, I can call things into being

and then I thought
well
if that works in a dream state
maybe it would work in awake state

but people don't really try it,
i don't think
or if they do
we call them
what?
sorcerors?
or conjurers?
or summoners?
or crazy?
i don't know

I have read The Secret
and I have done research on the Law of Attraction
it sort of seem like lucid dreaming while awake

and I remember I asked my friend Ethan about it
and he scoffed at it
he said
that's ridiculous
nobody can call things into being
and I told him this story
of how
one time
after a party, I was in my friend's van and I said

damn i wish I had some pot
and my friend said
oh yeah, there's a bong under the sink, I think it's packed
and there it was
and then I said
I'm real thirsty. Man, I could go for an orange crush right now
and my friend said
haha, that's hilarious! we have that too. It's in the fridge behind the curtain
and then I said
WOW
I wish that some beautiful men would appear right now
and in about two minutes
indeed two beautiful men knocked on the van door
and wanted to know if they could smoke with us

and when I told my friend that story
he said

that's nothing but coincidence

but it didn't feel like it to me
it felt like a lucid dream

except I was awake

anyway

I guess I was wondering what people's thoughts were on this....


and incidentally

it was a slightly unfortunate exchange between me and my friend
because it made me feel like he was so negative
or like we weren't on the same page
not a cool feeling really ever
but especially when you're tripping

but as my top advisor once told me
everyone starts from somewhere different and comes to conclusions based on their individual experience
we're all in the same boat
but it's a big boat and people feel more comfortable in different areas of the boat

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