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I have always been very interested and amused by the range of "culturally" and "consensually" known characters the "journeyer" (for lack of a better term) can meet, or indeed reports to have met, while experiencing an "altered states of consciousness" (also for lack of a decidedly better term), be it regular dreaming or lucid dreaming, OBEs, NDEs, meditation, visitations, magickal invocation, rituals, hallucinogenic trips, drumming trances... In short: while navigating outside the common, secure, sometimes dull, always on the verge of dissolution, not always nice to be back, ol' planet Earth's, linear, despotic, and irreversible SpAceTimE.
So, I would like this to be sort of a simple, curious and frivolous survey, where we can all enter or mention the generally known characters we have encountered at the other side of "the crack between the worlds", be them public figures, actors, politics (yeeech!), scientists, and historic, fictional, mythic, fantasy, religious, legendary, archetypical, or literary characters. All of them others reading this can relate to, either if you've met them through a consistent and repetitive pattern of experiences, or just in a single encounter of a varying degree of "meaningfullness", but mainly when the "journeyer" had no subjective doubt that the character met was THE character met, without going into the by now forgettable discussion about whether it was "a projection from the journeyer" or not.
A hint or reference about the nature of the altered state may also be useful, along with a two word description if necessary for the sake of specificty. Whether a pattern will surface or not we'll have to wait and see. I'll start with my own list, which I expect will expand as memories start comming up, and we hopefully get to have some inter-introspective amusement. I have attempted a loose chronological order.
- Cat Woman, in full black shiny cat-suit if you are curious, from the 70s Batman TV serials starring Adam West. Met in different dreams (DRs)
- Darth Vader, from the film Star Wars (duh...). Nightmare (NM). (Thanks GL for this one)
- Chewbacca, also from Stars Wars. same NM
- Vladimir Nabokov, russian novelist. Met in dream (DR).
- Alec Guinnes, actor. DR
- Sabretooth, Marvel comic book character. DR
- The Incredible Hulk, Marvel comic book character. DR
- Ian McKellen's Magnetto, from the film X-Men, English actor impersonating a Marvel comic book character. Met in waking self hypnosis (WSH).
- Don Juan Matus, from the Carlos Castaneda's books. Met in lucid dreams (LDs) and dreams (DRs).
- Carlos Castaneda. DRs
- Giant Caribbean Turtle, from "The Boy Who Talked With Animals", a short story by Roald Dahl. LD
- Godzilla, monster from the last movie. LD
- THE archetypical GraY AlieN. DRs
- King Mob. DRs |
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Truly, if I was to encounter something like, let's say, James Bond, in a state of heightened awareness, I'd say I'm getting screwed up - and I'd throw my tv-set away immediately 