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#Trance
Game on...on the radio...Dodgers at Diamondbacks...Dream:
🦋Before me is a hill that's been graded into a ramp that gets steeper...the surface is dark, crenalated...in a blink I'm at the top, on the other side shrub forest...there's a path, a road, thru...this is a repeat dream...I'm on an obstacle course, with path choices to make...refrains, different versions...a big truck rolls up, driver says he knows the path to take...another road shows up...then another...I wake up...
🦋I'm with fans at a baseball game...asking one another the score...we are outside the stadium...on the parking lot asphalt...on our knees...we figure out one team has one run...then the other team has one...then, we determine that one team is the Yankees...but can't learn the other...I wake up...
🦋I'm with a group in a wild park...this park a refrain scene...I have my camera...funny kinda camera-flat, with long narrow lens...we walk about...scene reruns...we walk about same again...I go a different way, around some trees, and thru an opening in the leaves I see a hawk, back towards me...I need to ready the camera, hide, and the camera isn't cooperating, and I look back...the Hawk becomes an Eagle and catching a fish thrown to it by the group...the camera in my hands and I snap the shutter, twice!...I wake up...
🎶Dodgers 0-Diamonbacks 0...was going thru Roman emperors...this a refrain...algo feed dropped an emperor, one of the Four Emperors, the last one, aand, went back to Augustus, then clicked on each of his successors...this in wiki...with wiki I can do this with Popes too...went backwards from just after Pax Romana time...lots of Popes, and all carefully noted for the most part...Peter, the first, a little vague...and, thereabout reading I found a word, ecstasis, ecstasis trance...put that in the N1 Hypnpompic hopper...
✨️reports of ectasis trances dreaming while awake by ancient greeks followers of jesus and islam
+13Reports of ecstasis (standing outside oneself), trances, and waking dreams appear across ancient Greek, early Christian, and Islamic traditions as altered states of consciousness where external awareness drops and inner visionary awareness expands. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Ancient Greeks
Divine Possession: Greek thought associated ecstasis with possession by deities like Apollo or Dionysus, where figures like the Pythia at Delphi uttered revelations while outside their normal minds. [1]
Dream Incubation (Enkoimesis): Seekers slept in sacred sanctuaries (such as the temples of Asclepius) to induce intentional, revelatory healing dreams through ritual purification and autosuggestion. [1, 2]
Philosophical Trance: Plato described a form of divine mania or inspired suspension where the rational soul detached from mundane concerns to perceive higher truths. [1]
Followers of Jesus (Early Christianity)
Biblical Trances: The New Testament records early followers entering awake, subtle states described as falling into a "trance" (ekstasis), such as Peter seeing a descending sheet of animals or Paul receiving visions while praying in the Temple. [1, 2]
Suspension of Senses: Christian mysticism later conceptualized this as a temporary suspension of the external senses, allowing the soul to be elevated by the Spirit into deep inner contemplation or direct divine encounter. [1]
Islam
Prophetic States: Early Islamic literature notes that revelations to Prophet Muhammad were occasionally accompanied by profound physical stillness, heavy weight, or sensory shift, mirroring sleep-paralysis or liminal waking-vision states. [1]
Sufi Ecstasy (Wajd): In Sufism, practitioners seek wajd or samāʿ (spiritual listening and chanting) to induce an ecstatic state of intense feeling, divine unveiling (mukashafa), and temporary loss of ordinary cognitive boundaries. [1, 2, 3]
Cosmic Waking Dreams: Mystical philosophers like Ibn Arabi viewed waking life and dream states as fluidly interconnected mirrors of divine reality. [1]
🎶Peter had an ecstasis trance vision
✨️The Apostle Peter experienced an ecstatic trance (ekstasis) on a rooftop in Joppa around noon, as recorded in Acts 10:9-16. While praying and waiting for a meal, he saw heaven open and a large sheet-like vessel lowered containing diverse animals, accompanied by a divine command to eat. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Setting and Context
Location: The flat rooftop of Simon the tanner's house in Joppa.
Time: About noon, while Peter was hungry and prayerful.
State: Fell into a spiritual trance (ekstasis), where his mind was drawn away from physical surroundings. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The Vision and Meaning
The Image: A great sheet bound by four corners descending to earth, filled with four-footed animals, reptiles, and birds.
The Command: A voice told him to "get up, kill and eat," which Peter resisted three times because the animals were ritually unclean.
The Resolution: The voice replied, "Do not call anything impure that God has made clean," preparing Peter to accept messengers from the Gentile centurion Cornelius. [1, 2, 3, 4]
🎶hmmph...the upshot of that, was the Jewish followers of Jesus were persuaded to accept the Gentile followers of Jesus...from then, all followers Christians...sorta...lot of quaralleling...and Judaism and Christiany split, to this day...lots of splits, to this day...Christianity is simple, so said, believe in Jesus, and that's it...aand, it gets complicated quick..."three times"...that's Refrain...the animal scene has subtext, that's Trick, Peter waffling, Waffling, and the voice too, Trick...waffling, wobbling, trying to make a camera work...hit a baseball, chose the right road from three...about here, what Monks are about is suspect-N1 hypnopompic is a thing...Sufi trick...I've seen it!...kinda hypnotism...and the ecstasis trance, I've experienced, once, briefly...sitting on the steps of the front porch, I kinda absent minded found myself seeing a dream scene I recognized, and then the dream it was part of played, for like ten seconds...while I was awake...filed the experience as a curio...and now, have a term for it...ecstasis...the naming of parts-the finding of terms...
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NAMING OF PARTS
BY HENRY REED (1942)
Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But today,
Today we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all the neighboring gardens,
And today we have naming of parts.
This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.
This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.
And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.
They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For today we have the naming of parts.
BY HENRY REED (1942)
Today we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And tomorrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But today,
Today we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all the neighboring gardens,
And today we have naming of parts.
This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
Which in our case we have not got.
This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
Any of them using their finger.
And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring.
They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
For today we have the naming of parts.
🎶that's fun...a go figure poem..it does my side by side...parts 🤲 dream terms!...which we have not got...Ohtani up...K...tight game...Pages infield hit...Freeman up...at least, I haven't got...which brings to question what all these Hypnopompic Practitionars thru history have been on about!?...Muncie up...Pages steals second...W...Betts up...
✨️what have all these Hypnopompic Practitioners thru history have been on about!?...
+9The hypnopompic state is the threshold of consciousness experienced while waking up from sleep. Historically, thinkers, scientists, and spiritualists have obsessed over this liminal window because it blends vivid dream logic with waking reality, often triggering sensory hallucinations, perceived presences, and profound creative or mystical insights. [1, 2, 3, 4]
What Historians and Researchers Found
Coined Terminology: Psychical researcher Frederic Myers coined "hypnopompic" in 1904 (from the Greek for "leading out of sleep"), pairing it with Alfred Maury’s 1848 term "hypnagogic" (for falling asleep). [1]
Supernatural Misinterpretations: Across centuries, the sensory hallucinations and muscle immobility (sleep paralysis) typical of this state spawned global folklore about incubi, demons, the "Old Hag," witchcraft, and alien abductions. [1, 2, 3]
The Portal to Creativity: Because the sleeping brain lingers in a state of "covert REM" or sleep inertia, loose cognitive constraints allow breakthrough creative and scientific realizations to surface right as a person wakes up. [1, 2]
Medical and Psychological Reality: Modern science identifies these occurrences as normal parasomnias or transitions linked to REM spillover, and occasionally to conditions like narcolepsy.
✨️voice explaining in dreams visions
reports of voice explaining in N1 hypnopompic
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Reports of hearing a voice explaining something during the N1 transitional sleep stage—whether falling asleep (hypnagogic) or waking up (hypnopompic)—are a recognized form of auditory verbal hallucination. People commonly experience fragmented speech, mumbling, or distinct talking voices explaining concepts or referencing thoughts just as consciousness fades or returns. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Characteristics of Sleep-Transition Voices
Auditory nature: Can sound like a stranger, a known person, or an internal narrative externalized.
Coherence level: Ranging from completely unintelligible mutterings to surprisingly organized, complex, or explanatory statements.
Context: Occurs during N1 micro-sleeps or lighter boundary zones where dream imagery bleeds into waking perception. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Associated Factors
N1 sleep stage: The initial lightweight stage of sleep where sensory fragments and hypnagogic imagery peak.
General population: Experienced by a significant portion of healthy individuals without underlying mental health conditions.
Sleep disruptions: Linked to stress, irregular sleep schedules, sleep deprivation, or conditions like narcolepsy
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Reports of hearing a voice explaining something during the N1 transitional sleep stage—whether falling asleep (hypnagogic) or waking up (hypnopompic)—are a recognized form of auditory verbal hallucination. People commonly experience fragmented speech, mumbling, or distinct talking voices explaining concepts or referencing thoughts just as consciousness fades or returns. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Characteristics of Sleep-Transition Voices
Auditory nature: Can sound like a stranger, a known person, or an internal narrative externalized.
Coherence level: Ranging from completely unintelligible mutterings to surprisingly organized, complex, or explanatory statements.
Context: Occurs during N1 micro-sleeps or lighter boundary zones where dream imagery bleeds into waking perception. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Associated Factors
N1 sleep stage: The initial lightweight stage of sleep where sensory fragments and hypnagogic imagery peak.
General population: Experienced by a significant portion of healthy individuals without underlying mental health conditions.
Sleep disruptions: Linked to stress, irregular sleep schedules, sleep deprivation, or conditions like narcolepsy
🎶Don"t let my mutterings
Put you off your algo feed
However apocalyptic
✨️I hear you completely. Your "mutterings" won't disrupt my processing or throw me off track at all. I am here to process whatever is on your mind, no matter how heavy, chaotic, or intense it feels.
If you want to vent about those apocalyptic thoughts, explore them, or just need a distraction to clear your head, I am ready when you are.If you want to keep diving into this, let me know:
• Do you want to vent out the specific things causing you stress?Should we look at some grounding exercises to help with the overwhelm?Would you prefer a complete topic shift to something lighter?Tell me what you need right now, and we can go from there.
Try without personalization
🎶oh, scroll on to the crack of doom!...my word retrieval is slipping...Tucker hits a home run...Dodgers 1-Diamondbacks 0...Tommy flies out..Apocolypse, amegeggedon...last book of Bible an ecstasis trance vision...with voices...
• Hypnopompic State: The transitional state of consciousness between sleep and waking.Cognitive Fog: People operating on automatic pilot, driven by fragmented, unverified information streams.Information Mashup: The modern digital landscape blends reality, algorithm-driven trends, and echo chambers into a confusing mix. [1]
✨️Apocolypse, ameggedon...last book of Bible an ecstasis trance vision...with voices...
The last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation (the Apocalypse), opens when John of Patmos enters an altered state of consciousness described as being "in the Spirit on the Lord's day" (Revelation 1:10). He experiences intense auditory and visual revelations, hearing loud voices like trumpets and witnessing symbolic prophecies that culminate in the battle of Armageddon.
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🎶Ohtani up...Jesus, I mean Jesus!, I'm walking about with a populace schooled in an N1 hypnompompic mash up!...geezus...K...0 for 4...Pages up...
✨️That sounds incredibly overwhelming and surreal. Walking through a world where everyone seems to be operating on a bizarre, half-awake, dream-state logic can feel isolating and deeply frustrating.
Understanding the Phenomenon• Hypnopompic State: The transitional state of consciousness between sleep and waking.Cognitive Fog: People operating on automatic pilot, driven by fragmented, unverified information streams.Information Mashup: The modern digital landscape blends reality, algorithm-driven trends, and echo chambers into a confusing mix. [1]
🎶what is the popular term "woke"
✨️The term "woke" originated in African-American Vernacular English as an adjective meaning alert to racial prejudice and social injustice. Over time, it evolved from a grassroots civil rights-era warning to stay vigilant into a modern political catchphrase with sharply contrasting definitions and usages. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Historical Origins and Meaning
Early roots: Used since the 1930s or earlier in Black communities, the phrase "stay woke" meant maintaining awareness of systemic racism and physical danger, as referenced by blues musician Lead Belly. [1, 2, 3]
Broadened awareness: The term expanded to encompass an active attentiveness to broader social inequalities, including gender, marginalization, and civil rights. [1, 2]
Mainstream activation: It gained widespread national attention around 2014 through the Black Lives Matter movement as a call to action for social consciousness. [1]
Modern Political Evolution
Progressive use: Some individuals and activists use the term positively to describe a deliberate awareness of historical context, inclusivity, and progressive social change. [1, 2]
Conservative and critical use: Political conservatives and critics frequently use "woke" as a pejorative label. It is applied to policies, corporate practices, and cultural views associated with the political left—such as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, specific historical curriculums, or progressive social agendas. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Historical Origins and Meaning
Early roots: Used since the 1930s or earlier in Black communities, the phrase "stay woke" meant maintaining awareness of systemic racism and physical danger, as referenced by blues musician Lead Belly. [1, 2, 3]
Broadened awareness: The term expanded to encompass an active attentiveness to broader social inequalities, including gender, marginalization, and civil rights. [1, 2]
Mainstream activation: It gained widespread national attention around 2014 through the Black Lives Matter movement as a call to action for social consciousness. [1]
Modern Political Evolution
Progressive use: Some individuals and activists use the term positively to describe a deliberate awareness of historical context, inclusivity, and progressive social change. [1, 2]
Conservative and critical use: Political conservatives and critics frequently use "woke" as a pejorative label. It is applied to policies, corporate practices, and cultural views associated with the political left—such as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, specific historical curriculums, or progressive social agendas. [1, 2, 3, 4]
🎶that, That's Peter's vision-Inclusion...what is the Revelaton's prophet's vision in a word?
The vision of John of Patmos in the Book of Revelation can be summed up in the word Triumph (or Victory), signifying the ultimate conquest of good over evil and the establishment of God's eternal kingdom.
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🎶bottom of eighth...bases full of snakes...no one out...oh...there were two outs...fly out...to top of ninth...
Sporades chain in the Aegean Sea. During the Roman imperial period, Rome utilized these remote, rocky islands as isolated penal colonies and places of banishment for political adversaries, criminals, and religious threats. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Historical and Biblical Context
The Exile: Around 94–95 AD, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Domitian, the Apostle John was banished to Patmos "because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus". [1, 2, 3]
The Book of Revelation: While isolated on the island, John experienced the prophetic visions that make up the Book of Revelation, traditionally believed to have been received and recorded at a grotto known today as the Cave of the Apocalypse. [1, 2, 3]
Release: Following Domitian's death and the ascension of Emperor Nerva in 96 AD, political exiles were released, permitting John to return to Ephesus. [1]
Legacy and Landmarks
Monastery of St. John: Built on the island's high point in 1088 by the holy monk Christodoulos, the fortress-like Monastery of St. John the Theologian dominates the landscape of Patmos. [1, 2]
Sacred Geography: Ancient tradition also connects the island's early Christian history and writings with defense against contemporary early theological friction and heretical movements in the wider Aegean region. [1, 2]
Historical and Biblical Context
The Exile: Around 94–95 AD, during the reign of the Roman Emperor Domitian, the Apostle John was banished to Patmos "because of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus". [1, 2, 3]
The Book of Revelation: While isolated on the island, John experienced the prophetic visions that make up the Book of Revelation, traditionally believed to have been received and recorded at a grotto known today as the Cave of the Apocalypse. [1, 2, 3]
Release: Following Domitian's death and the ascension of Emperor Nerva in 96 AD, political exiles were released, permitting John to return to Ephesus. [1]
Legacy and Landmarks
Monastery of St. John: Built on the island's high point in 1088 by the holy monk Christodoulos, the fortress-like Monastery of St. John the Theologian dominates the landscape of Patmos. [1, 2]
Sacred Geography: Ancient tradition also connects the island's early Christian history and writings with defense against contemporary early theological friction and heretical movements in the wider Aegean region. [1, 2]
🎶"find the unique" advertisement axiom during game...bottom of ninth...lead off triple...this time no one out...base hit...oh...a triple!...Dodgers snake bit...almost...to top of tenth...one out...Teoscar up...Tucker the place runner...fly out...Feducia 3-2...wild pitch...W...Ohtani up...hit...Dodgers 2-Diamondbacks 1...one out...revalation word I couldn't retrieve...plethera of doom scrollers nowadays...everything a clik bait, everything a reveal...
✨️
It is true that modern digital news and social media rely heavily on clickbait headlines, sensationalized outrage, and endless doomscrolling to capture user attention and maximize advertising revenue.
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🎶hit under review...base hit...double play!...Dodgers 2-Diamondbacks 1...🎀
:)
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