New here just discovered this sub and alot of I have read is aligning with my own spirutal workings I have been doing recently. I have always been surrounded by magic and shamans. I was born in brazil and my mother was very much into local shaman groups that worked primarly with IOBS that dealt with nature (almost like umbanda but a little different. My father was american tho while he was very much into the occult and stuff such as "astral projection" as he would put it ( his words I understand dreaming double is better term). However as a child I always saw this just their overall craziness and became an atheist at a very young age about 8.
After experimenting with a myriad of psychotropic drug as a teen mostly hallucinogens. It led to me beliving more in enties/inogranic beings(havent used anything but weed in a few years). This has led to me own beliefs about god and relgion as being a shared percpetion of engery among a group of people or culture. I had recently started working with demonolatry however due to how pragmatic most people and the rituals are. I never actually did what they would call a ritual and would simply mediate while attempting to make contact with IOBS from that relgion in a dark room. Which has led to some intresting results. I have been basically stargazing in a darkroom with out knowing it. I can see very ornate geometric design that I can maniplute in seeing stuff like faces or words etc ( I sometimes wonder if this HPPD)
However since playing with these IOBS mostly in my dreams I have sorta lost the abitlity to lucid dream/ it evloved. Its has become more natural as if my truer self is interacting with my dreams. For example I have always been a lucid and vivid dreamer. I can see taste smell and feel things in my dreams. But after lucid dreaming after a while I would lose control. However now while I may not realize that I am in a dreaming my actions in my dream are more aligned with my own true intetions and more intuitive. This has led me to creating a dream bed I can wake up in for example if a dream is not to my likely or I have the realztion I can't do these things in this world. Instead of waking up in the physical world. I wake up in bedroom/bed very similar to my own then go back to sleep to jump to another world or visit another being. This is has backfired as I have had bad sleep paralysis my whole life. However I have learned to move and chase these unwanted IOBS during sleep paralysis or to wake my husband with my physical body to wake me either by shaking him or making noises.
Anyways one thing that has drawn me to castaneda is one of the many recuring things I have seen in alot of magic that is posted online is silence whether that be mediation or clearing your mind. Looking foward to working more in the darkroom with all the different techinques in here thank you all for creating this plethora of knowledge for us!
sorry for long wall of text and if this post is not allowed in anyway mods your more than welcome to delete.
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Hey, it's good to hear about your interest in Darkroom.
However you might still need to read around the subreddit to improve your understanding of what we do in here, and don't confuse others.
Dreams and lucid dreaming are not related to sorcery. At least, the way you describe them.
And it's better not to do interpretations of their nature until you can get silent and see it by yourself.
Meanwhile, you should use the students chat to put related questions.
The process of turning dreaming into sorcery dreaming, REQUIRES bringing attention repeatedly back to one's hands to renew your hold on that dreaming position.
This is the key "secret" that will address the issues you mentioned having during dreaming.
Other things, that are on your person, can also work but looking at your hands, or rubbing your hands together in the dream etc. is usually the most accessible element.
Our residual sense of self (more often than not) presents as the physical body in dreams, and we're very familiar with our hands.
If you were an amputee you'd be more familiar with another body part (?) and would use that instead.