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that-dreaming-dragon · 9 months

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In Dealing with Exomemories, Especially Exotrauma

Cross-posted from my dreamwidth entry. Link directly in the title.

In the time spent in the alterhuman community, in particular to the therian/kin that dealt with exomemories from other lives, I've come to observe something critical--many carried various exotrauma.

My belief is that a part of the reason reincarnation happens is to provide us a chance to seek closure in our other lives or heal the wounds we carry. Perhaps we are tied to this cycle due to unfinished business, whether positive or negative.

I don’t identify as the eastern ocean dragon of my past; thus, it is my kardiatype. However, I have memories, instincts, likes, and dislikes based on that dragon. There are pains I've felt that I'm still trying to determine if they might be connected to that dragon's own loss, but they don’t hurt me as much, as I am able to observe from a distance. However, this comes down to the identification and separation of the part of the self. From the beginning of my realization of being nonhuman, I already identified as who I am: the dream dragon.

Perhaps this can help others as well, in finding that separation and distance. This is also considering that we have people within the community who can interact with their other lives as separate beings. This couples with the Chinese belief in spirits and souls (hun and po)[1] and how transmigration works with each incarnation: you only move on with a part of it, leaving the rest behind. Essentially, one is different from their past or other selves (as time can be seen as non-linear to some).

Another key thing is finding closure. Perhaps the various memories are vying for attention because of unresolved loose ends.

Writing down stories, or making any sort of creation work for each and every one of those lives might help. I believe there is truth and fact in fiction. Many alterhuman that I've observed use writing as a form of interaction with their selves. I do it too, finding temporary joy in worlds where I can be myself, and it serves as an outlet to work through some inner conflicts or other dissent. Memories become somewhat easier to handle once I put them down as something concrete that I can work with. If emotions are causing suffering, mindfulness is a good practice to counter that—acknowledge and accept the emotions, and then learn to lessen their impact on one's being. This deals with more psychological territory, but the same techniques and methods are not restricted to a single subject area. There are numerous resources available, but here's a small excerpt:

Ride out Waves of Emotions--Be Mindful Normalize Emotions Observe Anticipate Emotions will get bigger/intensify Visualize Ride/surf the emotion wave/tide. Ride it out instead of blocking it. Let it flow. Gently let go; it's okay to release the grasp. Shift focus; practice mindfulness; notice the physical surroundings. Be attentive and curious. Be Nonjudgemental Acceptance

Additionally, having something grounding or anchoring is good. Anything, even a stuffed toy, a pet, a place, another sapient being, or even things beyond—that's a bit like speaking of faith, ironic considering I'm discussing grounding in the unseen and forces beyond.

All of these can to be utilized together. Comfort allows room to break down, grounding offers a point to return to should the mind becomes lost in the memories and emotions. While all the other exercises allow confronting the memories, they help in working through emotions by offering a new perspective.

There is also something many East Asians do—they pay homage to their ancestor, a common practice is setting up ancestral tablets or spirit tablets. Offerings and prayers are made to these tablets as a way to connect with and show respect to one's ancestors. For me personally, I have seen this practice extend to one's own other lives.

In the end, the mind is what matter. Manifestation--your will to see your other lives' chapters be closed. I wish everyone all the best in finding that inner peace.

[1]Reninger, Elizabeth. "Hun & Po Ethereal & Corporeal Soul In Taoism." Learn Religions, Feb. 8, 2021, learnreligions.com/hun-and-po-in-taoism-and-chinese-medicine-3182553.

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pretendhead · 10 months

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one day you’ll truly be gone

no one will remember you

no one will have known you

i’m mourning that death now

no longer mourning your physical one

the one that happened

but this next one

where no one knows your laugh

your words

your person

your love

where no one will know how much it hurt me

when you passed

how for years i still cried

and just when it starts to stop

it happens all over again

#poem #poetry #writing #greif #past lives #future lives

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wayti-blog · 7 months

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heart-songs · 8 months

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miles away from here our eyes meet across a crowded room again, for the very first time

our fingers fit together palms perfectly aligned

we gaze at the same stars and your lip still does that thing it does when you’re trying to subdue a smile

miles away from here, the miles between us are only ever a minor inconvenience

miles away from here you whisper my name in a dream and I wake without tears in my eyes

- Cora Finch

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paradoxical-plutonian · 1 year

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I don’t mean to grieve prematurely. It’s just difficult knowing how transient this all is. It is strangely this grieving that lets me know how much I cherish and love myself as I am. How could I not, when I grieve the day that I move onto my next fated role?

January 9, 2022

#journal entries #journal entry #my journal #my journal entries #mine #personal #writing #journal quotes #grief #self love #transient #past lives #future lives #reincarnation

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voicesfromthelight · 1 year

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About a year ago, I attempted a self-directed past life regression meditation, and instead, found myself catapulted that night into my future incarnation as a girl of Igbo and Ibibio heritage in Nigeria. This is an AI-prompted portrait of my future self. Imagine a city to her left, and a kind uncle watching over her. I was confused about my identity, and "my" uncle had to point out to me who I was. I was either of Ibibio or mixed Igbo-Ibibio heritage. (The moment of clairaudience was very slightly garbled, stuttering, as it often does.) I had never heard the term "Ibibio" before. When I looked into it, I found out that there are many documented cases of reincarnation in Ibibio communities. I sometimes wonder whether it was a moment of actual precognition, or something even more mysterious, a kind of meeting of two concurrent minds. Perhaps that little girl is alive in Nigeria right now, imagining me as her past self.

The day after I had the dream, I fell violently ill, and had to go to the hospital. It was almost like I had been shown that deterioration of the body and death was no big deal. So, should I, G-d forbid, pass too soon, come find me by the river, in Nigeria, seven years from the day I die.

#reincarnation #future lives #Ibibio #Igbo #precognition #lucid #lucid dreams #lucid dreaming #psychic #mediumship #psychic medium #trance medium #psychics of tumblr #mediums of tumblr #AI #Midjourney

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butchfalin · 5 months

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the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

#yeehaw #1k #5k #10k #posts that got cursed. blasted. im making these tag updates after... 19 hours?#also i have been told it should say speech loss bc nonverbal specifically refers to the permanent state. did not know that!#unfortunately i fear it is so far past containment that even if i edited it now it would do very little. but noted for future reference #edit 2: nvm enough ppl have come to rb it from me directly that i changed the wording a bit. hopefully this makes sense #also. in case anyone is curious. though i doubt anyone who is commenting these things will check the original tags #1) my friend did not do this on purpose in any way. it was not intended to distract me or to hit on me. im a lesbian hes a gay man. cmon now #he felt very bad about it afterwards. i thought it was hilarious but it was very embarrassed and apologetic #2) “why didn't he use 🫵🏼?” didn't exist yet. “why didn't he use 🆗?” dunno! we'd been using a lot of hand emojis. 👌🏼 is an ok sign #like it makes sense. it was just a silly mixup. also No i did not invent 👉🏼👌🏼 as a gesture meaning sex. do you live under a rock #3) nonspeaking episodes are a recurring thing in my life and have been since i was born. this is not a quirky one-time thing #it is a pervasive issue that is very frustrating to both myself and the people i am trying to communicate with. in which trying to speak is #extremely distressing and causes very genuine anguish. this post is not me making light of it it's just a funny thing that happened once #it's no different than if i post about a funny thing that happened in conjunction w a physical disability. it's just me talking abt my life #i don't mind character tags tho. those can be entertaining. i don't know what any of you are talking about #Except the ppl who have said this is pego/ryu or wang/xian. those people i understand and respect #if you use it as a writing prompt that's fine but send it to me. i want to see it #aaaand i think that's it. everyday im tempted to turn off rbs on it. it hasn't even been a week

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sunglassesmish · 2 months

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no judgements at all here. i was thinking about the possibility of moving out and wanted to know what age other people did

#i don’t know a lot of what i want in the future but i do know i want to at least get my driver’s license and have my own place #hopefully in the next few years after university #in my family it’s typical to get married and then move out but i’m not sure if i ever will so i want to at least live by myself

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secondbeatsongs · 1 year

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for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify:#I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

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divine-nonchalance · 4 months

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sadclowncentral · 9 months

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i absolutely love teenagers. i told a group of them about my work and asked them what their demands for the united nations would be and they debated among themselves and told me to "tell them to make doner kebab three euros again". yeah man i'll ask

#no joke ive been citing this as a positivr example for youth engagement to anyone in the ministry who will listen #teens SHOULD be advocating for everyday problems they face like the cost of living crisis and not be #shouldered with the responsibility for the entire future #'teenagers are the future' they are also the fucking present. allowed to have ordinary problems like everyone else!!!#dont fucking burden them with your shortcomings! you figure it out!!!!

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that-dreaming-dragon · 1 month

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The Signs of (Other)lives

I have known previous lives. I have had questioned future lives, and had inklings that my dreams may sometimes connect to alternative lives that may or may not be parallel to my current timestream.

For the past lives, the a sense of “this is done, I’m looking back at memories as if I were old photographs”. An impression of “I’m who I am today because of them” especially the case with my kardiatype. I’m not certain if that is the beginning of my central essence/soul yet.

For the future ones, I never bothered to think on them more beyond the vaguest sensation of knowing something will come in the future.

Meanwhile, the dream worlds are already too abstract and often time can be overwhelming with a new journey or set up every other time. I rarely had mundane dreams that reflects my everyday life at the present. And half of the time I am not myself, literally. Sometimes I am, but I am neither in my current human body, nor a body of my current dragon self. But in some rare circumstances, I’d know like I would a noema, that it is was a world an alternative universe “me” was living through. Though it may be in a twisted way dreams like to present. Now that I think about it, that is very likely the case—where I may be connected to a alternative reality either of my own or of others, but I was merely interacting with how the dreams were presented instead of the physical reality over there.

#alterhuman #kardiatype #other lives #past lives #future lives #parallel lives #alternate universe #dreams

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1-7776 · 6 months

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the "would u live w mutuals" poll has me curious abt this. so

#personally I DONT WANT ANYONE IN MY HOUSE EVER idek abt a future partner bc it seems impossible to live w someone rn i love being alone

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wayti-blog · 2 years

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The path of cosmic spirituality is the great quest to evolve an immortal soul that is rich in quality and broad in extent because of our life experiences. But the journey also contributes at each step to the evolution of all other selves and souls, here and throughout the universe, and into an endless future.

Byron Belitso