The Dream Thread

[Jerome]

Has anyone else had dreams that stretch on for years, only to find out you've only been sleeping for a few hours? I suspect that doing this lucidly could be the basis for time magic, though I'm still practicing my lucid dreaming.

I've also been having intense magical training literally every night, though most of it is either too fuzzy to remember when I wake up, or it is simply incomprehensible. Last night I was learning something about chaos magic, and it was being relayed to me with some sort of equations. I understood these equations perfectly, only to have no clue what they meant when I woke up. While I can barely do basic math in waking life, my intellect seems to be fully restored in my dreams and I have no difficulty processing enormous, difficult equations. Seeing how I remember little of this training directly, I am wondering what sort of effect it is having on my subconscious.

Yes, I've had a few mega-duration dreams, it's unnerving when it ends and you have to deal with the waking mega-duration dream, like you walked back through the wardrobe and you're a kid again after a long trip to Narnia.

I have the other type of dreams too, but I don't recall any symbols. Once I could recall a piece of the conversation, once a glimpse of the teachers, but the main recall is the tenor of my understanding. Of course, the tenor is all that remains upon waking, understanding gone completely.

I see this training as the ground work of epiphany. The island visits the shore night after night without us remembering, so that we increase our chances of one day making an odd choice to swim at the horizon and receive our boon.
This seems to be the deep interplay of the Law of Confusion and Free Will. Our guides and our Higher Self can see the map but to show it to us consciously would negate the point of 3D experience (see Ra's poker game analogy).