What a fascinating essay! Thank you for the questions and possibilities. I have wondered how our practice of TM ( transcendental meditation taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) has affected my generation who started meditating every day, twice a day, and continue to do so for the last 50 years. The effects cannot be trivial, but have not been studied or discussed to the extent they deserve, I reckon. As for the high blood pressure, formerly always low for me, I had a big 3 weeks-long high BP reaction to contrast dye -Gadolinium- after an imaging session and now it is being sprayed into our skies. My BP spikes recently I blame to some extent on that toxic and inescapable poisoning. Thank you for the coriander pesto recipe! It looks divine. Also I found that a hot Epsom salt bath after 20 minutes consistently lowered both BP values by at least 20 points. Best wishes to you and you great readers who commented here....PS. My doctor looked at my up and down charts and told me to just stop checking.
Different systems of meditation seem to lead to vastly different “locations” or “outcomes”. It is my understanding, but I could be very wrong, that TM wants silence without agenda. I actually prefer meditations with an agenda, where the subconscious is set a task to perform, once a gap in mind chatter has been induced. I think that we could set the agenda to allow the sleep state, presuming it runs 24hr a day, and presuming it might be a real life being lived at 4D or 5D, to bleed through into the waking state. It gives a slightly different meaning to the idea of ascension. If we are all living in 4D or 5D, simultaneously with 3D, ascension might mean which levels of 4D and 5D we live on, and how much we can access those during waking hours. As above so below. Our daytime choices might impact our nighttime lives just as much as our nighttime choices might impact on our daytime lives. That’s what I am going to explore for a while anyway.
I had unstable high BP for years. It's not fun. If you have not done so, have your adrenal glands checked, by an endocrinologist. You may also want to do a sleep test. Sleep apnea is very dangerous. I have very stressful anxiety producing dreams also, they're exhausting.
I have an appointment with an endocrinologist, but I am trying to get my GP to write some tests before I go, specifically for the stress hormones. As appointments are backlogged for 12 months for the endocrinologist, it would be best not to have to wait another year to address the results of any tests that the specialist orders - I have to get him to focus on more than the diabetes that I have well under control, so I need to have some bad numbers of some description to show him.
I am guessing that sleep apnea is not a problem as my oxygen is staying steadily high all night. The oxygen had not dropped (and blood sugar had not risen) before last night's jump in heart rate and blood pressure and apparent wakefulness. This is how useful the watch is in working out what the variables may be.
But I am going to work on the idea that our nighttime life as as real as our daytime life, and my sleep problems and waking endocrine problems are potentially caused by what i am actually, really doing overnight. I have had lots of premonitions, and also of real-time participation in real events, to know that I am doing something real while asleep, but I have not really taken it seriously - if the overnight experiences are real, then what are the implications?
I worked overseas for a time and was on Larium as an antimalarial. One of the side-effects was psychic disruption and each night was like going to the movies as dreams just cascaded one after the other all night. In the morning I was wrung out and felt tireder than when I retired. It was a stressful time but fortunately the vigorous dreamlife ceased when I returned home and stopped the drug. My wife was also taking the antimalarial but seemed to have no side effects.
If I was troubled by the problems you're experiencing Christine I would find a competent kinesiologist to help you find what the cause is of your anxieties and where they stem from.
If overnight experiences are real then I'm in serious trouble. I have really bizarre dreams. It's good that you're seeing an endocrinologist especially w diabetes. I had a really good one at the time. He gave me a 5hr saline suppression test, put me on spironolactone and my blood pressure finally got better. I'm actually starting an adrenal cortex supplement as I have either something genetic or it's from mercury poisoning. You have to be your own Dr. Good luck!
"If overnight experiences are real then I'm in serious trouble."
I have personal proof that some of them are real. I have had real time experiences, where I was at some kind of dramatic event that actually happened overnight, and I saw the lot in a "dream". I have also had premonitions where I watched and sometimes participated in something that happened some time later. These experiences are not that common but are enough for me to know for sure that some aspect of my awareness is elsewhere while I am asleep in my bed.
And some clearly do relate to daytime, but as warnings. Each time I dreamed of a lost tooth, someone in my immediate nuclear family had passed away, and a damaged tooth meant some other kind of family crisis. And each time I dreamed of losing my much beloved dog, I lost a job (I was a contractor, and contracts often got closed down with management changes or other crises). So these were clearly dreams where my sleep state was warning me that something distressing was about to occur - so they could not be a reflection of my current known reality. They are real, like premonitions, but designed to support me in my waking state.
Much more common than both of those, is dreams where i am being chased by someone or something, or need to catch a form of transport and am running late - typical anxiety dreams. I have always believed that these mirror unresolved daytime issues, but do they? Maybe I really am being chased or threatened by someone or something on some other dimension, or maybe I am running late for something that I am supposed to be doing on some other dimension.
Time for me to work out the implications. As I am becoming increasingly restricted in my physical life, returning to this study could give me something to get excited about again - if I can deal with the implications of triggering nightmares.
Re mercury, I used this recipe for years. It apparently takes 5 different transports to get mercury out of hiding, through you system and flushed away. If one of the 5 is missing, it rushes straight back into hiding. This recipe has all 5. You can make up a whole batch when coriander is in season, then freeze small containers to use when you feel like it.
What if sleep is a time when our consciousness gets to live in other dimensional realities, 4D, 5D, etc, and what if that life is as valid as our 3D life. What if we sleep in different ways at different times of the night according to where we are actually going and what we are actually doing on those other planes of existence. If those life experiences are as real as our 3D experiences, might they be impacting on those 3D experiences, every bit as much as 3D experiences impact on dream states? Have we underestimated the importance of sleep time for more reasons than just the challenge to 3D health if we lack sleep? When we are lacking sleep do we also lack a necessary involvement with our life on 5D,. 5D et al? If those states are running full-time in the background of our waking states, might our lack of nighttime attention to them be bringing error into our daytime lives?
I find your column to be so valuable, thank you!
What a fascinating essay! Thank you for the questions and possibilities. I have wondered how our practice of TM ( transcendental meditation taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) has affected my generation who started meditating every day, twice a day, and continue to do so for the last 50 years. The effects cannot be trivial, but have not been studied or discussed to the extent they deserve, I reckon. As for the high blood pressure, formerly always low for me, I had a big 3 weeks-long high BP reaction to contrast dye -Gadolinium- after an imaging session and now it is being sprayed into our skies. My BP spikes recently I blame to some extent on that toxic and inescapable poisoning. Thank you for the coriander pesto recipe! It looks divine. Also I found that a hot Epsom salt bath after 20 minutes consistently lowered both BP values by at least 20 points. Best wishes to you and you great readers who commented here....PS. My doctor looked at my up and down charts and told me to just stop checking.
Different systems of meditation seem to lead to vastly different “locations” or “outcomes”. It is my understanding, but I could be very wrong, that TM wants silence without agenda. I actually prefer meditations with an agenda, where the subconscious is set a task to perform, once a gap in mind chatter has been induced. I think that we could set the agenda to allow the sleep state, presuming it runs 24hr a day, and presuming it might be a real life being lived at 4D or 5D, to bleed through into the waking state. It gives a slightly different meaning to the idea of ascension. If we are all living in 4D or 5D, simultaneously with 3D, ascension might mean which levels of 4D and 5D we live on, and how much we can access those during waking hours. As above so below. Our daytime choices might impact our nighttime lives just as much as our nighttime choices might impact on our daytime lives. That’s what I am going to explore for a while anyway.
I had unstable high BP for years. It's not fun. If you have not done so, have your adrenal glands checked, by an endocrinologist. You may also want to do a sleep test. Sleep apnea is very dangerous. I have very stressful anxiety producing dreams also, they're exhausting.
I have an appointment with an endocrinologist, but I am trying to get my GP to write some tests before I go, specifically for the stress hormones. As appointments are backlogged for 12 months for the endocrinologist, it would be best not to have to wait another year to address the results of any tests that the specialist orders - I have to get him to focus on more than the diabetes that I have well under control, so I need to have some bad numbers of some description to show him.
I am guessing that sleep apnea is not a problem as my oxygen is staying steadily high all night. The oxygen had not dropped (and blood sugar had not risen) before last night's jump in heart rate and blood pressure and apparent wakefulness. This is how useful the watch is in working out what the variables may be.
But I am going to work on the idea that our nighttime life as as real as our daytime life, and my sleep problems and waking endocrine problems are potentially caused by what i am actually, really doing overnight. I have had lots of premonitions, and also of real-time participation in real events, to know that I am doing something real while asleep, but I have not really taken it seriously - if the overnight experiences are real, then what are the implications?
I worked overseas for a time and was on Larium as an antimalarial. One of the side-effects was psychic disruption and each night was like going to the movies as dreams just cascaded one after the other all night. In the morning I was wrung out and felt tireder than when I retired. It was a stressful time but fortunately the vigorous dreamlife ceased when I returned home and stopped the drug. My wife was also taking the antimalarial but seemed to have no side effects.
If I was troubled by the problems you're experiencing Christine I would find a competent kinesiologist to help you find what the cause is of your anxieties and where they stem from.
All the best,
Doug
If overnight experiences are real then I'm in serious trouble. I have really bizarre dreams. It's good that you're seeing an endocrinologist especially w diabetes. I had a really good one at the time. He gave me a 5hr saline suppression test, put me on spironolactone and my blood pressure finally got better. I'm actually starting an adrenal cortex supplement as I have either something genetic or it's from mercury poisoning. You have to be your own Dr. Good luck!
"If overnight experiences are real then I'm in serious trouble."
I have personal proof that some of them are real. I have had real time experiences, where I was at some kind of dramatic event that actually happened overnight, and I saw the lot in a "dream". I have also had premonitions where I watched and sometimes participated in something that happened some time later. These experiences are not that common but are enough for me to know for sure that some aspect of my awareness is elsewhere while I am asleep in my bed.
And some clearly do relate to daytime, but as warnings. Each time I dreamed of a lost tooth, someone in my immediate nuclear family had passed away, and a damaged tooth meant some other kind of family crisis. And each time I dreamed of losing my much beloved dog, I lost a job (I was a contractor, and contracts often got closed down with management changes or other crises). So these were clearly dreams where my sleep state was warning me that something distressing was about to occur - so they could not be a reflection of my current known reality. They are real, like premonitions, but designed to support me in my waking state.
Much more common than both of those, is dreams where i am being chased by someone or something, or need to catch a form of transport and am running late - typical anxiety dreams. I have always believed that these mirror unresolved daytime issues, but do they? Maybe I really am being chased or threatened by someone or something on some other dimension, or maybe I am running late for something that I am supposed to be doing on some other dimension.
Time for me to work out the implications. As I am becoming increasingly restricted in my physical life, returning to this study could give me something to get excited about again - if I can deal with the implications of triggering nightmares.
Re mercury, I used this recipe for years. It apparently takes 5 different transports to get mercury out of hiding, through you system and flushed away. If one of the 5 is missing, it rushes straight back into hiding. This recipe has all 5. You can make up a whole batch when coriander is in season, then freeze small containers to use when you feel like it.
http://holisticwellness.net.au/healingrooms/index.php/articles/183-heavy-metal-detox-with-corriander-pesto
What if sleep is a time when our consciousness gets to live in other dimensional realities, 4D, 5D, etc, and what if that life is as valid as our 3D life. What if we sleep in different ways at different times of the night according to where we are actually going and what we are actually doing on those other planes of existence. If those life experiences are as real as our 3D experiences, might they be impacting on those 3D experiences, every bit as much as 3D experiences impact on dream states? Have we underestimated the importance of sleep time for more reasons than just the challenge to 3D health if we lack sleep? When we are lacking sleep do we also lack a necessary involvement with our life on 5D,. 5D et al? If those states are running full-time in the background of our waking states, might our lack of nighttime attention to them be bringing error into our daytime lives?