由 SW » 2018-06-30, 23:03
以下卡氏講的三種方式,感覺起來都蠻笨的。當然唐望講的兩方案稍隱晦了些,總之就是要改變夢的景象,但卡氏總是圍繞在「就地」這點上。我還真的看到 Youtube 有外國人弄了張風景照,用箭頭在說明如何將自己從站在草原某點,移到遠方山頭這樣來「換景」,這就是卡氏所謂「 我從我做夢注意力可及的物品拉到另個不太可及的事物上 」。
【做夢第二關】:還是在講換景
「你達到了做夢的第二道關口,」當我跟他描述我的夢時,唐望說,「你接下來應該要做的是跨越它。跨越第二關是件非常嚴肅的事情,它需要最有紀律的努力。」
"You have reached the second gate of dreaming," don Juan said when I narrated my dream to him. "What you should do next is to cross it. Crossing the second gate is a very serious affair; it requires a most disciplined effort."
我不確定我是否達成他為我規畫的任務,因為我並不是真的在另一個夢裡醒來。我問唐望關於這種反常的情形。
I was not sure I had fulfilled the task he outlined for me, because I had not really woken up in another dream. I asked don Juan about this irregularity.
「那是我的錯。」他說道,「我告訴你要在另一個夢裡醒來,但我的意思是指必須以有條理與準確的方式來改變夢,就如同你所做的。
"The mistake was mine," he said. "I told you that one has to wake up in another dream, but what I meant is that one has to change dreams in an orderly and precise manner, the way you have done it.
「以第一關來說,你浪費了許多時間專門尋找你的手。這一次,你直接契入解決之道,而沒有費心於遵守給你要在另個夢中醒來的指示。」
"With the first gate, you wasted a lot of time looking exclusively for your hands. This time, you went directly to the solution without bothering to follow the given command to wake up in another dream."
唐望說正確地跨越做夢的第二關有兩種方式:一是在另一個夢裡醒來,也就是說,你正在作一個夢,然後夢到自己從當中醒來;另一種替選方式是使用夢中的事項來引發另一個夢,這正是我所做的。
Don Juan said that there are two ways of properly crossing the second gate of dreaming. One is to wake up in another dream, that is to say, to dream that one is having a dream and then dream that one wakes up from it. The alternative is to use the items of a dream to trigger another dream, exactly as I had done.
正像唐望一直以來的作法,他讓我在不受他那部分干涉之下練習,然後我體證了他所描述的兩種替選方式:我不是夢到我正作夢而我在那個夢裡面醒來,就是我從我做夢注意力可及的物品拉到另個不太可及的事物上。或者我進入第二種方式的稍微變化版:我注視夢中任何物品,保持注視直到它改變形狀,然後,藉由改變形狀,穿過一陣呼嘯的旋風而把我拉進另一個夢(指夢場景)。然而,我從來無法預先決定我要按照這三種的哪一個。我的做夢練習總是結束於做夢注意力用盡最後我醒來,或者我跌入黑暗的沉睡而終止。
Just as he had been doing all along, don Juan let me practice without any interference on his part. And I corroborated the two alternatives he described. Either I dreamt that I was having a dream from which I dreamt I woke up or I zoomed from a definite item accessible to my immediate dreaming attention to another one, not quite accessible. Or I entered into a slight variation of the second: I gazed at any item of a dream, maintaining the gaze until the item changed shape and, by changing shape, pulled me into another dream through a buzzing vortex. Never was I capable, however, of deciding beforehand which of the three I would follow. My dreaming practices always ended by my running out of dreaming attention and finally waking up or by my falling into dark, deep slumber.
(《做夢的藝術》pp. 59-60)