Hello all. I'm interested in trying to lucid dream, but have heard that it requires many hours of dedication and meditation. And that you must have a guide, or book, in order to successfully lucid dream.
Can anyone give some recs? I've downloaded this on amazon, but am wondering if there are better alternatives.
https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-World-Dreaming-Stephen-LaBerge/dp/034537410X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1490413726&sr=1-1&keywords=lucid+dreaming
Don't jack off when you lay down to sleep. You should be able to dream again
i lucid dream all the time and never dedicated any time to learning how. what happens in my lucid dreams is i run around & try to find women to have sex with. mostly i become lucid in a suburban neighborhood, and i have to go from house to house to house checking all the rooms & running up and down stairs to try to find a hot woman. i should mention up front that the reason im running around is that in my experience i have (what feels in the dream like) about 15 minutes before i pass off into normal unconscious sleep again, so my lucid dreams are really frantic, like im on a timed shopping spree, trying to do everything i want to do in a limited amt of time. anyway, so im in this neighborhood. all the front doors are always unlocked, and nobody really minds that im running around their house. sometimes i get some resistance and all i have to say is 'sorry, just looking for something' or some other lame excuse. sometimes it's a complete bust and there are no women to be found at all. other times there are women, but they're very unattractive and i dont want them. most of the time, though, i do find an attractive woman, and they require almost no convincing at all to have sex with. i just go up to them and say 'hey, you wanna... you know?' or something, and they always want to. sometimes there are entire families in these houses, though, and that's when things get tricky, when there's a husband in the house. because even though it's a dream & you know it's a dream, family members can still pose a problem to you. luckily everyone in my lucid dreams is very credulous, and i can tell her son like 'hey, maybe you should go downstairs, i have to talk to your mom about something' and he nods and goes away. the sex isnt that great because all sorts of weird dream stuff can happen like body parts rearrange themselves or your bodies melt together or her vagina looks like a balloon knot. in any case lucid dreaming is one of my favorite things ever and i guess if you can learn how to do it, i recommend it.
>>9288774
OP here, this is why I want to learn how to lucid dream.
What are some books where the protagonist commits suicide?
already read TSaTF
My diary desu
Werther. Madame Bovary.
how about, two thirds of everything Roger Zelazny ever wrote?
>I guess the real phenomenology of spirit was the friends we made along the way.
Really? I'm not shitting you, this is actually what happens. The community of conscious life in love and respect is absolute knowing man. Hegel is the ORIGINAL hack.
Wait until you read Heidegger, that guy is a true hack's hack.
>Hai gaiz language is u s e l e s s
>Here's a book lol
How do so many so-called 'thinkers' (Laozi, Wittgenstein) manage to fool plebs with this shit?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TISVubPMeM&t=238s
t. Hegel
What do you think of this one?
>>9288598
A modern day Proust
>>9288626
That good?
>>9288598
Middlebrow but decent.
First two are worth reading, after that it gets a bit mediocre.
>Ewww Nietzche, wasn't he a Nihilist?
Well, wasn't he?
>>9288590
No he wasn't
>>9288585
I'm okay with dumb girls, anyone else?
*steps forward*
Give me your top 3 books you own but haven't read yet.
genesis leviticus deuteronomy
Paradise Lost
Ulysses
Friend of my Youth
Godel Escher Bach, Bhagavad Gita, Autobiography of Malcolm X.
I have a hard time believing a Mississippian is one of the greatest American authors of the 20th century, but i'll give him a shot.
>As I Lay Dying
>The Sound and the Fury
>Light In August
I have access to these three novels atm, which is the best to start with Faulkner?
google it fag
I thought the sound and the fury sucked balls.
I've read his three big works & they're all connected. I'd recommend reading in this order:
1. As I Lay Dying
2. The Sound and The Fury
3. Absolom, Absolom!
*reads Nietzsche once*
>>9288515
who's this hot piece of twink ass?
>>9288540
sweet
Does anyone read him?
I'm interesed in reading his novel A Sport and a Pastime and short stories collection Dusk and Other Stories, but english isn't my first language, and I would like to know how difficult it's?
>>9288391
Salter should be easy to read for a second-language speaker. He's more in the Hemingway style than the Faulkner style.
I've read a few of his books, and Solo Faces was especially memorable.
>>9288409
Thanks for respond.
He is minimal as hell so it should be easy for you. I've only read Last Night and it didn't make much of an impression on me.
I just discovered philosophy recently and I want to know more. Which books should I read first
>>9288361
>I just discovered philosophy recently
You mean its sheer existence?
>>9288364
Well, I knew about it but I wasn't interested in it until recently.
>>9288361
Start with the Greeks tbqh lad
Why are men so thoroughly terrible at writing female characters?I have only ever seen one exception: Tolstoy. No other.
>>9288352
Same reason that women are so terrible at writing male characters.
>>9288352
Why are women so bad at writing both female and male characters?
>>9288388
why are men so bad?
Just started the series with the second book "mossflower" and am halfway though it. Am surprised how nonchalant the main cast is to their enemies dying pretty nasty deaths. One drowned in mud! Rogue was just like "Oh, better be careful crossing that river"
Children's books can sure get away with more stuff then i seen in cartoons (except for anime)
The best part about Redwall is how Jacques tried to make each new book more violent than the last.
this shit is good for kids i swear
I have a number of Redwall books,because they do entertain and distract from my nightly drudgery. I listen to the audiobook versions which are very well produced with full cast of voices and every song done with a full orchestra accompaniment. I marvel at how things swing randomly from grim to twee,the happy scouts from Sanderastrom (or whatever it's called) bouncing about how they like full bellies with a cheery tune,then whip out their knives with evil glee when its time for Killin' Vermin. Dare I say, very Brittish?
Reading anything good/bad?
Writing anything good/bad?
Let's discuss. I'll be posting a few poems before heading out.
More Feedback by John Ashbery
The passionate are immobilized.
The case-hardened undulate over walls
of the library, in more or less expressive poses.
The equinox again, not knowing
whether to put the car in reverse
or slam on the brakes at the entrance
to the little alley. Seasons belong
to others than us. Our work keeps us
up late nights; there is no more joy
or sorrow than in what work gives.
A little boy thought the raven on the bluff
was a winged instrument; there is so little
that gives and says it gives. Others
felt themselves ostracized by the moon.
The pure joy of daily living became impacted
with the blood of fate and battles.
There's no turning back the man says,
the one waiting to take tickets at the top
of the gangplank. Still, in the past
we could always wait a little. Indeed,
we are waiting now. That's what happens.
Upon Julia's Clothes - Robert Herrick
Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes, and see
That brave vibration each way free,
O how that glittering taketh me!
-----
Satori seekers make me sick!
Those that find it are deluded.
The old gimlet on Vulture Mountain—laughable.
Over my shoulder flies the broken ladle.
—Kakua, 12 c.
>>9288226
very nice poem. gonna read it a few more times before i try to say anything too in depth about it, but who is "the man at the top of the gangplank"? gangplanks have tops? tickets? I don't get this image at all.
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
-Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced:
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:
And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;
And ’mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid
And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight ’twould win me,
That with music loud and long,
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
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Just posting some that I find good. Will start discussion when back from errands!
I want to go into Hegel, which authors should i read first and wich books ?
What books by Kant have you read?
>>9288179
Reading critic of pure reason
>>9288170
Read Aristotle's Metaphysics, the Enneads, and Kant's Proleg. and Judgement Critique. Then go post-facto and read Spengler's Decline of the West as a kind of foil, or comparison text, for the Phenomenology. This would be a sane, literary approach. A more philosophically oriented approach wd look quite different.
Alright /lit/, I'm finishing The Brothers Karamazov tonight and need to know which book to start tomorrow. I'm feeling overburdened by my backlog but would like something short or easy to unwind a little bit (I finished Book of the New Sun this week as well), so I've shortened the list down to a few.
http://www.strawpoll.me/12601181
Also, general discussion about the books in the poll/Brothers K
bamp
>>9288157
Don't know why I'm thinking this but read Tolstoy's The Cossacks for something both light and easy and interesting.. Or, read a Wodehouse or Compton-Burnette novel for something light, easy and absurd..
>>9289778
Will look into that