This is my first post and it is both a question and my introduction
I am a complete novice when it comes to any kind of occult knowledge, but I have always been drawn to it because of the weird experiences I’ve had due to lucid dreaming.
This might just be my crazy mind messing with me (as usual). As you read about the kind of dreams I’ve had you’ll understand why I say this.
In a lucid dream I had a while ago I was part of what seemed to be a spiritualist gathering. I walked into a room and there was a man standing next to a table (with a book on it), I walked up to him and I was told to look into the book in front of me and I was told that it was important. The man spoke the word “karshanti” and when I looked in the book it was written there too, I was told to remember the word, then I was woken up.
Now you might be wondering at this point why would I even take this seriously, because I’m sure everyone has atleast had one dream like this before.
Well here’s why:
Since I was a child I’d have these lucid dreams and there was always this weird mind/body sync thing that would happen, this phenomenon seemed to fuel my belief that these dreams were “really happening”.
Lets say I’m being chased by a monster or something, if I get hit in the dream I would get jolted out of the dream and wake up with a slight pain where I was hit. This became so common that I developed a “trick” whilst dreaming to forcefully wake myself up whenever I become aware I’m dreaming.
A lot of my dreams are lucid dreams, in fact pretty much all of them are, I don’t even do it on purpose, but I don’t dream every night (or maybe I do and I just don’t remember most of them).
As a child I wanted it to stop, but as you get older, you become less superstitious and you start having less nightmares and more dreams, so it became something fun later on.
I think its more like I would feel that pain and my brain would then purposefully sync up me getting hit in the dream.
At least that’s how I rationalize it, because the alternative theory seems crazy to me. The idea that all of those things actually happened.
These kinds of dreams never stopped even in adulthood, but this recent one was more interesting than usual. My dreams are usually very realistic and detailed, the reason why I say my mind is messing with me is because a lot of “trippy” stuff has happened.
0. Physical Sensation
The whole pain sync thing I talked about earlier, doesn’t happen all the time, rarely happens these days at all, but it happened a good few times when I was younger.
Its not just pain though, its like my “senses” itself get tricked. I once was having a nightmare where scarab beetles were crawling all over my body and I woke up in a panic trying to swat them off of me because I could feel them crawling all over me. I looked around and in my sheets for insects, like roaches or something, there was nothing there, it was all in my head.
I’ve died in a lot of dreams too, good thing it never killed actually killed me lol, but that possibility did worry me, which is why I started doing a “jolt” thing to wake up from lucid dreams when things get too close (In the dream I would close my eyes down hard and fast and focus on the intent of waking up).
1. "Inception Dream"
I once had an “Inception” type of dream years before the movie “Inception” even came out. That’s why when the trailer first came out I was excited for the movie, it immediately interested me.
I was hoping it would be more esoteric and give specifics on some kind of occult knowledge but it just ended up being a science type movie, that kind of disappointed me.
To describe the dream:
I was startled out of a dream once and woke up on my bed in my room (it looked exactly like my room, it all felt real). When I got up and walked around I started to realize I was still dreaming (usually when that startle/jolt happens and everything goes black I wake up).
In that particular dream this happened multiple times, I even randomly ended up in a room with a white corridor, something happened and I got jolted again and woke up on my bed and even then I was still dreaming, I think it happened like 3 or 4 times
It left me paranoid for a few minutes when I had actually woken up this time on my bed lol
This kind of dream only happened once, and this was when I realized my mind was really f**king with me lol
2. "Rerun Dream"
I have “returned” to certain dreams randomly, and once there were even repeat characters there that welcomed me back, speaking as if I had been there before
3. "Astral Projection?"
Once I dreamed that I woke up from my bed but my body was still on my bed and I was looking down at it, and I flew up through my roof and looked around at the surroundings, now I’m pretty sure it was just a dream because some of the details were off, your mind can only show you what you know so it just has to throw stuff together. But still that one felt so real, I felt weightless.
I’ve had only two dreams like this that I can remember
Now back to the dream in question (karshanti):
I was able to actually look at the page of a book and read from it, of course I forgot it all a while after I woke up (like in most dreams), but I made sure not to forget that word (as I was told remember it)
Maybe its just a gibberish word my mind strung together, I don’t know, I figure a place like this might be a good place to ask.
I did some searching and it seems to be an actual word in sankrit.
Other than that I am not sure what to make of it.