Not sure of what the source might be (I must presume circular internalisms, rather than genuine external insights, but...)
If I ever do sleep-surf, it's only tiny frustrating fragments that I half-remember. Lost in the light of morning.
I do know that it's been (on two or three occasions?) consistently yellow-on-black text....large font (embarrasingly, as if it were one of those stupid Holywood 'computer' shots), an unseen large keyboard and no mouse. All totally-unlike anything I'd ever use at home or work. Also, I'm standing, and not being able to see the screen properly (inevitably).
@Ulalume , when you say
The things found there can be very strange, creative, and sometimes prescient...
...do you mean facts/information? All interesting stuff...
I get what you're saying, Emintrude. The computer files imagery is similar for me, too, though I find it hard to describe as a visual representation. It seems to be masses of compressed information, chatter, news, all within and on top of each other. Sometimes things come through as a distinct "message" though - once a poem about death from some celebrity I didn't know had died, once a certain person's dream about a particular woman, who I would only later learn he was in love with, information about musical tones and their effect on the human body, etc.
Once, amusingly, a guru appeared there that I did not recognize, but later when I told a friend, the friend recognized him. To quote the friend: "Dude! I know that guy, that's Leonard!" At which I nearly fell over laughing. (Leonard the Guru? Really?) Until I googled Leonard the guru and found out, OMG,
that was the guy. (Leonard Orr, founder of rebirthing, who I'd never heard of previously).
Also bits of things that would end up in tomorrow's newspaper, but nothing of earth-shattering importance.
The dream library is more interesting, as the books it contains seem to have depth and meaning that is not accesible by logic. Most are illustrated, some are beautiiful, some are disturbing. A few titles I remember are "the meaning of vines and leaves" "how to hide in the rain", one about how wild cats blend into the forest (not just camouflage, but actually become part of the landscape), maps of places that don't exist on this plane, etc.
I've attemped to try to recreate some things I've seen there, but of course I'm nowhere near a good enough artist to even begin to capture it. I have the vision, but don't have the skill or "the muse" to help.
Anyway, here are a couple of things that I've tried to recreate from the dream library
Sorry about the large size , I had to link from photobucket.
Unfinished painting of "our lady of the dead and dying leaves". She's a godess who oversees the death of leaves in Autumn. (the painting is quite large, so it was hard to photograph and you can't see all of it. She's standing on a hill wearing an ankle length dress, anyway)
This one, the flame the girl is holding is meant to represent the letter yod (not to
be a yod, mind you, but what the yod represents in the unpronouncable name of the Hebrew god. ) There are letters in the roots and branches of the trees.
"white Mary", bloody Mary's sister. She also lives in the mirror, along with her sister, but is rarely spoken of, according to the dream book. She wears a white veil over her face.
There are others with more obvious occult symbology taken from the dream library but I won't display them here for personal reasons.
This all might be meaningless, but I suppose it indicates (for the purposes of this thread) that some occult symbols might be more "homegrown" as opposed to classical.
Later it was called the black sun or invisible sun. In the Far East this black sun was popularly believed to be the object that eclipses the sun during a solar eclipse. It's also called the invisible sun because it's only visible when it eclipses the visible sun. This god's name is Rahu. According to Google Images, that is the symbol for Saturn. Didn't the rock group "The Police" have a song called "Invisible Sun"?
