Crater Cave

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This happened the day before yesterday but now I have time to share it.

During my morning practice in the daylight, after the running man passes and while I was still lying in my bed, I saw quite far away from me,a small translucent ball; of energy with white threads and small sparks (photo 1) which had a mesmerizing movement like pulsating waves while small spots of dark purple,orange and white appeared on the furniture of the room like stains. At this point I started to hear near my bed a sound like nails scratching the carpet, I didn't pay much attention to it as the translucent ball had me completely magnetized and I liked its appearance. I could, while gazing at it, my gaze zoom in and out with ease towards its core, during all this I heard a voice but I only remember two words from those I heard which were: substance and intent..

Feeling myself overwhelmed by a strange feeling that I wanted to follow, everything began to change, during the time that the gazing on the sphere had zoomed in, I felt myself being pulled into it and I very quickly saw a black color and a light like a tunnel (photo 2).
Then I found myself in a cave that was full of rocks, stagnant water and fog(photo 3)
Wherever I turned my gaze, it seemed to illuminate the environment around me so that I could see, while if I tried to look sideways, I only saw a black color as if I were wearing blinders and only the straight path worked..
Then I heard the voice again coming from my left asking me to look into a crater of water, without having seen any person or something else in the cave and hesitantly I walked towards the crater..the movement of my body was very fast, almost as if I had no body and no difficulty moving, while for example in sleeping dreams I feel as if I have concrete feet and I can't even take a step...
Arriving at the crater that contained a fairly bright but cloudy blue water(photo 4), the voice told me to keep my gaze focused on the center, after a while something like black spots appears and change in a watery plant who began to emerge, completely alien in appearance, opening its petals at its core there was a round mouth full of pointed teeth that seemed to breathe while with it there were some black pearls that shone in the light of the cave. I wanted to put my hand inside to grab a pearl but I didn't as at this point I had difficulty trusting the contents of the crater. The voice asked me if I liked what I was seeing. I simply said no while an internal feeling of "outburst" made me turn my gaze away, saying that I wanted to turn back, leaving this "cold" place. At that moment, I very quickly saw a female figure dressed in a cloack and then I found myself back in my room. I sat for a few minutes thinking about what had happened, taking a few deep breaths to calm down, and then I continued the practice with a recap.
The rest of the day I was nervous and had a foggy head full of thoughts that I tried to shut out by forcing silence as much as I could.
On the night of that day, I had many sleeping dreams that were full of very macabre things, such as dead priests like mummies,, temple arsonists , and hellish chaos everywhere.

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u/Bilissss 8 points 2025-11-28 11:37

The woman I saw looked like her in the photo (from the movie On the Silver Globe), I forgot to add her to the post's image.

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u/danl999 4 points 2025-11-28 14:29

OOOoooohhh... Spooky.

I love spooky, but don't get any these days.

Maybe those are generated by the Allies.

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u/Bilissss 3 points 2025-11-28 14:35

The cave reminded me quite a bit of the description you once gave of the place Fancy took you to!
Like a description of a lunar cave...

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u/danl999 3 points 2025-11-28 14:44

Yep. I've seen that since, even without Fancy around.

I got the impression on seeing it, that it was on Titan.

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u/Bilissss 2 points 2025-11-28 15:29

Cool!

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u/AthinaJ8 9 points 2025-11-28 14:46

Dreaming all awake and having the iobs talking to you through this! Very exciting!!!

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The bad mood after is something that happens to me too, i don't know if it's because what you were seeing was creepy or because your ap was displaced in a weird position after , could be both!

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u/Bilissss 5 points 2025-11-28 15:02

Maybe it's both.
I'm trying to recap a part of my life where I find the most negative patterns that I don't want anymore, and I feel like iob is pushing me towards it in many ways to change them.
The positive of the day was that on a walk a fox followed me on my way😂

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u/drinkjetfuel 3 points 2025-12-03 05:35

Image 4 resonated with me.

A while back I posted about seeing an ‘ice cave’ it looked similar to your image.

At some point during that session I found myself surrounded in blackness, off to the right, in the distance something(I don’t recall what it looked like) was presenting a portal of what looked like a cave.

When looking at it, I heard or thought and labeled it ‘ice cave’.

I didn’t get a feeling from it like you did, maybe too far away or I didn’t gaze long enough at it.

The post- https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/1kd8e23/stairway_in_the_darkroom/?share_id=ArwQcZcvU67MxGfzg6dgi&utm_content=2&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

The comment with image- https://www.reddit.com/r/castaneda/comments/1kd8e23/comment/mq8rs33/?context=3&share_id=fdai7gD2o-hA0mcCcZQNb&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

Nice one by the way!

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u/Bilissss 2 points 2025-12-03 06:46

Wow! I had completely forgotten that! Fancy's cave was more vividly etched in my memory as a description,
without that meaning that it was that specific cave.

After a few days I think that it was a shame that I hadn't spent more time there, as I may not have that experience as intensely or at all anymore..
If it hadn't been for that inner outburst to get out of there, who knows what I would have seen🥲...

But I will insist that recapitulation improves our experiences in practice to the maximum, as the deeper we go into it, the less dirty baggage it carries with it..

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u/drinkjetfuel 2 points 2026-01-10 18:31

I was floating in image number 4 Thursday morning. Hope you’re doing well.

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u/drinkjetfuel 1 points 2026-02-27 21:21

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Like this but with more teal color tones.

Forgot to add image I generated.