Pink Moan

May 16th, 2008 by Gnat

Catchy term isn’t it, “skullfuck?” The following passage was copied from the Chaos Magic section of the Internet Sacred Text Archive. Every perused that site? NO?! Do yourself a favor and visit it now.

The article begins: “This is an exercise to aid in the recollection of dreams through the use of visualization and tactile imagery” and concludes, “by practicing this daily, near total dream recall is achieved in a relatively short time.” The article suggests that this exercise is best performed at the time one begins to fall asleep. The author goes on to add that it took him (I’m guessing a dude wrote this) approximately 30 days of work to get results, but now he can recall 90% of his dreams and lucidly dreams about 10% of the time. I’ve done this exercise a couple of times, and am going to try and remember to do it each night for a month. Why not? It’s certainly easy enough.

1. Relax; take a few deep breaths, and concentrate on the present sensation of the extremities.
2. Allow yourself to feel the gradual decrease in sensitivity of the limbs as you drop off to sleep.
3. Switch your attention rapidly from limb to limb, but block out extraneous thoughts as completely as possible.
4. When nearly all sensation is lost in the extremities, switch your attention to the spine; localize your attention to the sensation at each vertebra. Send a current of energy up from the base very slowly to the top.
5. When the current reaches the top, visualize the entire spine as a penis, and the point where it enters the skull as the sexually-oriented orifice of your choice.
6. Concentrate now on the sensation of the spine-penis entering the foramen magnum-orifice. When bringing the sensation to the concious level, recall that it is your penis and/or your orifice; a great deal of sensation is being generated.
7. Hold the images and sensations in mind until you do, in fact, fall asleep. Attempt immediately to hold up your dream-hands in front of your eyes.

I told a friend of mine about this exercise and he sort of jokingly commented that doing it would invariably produce highly erotic dreams. But I don’t think this exercise has anything more or less to do with eroticism than yoga does. Maybe it serves as an attempt to shift focus from the autonomic to central nervous system (my fuzzy science). It gets the energies moving around, you know? Plus there’s some serious archetypal imagery going on with the phallus/orifice thing, and we all know archetypes and dreams are chummy bedfellows.